Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-18

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chioness Of Powhatan's carriage stops
the way! !" s*~ -
It another minute it would move to
tho next door with the sama. shout, and
so on. So they kept on, and I was
talking peaceably and inonensively to
my charming friend, Who was enough
more distingtte looking than any one of
them, when tho lackey at the hrst door
shouts out, 'eAr. Wilson, of the Lang
ham Hotels da6siage stops the way"
ond door calls, "Mr: Wilson, of the
Langham's Hotel carriage stops the
way" No answer. In another mo-
ment::a third wretch moved, and &C.
duced by the instigation Of the father
Of carpet. t.baggers, split his throat to
the same tune, and then rushes up to
me: "Mr. Wilson, of the Lacgham,
your carriage, sir." I put on that Sc
we're and dignided air which 8 Virginia
gentleman always assumes in rebuking
impertinence,. and said solemnly, my
man, do I look as il I was Mr. Wilson,
of the Langhainl" t'Begpardou, my
lord, I" said the creature Is he fell on his
face and performed tho kootoo in the
most approved Japanese fashion.
So it is that one must sometimes
support the dignity of the old Conh.
monwealth. ..1.)a
Probably the most, noticeable feature
of London under gas are the gin shops
spirit stores they call them. They
are gay, gaudy, and resplendent with
plate-glass, gilt, and gas. Their private
bars and public bars, all open into
the streets, and it is a. common to see
women drinking az tden. The other
speciality il as marked and melancholy.
Twilight lasts here at this season until
after nine at Edinburgh it was hardly
dark at ten. But after dark-after the
gas il bright Oxford street, the Strand,
and Piccadilly, all the great thorough
fares, are crowded with women. They
walk by themselves or in twos. They
rarely accost person without some
supposed encouragement. Late ut
night I see them standing by them
selves in doorways, by little hooks in
the streets, looking wan and wistfully
at every man who casts IN eye on them.
IT'S the saddest sight I've seen. Tom
Hood was a great philosopher as well
as poet, for one more unfortunate
conveys to the London dweller q great
moral lesson.
The Argyle House is the great centre
of fashionable life of the lensi-na0nde.
The admission is two shillings, and
you have q fine orchestra and good
dancing hall, and all tho handsomest
and most flourishing women of Lon
don of their class. Their mark is un.
mistakable. II I could circulate hall
a dozen portraits among our girls, oi
women Isaw at the Argyle rooms under
the cut-glass chandelier and brilliant
gas.light. I would effect q more positive
reformation in the matter of dress and
personal adornment than two dozen
sermous or half q hundred moral lee.
lures. The Argyle woman dyes her. hail
yellow; she paints so as to have {
soft, brilliant color she dresses ii
positive, pronounced tints; she wear
diamonds in her ears or on her breast
if she has them; and she moves among
the throng Of her admirers a. if sh'
were conscious she is handsome; ant
she comes there to exhibit herself to b'
looked at. Do you know such pictur,
anywhere2 1 tell you this is the char
acter, the style, the sentiment OF tn
dress and department of the. Argyll
beauty, and most Of them are beauties
have seen many more handsome wo
men there than T have seen in Hyd
Park, where the cream and the essenc
; of British aristocracy show itself. Blu
their hair, their complexion, thei
dress, and their department is such a
describe it, and it is not modest
though it is very striking. H.. =
The aristocraey of Anonyma, fo
every society has it's aristocracy, hay
discarded their adventitious aids I