Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-11-05

ScAmdAlam Magnatum.
| The personal journals Of London, Of which
several have won . notoriety not in all respects
| enviable within the past year or two, afford
| striking evidence both Of reaction from the
| overdignided newspaper ways and OF growing
| boldness IN speaking evil of digntaries and
handling exalted parsonage without gloves.
1t has been much to the credit of the English
press that it did not drag private matters before
| the public, but It must be confessed that this
reticence has largely been inspired by a snobbish
| obsequiousness to rank
| IRENE In this direction and are stiIl so carried
py the leading papers, the opposite extreme
has been reached by the lately established
| sheets already mentioned. Their existence
SHOWS SHOWS not only that the English, like all
| federation indicates q change in popular
| sentiment. Only few wears ago
Mr.. Cough temporarily ruined his fast
growing popularity by venturing to point a
| temperance moral on the melancholy death of
the son of a nobleman. The reference was
deemed impertinent and cruel and the lecturer
! was made to feel the full weight of public dis
pleasure. All this is changed. as the readers
| OF the very transparent satire from Mr. Labou-
| chere's Truth published in Mondays Gazette
! shows. Our readers will remember its venom
Gus, if witty, ascription of rather weak prin-
clpies to the Princess Louise during her long
absence from her husband, the Marquis of
Lorne; the saucy nicknames of Miss Carry Loo.
the fractious daughter Of the landlady of the
| Crown and Scepter at Windsor for the lady and
of Mr.. Null for the marquis, who is said to be
| running hotel in British America. The Rev.
Mr Duckworth. who is said to be the first love
OF the Princess is STYLED ''Duckey" We printed
| the satire, which is ill natured, and probably
lbelOus under English law. as an illustration OF
the tendencies OF the day. and having previously
published an exposure of its eXaggeratiOns. our
readers will be able to estimate it at its real
worth
1t is possible that there is more unhappiness
IN the Lorne-LOuise union than the explanation
admits. Still, the story in Truth is a perversion
OF facts in some particulars, and its insnuation
that the Princess is oyer-free and easy in her
behavior is really mean and malicious. Shortly
after their marriage the Marquis and his bride
visited her German relatives and by the enforce
ment of rigid court etiquette he had to hang
| about in ante-rOOms while she sat with royal
dlgnities at entertainments. The English laws
OF court precedence were also brought to bear
on their return. From these facts aud possibly
from other causes, there was some jarring but
the London Times denied that separation was
intended, and said that the troubles were set
tied. 1t was also alleged that the Princess abb
sented herself from court that she might not be
compelled to see her husbands feelings out
ragged. Her absence from Canada is declared to
be necessary to her complete recovery from the
injuries received in a sleighng accident. These
explanations may not be wholly true. and the
marriage may be uncOngenial still the travesty
Is cruel as well as impudent. No right minded
person would consider the freedom of the press
trampled on were the Marquis or the Queens
officials to begin suit for libel Still it is not
80 much with the moral Of the scandal as with
Its illustration of a growing irreverence for roy
atty that We are at present commemorative.
Gazette.
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A scene of considerable confusion was wit
messed yesterday afternoon outside the stage
door of Drury Lane theater, in Russell street,
Covent Garden. The management had issued
an advertisement in the following terms: "One
hundred pretty young ladies wanted. One hun
dred pretty, well-made and intelligent Young
ladies', from seventeen to twenty, for the forth
coming pantomme at Drury Lane theater. Ap-
ply stage door, Drury Lane on Wednesday next
the 18th inst, at o'clock. Any one who is not
young and not pretty will be stopped by officials
appointed for that purpose" The wide pub
licity given to this announcement seems to
have been regarded somewhat in the light of
an invitation to ldlers to come down and see
this novel exhibition Of youth and beauty. In
fact. even before the time appointed a large
crowd assembled under the colonnade and in the
street at the side of the theater, and the thor
oughfare from Drury Lane to Bow street and
Covent Garden was almost completely block
AIDED. suspicion seemed pretty generally pre-
valent at first that the whole affair was a hoax.
and that the advertisement had been the work
OF some person acting without authority. 1t
was soon discovered, however, that this was not
So The stage door was flung wide open and
inside stood the Officials-the Judges of beauty
and age-ready for the discharge of their some
what invidious duties Those among the candi-
dates who were not to be deferred at the last
moment by the thought of the scrutiny to which
they would be subjected inside the theater found
that they had to run the gauntlet outside be-
tween dense rows of spectators, "whO displayed
the deepest interest in their personal appearance
and In their prospects Of securing an engage
ment. Ever and anon the appearance of lady |
who could not by the utmost stretch ofcOurtesy |
be held to comply with the stern requirements |
OF the management was the signal for an out |
burst OF cheers and yells. For the most part |
however, the applicants, who were three or four |
times as many as the required number. were |
quiet and espectable-lOOkinG young women |
who were naturally somewhat surprised at the |
reception accorded ito them. Many had per-
force to leave in despair of ever reaching the |
stage door, while those who did succeed in push
ing their way through the crowd were hustled |
and Jeered at by the roughs. who were present |
In considerable numbers. Several policemen
were On the spot, but were only partly success
1ul IN maintaining order, the scene lasting for |
upward of an hour. Finally the candidates, to |
the number of about 400, were all admitted in |
discriminatory, and retained inside with closed |
doors until the excitement had had time to sub |
side, and only few stragglers remained in the |
street.-London Daily Nescs, Oct 20.
Brown and the Ice Cream
Party.
From Harper's Young People.
There was pretty nearly whole week that |
kept out of trouble; but it didn't last Bows are
born to fly upward like the sparks that trouble.
and yesterday was ''up to mischief again" as