The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-19

From. oar Osn Correspondent
New YORK, March 10, 1870
The PurIm Ball

with some OF the elements of the odndtue. |
Towards half-past 2 in the morning some con-
sternation was created by the discovery that one
of the maskers, a man in the disguise of a
French waiting-maid, had gained access to the
ladies' dressing-room. The respectable female
relatives of the hoor-managers grew pale
with anger at this irregularity, and
the offender was demonstrated with.
He expressed contrition, and proved
that his pentencc was practical by gathering his
skirts around him and leaving the ballroom,
shaking the dust off his feet, or more literally,
the chalk off his CATERS The floor managers,
by-the-by, prded themselves upon the elegant
yet simple style with which the entertainment
was conducted. At supper, for instance, the
usual French gibberish With which comestibles
are baptized in the bills of fare was discarded.
1t was enough for theguests to be in masquerade,
without the goodies" being disguised. The
delicacies of the season-and am glad to say
that this ball differed from the French ones in
the fact of there being no female indelicacies of
the season to eat them-were printed in plain
English. Some of the viands were peculiar to
the Jewish table, and had quite as much indi-
vduality about them dishes characteristic of
Professionalism have.
Our Relations with Spain.
Since Zoe, the "Cuban sylph," has vanished
from the footlights of New York, our relations
with Spain have become somewhat complicated
and bid fair to grow more So For instance,
next Wednesday week, a company of ''real"
Andalusan dancers are to appear at Tammany
the defunct Tammany from whose boards the
secular blondes and the Sabbatic George Francis
Train were swept at one fell swoop. Professor
Risley, the same repHtability who imported
Albright, and led the Japanese jugglers through
the country, has been taking his pick from the
theatres of Madrid, Seville, Granada, and
Malaga, and has got together some of the best
men-dancers and .women-dancers in all Spain.
Professor Risleys love for the people of New
York in particular, and the United States in
general, is represented to be great that he
rejected with contumely the offers
made him by managers at Paris
and London, preferring to plump
his troupe down at once upon American shores.
Will brunettism frown down blondism? Who
knows The brunettes open at Tammany
the 30th; the blondes commence at Niblo's on
the ensling 4th of April / should not be sur
prised If, after all, blondism has seen its best
nights IA this country for the present. Apropos
of the dbut of the Andalusan ballet, the price
of Spanish mackerel has gone up and CASTLE
soap is lhe favorite saponaceous deodorizer of
young New York. The brunette regime will
probablybe succeeded in its turn by an auburn
haired era of beauties cast in the Lady Don
mould-hJshed and ardent-tempered beauties
whose very ghosts would walk about in hesh-co-
lored tightsif they had a chance, and who squeeze
all that is passionate out of life into their tropc
natures, and breathe it forth again in the rhymed
nonsense of burlesque.
Married Editors.
There is no good in an editor being married
unless he makes of his wife. Some of the
editors of struggling weekly papers here do so
in a very practical and charming manner. For
instance, in most of the New York weeklies
there is fashion department, which is usually
presided over by lady equally fluent of speech
and pen, who, however, has to both talk and
write up to the handle. These elaborate de-
scriptioDs of the rarest modes which your wife
reads with so supreme an expression of bliss
transfguring her features are all written by
ladies who devote their lives to the work. and
accordingly do 1t very well indeed. Some of
them are ladies, and some of them are-women.
Some of them glide through their business du-
ties concealed under the disguise of de
plume and with their mission never for an
instant suspected by the weary dry-goods clerks
who hold up for their inspection article
after article of lace and silk. Some of them,
whose maiden or whose married names
are too prosaic to suit the purpose, adopt a fc-
titious name for the very purpose of obtaining
notoriety, and while transacting their work for
their papers, put ever so manyironsin in the fire for
themselves. Now the editor who first put to
practical use the idea OF making his wife trans
act this business did an eminently good stroke of
business for himself He need pay her no
salary; the lady would OF course, be faithful to
his interests; and, besides, there could be no
possible objection-as there would be in other
cases to her having as many irons in the fire
for herself as she chose. Consequently the New
York weekly editors wife has found her sphere.
1t is that of fashion editress to her husbands
newspaper and appropriateness OF as many per-
quisites as fall in her way.
MIR. Wilkes Story.
There was unusual rush yesterday to Sc
cure copies of the Just issued edition of Wilkes
Spirit of the Times. Every one was naturally
anxious to hear Mr.. Wilkes version of the
Gaming which all the daily newspapers agreed
that he had received from the hands of Major
w. w. Leland, whom he had grossly scanda
lized in his paper. To tell the truth, Mr.. Wilkes
makes so extremely weak explanation o.
what is populary believed to have happened
and calls his antagonist such dreadfully coarse
names, that sympathy with him is entirely re
moved from the breast of every reader who does
not share in the honor of being his persona
friend.
'SWhere the WOOdbine Twineth''
1t will probably not be long ere Mr.. Fisk has
the opportunity of repeating this and simila
successful gags. For the present, however, hi
has made his last appearance in court as funny
man, q witty witness who dared to jest before
the Judge, and regale with original badinage thu
bench and bar. 1t often happens, in scenes il
court, as represented upon the stage, that wit
ness is needed who understands the eXigencie
of the occasion sufficiently to be funny and keel
the house on the ''go" without becoming coarse
Mr.. Fisk has found that he would answer admi
Tably for this business, to which perhaps he ma,
come some day when he shall have speculate
away his wife's private fortune of two millions
his own of ten, lost the confidence and supper
OF j. Gould and ceased to fuctuate between Fri
on the one hand and houri on the other. i
such parts as "Where the Woodbine Twineth,
/ like him better than Lefiingwell, Sam HemplC
or the fair-haired Owen Fawcett. ALI BABA.
The Growth of the American Plano Trade.
Notwithstanding the unusual and general depre
sion OF trade, the total amount OF sales in 1859
fully equal to the businessOf the preceding year,
ID a fhQt In he Of