The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-02
N . VIZ o Krs nE 3.
rom Our oson Correspondent

Did you ever hear of Vaccination Parties? |
They are the fashion now.
There Ia nothing Fashion will not take hold |
Of Il Is not afraid Of death itself. It's latest |
caprice lie the smallpox and the surgeon. 1t has
seized hold of tho rumor that there is smallpox |
in the city, and has embroidered and spangled it |
with one of Its many whims which are In the |
worst possible taste. II is fearful enough to |
have a scourge in the midst of a community |
without making II matter of sport. What |
do you think then of getting up parties of young
people whose object 1t is to get vacclnated to-
gether in the shortest possible space of time and
with the maximum of enjoyment2 You are
first inoculated and then YOU dance away the
effects. You accelerate the action of
the virus by bringing the light fantastic
into play. After being lanced you plunge into
''The Lancers," and / presume that the more
fanciful are the pas you execute the greater is
the exemption claimed for you from la petite
ueroIe. i shouldn't be surprised If new feature
called vaccination" were introduced into the
German" In fact, their vaccination parties
are only an old fashion revived. Years ago,
whom smallpox last bade fair to prevail the Gus
tom, in dreadful taste as II Is, was abundantly
affected by the youth of both sexes. At present
the social question Is, instead of "How does
your meerschaum color?" "Have you been vac
cinated yet'" If your answer Is In the mega
tive you are invited to ''come to my house at
such date" (mentionlng the EVENING" 81 am
going to have vaccination party!" The idea
Is horrible enough to be French, and the dance
which inevitably distinguishes those occasions
might always be called the dance of DEATH
A Prineely Advertisement.
Mr. Helmbold, whose name is not altogether
disassociated from buchu, probably understands
the art of advertising as well as any man in the
country. On Monday he sold the public (snd
his own medicinal wares) beautifully and
managed to collect about his doors, four hun
dred people all clamoring for "Prince Arthur !"
Somehow or other he had managed to create the
impression-and TO fasten 1t when 1t had once
been created--that Prince Arthur was inside his
store. Opposite the door stood a magnificent
team, which was currently believed to be that
occupied by his royal highness Broadway, as
far down as the entrance to the Metropolitan,
and as far up as Houston street, was impossible
on the east side of the way. fle of policemen
protected the pavement and prodigious num-
ber of people suddenly felt thirsty and made
rush for Helmbclds porphyry soda water foun-
tain. Nearly an hour elapsed before the throng
subsded and it was definitely ascertained that
the Prince was not there, and never had been.
As an advertisement the thing was beautiful
am aware that, indefatigable as the tele-
graphic wires have been on the subject, this
letter would seem incomplete if omitted to say
word in regard to
Prince Arthur,
one of the most hard-working young gentlemen
of the age. He probably transacts more social
labor with a smiling countenance, in a shorter
space of time than any royal hobbadehoy extant.
The newspapers brim with announcements in
regard to where and when he will appear, and
1t is but just to say that when they are authenta-
lively made, he always comes up to time. If he
is advertised to put in an appearance ut the
opera, that appearance is put in. To dine in
public, to go to the theatre, after that to ball,
and after that to private party, between the
hours of six in the evening and four in the
morning, Is quite as laborious continued day after
day, as that of one of Mr.. Stewards
clerks on his feet twelve hours out of the
twenty-four. The way in which New Yorkers
have run to see this youth is despicably vulgar,
and the manner in which he has borne it all
gives nothing to complain of. His behavior is
Just as quiet and perfect as that of most of his
vulgar admirers is loud and indecent. Appa-
rently he is untroubled with the self-conscious-
ness which embarrassed his brother Albert at his
age, and which invested that young man with a
piuuant bashfulness rare indeed in one who had
been 80 accustomed from birth to publicity and
staring crowds To be sure Arthur has not had to
stand quite so severe ordeal; but such as he
has been subjected to, has found him a perfect
union of modesty and self-possesslon.
Religious Lotteries.
AS q rule, pious New Workers are not SO strict
as pious Philadelphians are. They 60 to the
theatre and don't think their chances of future
happiness are any the less for endeavoring to
enjoy themselves as much as possible in this
life. Still there are by no means a small num-
Der of Christians who sympathize with Phila-
delphia Puritans and frown down theatrical
entertainments. Such take refuge-like their
Philadelphia brethren and "sistern"-in the
circus and the negro minstrels. 1t is wicked 10
go to see Hamlet, but it is right to go to see the
horses. You contaminate your spiritual nature
bywaiting upon Mr.. Fechter, but you revel in in
nocence when you pay to see Leon do he"vench-
business" The drama and the opera are the
two principal buckets that let down to the bot
tomless pit; but the way of salvation is not In
consistent with burnt-cork and sawdust. i
calmly and confidently appeal to the religious
portion of the Philadelphia public-especially
that which reads THE TELEGRAPH-whethel
these remarks are grossly exaggerated of the
spirit with which the circus and the negro
minstrcls are regarded in contradistinction t
the opera and the drama At the circus ant
the negro minstrels you may see pious pdter
fqrniIias surrounded by his family, shaking will
laughter at the jokes of the clown or the ''end
man; but you never see him at tn
opera or at the drama, or at scarcel
aIy entertainment of the kind in which ther
iRan intallectual element. Now the religion