Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-24
implicit Confidence the Cause of Cefa,ca-
tio1s-Frank Leslie's Social Ambition
-Emerson's Mind a Wreck.
New YORK. January 10. 1850.

entertainments. The most fashionable
quarter of the town, bounded by Twenty
third and Fifty-ninth streets, Madison and
Sixth avenues, is full of gayety-more so
than it has been for years. In nearly ev-
cry block the windows of imposing man
sions may be seen all ablaze, evening after
evening the sidewalks canopied, carriages
rolling up and rolling away until long af-
ter midnight, emptying and receiving their
freight of both sexes, the men usually
looking as solemn as their sable suits, and
the women as radiant as their elaborate at
tire. Comparatively few men, | am con-
WINGED, enjoy what is known IN con-
ventional, restricted sense as Society !;
while women have, as rule,
AN UNSUITABLE LOVE
For it. They go night after night, from
the beginning to the end of the season, to
dinners, receptions, parties, musicales,
balls, and though they may be of delicate
constitution, they seem never to tire. The
most robust men get worn out after three
or four weeks of such dissipation but
their daughters, wives and sisters keep up
the round of pleasure without showing
any signs of fatigue. They live on their
nerves; they draw on their stock OF emo
tons you might think that they would
be utterly exhausted, but they appear as
fresh and as eager for the social fray at the
close as at the commencement of winter.
One reason OF this is no doubt that they
thoroughly enjoy society the labor they
delight In physics pain. They can endure
much going and coming, endless dressing
and undressing, the tolls and trials of
fashionable campaign, with hardly any per-
ceptible wear, because they relish the ex-
element, the variety, the bantering, the
talk, the coquetry, the sentimental perils
that it involves.
But society very soon bores men. When
they are very young they embrace it with
zest for four or five seasons dance the
German escort young ladies with alacrity;
are glad to shine IN drawing-rooms in
perfectly fitting swallow tails and hawless
gloves. But they are easily cloyed. Ere
| they are 80 they affect cynicism pro-
nounce society tedious and stupid haunt
the clubs; evince love of brandy and
water, and go to parties reluctantly, per-
suaded thereto by sister, sweetheart or
wife.
Women not only keep the gates of soci-
ETY., they are the inward force that holds
it together Without them it would go to
pieces, and they know it. Therefore, they
are so resolute and active in drumming up
masculine recruits and retaining them in
the ranks after they have enlisted. They
are busy enough just now. Many have
five or six engagements for the same even
ing and some try to fulfill them all. 1t is
not uncommon to see ladies at dinner
between : and 9 o'clock, at two or three
receptions or parties between and II, and
at ball after midni sht. | might name
several who seem to have an unappeasable
passion for this sort of thing. Go where
you may, you encounter them. They seem
to be UBIQUITOUS, and to be made OF iron.
They 60 out fifteen or twenty times
week. They are forever nibbling, slipping
wine, talking, flirting, smiling posing, and
have been doing the same thing for years.
They are not the novices, the maidens, the
young ladies of certain or uncertain age.
They are the experienced, the veterans,
the dOwagers. have one in mind who is
A SOCIAL MoNoMANIAC,
If ever there was one. She is indefatiga-
bic !; she is acquainted with everybody
she is conspicuous in all sets, and there are
scores OF sets here, each of them the very
best, if their own story is to be credited
she knows the old families, the merely
rich, the church circles, the musical peo-
pie, the artistic fraternity, the journalistic
and literary folk, and she enjoys them
ALL She seems never to refuse an in
vitation she was never known to de-
cline or send regret. She Is loyal,
socially, to the backbone She can be de-
pended on always for entertainments with
out number Her husband, like most men
who have seen good deal of the world,
cares nothing for society indeed, dislikes
it, and consequently keeps out of it as much
as possible. This, however, does not hinder
her in the least from prevalence in all cir
Giles. She always contrives to lind escorts
who are of infinite variety-young men and
old men, natives and foreigners, lawyers,
journalists, merchants authors, bankers
all are fish that come to her net.
She is we'll educated and accomplished,
she has travelled, she speaks several Ian
guages, and would be very interesting
companion, were she not socially disor-
dered She wants to see and talk with so
many people that no one person can COM
mand her attention. While talking to one
woman, she is looking at another. She
asks question of this man, and before it
can be answered, she is making an in
quiry OF his neighbor; wherefore, she is
prone to mental distraction and oral inco-
herence. Although she declares that she
always has good time, she appears to be
preoccupied, restless and discontented.
The reason is that she is ever trying to
compress what she should do in a week INTO
few hours.
One day, at barbecue party, friend
that you would die from fatigue and
in the whirl of society"
''Die?n echoed the lady. Not |, in
deed! Have you ever heard of any body
dying of happiness? Society is my food,
my life, my Joy. Love it passionately ; it
makes me very, very happy.
Just at this time this victim of drawing
room distemper must be on the top crest
of delight. She is going out necessarily,
and has been sorely distressed the last fort
night, understand, because she has been
obliged, for lack OF time and omnipresence,
to absent herself from fully dozen en-
tertainments. One cause OF the crowded
gayeties of this month is that the Charity
ball takes place this year, the Goth instant,
and many of the fashionably- pious regard
that as the close of the modish season, be-
cause they deem it necessary to observe
Lent by period of seclusion, and by
certain role of heightened repentance for
many elegant sins. Such fashionables are
! Episcopalians alone, for Roman Catholics
cannot be considered fashionable here but
their absence from entertainments affects
society sensibly. The season really ex-
tends into and to the close OF March, but
January is the queen month.
The defalcation OF Benjamin C. Bogert,
Treasurer of the Produce Exchange, has
caused
A GENUINE SENSATION
And general surprise among all his ac
quaintances. But do not know why it
should have done so. True, he was con-