Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-07-16


base ball, and even sing in the glee
club. It is known that the disease exists
however for it is certified by the men,
bers Of the Massachusetts Medical Socie-
ty.
W1LLIss descriptions of Tom Moore
and Dlsraeli.-" Mr.. Moore cried the
fOotman at the bottom Of the staircase;
MIR. Moore cried the footman at the
top; and with his glass at his eye,
stumbling over an ottoman, between his
nears ightedness and the darkness Of
the room, enter the poet. Half a glance
tells you that he is at home on p carpet.
Sliding his little feet up to Lady Bless
lngtOn (of whom he was lover when
she was sixteen, and to whom some of
the sweetest Of his songs were written),
he made his complim with gayety
and an ease combined with q kind Of
worshipping Difference that was worthy
of a prime minister at the court OF love.
With the gentlemen, all OF whom he
knew, he had the frank, merry manner
of d confident favorite, and he was
greeted like one. He went from one to
the other, straining back his head to
look up at them (for, singularly enough,
every gentleman in the room was six
feet high and upward), and to every
one he said something which from any
one else would have seemed peculiarly
felicitous, but which fell from his lips
as if his raath were not more spontane-
GUS"
This is Willis's description of Moore,
in ms audacious "Pencillings by the
Way" forty years ago. They We're the
first and most brilliant instances of mod.
ern "society" reporting, gratifying the
love of gossip and national interest in
the personality of distinguished people.
Yet the sanctity of private life is SO
great in England that these free and
easy crayons of authors and politicians
IN the drawlng-room were warmly re-
sented, and Thakeray has left the resent
ment on record. Now, however, that
most Of that fine society is gone
with its reporter, his sketches
are very life-like and amusing.
There is an air of intense worldliness
in the literary life he describes, grace
full insincerity, as if all its figures lived
only for sensation and fattery and ap-
plause; and 1t is easy to fancy Carlyle
breaking in upon its dandyisms and
f1ippancies, like John Knox upon the
perfumed courtlers Of Queen Mary,
with his Thus saith the Lord" There
is a great deal in the journal about
''Disraeli the youngef'-the Lord Bea-
consfeld Of to-day-and 1t is curious to
compare the Prime Minister with the
exquisite Of Park Lane. 'Disraeli had
arrived before me, and sat in toe deep
window looking out upon Hyde Park,
with the last rays of daylight reflected
from the gorgeous gold flowers of
splendidly embroidered Waistcoat.
Patent-leather pumps, a white stick with
black cord and taSsel, and a quantity
Of chains about his neck and pockets,
served to make him, even in The dim
light, rather conspicuous object" He
was llvldly pale, and seemed to be 8
victim to consumption. except for his
energy of action and strength Of lungs.
His hair is described as extraordinary
as his taste i'll waiStcOats. "a thick
heavy mass of jet-black ringlets falls
over his left cheek almost to his collar
less stock, while on the right temple it
is parted and put away with the smooth
CdIGlulHeSS VI u SlIl ;, d1lu SHIllco Nl0St
unctuously
with thy ncomp parable oil, Macassar."
To Carlysle, who had not yet made
himself known, and to whose grim hui
NOR and melancholy sincerity even
Walter Scott was not earnest enough,
such literary being as this must have
been as "unspeakable" as the minister
of later years. Willis says that he
might as we'll try to gather up the foam
of the sea as to convey an idea Of Dis
raeli's extraordinary language in de-
scribing Beckford. He adds that Dis
raeli ".alks like race-horse," and that
it is a great pity he is not in Parlia-
ment-EDIToR's EASY CHAIR, in Har-
o,o.,a Mo oo.,oo for ,,o,oY