The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1879-10-22
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Especial Correspondence Of the Ga.efte.l

New York, Sept. 6. 1879.
In Union Square in this city there is establish
meut which is the headquarters of company whose
motto is Throw physic to the dogs The place is
called the Blanchard Parlors" and the company is
known as the "Food Cure Company" A young
lady behind counter retails milk. and brown col
ored fluid from bottle labeled 'Life Food,"-a
spoonful of the brown colored fluid a tumbler of
milk,-price of The complete mixture ten cents. She
also discourse gliby the wonderful properties
of the Food" and sometimes enlarges upon the
relative merits of sundry kinds of unpalatabe little
biscuits which adorn the counter. The Life Food"
with various other mixtures, and with the assistance
of those little nasty biscuts) lie to revoutonize the
whole practice of therapeutics least so says the
leading spirit of the concern, Virgil W. Blanchard
M. D., and 1 suppose that Virgil knows. Virgil W
Blanchard, NJ. D. There is something imposing in
the roll of that something emincntly calculated
to induce confidence and silence sceptcism 1t is
great thing to have grand full-soundng name be-
ginning classically and ending professionally. Virgil
W. evidently thinks Sd himself. lie admires his name
60 much that he cannot it hear it too often
We have the Blanchard Food Cure" the "Blan
cbnrd Parlors" and the blanchard Quarterly" /"
Picking up from hemp the counter copy of the
find that the modern Virgil is also poet The
Quarterly" contains, interspersed through its col
umns, about hafa dozen "poems," all of them written
as we are carefully informed in capitals. by Virgil
W. Blanchard, NJ. D. expressly for the Blanchard
Quarterly" But astonishment increases when
to the advertisement of coffee pot
by Virgil W. Blanchard, NJ. D., and we are COM
petey knocked end-wise when we gaze upon the
woodcut Of sef-cleaning hay-rake bearing the same
ubiquitous title. just think, from poetry to hay
rakes what wonderful this must be what
comprehensive brain No wonder people believe in
him, and consult him, and drink his Life Food
and-so-fOr No wonder that the wonderful Blauch-
ard compounds sent to all parts of the country
No wonder that the dollars roll into the Banch
pockets wonder indeed, long as charlatans are
shrewd and fools are plentiful.
Considerable amusement has been caused by the
manner iu which Cyrus W. Field has turned the cold
shoulder to Samuel j. Tilden. Mr.. Tilden appears
sold out his elevated railroad dnring Mr. Fields
absence in Europe. and pocketed, So says Mr.. Field
about million dollars by the operation 1t is that
million that disgusts Mr.. Field Mr. Field disiikes
anybOdy who dues anything merely in order TO ma lie
money. Mr.. Field it is well known never does SO
himself The stories floating round of the i'm mense
SUN realized by Mr. Field through the elevated rail
road scheme are very probably the wicked inven-
tlons OF Mr. Fields enemies for have it upon the
very best of authority that of Mr. Field himself
that he embarked in the elevated railroad enterprise
solely with the object of benefting his fellow crea
lures His noble self sacrifice is in brilliant contrast
to the base conduct of the avarciOus TiIden whose
only thought to enrich himself Mr. Field has
expressed his belief that Providence aided him in his
efforts to ameliorae the condition of portion of the
human race by enabling him to buy material and
hire labor at the very lowest rates. By the way it
would be interesting to hear the Of those cheap
laborers upon that question. 1t is absurd suppose
that Providence ever assisted different from
Mr. Field as Mr.. Tilden is. 1t must have been
nUh fha mpttn of Nhn E,ln a.. ~
Tilden was enabled profit where Mr. Field
could only of exercising his phan-
throphy. Be that it may Uncle Saml" clings
to his million still in spite of Mr. Fields righteous
disgust, and the good Cyrus is so cut up about it
that he says he never wants to the wicked Samuel
again.
We hear from Massachusetts, that the women there
though they are qualified to vote for school directors
40 not seem to care much about awaiting themselves
of the privilege. Here in New York we have some
strong minded females who occasionally wax elo-
quent on the subject of "Woman's Rights" They
might profta5y study the attitude Of their sisters in
Massachusetts towards the question, although it
would be very difficult to convince the re resentatye
"Womans' Rights" people that the minority of wo
men really care nothing at all about female suffrage
and would not exercise the right to if they had
it. The more womanly a is the less she cares
about mixing in the affairs of men, womanly wo-
man Is loreable, while manlike woman is as much
tHsus matHre as a wopauly man. though not quite
go disgusting. Untold ages ago there probably
habits between the male and female human animal
but as the race advanced slowly towards civilization
the sexes became and Differentiated until
now we have two beings who at the anti
theses and the compliments of each other. The wo-
man of the present is the result of the moulding
agencies of the past. We are advancing towards
more complex, not simpler, civilization and il is
not at ell probable that the forces which in the future
will be brought to bear upon the sexes will operate in
the direction Of making them more alike on the con-
trary the sexes will be likely TO dverge more
and more. The efforts of the "Womans Rights"
people to amalgamate the will avail but little
against that memorable law of nature by viltue of
which an organism must be in harmony with its sur
roundings perish.
The summer season is nearly over. the dwellers at
the seaside are beginning to turn homeward, and bu-
siness is already increasing the lookout being favor
able for prosperous fall trade. The theatres are
showing signs of activity. Sothern who has appa-
rently quite regained his health is to open at the
Park. English Opera with Emma Abbott ut the
Grand Opera House. Opera BOufe at the Fifth
Avenue with newly Imported company including
the tenor Capou who has deserted grand opera in
order to woo the comic The veteran actor and
dramatist Dion Boucicault produces a new play at
Booth s. Rescued or Girls Romance." The
piece not praised by the critics. in fact Boucicaut
never does get along very well with the critics, but
his productions or adaptations generally take very
well with the public nevertheless. Whether Rescued
Is TO be success failure remains vet to be seem
Boucicault is remarkable man. aud us a dfamatist
he has been wonderfully successful His dapper per-
son denotes hrstclass preservation, he looks like a
man who enjoys life and finds the world not such
bad place after all. He is nearing sixty years of age
but looks no older than he did years ago; his
dyed moustaehe and imperial give him compara-
lively youthful look. "Mugged up'' for the stage
the difference is scarcely p-rcepbe between the Bou
cicau CT to-day and the Boucicault of nearly quar-
ter OF a century ago. People may say what they
like about his habit Of plagiarizng, bat one thing
they cannot deny that be has succeeded in rendering
popular ana attractive almost everything that he has
touched / T.