The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-11-24
Philadelphia Letter.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 90, 1875.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 90, 1875.
ED. REConD lit is astonishing in these
dull times, how the Saturday matinees at our
theatres are so well attended, especially too,
when the ssdead head " list is advertised
" entirely suspended The fair-sex weary
from the burden Of household duties during
the week, seek recreation in attendance upon
these afternoon matinees and when once there
predominant In the excessive as to numbers
over the bronzedn mascuIines.
AS to myself took the benefit of mat
inee at less costly price, last Saturday, and
visited the 'Centfai Station " 9th and Chest
nut streets. The audience was small tho ac-
tors silent IN " private box" An eminently
fitting commandment-the 18th, came Creep
ing over my imagination which chiefly deals
with sin and sinners ssThou should'st not
get found out" All flesh is weak, and man
as general rule, cannot resist temptation,
any more than a duck can resist taking to
wafer or female ship wrecking her loose
lucre on gew gaws and the like. Some men
rush into giddy ways with the impetuosity of
board-y yard s'purp" cleaying the blue.etiief.
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and verify these should be close-pan regard
ing their skyhootings. 1t don't do for fell
low who has taken unto himself help-meet
to go galavanting around among the single
females and let it be discovered for she-to
speak in metaphor-who was the poultice to
his lacerated bosom and the sharer of his in
come will be metamorphosed into fiend with
an Unsuitable propensity to smooth him out
| with flat-irons, and will make his life SO mis-
cradle that hanging on the ragged edge "
of despair would be elysium to it. A man
| with no more observation than a clam can see
how fitting it is to be covert about his actions.
1t is frightfully discouraging to struggle with
Bacchus all the night, and then take kind
of bias serpentine route for home, and dis
cover the governor laying for you with lee
ture four yards long, or to meet your mother
in-law on the first stairs with cast-iron ex-
preston, and with every indication of her
bursting her stays if she don't blow off her
wrath. Such is the fate of him who will
"bndge" and get found ont" Happy and
level-headed is the man whose lodge meets
every night otherwise, had that man for a
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of a two-year old mule, his countenance would
perpetually resemble rail road map of New
Jersey. And should she be gifted with
self-lubricating trip-hammer tongue, that
mans star has gone down, the drum of his
ear will be everlastingly ringing with his
faults, his manhood will desert him, and, like
a Persian mummy he viii dry up" and
4nIx, \
the club, he will spend his nights at home adj
ministering syrups of squills to his infantile
progeny and singings lullabys to his latest ar
rival while prancing up and down ON the cold
oil cloth in his socks Such is the end of the
lodge-man who gets ssfound out :" The force
of this commandment is as easily understood
as an invitation to imbibe. If the lingerers
in this mundane sphere who rely on their
wits for a livelihood were always to be dis
covered their uselessness would soon be cut
off, and the public would be profited. A match
in key powder would have as much show as
the youths who go prowing around in the
night with small machine shop in tLeir gar
ments, if their mission was discovered.
The array of the "actors /" who were before
the Magistrate at this matinee, and their slim
chances of tranquil future, illustrates the
force of my commandment, and shows the
result of getting found out with the same de-
gree of force as being struck with ple-dri-
yer. 1t would have been the greatest folly
for John Vanleer to have looked IN a glass
ter Frank Farrell struck him on Wednesday
to ascertain if his eyes was blue. AS John
said, when he was hit three times y in the
region of the left pepper, it would have con-
WINGED any man that his countenance was
somewhat damaged. Mr.. yanleer's coun-
tenance looked like adamagedengraving, and
spoke in thunder tones Of the prowess of
Frank as calcimizer of eyes, and an erector
of knobs on head-pieces.
In the lovely little village of Middletown,
Delaware, once resided fair, intelligent and
honest lacking female, whose front name is
Matilda, and whose concluding cognomen is
Budd. She was a Budd born not to bloom
and fade unseen in the little, ANTICIPATED COR
ner of the diminutive commonwealth in which
she had her habitation. During the early
part of morning lately this lady visited Sharp
less store, at 9Th and Chestnut streets and ex-
amined goods in such quantities as to astonish
the clerk who piled the articles on the counter
Then she left the store with a balmoral skirt,
which she did not buy and which was not pre-
scented to her. Now it came to pass that she
got "found out" She fell into the hands of
minion ofthe law, and blight is upon her,
as well ns six hundred bail. Now for the
final matinee. Charley Spangler was his
name and faoetious, slippery fellow he is.
The charge against hin, was e too muchly"
around the La Pierre House and lingering too
profusely about the Continental Hotel. The
fact is if Charles hadn't got found out, he
would have patronized the table of this hotel
just as regularly as nieal-time, and with
guest worthy of a better cause. 1t was
source Of pride to him to stand before the
great hotel at noon-day, plying around his
back teeth with tooth-pick, and mcditating
upon the greatness Of man who could success
fully beat so large hotel with such elegant
grace. But Charles did not stop here. An
overcoat on the rack broke in on his gaze and
presently the charm of this light-fngered
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