The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-26

domestic life? Absolutely nothing They /
faunt out their little hour, they help |
build temples to vice and to iufanticide, |
and that is all. Apart from them in the |
cities is the great class of worllingwomen- |
the teachers, writer's, artists, tradeswomen-
and purer body of women does not live.
Healthful work for body and mind leaves no
room for the vagaries of passion. Utterly apart
from them, too, is the class in the cities which
most powerfully represent the culture and re-
fnement of the country. But it is outside of
cities, let us remember, that we must look for
the strength and substance of our national
life-in the quiet homes that stretch from
ocean to ocean, innumerable as their sands.
In this great national domestic life, the
feverish, uneasy few who call themselves
society, on one or two city streets, are never
heard Of Not only virtue, but modesty there
is vet the rule and it is our honest belief
that nowhere in the world is God as sim
cerely worshipped, is the marriage tie as
universally respected, and are women as
pure in thought and deed, as in the ordinary
family life of America. Our faith in Anglo
Saxon blood too, is strong enough to pre-
serve our old respect for British wives and
mothers, despite the lamentations over them
of their own prophets.
THE PEERAGE IN PHILADELPHIA.
From the NJ Y. World.
Some years ago, as we all remember, a
question agitated the land:-" Have we a
Bourbon amongst us?" and grave pamphlets
were printed to prove that certain half-breed
Indian was q chip of the disreputable old
block. Whatever may have been the result
of this controversy, there can be no doubt
that now we have 'Muncaster." 1t is in
Philadelphia, too, that we find the real SGngre
dzM of the peerage, albeit Irish. This reve-
lation has been made in consequence of the
startlings news having reached his family
connections here that ''Muncaster" has re-
Gently, when wandering near the plain of
Marathon, been kidnapped by some of the
nomad descendants of Miltiades. Thus runs
the story and the pedigree Camel de Pen
nington came over with the Conqueror, and
''settled" in Lancashire. He was a knight,
''6Ques duratuS," but whether "banneret
or bachelor" does not appear. Camel left
| descendants, one of whom served under
Msrmion at Flodden, and probably took part
in the nuncupative charge which that exem-
plary chiettain ordered just before his demise
Then there is a tremendous gap in the
pedigree, from 1913 to 1925, from the Tudors
to the Stuarts, when we hear of 'worthy"
called Sir John Pennington, ''admiral to
Charles 1, and distinguished for loyalty"
which was rewarded-as loyalty then as now,
is sure to be-by promotion, and Sir John
became baropet. But "s1trgt GRgutd
dma1f," etc., for tangle Just then occurred
in the family. A certain Alderman Penning-
ton, 'Lerd Mayor and NJ. p, " was aregioide,
and in the days of Restoration brought shame
on his kinsman the baronet. He was, to use
the gentle language of the Liturgy zone of
those violent and bloodthirsty men who bar
barously murdered the anointed, blessed
King Charles the First" Whether he was
hanged or only exhumed is not clear, but we
learn (and all this we CLEAN from Forney 8
Press now the accredited organ of the Phila-
delphia aristocracy of both colors) that the
crime was expiated by confiscating con-
sonant in the regicide branch of the family,
making the name read Pennington" They,
having had enough of capital pun
America, ''and suffered much persecu-
tion," whether in the Old World OF in
Massachusetts the record does not say In
the meantime, the double-n Penningtons
continued to prosper, and in 1888, John, fifth
baronet, probably for rafting from MIR. Pitt
and voting with the coalition, was made a
peer-Baron Muncaster. In the meantime,
repentance was doing its work with the drab
descendants of the regicide, and there was
reconciliation between the one "n" and the
two ''n," for we are told that, during the lit
tie unpleasantness which occurred in the last
century between these colonies and the mo-
ther country, a certain Captain Pennington,
sixth baronet and four baron made an ex-
cursion westward, ana in the autumn of 1777
visited Philadelphia. 1t is obvious we are
striving to state the case euphemistically
Then was it-while Washington and his sol
diers shivered and starved at Valley Forge
that the British captain and the descendant
OF the regicide were warming their
toes and smoking q sympathetic pipe in
the Quaker City, From that day to this,
when the Suliote or Athenian brigands cap,
tured Muncaster, the family harmony has
been perfect; and the Press, in a loaded edi,
torial, tells the wondering world that the
alderman who aided in cutting off Charles
Stuarts poll twas cadet of the family now
represented in chief by Lord Muncaster, who
is twenty fifth cousin of Mr.. Pennington, Jr.
bibliopole, South Seventh street, Philadel
pbia." 1t is so unusual nowadays to get any
information about white folks from Forneyi
paper that we have felt it a duty to emphasize
this exceedingly interesting and importan
contribution to the family story of our rec
: tangular and radical neighbor 1t is comfor
to know we have a Muncaster so nigh, ever
though twenty-five times removed.