The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-10-27

SOME SOCIAL PROBLEMS,

At this season OF the year, when society ID
|rehabilitatinR itself, when Mrs Grundy re-
ascends her proud bat dizzy perch when the
NOBLE British cotton-ierker beams once again
! upon an admiring and grateful shore, and
when 1t may be said that summer has folded
her germs like the Arab and silently shaken
the town, there arise In our minds, gently
but firmly, certain exciting conundruns
which We strive IA vain to solve. Our sum
mer is long and clinging II let's go, like the
mosquito, with an unconoealed regret And In
the widespread term wegrow accustomed to
certain figures and institutions which. while
they did not puzzle us by their presence, go
greatly exercise us In their disappearance
and In the consequent speculation AZ to what
becomes or them.
There for instance. liz the icecream cart.
Further North we should feel sure that that
attractive vehicle had been dismantled
and turned Into slelgh. to carry benevolent
| societies to beer gardens In the suburbs; but
| here the theory is untenable, and we may be
described as CROPPING Tor an explanation.
Then there is the soda water boy. How often
during the dogdays have VIC seen that habby
youth, streaming at every pore. doubled up
paving his pmples as be follows Edwin and
Angelica to their Doom In the last chapter.
We can locate him In the soda-water months,
but where does he betake himself after the
first frost? Certainly we never see him more
until the alligator energies from his bed OF
mud. the earwig tunes his song Of spring and
the peeler begins % chin the chambermaid ut
the alley gates or meath the envlods stars In
Lafayette Square. Where does he hibernate2
We can spot the burning Bee; we nourlsh a
dismal theory as 70 the Times paragrapher;
bat there are mysteries which battle us
during this freezing time and which teach us
the holoWness OF vanity.
Not long ago we heard the telescope man
on Canal street canvassing scorbutlc person
for ten-cent trade In these friendly and
familiar terms:
The astronomer, while amid the solitude Of
bis nights lone ygils, ranges this highly
wrought scope. whose surrounding gories |
CLEAN with . clustering radiance. Of an ever
mant of heayena. as they range. In gorgeoualy |
ieeto oned gal axies those sublime heights OF an |
ever awakening glow Of natures most iavish- |
shndad features Of eontemplative night In her |
abandoned charms " solitude. there to CLEAN |
from those marshRlinR hosts the order OF des- |
from some nebuous verge that holds It's cent TO /
far In recedtng space. perhaps as an inchoate |
realm Of tributary gods. whose multiplied |
numbers swell into the one. aggregated. unit
vershl | am. While brooding space, still |
responds e. the vet expanding conception OF
other immensilies. until 1ntinities maximum.
OF numerical expressions. consummate the full
ness or MI glory. in his perfection.
The person seemed moved and we saw him
feeling fer q dime somewhere In the deep
Charybdis OF his clothes, but then there came
the saddening thought that soonthis tunefuI
man must furl his stock In trade
and vanish also.
whitening reflection. Miserable fact
Everything comes back to where 1t started
rom, and once again we are bereaved This
Ia strictly after the Picdynee's sub-editorlal
style and Is In our finest turn OF low spirits.
What we pride ourselves upon specially, how
,ver. Is the solemn conviction that all the
above is quite as destitute Of point as the
Times pendulum business or the Ptcay,tne's
EDITORIAL and sub-editorial department Still, y