The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-03-29
Tbe Demand for Pretty Married Wo-
men in London.

New York World London Correspoh-
dence; If there is little prospect az
present of any excitement IN puonGS
life it is only reasonable to look forward
to change for the better in social al
fairs-I mean so far as liveliness IS con
cerned. for in other respects Will not
venture to make any predictions. some
neople will have it that the morals OF
the community are Mt very low ebp,
but although the barometer may snow
Great variations, there is general av'
eraee keeps up, one year taken with the
other. A good friend of mine declared
the other night that he did not eelleVe
the state of m erals in fashionable hie
was ever so low as it is to-day, but l
fancy his recollection of Evelyn's and
Pepys's stories of Whitehall and Court
circles cannot have been very fresh IN
his mind, and he doubtless forgot the
interesting anecdotes of the immacu..
late William, Prince of Orange, and OF
all the Georges except George the
Third. Greville's "Memoirs" even
bring the strange eventful history down
to later date. There never was SO
moral Court in England as we have
to-day, and us to the tone OF society,
before pronouncing an opinion upon 1T
u careful distinction ought to be drawn
between those who are really at the
head of social life and those who are
merely impudent pretenders' London
abounds with the latter class, and IN
these free and easy days they have a
simgler game to play than OF old, when
class distinctions were marked out be-
tween hard and fast lines. These lines
are almost obliterated now. We have
now entered upon the ''pretty woman"
era, money itself being less sought al
ter than beauty. If u man chances to
have q pretty wife, all doors are open
to him-he can go anywhere, although,
to be sure, he does not count for much
when he does go. There are about
hulf dozen "beauties" now III Lon
don already to begin the season-mar-
ried beauties, mind you, for bread-and-
butter misses are no longer in fashion.
The pretty married women are ever SO
much more piquant, The knowing
people who want to form a 'set" OF ac-
abundance in the exclusive circle get
these pretty ladies to their houses and
all the men soon follow. OF course
stories get abouts-how can one help
that? People will talk, and page OF
your paper would not contain all the
scandalous tittle-tattle that goes from
one house to another. A pretty-Woman
mania in community is sure to be at
tended with disadvantages of that kind.
Blu who cares? Not the pretty woman
apparently. Not their husbands. The
keynote OF the season has been struck,
and it is popular one. Ask all the
good looking young married women
whom you can scrane acquaintance
with to your house. Get six Of them
to dinner ON one evening. Let them
be dressed in the height OF the mode,
which is rather low. Ask few OF
your male friends (all of the best ton,
be it we'll understood), to drop in after
dinner. They will drop in fast enough,
never fear. The world will soon reach
far and wide that your parties are the
best in London, and half the aristocra
cy will be begging for your invitations
Such is the prescription, and it is not
an unpleasant enc to take For my
part, l would rather bow the neck any
day to a pretty woman than to rich
broker, usurer OF speculotor, who for
many years together went where he
liked and did what he liked i'll English
society. ID. j. s.