The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-02-14
Men and Women.

Men and Women.
Gov. Vance hss psrdoned the only Hebrew
N the North Carolina Penitsntiary. He was
under ten years sentence for mansiaughter.
The Governor indorsed upon the paper: 81
take pleasure in saying that sign the pardon
10 part recognition of the good and lsw-abidins
cnaracter OF our Jewish citizens, this being
he flrst serious case ever brought to my notice
% the part of aay of that people,"
The new trial now going on in Brooklyn,
in which one Gelston is plaintiff and the Trus-
tees of Talmage's Tabernacle defendants, is de-
Velopng some strange testimony. When the
great and good parson was trying to wipe out
the church debt he called on his nephew for
subscription OF IS 000 The nephew refused to
give that amount, bat the parson insisted, saw
.,ng, NOW let me use your name for SIS 900
want to use 1t uDon Mr.. Silcock, and / will
make up the difference between $500 aud
5000" To this the nephew replied: "Uu-
Gle De Witt, so long as | remain in the rice
business L won't do business in that way
when l get into the ministry l may"
London Is the latest town in the world, as
everybody knows. Gustave Dors cannot get a
cup of coffee at 6 o'clock in the morning, any
where, at any price, when he is over here in the
spring, looking after his gallery in Bond street,
% now he brings his own cafetiere and bis own
valet makes his tdsSe. This being the case in
bright, spring weather, fancy the tardiness of
these impenetrably dark mornings. My SER
want raps sleepily at my door with my stub"
10 the morning and then enters sitting yawu
aHd carrying dim candle glimmeriug gl0omi.
lily. "What time is it?" ask "a quarter to
nine, please num-" she answers, somnolently
quarter to nine! It's as dark as midnight!
And l gave orders to be called at half past
seven; Bat who's to call me at that hour?
Nnh NJ ST all 49,
not up till next day, il then. At IL o'clock, If
you go out for morning shopping excursion.
you find the shopkeepers Just about arr angling
heir window display for the day. Olive
Logan.
Two British Peerages vera created last year,
and two became extinct. AS matters stand,
two Dukedoms, Cleveland and Buckingham,
will become extinct on the death of the exist.
ing Dukes, but the Duke of Buckingham, who
is middleaged and widower, may marry
again. The iaferior dignities of these noble
men, would, however, descend to their rels.
tives, SO that their death would not affect the
number of seats in the House of Lords. Only
two Dukedoms other than royal, Abercorn and
Westminster, have been Gre ated by the Qneen.
The former is in the Peers ge of Ireland There
is not at the present ii me any Whig noblemen
who have just claims to such distinction but
on the Tory side Lord Salisbury who has
wife is more than likely to end his career with
,nly strawberries around his coronet. Lord
Derby, even had he remained in the running
iod be may ba in it again-would have cared
for such distinction even less than his SIRE who
of course might have had a Dukedom had he
pleased. But what was brand new cor0net
to the fourteenth Earl OF Derby, Prime Minis
ter, renowned scholar, and of whom the Straw
eled Thane Athenian Aberdeen" in his de-
cline nearly as crusty, caustc and uncompli.
mentary as Rogers himself, said: II have
heard Pitt, Fox and Sheridan, but our own
Lord Darby. when he is at his b,st, is equal to
them all" Only some four or five of
the Dukes can match Lord Derby in poiut of
income, and while living in a priEcely, semi
ttudsl style, the Staneys have never been
spendthrifts.
Mrs. Bruce is a really pretty woman, of fine
mind and manners, and by her education and
accomplishments she is an exception among
the ladies of the Capital. Not one of the fifty
wives of Senators, that the Congressional di-
rectory gives as here for the winter, receives
and entertains her guests with more ease than
the bride of the Mississippi Senator. Sne is
subjected to severer test than the others, ey-
cry motion, tone and san tence being closely
watched. All who have called came away sur
prised and charmed with her, aud expt,iat, on
tasteful parlOr filled with treasures aud souve.
Mrs of the wedding trip abroad; a room where
colors blend and harmonic, instead of fighting
the battles that they do in the White House
parlors and at other notable homes. Take this
scene in hotel parlor here, where q free born,
independent Westeruer-wife of Republicsn
member-csme in and informed knot of list
less ladies that she had called on Mrs. Senator
Bruce that day. In second the group was
transformed. As Southern women, and mostly
Democrats, they sprang as il a viper had fallen
among them. chorus and 3 discussion en-
sued, growing warm and waxing personal.
They thought it was "awful," and the beauti-
fnl one who had disturbed them stood smilingly
twisting her watch chain while opinions were
"'rgg cd JbEpad miads cd relieved Of their burden,
more money; boe husband is Senator, and
don't ses Edy L shouldn't call on her." and
With nat pa' ting shot the brave defender from
the broad and geGerous West left the grou to
recover their tquanimity. Wash. Corr.
Loudon correspondence N. Y. Sun: 1t is be-
coming evident to me thai photographers ara
90 ing to bsco ne the great social factors of the
future, in dextrous combination with the
'.social weeklies." L done see why they
should not soon 'obtain the controp' (as we say
Of compsny's shares) Of society The "social
weekly" plays great part 10 the life of the
beau monde Given woman vino Is tolerabIy
pretty aud bright, with rich husbands
matters not what their origin may have been
or how they made their money,-and with the
photogra pher and the editor of the social
weekly' as intinaeS, there is nothing to p revent
her from aspiring to the highest branch of the
social tree if she only plays her cards well. ,lt
is necessary that two parties should combine
to bring out bsaaty. Inls creature having
been found, it does not much matter where,
paragraph appears about her of Pig uant char
acter in the "social weekly" followed by Two
or three about the lady whom we will call her
Promoter, who has also I'm I'll then been socially
unknown. Then photographs of both ladies'.
windows. Then the editor OF the "sOcial
weekly" introduces a lordling of celebra ted
propensities to tue Promoter, who invites him
10 dinner with the beauty. Then he introduces
more friends, and the men oegin TO taik ABOUT
the two women, and more photographs appear
and more paragraphs are written, and curiosity
becomes excited, aud little dinners follow each
other fast aud furiousy. AT all the little din
ners tho beauty appears surrounded Dy mtn0r
stars, also not much known in society, nor very
clever, but very lovely. Finally it becomes
rather the thing to know the Promoter, and to
have been at her little dinners; and the rumors
of the charms of the establishment mount up
ward to highest ears, and the photographer
begius to coin money and the social editor finds
that the Promoter and her friends are most
valuable sources Of social information. Tney
are rising into regions where he can't follow
them, but he is q generous Bohemian, and is
amply repaid by the select scandals and TITLE
tattle which the Promoter and her friends fur
nish him with, culled from the most exclusive
sources, all of which increase the sale of bis
paper, 20 the fury aud indignation of his rivals,
whose ingenuity has not provided them with
private corps of social spies of this description.
Still, they resort to other devices. The Pro-
moter and her beauty have made so many enc
mics among the fair sex that there Is no end
to the gossip that they furnish to the opposi-
tion weeklies, whence arise lively recrimiGa-
tions, all of which the papers on both sides
profit BY OF course everybody condemns the
"social weekles," but everybody reads them,
nevertheless, and, just in proportion as they
become personal, improper and vulgar, does
their circulation grow.