The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-09

From Oar O1sn Correspondent
New YORK, Feb. Q, 1870

Healthy BOnrd of Health.
One of the veraciOus variOloid stories which |
the arbitrary conduct of the Board of Health has |
put into circulation Is, that a few days ago |
young married woman, Represented to be suffer |
ing from smallpox, was forcibly abducted from
her home at clearinghouse at the northeast |
corner of Macdougal and Amty streets, and |
conveyed in an open van to the hospital From |
all that have been able to learn 1t appears that
the poor woman had been III for some days, that
the suspicious of the laudlady had been aroused,
that the young womanS husband had left her
early in the morning in order to procure
board and lodging elsewhere, and that
while he was gone an ambulance drove up to
the clearinghouse and a rough-loolling man
descended. and his wife was compelled to RISE
dress herself, and enter the ambulance, in which
she was driven off. Ner is this all: the ambu
lance had meanwhile to suit the convenience of
one of its drivers, been driven around to place
on Fourth street, and the sick woman was COM
PEELED to walk thinly clad, through the cold,
to where the ambulance was in waiting
charitable lady, who happened to spy some OF
these proceedings, sent the poor thing some
grapes and oranges, and bottle of hot water to
put to her feet, but the beast who drove the am
buance refused to allow his victim to avail her
self of them. Now have no doubt that DIR.
Harris is a busy man. He certainly ought to be,
II he conscentously attends to all the duties
which devolye upon him from the Board of
Health; but it may well be doubted whether
kidnapping smallpox patient, and forcing her to
walk shigering through the street at the height
of her illness, is the most humane and surest
method Of preventing spread of the disease.
The SOrOsistcrs.
Do not imagine because have said nothing
of the Sorosis lately that it has ceased to exist.
It has had meeting at Delmonico's to which
no males were admitted, but from which few
particulars happened to leak out, principally,
presume, through the garrulity of the solitary
waiter who handed around tie ice-cream. What
the precise object of this association is no man
has vet succeeded in discovering. The sisters
do not do any work. They do not apply them
selves to charity. They are engaged in no social
movement which has for it's object the regenera-
ton of any particular abuse. 1t appears to be
merely periodical Conversations, where weak
tea and thin bread and butter are consumed
between the intervals of gossip. In fact, it is
said to resemble in its general features, another
much less prominent society known as "The
Tiffns," which is composed of married ladies.
who meet together to gossip aud guzze in
modest way, and over the bills they are running
ND at Delmonicos to gloat over those they have
run up at the milliner's already.
Editorial Dangers.
An editor Of one of the most prominent jour
nails of this city was relating to me yesterday
one of his trials. 1t appears that about two
weeks ago In an unguarded moment he got off
an editorial paragraph to the effect that good,
clean, motherly pie-woman, who knew how to
bake haky pastry and concoct good cup of
coffee would find plenty Of custom among edi-
toral offices. He glowingly described the pecu-
mary bliss of the career she would enter upon,
and did not conclude without expressing some
hope of giving personal patronage to such a
woman, could such one possibly be found.
The unfortunate paragraph was printed. and
the ill-etarred editor has not had any pocket
money he could call his own since. lie lives a
life beset with pie-women The day after the
article appeared, letters from every pie-woman
in the metropolis who could write poured
in upon him, asking every conceivable question
as to the sums to be realized, the likelihood of
permanent success, the means to be taken to
insure it. ETC. etc. For consistency's sake he has
been compelled to purchase largely of every
culinary adventures who showed herself in his
sanctum bearing a basket. By forced addic-
ton to oyster-patties and krullers, molasses
cakes, corn bread, mufflns and sandwiches, he
has already laid the foundations of dyspepsia.
At the moment of his speaking with me he was
surrounded by the CHASTITY remains of his recent
lunch and / was preparing to leave a little
mouse of woman with mountain OF a basket
made her way into his presence exclaiming:--
~ saw an article in your paper the other day
sir, asking for pie-woman, etc. etc.
The expression upon his face at those words
will not attempt to describe. The smitude
of the dying duck in thunderstorm would be
infinitely feeble in expressing it.
Italian Opera.
People in New York go to see, not Italian
opera, but Signor Lefranc. He is the only artis
whom they applaud and they do encore him il
the most heartless manner. At present he il
most industriously engaged in running his voice
He responds to all the encores with the sweetes
nature possible, and the more he curses thu
American climate in private the more blessed
the aspect with which he beams upon the Ameri
can people in public He, indeed, is the onl.
success of the season. De Briol and even Kel
logg are ignored when he is on the stage wit
either of them.
MIR. Rosenberg.
This artist-editor, who is successful In almos
as many different pursuits as he has fingers o
his hand, to say nothing of toes, has been en-
gagged in an interesting squabble with amateu
art-critic. How he finds time to demolish hin
between writing novels for Frank Leslie, an
painting pictures which are snapped up by cor
noisseurs as soon as finished, don't know. Br
he does! ALI BABA.