New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-09-17


your Sclwyn quite resented the in'eI'cien'' go
t,,r;,o ,o him s.id in his most expressive 'o",'
| on Sir 5o nj ;nterupt Mr.. NlbeIforcei no '""'
IL I,,,or ,,,,Iopcd !,D But Seiwyn was W.T. anu
"o' =, 80 Int what he said. At any rate, he
| Ala finally think that lac himself mlgh' oe oo''
D,N'aa fIr ne gave up play, because as he salu' IL
80 deSourer of four things-time, bealth' iof'une'
and intellect. A.. o,o,,,or or
" vapjtv and its Sister Fralties." OF Diogenes Tor
oxamplc il is well said, that his tub and wallet
Yyore expressions Of conceit and not of HUMILITY
None but surly brute proud of his brutality, would
bae repaid the civilics of Alexander by asking the
monarch to stand from between him and the hight
and what an exquisite bit of bombast was that
search for honest man. as If he was the nties anu
perhaps the only individual i'll the world, To uhueI
take such an enterprise But who does not chu'hle
over Pato's retort when the gruff cynic trod upon
Plato,s garment. exclaiming: "Thus trample upon
the pride of Plato" and was floored by the quick re-
joinder, But with greater pride than PIatoI Inc
vanity Of authors is proverbia but 1t Is narmess
and often consolatory. 1t inoites good anthors 10
write better and bad authors to write on. 1t enabled
SOuthey for instance TO bear mp under the negiect
with which his epics received by the public 1
was perfectly aware he remarked, in speaking OF
the Carse of Kehamd that / was planting acorns
while nv contemporaries setting turkey-beans
The oak will grow, and though may not SIT under
its shade, my children will" We are sorry Tor
Southeys children if they fond of sitting under
oaks for the one their father fancied he had planted
has not come up while the turkey-beans have,
and have overTun the ground about them.
SOuthey was equally mistaken in regard to
his History Of Brasil of which he asserted
that lagos hence it would be found among
the works which are not destined TO perish" Per
hot itV Qxp
the English peachant for the arstocracy i'll iustra-
ton of which Mr.. Hargreaves quotes an amusing
story. It's heroine was a woman who at
tended upon Matthews, the actor, in very
humble capacity, and who sometimes told
| him how Lord and Lady B affected by
the frost, the Duke of C by rain, and the Mar
quis of D by heat; but one day, having come to
/ the end of her noble list, she observed, during
bOisterous morning This is a bad day for the Hon
Orable Mr.. Windham.' The history of fashion is
history of vanity, frequently history of deformty.
In the twelfth century for example, French gentle
men cased their feet in shoes with the toes drawn
out into peaks sometimes extending to the length OF
"a inches this fantastic fashion having been intro
duced by an Earl of Anjou to cover some defect.
Henry the Eighth as Mr.. Hargreaves reminds ms,
was troubled with swollen feet, his courtiers fol-
! lowed his example, and gloIied in wearing boots
| which would have accommodated a equity giant.
We have read somewhere that the heavy neck-cloth
of 30 years ago Tor it the stock was introduced
by George the Fourth to the ulcers in his neck
and was Immediately adopted by his delighted sub
jects Hoops, We all know, were reintroduced into
| the world of fashion 10y the Empress Eugene to
how shall put it delicately ITO conceal the fact
that one who might be expected to perpetuate the
! NapOleOnic dynasty would ere long appear. Moth
ing is too absurd monstrous TO those who give up
] fhpir mighty minds IN fashion Honest lack
Spencer declared that the most preposterous garb
| if introduced by "A man of ton, would be readily
adopted and, as an experiment, ne cut off the tails
of his coat, and exhibited himself in BOnd-s in this
| truncated condition. To his great amusement, and
in measure, says Mr. Hargreaves, to his surprise
as WELL the garment, though admitted on all hands
| TO be eminently absurd, was promptly accepted and
for considerable period in general request.
What was said of Neckar when he appeared at Court
without buckles is the feeling if not always the ut
terance, of the devotees of regning fashion when
the smallest of its requirements are infringed upon
OF neglected Point de bOucler? tout est pcrda!
A conspicuous example of the insOlence of fashion
was Beau Brummell, who should have been horse
whipped into good manners. Dining one day with
a wealthy gentleman, he requested his host to lend
him his carriage to attend party at Lady Jerseys.
The gentleman replied that he was going there him
self and should be happy to give Mr., Bummel
seat. Why, there may be some difficulty abont that.
As il is your carriage, it would not exactly be
the thing for yOu to get up behind; but still, II
would never do for me to be seen in the same
hicle with yOu." Brumme was mistaken il would
have been exactly the thing for the gentleman to
have got up behind him, speedily, and with pair of
stout boots. On another occasion, when entertained
at a house where the champagne was not to his eX-
| quisite taste, Brummell stopped the servant who
was about to fill up his glass again: No, never
drink cider" remark like that here would have
subjected him to the horse-pond He is said to have
flung the wing of "a capOn TO his dog while dining
with friend, exclaming, There, try if you can
get your teeth through that for Ican't." This was
the fellow who the Grbiter etegdnddrum OF Eng
| land!
1.-The Ancient Art of Fibbing" is rich in anecdotes,
! a few of which can perhaps be trusted. Fibbing
| appears to have been universal from the earliest
| time Ii is true that Clemens AleXandrinus men
tons a sect in India, the SemnO who always uttered
the truth but unfortunately traces of this ex-
traordinary people be discovered. Prester John
belonged to similar sect for in the curious episte
which he addressed to the Princes of Chrisendom, in
| 1865 he declared: "With no one lies; for he who
speaks lie is thenceforh considered dead he is no
| more honored OF thought Of" What pity it is that
| Prester John myth, and what mercy IT is
that theet say the Europeans, for we dislike to
say personal things Of our own peOple,-that the
| Europeans do not live in that veracious country.
| Sir Henry Wotton lost favor with James the First
for saying that ambassador was apeTson who was
sent to lie abroad for the good of his country 1t
true then as il il now, but il not truth
| that would bear telling. Louis the Eleventh had
theory about lying when he said TO his ambassadors,
in case they lie hard to You at the Court
where you going, you must lie hard to
them" The King Of Spain had another theory.
| MY master, the Governor of the Low Countries"