Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-08-12
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Special Correspondence.

NEW 1ORk, aug. D, 1919.
That class of Americans to which I
have Occasionly referred as signing after
the titles and customs of European aris-
tocracy, have had titbit this week in
the accounts of the marriage in London,
on the 9th ult., of Miss Minnie Stevens,
daughter of the late Paran Stevens, of
this city, to Arthur Henry Paget,
lieutenant and captain of the Scots Flu
silier Guards, eldest son of Lieutenet
General Lord Alfred Paget, Clerk Mar
shall of the Royal household and fifth
son of the first Marquis of AngIesey."
Think of it And as though it were
not honor enough of itself for daughter
of this poor plebian republic, which
can't even confer knighthood, to marry
all that, the accession was rendered still
more excruciating by the august pres
ence of the Prince of Wales and four or
five others of the royal brood. We have
not yet had time to receive the mail con-
tanning the inevitable columns of spread
eagle minutie, but breathless and awe
struck cablegram has favored US with
the points which were too important to
keep. Thus we learn that not only was
the future King of England there, but
that he actually condescended to soon
verse" with.the bride, as did also his
Gracious Nibs the Duke of Connaught,
the younger scion of royalty, who has
just popped the question to German
grincess, and been voted $4,000 year
for life by grateful Parliament for so
doing. Altogether this was most re-
| freshing season, and the accounts there
of will be Joy to the title-worshipers
for months to come.
At time when defaultings and BUSH
ness corruptions daily unearthed. a
crowding succession of brutal crimes and
a prevalence of low political huckster-
ing combine to enforce a belief in the
doctrine of human depravity, it is a
genuine satisfaction to discover evidences
that the better side of human nature
does assert itself despite them all, and
by works of delicate and disinterested
charity proves that the capacity for self
sacrifice and devotion has not been lost
from among US. The winter months
are those which call out the most fire.
quent expressions of sympathy for the
poor, but in New York, at least the
rigors of summer are even more deadly
and tormenting to large proportion Of
that class whom we have always with
us. The sickening details of tenement
life during the hottest weather have
been printed SO often that they arc pain.
fully familiar; and it is in mitigation
of the suffering in these pest holes thai
some of the noblest and and humane
efforts of charitable New York are be-
ing expended. Hospitals for old and
young are literally and effectively man
aged, and what is more important a vas
, amount of sickness and consequent deatl
are prevented by the work of physicians
who, either as volunteers or as employs
{ of philanthropic individuals or bodies
penetrate the very strongholds of diseas
and not only prescribe for the actual,
PROSTATE but by impressing upon tn
minds of the ignorant and often migrate
full inhabitants the simplest rules of by
giene, accomplish more by prevention
: than cure. Then there are the harbo
excursions which are supported, thi
/ year as last, entirely by voluntary Of
Q ferings and through which thousands Q
/ half sufocated women and children ar
> given the chance to breathe in the pur
: sea breeze for day and thereby to gal
s new lease of life. Free dispensarie