Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-04-25

IHE ADVENTURES IN w WASHISGTON--HOW
THE DUALITY OF THE DEVIL AND THE
GRACEs MIGHT HAVE MET EIs EQUAL
HER RELIGION, her LOVE, HER MOTTO
AND HER ALPS. A SPIRITUALIsTIc EN-
TERTANMENT. An OHIoAN PAYS 81 400
FOR A cLAIRvoYANr PAINTING OF THE
WOMAN HE IS TO WED IN THE sPIRIT-LAND
But Is AFRAID To SHOW IT To BIS WIFE.
From our Regular Correspondents.
When Chesterfield said that women
were only children of larger growth,
with an interesting tattle, and sometimes
wit, but that ne had never known one to
possess solid reason and good sense, or to
act consequentially for four and twenty
hours together-it is quite evident that he
had never come in contact with the Wash
ington species, maid, wife or widow
Had he met a Washington adventures,
and if he had gone into good society he
would certainly have found her, he would
have met his equal, and more too. If he
had begun to flatter her, as he advised his
son to do, on any subject, from her un-
standing down to the exquisite taste of
her fan, under the impression that she
would gratefully accept the smallest COM
pliment, and greedily swallow the gross
est-what would have become of that du-
ality of the devil and the graces, Lord
Chesterfield! He would have been taken
in destroyed. He might practice his
graces, his tiattery, his diabolical je ne seal
| quOi, upon u United States Senator, on
Ben. Butler, or Sam. Cox; but with all
his knowledge of the beau monde, as it
was, the Becky Sharpe of Washington
might teach him a thing or two that
would cause him to admire. The century
and quarter that has elapsed, since
Chesterfield wrote, has not left woman
becalmed in the wake of its mighty evo-
lutions. The queen of the cannibal
islands is more tastefully tattooed than
was her grandmother, and the belle of
this habitat has more in her head, if not
in her heart, than had her prOgenitress OF
the day of Chesterfield. The Washington
society woman has one grand observing
passiOn-an enthusiastic devotion to her
self that has made her stoicaI on every
other subject; she may have her smiles
and her tears, her joys and her sorrows,
/ but they are not for others. She adores
dress, kneels at the shrine of Mammon,
burns incense to dear mealy-mouthed So
| ciety, fawns upon the powerful and ele-
Yates her exquisite nose at the knock
kneed, pot-bellied, and weak. She is an
audacious, persevering, pioneering, little
| body; her motto is excelsior, and hel
Alps is the social ladder. Sooner or later
probably later, she will get married to q
sentimental youth, with well-balanced
hair, and money: or, to what she would
prefer, money, with only septangeneriar
encumbrance. Money, subsidiary to self
is the supreme object of her life, and sh'
will secure it, through marriage if sht
can, but, at any rate, she will secure it
Since the days of Babylon there have
been other careers for women at capitals
than matrimoney.
Yesterday evening in passing Talmadg'
Hall, which adjoins the old theater wher'
Lincoln was murdered, observed that
was Illuminated, and asking the long
haired man at the door what he was t.
have, he replied: ga lecture by the grea
high priest of Spiritualism, Mr.. Davis
l remembered that when quite boy
had read book on Splritualism, by Davis
full of transcendenta1 jargon, the fly
leaf of which was adorned with por
trait of the writer, trying to look like
man of genius and sensibility; so pait
ten cents and stro1led in to hear him. On
sees some queer-looking people in larg
hall full of spiritualists. 1t is said tina
every man has his insanity, but specta
Gle of room full of middle-aged mel
and women, elated with homogeneou
insanity, is spectacle. From Mr.. Davis
lecture 1 would infer that his insanity
of the milder, more refined, and etheria
type. His rhapsody was as convincin
as chaste rhetoric, poetical hypothesis
and unimpassioned diction could make il
! The philosophy or rather stmisophy
which he thought was to distrust th
senses, with their love of science, an
listen only to instinct and longing, whic
was real wisdom, and the hereditary e1
perience of infinite generations of tn
human soul. He denounced spectaculs
spiritualism and so-calIed materializi
tions, and reproached spiritualists fl
wasting money on them. The best pa
of his lecture was that in which he rid
culed a wealthy Ohioan, whose busine
detained him in New York, while h
wife took care of his family in the Buc
= eye State, for paying 81, 400 dollars for g
oil painting of his spirit bride, the woma
he was to wed in the spirit world f
said this man would spend hours in e
amored contemplation of the paintin
u while his good homely wife, in Ohio w
engaged in the care of their numero
progeny. When he asked him why he d
not take the picture home, he replied tn
he was afraid it might make trouble.
Latest words and Opinions of Gre
People ON the Great Confession.
. From the New York Graphic.
] Elizabeth am miserable guilty w
man, again.
: Mr.. Beecher-Elizabeth is innocent.
am innocent.
Elizabeth-No 1 amt. And you're a
other.
Mr.. Tilton-She is pure. She may ha
\ been indiscreet, but she is pure.
/ Thomas Shearman-She's not to
trusted.
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