The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-10-08
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
The Young Man about Town-The
Cosmetic Artist
THE YOUNG MAN ABOUT TOWN.

THE YOUNG MAN ABOUT TOWN.
[ had the curiosity the other day tc
sit in one of the clubs of this city part
of day, to the end OF studing the daily
life of the ''young man about town,
a class very numerous III this city, where
fortunes, colossal in their proportions,
were made by the last ge neration for the
present generation to spe nd. 1t was
curious study, and one, L trust, thai
carries with it moral.
The young man about town is, O.
course, wealthy. His father made 6
large fortune in something, and sent the
young man to college. H., graduated
somehow, without learning anything
and being too rich to follow any business
gave his whole mind Gt wasn't much te
giVe) to the spending of it.
His day commences at noon, VIII, en he
rises. Before he gets his pantaiooL or
he staggers to his side-board and 8, val
lows brandy-cock-t to give him a l. It
tie life, for the night before took out O..
him all the vitality he had, and his
sleep has not been sound or refreshing.
Before he has himself encased in his
elegant clothes, he has swallowed four
or five of these invigOrators, and has got
be able to eat breakfast, which he does
at his club.
He may play at being a broker, in
which case lie goes to Wall street, and,
with set of choice spirits of the same
kidney, he makes few transactions, :"
going out for cock tails before and after
each one. After business hours, he
drops in at Delmonico's, and takes bite
of something, drinking the while every
fifteen minutes, and at about say six in
the evening he is ready for dinner. At
dinner he drinks chablis, sherry, cham
pagne and burgundy, winding up with
cOgnac.
This brings him to the serious bus
mess Of the day. He may go to the opera
with his sister, or the unfortunate young
lady who is to be his wife, Or he may
join 'tstag party and drop in at one
of the theatres for an hour. Following
this he goes, if he is in virtuous frame
Of mind, to ball or two, dancing lit
tie at each, and drinking great deal;
OF, If in vicious mood, there are balls
OF the demi-nonde. In default of these,
there Is always a game of draw-poker at
the clubs, with stakes unlimited; or, if
his system demands a iercer excitement,
there are the faro-banks, where, with the
aid OF We and brandy, the young man
may lose as much money as he chooses,
and the proprietors generally manage
that he shall lose great deal. He keeps
at this steadily till six o'clock in the
morning, when he goes home, not
drunk, but in a semi-intoxicated and
generally befuddled condition, and
drops into q sleep which is not natural
an alcoholic sleep that comes from the
sheer inability Of not over-strong con-
stltut1on to bear any more stimulants
and cigars; for be it known, this gentle
youth smokes the strongest of cigars
every minute of the time that. he is not
in bed or In the presence of decent wo-
men.
The t'yo11ng man about town" does
not confine himself to the three vices of
alcohol, tobacco and gambling. Not he.
There is not a woman of doubtful char
acter in the city who is not known to
him and he has always one, and gener-
ally more, mlstresses, who share his in
come with the faro-banks, the liquor and
cigar dealers.
He dies at something less than forty,
as q rule, though if he lives beyond that
age, it is to wish that he had died be-
fore for his death is not the ordinary
dissolution. It is a breakup. The
system, enfeebled by dissipation, kept
alive by stimulants, and drained by
every known excess, comes to a point
where stimulants viii no longer act, for
the tissues upon which they acted are
gone There is not enough Of the man
left for rum to take hold of, and as rum
hac 1,a r.
it is really all there is of it. Then it
breaks and goes in minute. There is
| no fuel for the fire to take hold of, and
it dies.
Poor fellow! A life that might have
blessed the world ended with not good
deed to leave behind-a career charac-
terized by nothing but lust and self-in-
diligence, and death mourned only by
the harpies who ministered to his sins.
their regret being that he did not live
long enough to squander upon them his
entire fortune.
There are forty thousand of these
young men in New York this day
living the life [ have only in part de-
scribed.
THE COSMETIC ARTIST.
| Ii the young men of New York are
given to one kind of dissipation, their
| sisters are to another. There are in the
| city at least one hundred men and wo-
men who have amassed, or are amassing,
| large fortunes by beautlfying women.
| The cosmetic artist is generally lady
| whose antecedents ere unknown. Where
she comes from no one knows, but she
| always processes to come from that
especial vanity-fair, Paris. She lives in
a quiet and severely respectable neigh
borhood, and no sign aavertises her cal
ling, for no lady would, for the world,
be seen visiting Known beautitier. She
is admired by her customers, and if she
| is skilfu1 she has enough of them.
What does she do? Look at the com
plexions on Broadway, and there find
your answer. s lady has good enough
features, but her complexion is bad.
She would be completely beautiful, SC
she goes to Madame X. Madame
seats her in chair, dips soft brush
| into q yi1lainOuSlv smellinp Eo1ri6 anG