The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-20

II your quarters are otherwise comfortable and Won
are averse to changing there is long four-handed
nght between Brass and Bachelorhood Deoenoy and
Decorum. The former two bid you stay, brazen it
out with society, and defy conventonalism to do its
worst; the latter urge you to fee at once to use
more circumspection in choosing your next resi-.
dence and to forego the disreputable antiquities OF
alodging-house for the modest Certaintes OF board
In q private family
The Times of yesterday had an extremely sensible
article in reference to the
''ThentrIcaI Prize-Ring,0
the gst Of which is that 1t is going to "shut down
in future upon all correspondence from actors and
managers in regard to their personal squabbles The
Times is right The egotistic display OF grievances
in "cards' written to the principal newspapers was
last season carried to a ridiculous extent by theatr
cal people. The publication of these precious epistes
which was at first requested as a favor is now de-
manded as right The evil has wrought its own
death. Messrs, Tayleure and Murray piled on the
last straw, and now the dromedary is suffering from
spine disease that will be cured. The Butler
anderson affair was the penultimate burden, and
the husband OF Miss Fddes arrived in this country
just In time to be in at the DEATH But by being denied
admission to the big newspapers-for the Times
has only set the rule which the other journals in
self-defense will be compelled to observe-these
theatrical etter-wrters will be led to force the ex-
preston OF their grievances in a new direction.
Messrs Henderson and Murray are therefore going
to publish new weekly paper, gossip says, to be
called Groans from the Grcen-room. Their names 1t
is true, will not appear in connection with the jour
nal, which will sustain the relation to actresses
that the Revolution does to women in general, and
whose conductors, ostensibly, will be Miss Lydia
thompson and Miss Josephine Fiddes. The pros
pecus of this journal extends an invitation to all in
jured actresses in the United States to send brief
and bright statements Of their particular cases. The
natural born blonde, the snubbed soubrette the in
puupstrian nj will oil Hn1o "A
vocate in its pages. No actress, however, will be
permitted to write more than one note per week.
and any agent wishing to defend herself against the
imputations Of the New York daily press is recon-
mended to dictate letter to and have it written out
by the feminine goden-hared star whom he repre-
sents. This manmuvre will, OF course, completely
hoodwnk the public and the press. Besides they
have the agents that everything is on the
square, and surely his word is as good as his
blonde!
The Difficulties of Getting Washed
are no slight ones to the poorer inhabitants OF New
YORK who live in tenement-hOuses, and scarcely
know what bath-tub means. A few spasmodic ex-
ertions have been made to supply free baths to the
people, but these efforts have not been backed sul-
ciently by individual enterprise, and the Board Of
Health does Just nothing at ALL Baths that paid
for can be had but these are beyond the reach of
the poor classes, who thus almost under the ne
cessity of going unwashed from years end to years
end. Every evening, however, hundreds of young
men and boys may be seen along the docks and piers
on the east side of city, regardless of violating the
law, and only intent upon the luxury of a bath.
That law provides that no person shall
battle within the limits of the city between
sunrise and sunset. The policemen who
visit and inspect these docks, however, are
apparently in only too much sympathy with the
great unwashed for, although these bathers lose
their sef-consciousness to such an extent as to
remain unaffected by the that the eyes OF the
hundreds Of occupants of the feTyboats invoun-
tariy turned upon them while they make their un-
dress evOlutions, few arrests are ever made and
few OF those made ever come to grief. Like Adam
and Eve, they are ''naked and not ashamed" and
this is great deal better, in my opinion, than re-
naming clothed and dirty. Such swimming and
bathing facilities as have been supplied by private
enterprise are overcrowded The natatoriums are
all extremely well attended, that affairs there
may be described as progressing more than "swim-
mingly." ALI BABA.