Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-10
What is "SOciety ?''
MT. LabOuchere's New Definition of the Wore as Used i'm England.
 From London Truth.1

MT. LabOuchere's New Definition of the
 Wore as Used i'm England.
 CFrom London Truth.J
 By society mean the people who have plenty of money, or who borrow the money of other people, or at least, if they have no money have suficiency of credit who live 1n the western or southwestern districts of the metropolis whose comings and goines are thought important enough to be recorded in the Morning Post; who are to be seen in Paris in the spring, at Cowes or on the Ladies' Lawn at Goodwood at the end of summer, at Brighton in the autumn, and at Nice and Monte Carlo in the winter; who ride and drive in the park, very often hiring their horses, their carriages, and their coachmen from job-master who dine at o'clock at night, when they are waited upon by servi- tors in fantastic garb and with their heads white with flour; who make the fortunes of German pianists and Italian singing masters; who go to Court, and give little less than courtly garden parties; who pay five guineas for bonnet, and twenty-five for a point-lace parasol, and three guineas pair for their stays, and stop away from church on Hospi- tai Sunday; who read the works of NM Zola and Feydeau en cachette, but are always lon hand" when royalty opens new Asylum for Penitent .Caryphees, or meeting to consider the expediency of legislation for compulsory life assurance by female shop-workers is held by kind permission of the Duke of Omnium at his Grace's mansion in Belgrave Square; who occasionally play at shops by keeping stalls at fancy bazaars and charging half a crown apiece for cigarettes; who have always the last new traveller, the last new American patriarch OF Buddhist bonze, or dancing dervish, or unfrocked Carmelite at their con versaziones; who contentedly pay ten shil- hngs for a stall at the play to witness an en- tertainment which very often is not worth ten who TarinHica11u oh Spiritualism, or Homeopathy, or drawing room recitatlons in prose and verse, or Ritu- alism, or legerdemain, or the phonograph, or the last Bulgarian atrocities, or some other variety of moonshine; who adore Mir. Whist Ter one day and Mir. Bastien Lepage the next, while on the third they are all for Mr. Her komer or Mir. Burne Jones; who are not dis posed too indignantly to deny the rumor that they have sat for the figures as well as the faces of the damsels in MT. Poynter's ''Visit to Esculapius."
 HOW THE SAID SOCIETY" EATS AND DRINKS. What scene of unbridled appetite is a modern fashionable luncheonl It beginr at 2; and o'clock strikes before the hospitable hostess can get her voracious guests out of the house. They serve soup at luncheons now days and there is menu. In my youth the luncheon hour was one and a bill of fare was never dreamt of. Champagne was rare ly produced, save at dinner now you are On0TSu Ob6luD0TS CdD1H0G, 11p6r K, extra dry sherry, Lafitte, Chateau Margaux and, oh, horror liquors. How is a man to go down to his brokers and give orders about Egyptians when he has had soup, half dog en entrees, roast some game, a mayonnaise of lobster, iced-pudding, choice of four or five wines and green chartreuse or white may onnaise of lobster, iced-pudding, a choice of four or five wines and green chartreuse or white maraschio for lunch? Society has late ly taken it into it's head to be married in the afternoon instead of in the morning Very probably when you have risen from your lunch you may find that you are due at a very high church, and subsequently, at wedding collation. at the Alexandra or Grosvenor. There-at the hotel, mean, not the church you will find society demolshing with una bated vigor more supreme devolaille, more chaurfoid de cailles, more lobster salad and more iced-pudding, washing the whole down with more Heidsick, more Jules Mumm and more Pommery and Greno. Then you jump into hanson and join garden party some where in the suburbs. The refreshments are not on an extensive scale; still, you find so- ciety delightfully."- gluttonous over strawber- ries and cream, chicken and sandwiches and Moett and Chandon. You are subsequently, bound to attend at least one afternoon tea Pray admire the indefatigable resolution with which society attacks the plum-cake the Gen oese- cake, the pound-cake, the club-cake and the macaroons. At one house I found re- gently Scotch buns, a peculiarly luscious prep aration of some sweet black stuff, almost as hard as concrete, between two slices of rich crust Then comes the 8 o'clock dinner which, under the existing dispensation, con sists of about three times as many dishes as it should properly comprise. After that a ''small and early" or an tat home," or a conversations, or downright ball, always with 0 sumptuously appointed buffet. Or perhaps one goes to the play, and after it somebody invites you to hot supper. I have had soup for supper and quails and iced pudding within the last fortnight. Of course, at supper they give you Geldermann or Ern- nest leroy, extra dry The oldest thing is that in the midst of this Gargantuan eating and drinking, am told that the pastry cooks and confectioners are doing extremely well and that their shops are crowded all day long by the members of hungry and thirsty socie- ty. Let it not also be forgotten that the artist who invites society to his studio to in spect the pictures which he was just too late in finishing to send them to theAcademy is a very unwise artist indeed if he does not have laid out behind screen table with plenty of sandwiches, cake, bread and butter, tea coffee fruit, claret and sherry; and am very much mistaken if society does not sweep the table as clean as Mother Hubbard's cup board before 1t departs, whispering to its neighbor that Mir. .Maulstick is very indiffer- ent painter and has no appreciation of the higher aesthetic at all. Where the voracity of society is to end I am sure that I do not know. Perhaps the next stage in german dizing reached will be the provision of an en cas de nuit in Societys bedchamber. Louis XIV, who, according to his surgeon, Fagon, was the most voracious of sovereigns, always had cold roast chicken. a pate of game or fat goose-liver, a flash of champagne and one of Alcant laid out for him on a little table by his bedside, in case he should awake in the night and feel faint. Society, no more peril of feeling faint, and the revival of the en cas- de nuit might be strongly recom- mended to Society's maitres d hotel
 A LITE IN DANGER.-This is the fact con- corning every man, woman and child who hoe in fba hod,y fha Saa5S of k;5oa,, bJo51o-