Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-11-03
R n LOUISA.
A queer Satire which is Exciting
the Loyal City OF London.

ISome scandal has been caused in
London by the publication Of a social
satire in Mr.. Labouchere's paper.
Gossip connects it with personages in
high station. Who these %personages
are may be gathered by the ingenious
from the following extracts
Miss Garry Loo was the prettiest
among the daughters of the widowed
landlady who kept the Crown and
Scepter Hotel, Windsor, but she gave
her good mother much cause for con-
Germ by falling in love with a curate
named Duckie. 1t was not that the
landlady objected to curates in a gen
eral way. She rather liked them in
their proper places-pulpits and tea
tables-and she admitted that Mr..
Duckie had a kind, pleasant voice and
dangerously soft eyes. But Duckie
was not rich in his worlds goods. He
had to see more closely after his wash
ing bills than was compatible with the
wearing Of fine linen, and, as to stump
tuous fare, why he looked, said the
landlady, "as if he would 60 down on
his Bonded knees and thank his stars
if you asked him to step in aud eat a
slice off a Sunday joint" Under
these perplexing circumstances the
landlady consulted her man of bust
ness, Mr.. Bill, and a long-headed
Scotchman named Mr.. Null, who sup.
piled her with her WHISTLES. Now
Bill and Null were cronies, and Null
had a son called Johnnie, who was a
well favored young traveller in the
whisky trade. Null heard that Carry
Loo had a few hundred pounds of her
own, and would inherit a tfife more
at her mothers death. Such money
would not have lasted long in the
hands Of an improvident curate,
but it would make a nice little capital
for a pashing young man Of business
like Johnnie. Null bethought him
that his son might do worse than
marry Garry Loo, and he communi-
Gated his idea to Mr.. Bill, who agreed.
Mrs. Loo was then sounded, and de-
clared that the arrangement was the
incest one imaginable. She had often
seen Johnnie Null, and thought him
a comely, respectable lad. There are
two ways Of looking at marriage, and
Johnnie and his wife soon placed
themselves on opposite standpoints
for viewing that institution. johnnie
wanted a wife who could keen house
for him and enter actively into his
business plans. Garry had married TO
get her liberty, and her favorite occu-
patton lay in encouraging the assidui-
ties Of the lesser clergy. She had re.
ceiyed a good education, could sing
and paint COWS and trees a little, and
chatter a good deal. Her refinement
was great, and she had some notions
Of high art in connection with tea cups
and hairdressing. She despised old
Null and the entire family OF Null.
THE CONFEDERATION HOTEL.
One day Johnnie Null received a
very good business offer. He was in
vited to go and act as manager to a
prosperous hotel in America. Salary
high and everything found. As Garry
was tina daughter Of hotel proprietors
Johnnie thought this would be
Just the thing for her. And Garry
did condescend to cross the Atlantic.
but she carefully disabused her hus-
bands mind Of the idea that he had
become her equal because he was 60
ing to lord it I've a hotel. 1t was one
thing to have a hotel Of one'soEn and
quite another thing 10 ma1zzs GEEi
peoples property. Johuu rhs HuS
grown to be very maeh 1irI1t az liH
wife, acknowledge tie ls-5m az tins
axiom and felt vsv pral. Wien tie
had at last got his wife ca EGart L3a
Atlantic steamer. Carry Ct BBum
had a first. class cabin. Ek5ls JGi1z1z
from economical mo1iTsE -rIrHB1 U8
. steerage passenger. he -ss1 o. a.
tend her with rugs AID b35ks Ea
she took her airiDgs O. DIRK E-G
was generally supposed that L EaaI
her %ser7ant. So be FzE AL TsT
obedient. The Grand CoaESGu-
which Johnnie Mzl FEt ~
manage, was much larger ko1sst11-
the Grown and Scepter Of Windssf
but Of course IN point Of sntiQgig
and prestige, it could not couUsYe
With the latter house; and Garry Null J
Once installed in her functions as
andlady, lost no time 10 letting her
customers know that she came from .
great land, a great hotel and q great
and would not suffer herself 70 Z
)e treated with familiarity. Il is not
he custom Of Americans 10 treat Z
aides with deficient respect, but
much as the gentlemen who c
escorted to the Confederation
Iotel endcayored to please the Eng.
Ssh landiady she was disguised with
heir manners, and plainly showed II.
he thought the Americans iDsuf 4
vulgar and their women still
Iorse. She had a naughty way Of re-
the lady customers Of the 4
ouse, as though she did them a great
onor in pocketing their money: and
no made a great many Vexatious litte
lies about wiping ones boots on the a
oor mat, dining at table d'hote 10 \
lack coats and not smoking In the =
assages, which ruiied old habitues n
/ the hotel, and made them grumble i
bout taking their custom elsewhere.
ut impudence pays sometimes, and q,
7 dint Of her domineering Garry Null =
did earn for the C~onfedera.
on Hotel the reputation OF a very
scorusly conducted establishment s
or did gay and rich young men avoid
, for the good looking and sentimen O
j landlady was fond enough Of being n
odo love to. She waived rules OF N
in favor Of admirers. who o
.ueezod her hand and chucked her ii
lder the chin IN dark corners. TO q
these things was perfect ton, ac- Il
to her judgment. s
HOME AGAIN. o
it came TO pass that Johnnie Mull p
no worked like head negro under p
IS wiie's supervision, amassed some o
oney in the hotel and handed IL over
Garry, who announced her inten. z
on Of spending it on a trip TO Eng. u
nd. Johnnie was not prepared for n
rs; but his wife cut short his expos. N
by stamping her foot. Tho q
merlcan climate did not suit her .
'slth; she was subject to neuralgia, p