The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-31
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New YORK, March 81 1870.
Young Mr. Bennett
is this evening to be dined at Delmonicos by the
New York Yacht Club. Considering what a big
newspaper man he Is the son of, he figures less
in journalistic mention than any other editor in
the country. At this evenings dinner he will
be associated with men after his own heart, and
he will show to advantage. 1t is when the
ladies are around that his bushes thicken and his
brilliancy thins. Importuned as he is by
wealthy and fashionable mammas to enter soci-
ETY., and fitted for 1t as he in many respects is
by his various accomplishments, for instance
and the briliancy and thoroughness of his edu-
eation-he is afflicted in the presence of a petit
coat with nnauudis homie which no amount of
self-disciplinng has enabled him to overcome.
And now that he is nearer thirty than any other
age fear he is too old, even with the brazen-
ing results of fresh European experiences before
him, to become the uurufileable Adonis his
friends would like him to be.
The Romance of the ROstrum
Is found in the big incomes which successful
lecturesses are said to derive from 1.-THE tec-
turesses understand, not, as rule, the lecturers
Miss Kate Field, for instance, insists that she
made ten thousand dollars last year; and pre-
sumo Miss Olive Logan places her earnings in
that direction at an equally high figure. Conse-
abOSOAhS
season greater resort than ever for women.
know of at least dozen in this city of New
York who have never yet made their appear
ance in public, but who, misled by the nattery of
friends. practise elocution and calisthenics by
the hour together. l must do the majority of
them the justice to say that they are young
pretty, and interesting looking, and that they
will probably make the business pay, not from
any inherent merit, but because it is the fashion
nowadays to run after Women who Dare.
A Broken Nineteen- Millionaire.
Miss Ellen Gray is the name of the young lady
who couple of months ago was the subject of
a card from the British Consul stating that she
was not the heiress to nineteen million dollars
as had been asserted, and that no instalment of
five million dollars had ever been received at
the consulate for her. By whomsoever the story
was invented, the fact appears to be that Miss
Gray has brother who was not troubled with
great deal of money, and who made strictly
business use of the report that his sister was in
such luck. Upon the strength of that report he
borrowed cool two thousand here, an eight
hundred. dollar-slice there, and managed to
make himself comfortable on the credulity
of whoever was willing to lend
in expectation of being so splendidly reimbursed
by the sister of millionaire. Like
sensible worldling, he surrounded himself with
those large and little luXuries of which purple
and fine linen stand as the synecdoche, and lived
beautifully upon his expectations" The time
came when the hollow nature of those eXpecta-
tons was made manifest, and it became patent
to the world that Miss Gray was broken nine
teen-mlllionaire. Nobody that ought to appears
to know anything about those nineteen millions,
and Mr.. Grays creditors are wondering how
they could have lent so much on the strength of
SO little. The only thing about him aavoring of
richness is the richness of the stories that are
told about him.
Lydia Thompson
is endeavoring to deprecate the storm which she
fears awaits her next Monday night, upon her
rentree at Niblos, by publishing long card in
Yesterdays World, the only large daily that will
print these illusions. So far the public is
concerned she has nothing to fear, for every seat
is taken for that evening and several evenings to
come. Somebody has said that it is the 'mag
netism of her presence" that carries joy to the
bosom of an audience If magnetism of pre-
sence" is a synonym for legs, have no doubt
that is the case. Miss Thompsons trouble will
be- not with the general public, but with that
comparatively small bevy in which the news
papers of New York are contained. To them
she has committed the objectionable crime of
horsewhipping newspaper man, and hardly
think they will be disposed to think any the
more lightly of her conduct because, under great
provocation, she merely did what she was legally
advised to.
Illegal Love.
If woman-the magician !-could only roll
two men into one in some such way as the
prestidigitateur does with the rabbits, how
happy it would he for all parties SO probably
Mrs. Kuhl thought in dim sort of way when q
good-looking German Cherubino, Leutze by
name came to live with her husband. AT any
rate, Mr.. Kuhl discovered that if his wife and
Cherubino had not broken the seventh COM
mandment between them, they had mashed it
considerably, so as to put it all out of shape.
The result was that Cherubino had to ''get up
and git" Mrs. Kuhl, however, got up with him.
and after having been taken back once or twice
by the husband, acknowledged in open court that
she would not tell which of the two she pre-
ferred. Truly a tantalizing position for Virtue
to be placed in
Troubles of House Owners.
1t is sometimes fearful thing to own a house,
particularly if you wish to dispose of it. A
certain lady who resides on Fiftieth street, in
this city, became tired of the pleasures and
palaces of that neighborhood, and made up her
mind to find home or make one somewhere
else. In passing along Fifty-ffth street she
saw vacant and eligible house, one of whose
windows presented to view pl card bearing
the name Fetrich or Fatwretch, or something
similarly sounding. Thereupon she ordered the
coachman to drive to Mr.. Fatwretch's office,
where she was informed that Mr.. Fatwretch was