The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-03
New YORK, Jan. 3, 1870.
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man servant whose characteristic Is a remark
able punctuaity in his backing and polishing of
shoes, and lighting of grate-fres Jimmy, yu
haven't blacked my shoes!"
'Nol" said Jimmy, leaning over the bannisters.
as If he visited they were BASIN 'no, sir I'm
sick"
This lame explanation Is the text to many
headache this morning. ] will venture to say
that young New York is in an advanced state of
cephalsga. As Mr.. Swinburne might say, yes
terday was queen of pleasure, but to-day is king
of pain-and no liquid or spiritual pain-paint
will wash the pangs away. They are the penalty
of calling too often and drinking too much.
Every lady In New York who on Saturday re-
ceived calls may be said in the immortal lam
guage of Mrs. Camp, to have put the bottle
upon tho chlmbley-pece, and allowed her gen.
tlemen visitors to ''put their lips to it when so
dispoged." And they were excessively dispoged."
There was no rest for the decanter from early
morning TO tipsy eve. The sun rose upon a
land flowing, not exactly with milk and honey,
but (what is more to the taste of the present
day) boned turkey and champagne. Neverthe-
less, Newi Years calls in New York are not what
they used to be. The country-cousin goes int
the thing with rural relish that is very refresh
ing, smelling as It does of COWS aud potatoes;
but fashionable New York is reegating tn
custom to the realm of obsOeteness and OBJ
livion.
The Weather
is a subject that / very seldom touch. because |
am afraid of it. / may venture to remark that
if that mysterious individual who is said to be
the clerk of it were in my employ, should dis
charge him for embezzlement. It looks very
much as If he had bought up all the fair weather,
and was trying to make corner of it in sort
of superna Wall street. just now Winter Is
lingering in the lap of Indian Summer, and if l
were Indian Summer / should lay it across my
knees, spank it soundly for its mother and
teach it how to walk without tumbling. Yester-
day was warm, wet, and 'wicious," and Fifth
avenue, throughout its whole extent, was mass
of black paste. The churches were deserted;
materfamilias had no time to get the little ones
ready for Sunday School, probably she was in
bed recovering from New Years day. 1t was
day when any lack of determination on the part
of the determined" suicide would have been
ignomenous. Consequently l think l may be
pardoned for making this brief reference to the
fact.
Trnin Mt the Tnmmany.
That blue-coat-aDd-bra buttons Bohem an
Mr.. George Francis Train, having been unable
to procure Cooper Institute, lcctured last even
ing al the Tammany. His subject was "The
Old Fogies of the Bible" and according to the
advertisements, the 'the usual psalm singing
audience was large, considering the weather,
and the lecture mixture of profanity and per-
sifage. Mr.. Train is dis junctive conj junction-
a magpie with eagles wings. He is living cpl
gram upon the American of the period-a mis-
chievous but not malicious Frankensten, whom
some Feniau philc ophGr might have created in
a moment of spite In his remarks on the old
fogies of the Bible, he discovered several op-
portunities of ringing in withering couplcts
upon the political issues of the day. For the
most part the rhymes were apropos, too. There
was no slip 'twixt the couplct and the lip.
Things Theatrical
Two theatrical events of some significance will
happen within this and next week. One of
these is the appearance of Mr.. Booth as
Hamlet on ednesday evening, and the other
is the appearance of Mr.. Fechter as "Ruy Bias
on the evening of the succeeding Monday.
The production of Booths Hamlet has ostensibly
been delayed on account of the hydraulic rams
not working successfully was to be desired;
and of course it would never have done for
Hamlet, to be played with the part of the
Hydraulc> Rams left out. The little game of
Messrs. Jarrett and Palmer is to prick pubic
expectation with respect to Mr.. Fechter's
Hamlet" to the highest point of tantalization-
just as every night, in the play of Little Emily,
the scene Immediately preceding that of Caater-
bury Cathedral obstinatvly refuses to open until
the expectant audience has been "worked up"
into giving an impatient round of anticipatory
applause. /, for one am willing to believe that
Mr.. Fechter does something much more original
and commendable than give Hamlet" faxen
wg and make him sit down when other stars
make him stand. If the hue of his wig is his
principal point of difference from other actors
he can hardly be said to vary from them but by
hairs breadth, and the Illuminated Western
World could do him greater pictorial justice
than any other publication.
Rending-R OOms Sunday.
One of the questions before the Young Mems
Christian Association of this city, is whether
their new and comfortable reading rooms shall
be thrown open. on Sunday. / presume the
question will be at once and definitely settled by
reference to the votes of the members and
that the majority of those in favor Of the read
ing-rooms being thrown open will be very large.
OF course, there will be bigoted minority who
will strongly oppose the Sabbath being made
comfortable and attractive to the thousands of
poor young men who on Sunday realize what
their own homes used to be- by wrthing under
the discomforts of a clearinghouse. The lam
guage of most young men who make their living
in New York may be said to resemble, in one
particular at least, the language of the French
1t has no word that exactly corresponds with
''home.' My 'room," my 'rooms," and my
''boarding ng-house" are the nearest approaches to
it. Home to them is q dead word in living
language, and those whose hearts are touched