The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-05-17
ROTTEN ROW.

Although up to this period OF tho season the
people who ride or drive IN the how have not
been distracted by any specially sensational
ponies under the direction OF anonymous
ladies' questionable broughams and horse
breakers have even thus early appeared IN
Hyde Park in excess OF the number with which
the assemb!age Is usually enlivened. But it is
not 80 much Of this circumstance, however.
that W =. now write. In ltseltIt is bad enough,
but it is difficult to see how such people could
be kept out OF the parks. There ls o signlh-
canoe. however, IN another SOCIAL aspect OF the
matter which is more important. Until very
recently there was no such thing as deTni-
monde in London, using the term IN Its imper-
feet meaning, as understood here. The wretch
ed women went down rapidly from one stage
to another without being encouraged or
systematized sufficiently to form regular Set
having establishments and holding recep-
tiuns such as distinguish corresponding class
in Paris. But within very orier perlodjnos
much more than yesr, perhaps-there has
been a change amoog US. Previous TO that
time indeed. moralists in the press complain.
ed OF the frank terms which young men OF
fashion held with such women In places OF
public resort. This familiarity is now 30 much
on the increase las anv one who watches what
goes on in the LADIES' Nile can petceiye) that
pasta and her associates were passed with
nod, or only spoken to by men who were indlf-
ferent to notice, because they we're themselves
unknown, or, at any rate, II they recognized
such women they were cautious where 1t
was done. At present the yelow-ohignoned
aenizens OF st. Johns Wood and Plmlico
draw up their carriages or horses close to
il they had come from some d0vecot in the
country watched over by virtuous mother.
The audacity Of these reunion is uuprecedent-
ed, A notice seems TO prevail that the loose
women OF our day are undistiDguishable from
the women Of virtue. The superstition IL pre-
posterous. In the park, at least, there Is no
difficulty in distinguishing the carriage that
ANYBODY may pay for or in guessing tho occl-
patton OF the dashing equestrienne who salutes
half @ dozen men ut once With her whip, Or
with O wink. and who sometimes varies the mo-
botony OF sale seat by holding her hands De-
hind her back while gracefully swervlng over 70
listen to the compliments of @ Walking ad-
these women Of the highway are perfectly
awece Of what they are about, and u London
lady tempered in the atmosphere ot one or
two seasons learns discretion enough not to
ask relevant questions when she meets III
ballroom the same gentleman she has ooserV-
ed tete-1.tete with Aspasia IN the how. Ii Things
20 on, however, as they seem likely 70, tnis ,
ssorf OF reserve Will be tested with unpsual
severity in the m, nths OF May and June. The
manner in which what again, for want OF q
more convenient phrase, ~e must call tne
dey,i.n,onde class has been freshly developed
among US is not unknown. There are certain
perfumers' shops at the West-end notorious
ior enterprises not Immediately con" ected
with bloom for the lips and glitter for the
owes. It was from one OF these establish.
ments that well-mown photograph and
its original were. 30 to speak, foated. Here
the loupgers turn in. and are invited to balls,
for which cards are gwen them. Thence spring
intimaces of which we say no more than that
the acknowledgment of them should be sus-
pended before virtuous women 10 the Park.
The ladies' have remedy in their hands which
they deliberately abandon when they pretend
blindness to what is as obvious as the Dukes
etatue at the corner. And, OF course, il they
choose to encourage the open and fagrant dis
respect to which they are % treated tnere is NO