Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-11-29
PHILADELPHIA LETTER.
PHILADELPHIA. Nov. Is

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 28th.
The stripgency of the financial pres.
sure seems to be dashed in this city Of
brotherly love-" with personal sorrow
for the great who had fallen. Around
Jay Cookies residence, a few miles out,
the neighbors are mourning as if for a
lost one spatched away by death. His
jovial good fellowship, and charity to
the poor, cover a multitude of sins. The
community in general is resuming its
usual tone and spirit. Probably more
charity entertainments are given here
than in any other city: these will be less
ened, but not dropped entirely. Thea
tres feel the loss more some Of them
having but half the usual audiences
and books droop most. / observe q
great quantity of French and German
novels for sale, which one never sees in
New York.
1t is much easier to live here, with
moderate mean. Boarding houses
abound, where one can take room for
a year, and not run the risk of being
turned out by the failure of the landlady
to pay her rent, or the sheriffs sale of
her furniture. In New York, the enor-
nous rents make it impossible for that
helpless class of ladies to sustain them
selves. They will take q furnished
house, but invariably fail to keep it.
Most Of their houses are half empty ;
while the increase OF hotels and cheap
ness of some of them, dispose every
body to patronize them in preference.
The advantage of meals in the middle
of the day to persons of leisure, is OBJ
vious. The dinner hour in Philadel-
phia is two o'clock, almost univers ally.
The comparative small size and plain
exterior and the furniture of the houses,
as compared with those of the sister city,
seem an exponent of the general level
in the arts. In music especially there
is wide spread taste, and muah prac-
tice without any exalted excellence.
You seldom hear of star of magnitude
A small circle of amateurs among the
Acknowledgements an exclusive set has
long held its own under the leadership
of beautiful belle, whose dramatic
talent equaled her musical ability. She
did not hide this light under bushel !;
but let it shine in the eyes of the strait
laced and puritanical people of the Cup
per crust )" and they kindly applauded,
and portend the genius of their brilliant
townswoman. Just now she is laboring
under bronchial difficulty and is for
hidden by her physician either TO sing
or act. But she is active in arranging
an amateur entertainment for worthy
object, and hope in short time to be
able to record its success.
The friends of the late Mrs. Critten-
den are shocked to hear of the death of
her youngest daughter. Mrs. Cabell,
of st. Louis. She had lately inherited
q large fortune, and was surrounded
with every blessing craved by mortals.
Her husband was General Cabell, of the
United States army.
Bellew is to read here tomorrow.
There's more taste for dramatics aud
elocution in Philadelphia than is gener
ally allowed. Many private circles have
their meetings for practice in the art
from pure love of it. Parlor readings
are very frequent, and the entertain
ment if good, is always popular. But
the thing must make its way quietly
not by buster and flash. The amateur
element is great attraction.
Porter and Coates, the great publish
ers, have issued q splendid new edition
of Mrs. Ellet's "Queens of American
Society" The book is larger, and more
gorgeous in appearance, than ever.
1.-The Pioneer Women of the West" - by
the same author. is also presented, in "a
new dress, for the holidays. E.