The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-22
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From Our own Correspondent


winch has appeared every other day for the past
Two or three months, and bids fair to become as
notorious as the one which appeared six months
since, signed "Ma," and addressed to ''Dodd."
The one to which at present refer Is addressed
TO mysterious "Methlick," who is informed by
the advertiser that the latter has been seriously
i'll, is getting better, but is still very weak.
''Methlick" is then invited to come, IL he
can, Immediately, for that he is more needed
than he can think. ''Methlick." / regret to
say, has been appealed to, importuned, and in
vited ever since July 12 of the present year. The
advertisement has cost in the neigh
borhood of one hundred dollars, and
yet no reply has as yet been vouchsafed. The
inquiries inevitably occur, "Who is Methlick ?"
and "Who is the advertiser, M. ?" What has
been the matter with NJ. Has he been for two
months getting better, and is 1t possible he is
still very weak Finally, what can "Methlick" be
needed for, and what are the pecuniary circum-
stances of the individual who can afford to
advertise every other day four lines in the
Herald personals, in a case apparently so hope
less. l can only opine that NJ. takes encourage
ment by the success of "Ma," who, after six
months of patient advertising, received fBom
'''Dodd" a reply that shook the readers of the
Herald personals to their centre.
In the
stowe-ByrOn Scandal
the New York newspapers have got hold of too
good O thing to allow it easily to die out. 1t
has been said that Mrs. Stowe is sick-sick of
disease known as despair. 1t is easier to ina
gine that she is sick of the cant criticism from
the platitudinarans who contribute to ffth-rate
newspapers and periodicals. Her error, in my
view of the case, arises from her having said
what she did without bringing forward proof,
and demonstrating 1t to be q fact.
The series of pictures, for there are nine of
them, called
8" The Nine Muses.
are creating very respectable little futter
amongst parlor dilettdnte, the carefully-gloved
male loungers, and those feminine art-dabbers
who dress with studious and elegant negligence,
and play at criticizng the efforts of the easel.
The pictures in question are very neatly and
tastefully arranged in a drawing-room attached
to the hall at the southwest corner of Four
teenth street and Fifth avenue known as De
Garmos Hall. The locality is an arstocratic
and exclusive one-not so much so as it once
was; but that goes for nothing. You enter the
drawing-room by means of mauve-colored
curtain, and find the wall along which the nine
pictures are hung draped with festoons and
hangings of the same color. At noonday-the
hour when l paid my vsit-the light was
admitted through windows partially closed
and brownly shaded, as though their glasses,
SO to speak, had got hit in the eye, and were
under the necessity of an immediate application
of vinegar and brown paper. Along the side of
the room opposite to that occupied by the pic
lures are arranged in a line about twenty chairs,
occupied by as many people. There is usually,
/ understand only one person to chair, which
is very good for the chairs, as they are remark
ably aged. These chairs ARK. presumed to be
occupied by fashionable judges of art to whom
gratuitous invitations are extended. The
piquant feature of this exhibition is that the
faces of the Nine MUSES. are notoriously known
to have been painted from the faces of
nine New York beauties Who these beauties
are becomes the question. If the New York
Mercury ever gave gratuitous puff to anybody,
l should recommend you to that sheet next Sun
day for the Names residences, private histories,
and secret scandal connected with the originals
of those nine goddesses, Euterpe, Polyphemia,
Thalia and all the rest of them. But as this
would be too largely advertising the artist, that
hope fails. So the principal question among the
brilliant loterers of the Somerville Gallery is
not whether such an altitude is badly indicated,
butt who's who, isn't Melpomene's expression
exactly like Miss DIS and aint Erato the living
image of Miss B. /? Mr.. De Garmo, the fashion
able dancing-master of New York, has been
greatly beset and quizzed, as the one most likely
to be able to give precise information upon these
points, as his arm has probably encircled q
greater number of fashionable waists than that
of any other man in the country. But Mr.. De
Garmo is dumb oracle in the present case, and
"who's who" with respect to the Nine MUSES.,
remains unanswered.
Mount Morris Square
is the name of a new park which by next sum-
mer will be one of the most attractive places for
ladies and children within the bounds of Central
Park. 1t was bequeathed to New York thirty
wears ago by widow lady named Bell. 1t is
only twenty acres in extent, and was then worth
fifty dollars an acre. 1t is now worth fifty thou
sand dollars an acre, and is in process of being
furnished with fountains, promenades, and al
the other landscape-gardening paraphernalia
which go to make up city park.
The propriety of
Women Preaching
is beinp agitated by the Methodists of this city
again by the brethren in their rooms in Null
berry street The greatest advance they have
vet made is that woman maylecture in private
(curtain-lectures not ineluded), but certainly no
in public.
II must not be inferred that the late Mrs
Mary Allen was the
WicIxedest Woman In New York
because her husband John had the re
mutation of being sthe Wickedest Man
The poor woman who was buried ON Mon
dav. was fond of the bottle, but then she wa
fond of John too; if she sometimes drank NOR
than was good for her, she habitually did NOR
than was good for her. But the effect of affiic
ton upon some people is to harden ana nc
soften. and perhaps John will emerge wise