The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-21
THE MARCH MAGAZINES.
.,TuE ATLANTIC.v

Atlantic Monthly Por March, which presents the
following list of articles-"In Behalf of the
Birds" "Jeseph and his Friend, iii; "From
Pennsylvania Hills to Minnesota Prairies;"
1.-THE Military Ball at Goulacaska;" ''The
Minor Theatres of London;" "Balders Wife,"
"a Romance of Real Life;" Adventures
and Adventuresses in New York;" ''Time
Works Wonders;" 1.-THE Blue River Bank
Robbery" "a Night in a Typhoon;" even
Song" california Earthquakes" "Is Mar
riage Holy?" "Hopes of Spanish Republic"
Captain Ben's Choices" Reviews and Lite
rary Notices"
Adveturesses of New York" we make these
extracts
Adventures seem persons born out OF pa
Tallel with nature, who misdirect their ener-
gies and capacities. To avoid wholesome
occupation, they endure anxious toll; to be
free from common duties they accept the de-
graduation of perpetual shame and the pain Of
Derpetual doubt Their whole mental and
moral code is strangely deranged. They be-
heve that TO seem is better than to be; that
falsehood is preferable to truth; that cheating
is the chief end and crowning glory of man.
They see all illnesses at q wrong angle; their
instincts are inverted; their apprehension is
wholly at fault Nothing is sacred to them;
nothing worthy of esteem. To their thinking,
all seriousness and responsibility are taken
out of life. He is the best who deceives the
most, and gains by all moral failure material
success
In q great city the temptation to get along
without work is besetting and constant.
Wealth without worth, prosperity without
labor, fash by on every hand and the weak
nature says to itself, "Why should l toll
without reward when others no better than l
enjoy without desert?" So the weak nature
conceives that to get without earning is most
desirable, and bends all his faculties to such
accomplishment. The first false idea of every
adventurer is to have something for nothing;
to share the fruit of labor without labor; to
be at the restful summit, emitting the fatigue
of climbing. Discarding honesty and the
obligation of work, the way downward is easy;
for it is paved with the smooth mosaics of sell
fshness and self-indulgence.
In New York the adventurer and adven-
turess are part of society. They are so many
as to form distinctive classes, recognizable to
a trained eye, though not at a glance. The
men and women representing the profession
for it is strictly such-are as different as
any persons can be who have the same object
and the same needs. They carry out their
purpose in dissimilar ways, each managing
men and circumstances in manner peculiar
to his or her sex. They cannot be treated to-
gether, they are so unlike. Let us, therefore,
look at the adventurers first.
To New York all who leave Europe for
their own good and our i'll of course come
first; and there they stay while dupes may be
had and falsehoods can deceive. That city
has had vast number of French counts,
German barons, Italian marquises, and will
have no doubt for many generations. Anne
RIGA has a strange fascination for the nobility
of the Continent. They will persist in leav-
ing their picturesque chateaux and Rhenish
castles and Tuscan villas, with all their splen-
dors, for the rude homes Of the great Repub-
lie and the uncultivated natives who are bent
upon making money and incapable of appre-
ciating art.
They often obtain the entree to
houses of the wealthy, criticize the
elaborate dinners, pay court to the delighted
daughters, and are teted and coddled in every
way, until the adventurers oondescend to
borrow money-which it is considered high
pleasure to lend-and soon after suddenly
disappear.
Polish patricians, tracing their pedigree
back to John Sobieski, who have fed from
Russian persecution, have been welcomed
and petted by generous gentlemen and SYM
pathetic ladies. They have been contended
for by fashionable DANES, and to secure them
has been the triumph of the season. They
have been on the eve of making an alliance
with staid merchants bewitching daughters,
when they have found it convenient to take
an early train on some road that issues nc
return tickets
Distinguished Irishmen without number
have favored the city with their presence,
and made epics about the glory of their an.
cestors The difference between them and
the representatives of other nations is that
they stay with us even after they are found
out. They accommodate themselves tc
circumstances, and have keen perceptions
of the situation. AS it changes they
change. They make good deal Of
noise when their pretension is de
throned; but they soon resign them
selves to the inevitable, and look cheerfully
upon destiny. An inflated Celt, whose tall
makes common romances insipid, slips out o.
the charmed circle he broke into by force
of sheer impudence, and devotes himself witt
equal complacency to borrowing small sums
and reciting Tom Moore over punches Of
fusel-oil. Take him all in ALL the Irish ad
venturer is the most tolerable of his kind
He can always appreciate joke and he il
so self satisfied that it does not seem to make
much difference with him whether he il
toasted in the place of honor or is rollick
ing devotee to free lunch
Few of the foreign adventurers gain mucl
more than infamy and little newspaper gos
sip, which is poor compensation for the mag
nifcent impositions they practise. Some
times they contrive to capture wealthy wife
and the paternal Croesus, being unable L
undo what has once been done, says, ''Bles
YOU, my childrenl" with sardonic smile
and transfers a certain portion of his incom
to the fellow he would have horsewhipped
"a rara not unfashionable so to treat one