The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-29

r-o-, our olsn Correspondent
E''''' WV NEW YORK, Got %, 1869.

NEW lOhh' JoL 20, 1861
The Fat Mans Cl' %.
come people doubt the fact Of there heing a Fat
Ntan,s club. They believe 1t - myth OF tho news
oners that no Fat Mans .nambake ever took place
in Connecticut, that no 0poheosis Of unctuosity
ever celebrated theIo, These poor creatures are
mistaken. The Eat Men have awoke from their
Iethargy, sufficiently to frame constitution and by
laws one OF the articles is that membership shall
he restricted to persons weighing two hundred o.
more Mounds at the date Of admission, but that no
vnhs2tuent decrease in weight shall result in for
fcituTe OF membership
Another article is that no person who has ever eX-
limited himself for money, or other valuable con-
idoration shall be eligible. In consequence of
,hoeo ,ntimatons those who love eXclusiveness and
oro addicted to club life are having recourse TO
uonfnp and his system. fresh edition of that
ssIosonhor,s edcts is about to be printed, and any
b Ion VINO aspres to become member OF the f. NJ.
:, Sc onrourapinaiis already promising eDtbonpoiat
20, over~ itself TO its urthest possible capabilities.
Ana vhy should there not be Lean Mans CLUB?
s,mnry because lean men are noI cluDaoe. lhey
rno much reserve and reticence, ana all these
n,, mo yirtles ever 10 become boon companions.
nTorerheless there is some tax OF one peing esta-
,,tand If en- Horace Greeley will belong TO it. He
oinaaa, helonys TO the Fat Mans Club, but that
al,as nd manner OF difference. was told yester-
dav mat Dr. r. Shelton Mackenzie, OF Philadelphia,
raJ 10y rocenev been admitted to the Fat Mans Club
was surnrsed to hear it, being aware OF the DOC
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New York sunday Concerts.
uv,o eaoson has commenced when Sunday evening
concerts will become the vogue. Ihey were well
supnorted here last year, they VIII be better sup
norted this both because they are intrnslcaly good
in themselves and because they help slowly but
surelv toward the musical and intellectual culture OF
the nnbIic know that there is certain strict class
which decries Sunday evening music in public. 1t is
tho same class which would have no cars run on
sunday, and whose notions of happiness are limited
to golden harps and endless halelujahs. The best
or the sunday evening concerts which we have had
here are as innocent and profitable recreation as
that which public Libraries and readmg-rooms
AFFORD. Those in Stenway Hail. for instance, were
attended not so exclusively by fashionable
people or wealthy people, as by good and
solid people - together with young men
and young women whose hours OF en-
ployment during the week arc too laoonous
TO permit them to find enjoyment during the secular
evenings outside their own homes. 1t sometimes
bappens that of a winters Sunday evening several
concerts are given, each of which Is well and re-
spectably attended. Madame Parepa and Miss Kel-
Iogg and Madame Testa have not disdatned to lend
their aid to these enjoyments and Thomas orchestra
has repeaedly interpreted some of the grandest OF
sacred compositions. There are places, it is true,
where an attempt Is made to degrade the Sunday
concert idea, and to bring it down to music-ha
level As a rule however, but little effort, in New
York in that direction has been successful. have
seen more religious emotion fostered at Sunday
evening sacred concert than in the fashon-nuttered
news of a mOdish church; as much candid love fol
the Beautiful evident in Steinway Hall as sham asp
ration after the Good in Fulton street prayer
meeting.
''Husbnnds EXcepted.'
An execution in favor of ones own husband il
one which the Womans Rights wranglers in Eas
Twenty third street are forever making There are
many nen whe habitually speak OF women as thougl
they nut their own mothers and sisters aside, aut
considered the rest OF the sex capable of all unmen
tionahe naughtinCsses. The same rule holds true o
women, at any rate those who belong to the Den il
Twcnty-third street. Mrs. Stanton and Mis-
Anthony are now away, and the mice are taking tht
usual holiday which Is proverbal when the cats ar,
absent An amusing episode occurred LAST nigh
after Mrs. Sowerby had made series OF dSparaginl
remarks i'm regard to man. Mrs SoWerby evldentl,
regards man as a fraud, made TO be Il hiudrance t
Eve and only moderately useful. Mrs Norton
who is the quicksilver of the association listened t.
the maedictOns Of the orators, with tina
.Clenching OF her little dsts, and that purSinl
of her little lips, which forebO lie 81
said, she jumped up--Mrs. Norton never rlses-an,
begged 20 make an exception in favor of Mr. Nor
demanded, but not Mr. Norton Other men nigh
Tdicue the PythOnesses of East Twenty-thirc
street, and vify their manly endeavOrs-b not, o
HOt Mr.. NOrtOn This is the strain in which they al
talk. Bless them! They mean well enough. 1t i
on the, same principle you know, as that upo
damnatiOn always make an exception in favor @
members of their own family, no matter how bac
womans rights woman, unless you are full OF inc0r
sstencles? 1t is an inconsistency to imagine for
moment that matters could be otherwise.
S'POOr Humanity.r
This is the title of play which is to be performe
next Monday evening week at the Olympic Theatre
1t is a dramatiZaton from the novel of that nam
by the author, Mr. f. W. Robinson, and which Wf
first published in this country in the columns OF Oh
New York Sunddy Times. The principal character
forget what the name isis to be taken by Mr. WI
liam HolstOn. That Philadelphia fayorite Miss Lii
EdrIuge ID also 10 DC III the cast ALI BABA.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.