The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-19

antly challenged and that that comparison has
not been in his favor. "Dutchy" is one OF the
least inelegant of the descriptive epithets that
have been lavished upon him. True, the houses
have been crowded nightly, andt the gentlemauly
creatures in the ticket Office have been we'll
nigh insulted at divers hours of the day and
night for not having on hand sufficient seats
wherewith to satisfy the public. But this sue
cess is the merely temporary one of curiosity
and the curiosity itself is very soon slaked.
After the third act is over people leave the
theatre in droves, and having been disgusted
with Mr.. Fechters chef d9uure, wish to see
nothing more of him.
Frou-Frou, by Mr.. DAILY, is not a success. i
shall have more to say of IL next week.
Miss Antheny's birthday.
This occasion was duly celebrated on Tuesday
night, when the Woman's Bureau, in Twenty
third street, was crowded with ladies and gen.
temen, most of whom took an interest in the
woman's suffrage movement Since Miss An
thony squarely and fairly owns up that her age
is fifty, there Is no reason why / should deli
cately beat about the bush. But at any rate she
don't look fifty, and she did not on that occa-
sion. She stood at the top of the first fight of
stairs dressed in O short silk dress of black and
dark red. OF course, after numerous hand
shakings, there was 'call" for the victim of
the occasion, and in response to stamping of
feet and clapping of hands Miss Anthony reite-
rated what she had often said before namely,
that as long as there was right grudged her
sex she would be found with her shoulder to the
wheel. And the writer of these lines believes
you, Susan. With all your faults, he believes
you're the very salt of the suffrage question.
New York Reporters mt New York Balls,
/ have been to "a many" balls in Philadelphia,
but never to one at which so much attention
was paid to newspaper people as was lavished
upon them on Thursday evening at the bal
Dlasque of the Arion Vocal Society. 1t was a
touching and healthy spectacle-that presented
by the nicely furnished little room which had
been set apart expressly for them. There they
sat at various desks and tables, couple of score
Of journalists, each in dress suit and each WELD
ing pen intent for the moment upon giving a
picturesque description of the affair for his espe-
cial "organ." While they are thus throwing off
those brisk paragraphs which read so prettily in
the mornings newspapers, various bottles of
champagne and Rhine wine are brought in, and
almost enough corks are heard popping to corre-
spond to every note of punctuation The
writing of the most of these. reports is finished
by midnight, at which hour the business of the
night over, the reportoFial corps is supposed to
be ripe for its pleasures. The various reports
are confded TO several small boys kept in wait
ing, or in the pay of the association giving the
ball, and by half past IL my report is safe in
| the hands of the managing editor or foreman
of the newspaper it was intended for. This is a
neat way of doing the business, is it not? Why
| don't Philadelphia do the work in similar
| style? 1t would be sure to be reciprocated in
some way or other. Bread so cast upon the
waters returns buttered after very few days.
| Such is the experience of ~ ALI BABA.