The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-02-11
NEW YORKISMS.
h'Om our ON, OO,responde,,t.

season commences tonight at the AcRiemYo OF
Music. From these doors, however. Fifth
AVenuedom has, for the nOuce, vigorously re-
tired. Private boxes are exchanged for prize
dte't1, fasts are substituted for furoreS and
abstinence for encores. The season OF Lent Is
the scapeg0at of the fashionable year. Fashion
folds her hands, twirls her thumbs, adopts the
occurrences of the devotee, and forsakes the
psriors Of the nodtste for the communion altar
and the confessional. The clock of sin and
folly, whose pendulum has come to vibrate
VITA dreadful rapidty, is adjusted to
slower rate of motion during these
forty commemorative days. The world
Is bidden adleu or rather du reuoir-and the
flesh and the Devil, those SiamesetStn sc.
ducers are shown the cold shoulder, yet per.
haps the very same shoulder whose warmth
and whiteDess and satin texture dazzled the
youth of the metropolis ut every ball of the
season. But the flesh and the Devil are very
difficult to offend. They are cut and come again;
and though you refuse to recognize them
ninety-nine times, they rush up to you just the
same the one-hundredth. But I rather admire
the thorough self-enjoyment with which Vexs
tion OF Spirit turned her back on poor Vanity
when Ash Wednesday set iU. 1t is interesting
TO watch the frantic efforts of Religion and
Fashion in repeating this six weeks intimacy
every year. And when the six weeks are over,
eau reuo,r" sghs Fashion, putting her periumed
naouehoir to her little plaintve nose. 1--WE shall
meet on Sundays, butI shall think of you very
often, dear" Eyes, but l intend TO be very
busy" answers Religion; "for an engaged
to write stories for the New York Ledger-I aud
SylvaDus Cobb.n
Let me give you some particulars of the sma
eqnetite which occurred the other evening at the
6ra nd a6a
have already had the skeleton of the story laid
before them ere this, and if so they will have no
objection TO have the filing up done by an eye
witness. No one would suppose, to see Mon
sieur Aujac and Mad'le Irms on the stage
together, that they are not on the very best of
terms. her friskiness is in admirable con-
trsst TO his frapkness and good nature. There
is no more thoroughly charming couple on
the New York operQ-boufe stage, for
the tenors frame is full and healthy
without being in the slightest degree
"pursy." and the prin1a donna eom2ensates for
an undesirable lack of length from the waist
down, by remaining still "ine fgger of a
woman She has one fault She forgets, or
at least ignores, the tact that even in opera
b0,fe there are situations of momentary
seriousness, and that on such occasions the
playfulness sanctioned by burlesque ought to be
sacrificed out of compliment TO the spirit OF the
scene. The burlesque with her is perpetual.
She has no mercy on herself. She spoils the
plaintive business with grimace. She agrees
with Shakespeare that there's nothing serious
In mortality, or opera bouBe, which, to her means
che same thing. As ''La Perchole' she makes
tRces at sentiment, and answers with a Grecian
bend when "Pelui!!ori is supposed to be over
whelmng her with melodious conviction. 1t
la
when they first sang together at Niblos, and
that robust tenor has been suffering in silence
ever since. They "put him out" as we would
say in our own rude, picturesque idiom. IT
was this long suffering which pricked him on
the other evening to make the state nent, In
answer to an encore, that 1t was impossible fol
him to proceed until Mad'lle ceased hel
nin0uderles, or whatever other word ht
used-I think it was bettses. Imagine
the astonishment of the auditorium. The con
ductor all but dropped his baton, and thC
orchestra was electrified out of its professional
indifference. The house was silent for al
instant, and then the Aujao party frantcalI!
applauded, followed by a small shower of hisse
from the Irma faction. ! am afraid to CUES
how many fresh pair of eourvoisiers were spill
up the palms. Finally the Aujacs gained tn
day. Mean while the fair cause OF this hubbu'
''maintained her individuality" the picture o
supreme indifference, though 1t would hsv
required only one of the many piquant gesture
she has at her command, to win over the audi
ence to her way of thinking.
For having made war on the brokers ant
bankers and threatened them with visitation
of the tax law in its most malignant and un
mitigated form, Nemesis has oyertaken Mr
Assessor Webster, and prostrated him wit
pneumonia. Two of his coadjutors, however
are welding facts and evidence together for tn
approaching campaign, AMI have been as bus
as beavers in devising means to bring Wal
street TO justice. The Assessors intentions, lik
the last new nostrum, go right to the place
The amount OF correspondence that has pile
in upon him rs large enough to be the budget {
prime minister, and General Grant never ha
more calls than have been made upon him
vain. Wall street has been struck by lightning
and capitalists who have long breathed th
oxygen of that region are beginning to wear
blighted, not to say blasted aspect.
At half past ten O'Clock this morning hig
mass will be celebrated over the remains
Mr. James L. Brady, whose sudden death III
cast upon the legal profession in this cits
profound shadow that will not easily be efface
He was only in his dfty.fifth year at the time
his death, and had declined almost every Off
In the gift of the New York Democracy.
was one OF the few examples OF noble men VIII
without selfconsciousness, are too great al
good to seek office, too conscientious to acce
It, too vie and charitable 10 scorn 1t.
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