The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-16
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From Our ovn Correspondent


The Marriage Season.
Whatever may be said Of tuft-hunters it is never
theess true that many marriages In high life have
not taken place for many season as have been
celebrated this. The notorious Mr. Brown, of Grace
Church, has had his hands (and mouth full for he Is
q champion eatist and never undertakes a wedding
which does not promise lrst-class feed. The we'd
dng-bels have been tnkling all summer
long, and the peas are none the less
pertinacious now that autumn is over. On Thurs
day evening" for instance, wedding was celebrated
in the South Reformed Church Of this city, at the
corner OF Fifth avenue and Twenty-1rst street. IL
was that Of DR.. LOngstreet and Mrs. GIdersleeve
who, see, are spoken Of as a 'yOung" couple. The
lady is much nearer forty than ladies like to be- and
the gentleman is just enough her junior to hold
gracefully the position OF husband. Quite a large
sprinklng Of newspaper people were there and their
attres were gorgeous in the extreme. Mr.. Greeley
for the first time in long and goveess career, ap-
peared in white kids, the fingers of which were
almost as much too long for him as his pantaoons
too short He spent great portion of the even
ing in examining this article Of his apparel and
having arrived ut the conviction that it was all
there, beamed in a moony manner. While doing so he
lost his pocket-handkerchief, which had pink bor-
der around it, and was Immediately grabbed for by
half dozen young ladies. BY them it was imme-
dately torn in many pieces, each Of which was taken
home to be washed, which it badly needed. Another
member Of the press one of the latest fashions
which all but displayed his captivating colar-bones,
and was elaborately embroidered with pink silk and
lace. A third journalist, who shall likewise be name-
less, INDUCED in saucy and cynical remarks and in
taking a lady, whom he had never met before, into
breakfast, informed her that he hated women and
couldn't tolerate strangers
Decline of WallncIE's.
The "declineand-fall-o Wallack's Theatre is the
subject of commentary Of some Of it's oldest patrons
Neither the audiences the actors are what they
used to be, and he who has frequented the house
during the last five or six years cannot have failed
to notice the gradual declension Of the style where
with new pieces are produced. Many of the old
members have died, and in the brightest modern
moments the seXagenaran playgoer before the foot
lights sees the ghosts Of familiar faces behind them
AT the commencement of every season good and
valued names are silently omitted from the list OF
announcements, and those substituted hardly
counterbalance those left out. Here, too the
character of the audience has degenerated. 1t
is excessively mixed, and mixed au-
diences, like mixed drinks, produce
a great deaf deal Of inharmony. The whistling of
the gods is almost as loud sometimes as that heard
at the Bowery The feeling is gaining ground that
the bright little Fifth Avenue Theatre, with MI.
DAILY at it's head is the place, after all, at which TO
witness good acting and exquisite scenery. 1t Is
very small to be sure but small theatre packed is
better than large one empty. The Fifth Avenue
did not commence its autumnal career under par
tCularly bright STAR but it has continued it under
remuneratyc one, Mrs. Scott-SiddOns
Niblo's IL a theatre, too which has run down in
Tone and the forthcoming engagement Of Miss
Western viii not help to elevate it. II wishes
to be satisfied Of the character OF the audience, he
has only to listen to the criticisms of those around
him. New York audiences do not know how to
criticise The bright colors and the dazzling lights
please them, but the obscure and delicate little
touches go for naught. 1t is thankess service to
be theatrical critic here, for besides being ham
pered by the prejudGes Of the managing editor, and
the fears ot the cashier, you have not the satisac
ton of feeling that the public appreciates the cu-
ture which you have attained.
NaughIy Eleanor IIJrIIe.
Mrs Eleanor Kirke is woman who has viii OF
her own, ana would like to mould those OF other
people. She can make a sharp little speech ana
polish OF her enemies with neat smacks OF sarcasm
and Bullets OF badinage She mas recently been
elected President of the Womans Suffrage Associa-
ton, but, to the horror and dismay of all the other
members, has declined accepting the honor. She is
evidently of those who believe that the baby is
more important than the ballot. At any rate,
| she has drawn oil from the Association;
| and since Sine can no longer hope to cast
votes from it, has taken to casting stones at it, In
her parting address she spoke bitterly of the AsSo-
catons not having answered the expectations of its
friends, and owned that she, for one, thoroughly
| discouraged. The Roman and romantic Miss An
thOny-lor she certainly has in her composition
| mantle, Cnnglng 10 o cause, once .CSpOuSGd-YAlnly
! adured her to reconsider her decision. Elinor's
reconsderations had all been attended to, and her
fatal decision irreYersible TheatricGly speak
! ing the green curtain went down upon her to slow
music, and East Twenty third street will know her
no more.
GLOW She Loved Him.
"She? Who?"
Why the heroine Of the sad little romance [ am
| going to relate
One day not very long ago a handsome English
widow, residing Brooklyn Heights, advertised for
q housekeeper. Upon the afternoon OF the day upon
| which the advertisement appeared, lady of about
| twenty-five, perfectly wel-dressed, charming in
manner and very lovely looking, but not beautiful
in face, presented herself at the door Of Mrs. B.,
was shown into the parlor, and explained that she
had called in answer to the sad" She stated that
she could sing and play, and, indeed, gave
Mrs. B indsputable evidence that her
claims to those accomplishments were no idle
boast. As reference she gave her brothers name
that of a well-knOwn merchant in this city. Mrs.
| p, who is far too credulous a woman to run a
boarding-hOuse, which she processes to, was so
pleased with the visitors gifts ana graces that she
engaged her at once, without taking the trouble TO
| consult the reference, aud Miss Helen Y, as she
called herself, was duly installed housekeeper and
| companion. A week elapsed, when one morning
when the young lady was out marketing or shopping
let us charitably hope), a gentleman called, a
stranger, and desired an interview with the lady OF
| the house. 1t was accorded, when the following
| conversation took place.
'You have an inmate of this house, named Miss
| Y-?n
| ''Yes."
"Did she offer any reference"
"Yesp