The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-30
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From Our ougn Correspondent

Take the average woman at first-class New
York boarding-house, and you have epi-
tome of much that is weak and vicious in
woman. Why all the weaknesses and errors of
the sex should come to light more in boarding
houses than elsewhere is a problem that
cannot solve. 1t is enough to know that they
do. The lady-boarder of the period is one of
the silliest and most useless productions of
modern society. Her virtue is of that fran
n ture that is always gravi ating towards vice.
When she is not reading novels she is gadding
til, streets, or sitting with one lady
boarder scandalizing another George
Sand becomes with her a favorlte
author and she learns to sympathize
with Indiana" first in theory and then in
practice. She gives up her children entirely to
the instruction of a French maid and visits
them periodically, with about as much motherly
feeling for them as vivifed fashion plate
would have. She keeps in her room liquors and
cordials which she imbibes too unblushingly to
care to drink upon the sly. She makes public
DO lst of hating work, and declares that what
ever else she may do she will moi sew for her
children. Things, she declares have not quite
com, 10 tat pass yet. She admires opera
30 tte, Mr.. Fisk, and Celine Montaand, takes
least one religious weekly, and goes to
church as regu arly as the weather will permit.
She S in all respects flrst-class contradiction,
buS uoS VI hulCu 10 W SuOW uOW WOL0u may
degenerate when they wholly abandon them
selves to the life of clearinghouse. That the
hu' band of such a woman continues to love her
proves only the strength and constancy of mas
nuline attachment.
EottschnIk's Body.
The body of Louis Moreau Gottschalk is eX-
pected to arrive in this city to-day from
quarantine, where it has been detained in order
to comply with the precautions now taken there
net oil loW II t1uoc chi iDna hna rJ
the Merrimae August 25, after Gottschalk had
been dead more than two-thirds of year. Mr..
Thomas Hall, a music publisher of this city, has
charge of the body and will superintend the
charge that is taken of it here. Upon its arrival
it will be deposited in the vault of st.
Stephens Roman Catholic Church, on Twenty
eighth street, there to await the celebration of
requiem mass that will take place next Monday
week. The orchestra will number forty and the
choir will consist of double quartette. The
mass is c Caerubinis, and the orchestral perform
ance will be the first ever given in this country.
After the mass has been celebrated the body will
be buried in Greenwood Cemetery. the obsequies
being witnessed only by the relatives and per-
sonal friends of the great pianist.
The Growth of Lecture-t'iving.
Lecture giving, as profession is on the in
crease. Look at the women who are pushing
upon the rostrum. Mrs. Caudleism is taking q
shape more genteel and less viXenish than it
assumed under the pen of Douglass Jerrold. Let
us hope that curtain-lectures will grow scarce
in direct proportion to the increase in the num-
Der of sporadic speechifyers. Look at the num-
Der of unmarried women who are commencing
their fall campaign in the lecture-room. What
touching illustration it is of the consistency
of woman with herself that, in such Two
great relations of life as maidenhood
and matronhood she should so often cease to be
loving at the freside in order to be edifying
from the platform. l should shudder indeed if,
running my eye over the prospectus of feminine
lecturers for the coming winter, / felt that New
York was to endure them all. Luckily our pub
lie halls are so monopolzed by other entertain
ments, aud the popular taste runs so little in
the way of feminine lectures, that only two or
three of them make an appearance here during
an entire year. Anna Dickinson and Olive
Logan are about the only two feminine lecturers
who can draw in New York city houses ef
respectable size.
A Free Church.
A Free Church for Strangers is to be opened
next Sunday. 1t is the result of piece of libe-
rality on the part of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and
is intended for the express accommodation of
strangers visiting the city. The circulars which
have been sent out state that its founders be-
ieve the church to be the first undenomi-
national one established in America; that their
symbol of faith is the Apostles Greed: that
their ritual is simple that their communion is
open; al d that their seats free. In fact, the
only test question which the church pro poses to
those desiring to become members is, whether
such persons are trying to be saved from their
sins through Jesus Christ. For long time
sort of Free Church has been supported in the
large chapel connected with the New York Uni
yersity, where unique individual calling himself
Bishop Snow presides, expounds the
Revelation, and is particularly fond of alle-
with an indefinite number of horns don't know
how much good Cor harm) his sermons did, bat
they were scarcely of a nature suited to an au-
dience composed of strangers, and representing
many colors and shades of religious belief. But
where, and how often, will you find the religious
genius who can thrillingly utter thoughts that
are thrilling, and yet which, avoiding all ques-
tions of dogma are such as can be accepted by
the great mass of the people, and be wrought
by them into their lives? And until you do
discover a religious genius like this you miss
the great good that ought to be won in establish
ing Free Church for Strangers.
The FarraEut Obsequies.
While l write the public buildings are draped
in black and the city is preparing to profess pro-
found gloom, in view of the funeral pro-
cession of the late Admiral Farragut. That
procession will take place tomorrow, when the
schools, the public buildings, and places of bus-
ness, generally, will be closed. The 1st and I'd
Divisions of the National Guard are to turn out,