The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-12-22
WHOLE NO. 1877

ture provided with rich fathers, but
neglected to furnish with long ears,
they would do the world benefit.
1t is they that furnish the scandals
with their silly desires of aping rich
foreign libertines, the height of whose
ambition is TO get themselves talked
about in connection with some wo-
man whose name happens to be the
talk Of the town. The scenes and
characters described by Zola are bad
enough to read about as having oc-
Cured in other lands. Let us not
nave them enacted before us IN reali-
ty in this country, and that by strip
lings who are not men enough TO
play at vice.
l am not in position to say m uch
about Langtrey from personel know
ledge, but none the less am con-
vinced that not one.half of the vile
statements and viler insinuations con
cerning her are founded on facts
| have this on the statements of peo-
pie who know what they speak Of,
She has been indiscreet, she has been
guilty of follies which woman like
Mary Anderson, Maggie Mitchell or
Lotta would not have been re-
preached with maiS, qne O0nleSy0Hs ?
She is more Of u natural Bohemian
than they are, she has had two sea
sons Of London Society" which ac.
cording to the admissions of the bet
ter members of it, is as corrupt as
French society was in Napoleonic
days. And, after all, her greatest
crime is that she has been intimate
with set of brazen donkeys instead
of associating with people of conse-
quence. Fortunately for herself she
has thus far been able to keep silent
to the reporters of Boston regarding
her troubles, but heaven help her
when she gets to Chicago, Cincinnati
and St. Louis. There the reporters
prowl about like highwaymen.
"Stand and deliver is their motto
and should she fail to talk to them
they will make it hot for her, besides
printing interviews with her any way
I saw Oscar Wilde, the other even.
ing in new English chop house on
upper Broadway. 1t was after the
theater, and although the place was
filled with theatrical and literary peo,
pie, the long haired apostle of cheek
sat alone, pensively discussing a
light supper. The Wilde boom has
petered out and the burly Irish
masquerader is being left to droop
and die like one of his own lilies
He is doing but little of any literary
work now. He says that he is suffer.
ing from exhaustion and over work.
The truth is, however, that no news
paper or magazine publisher of con.e-
quence cares to purchase or print his
twaddle. AS a member Of the Gen.
tury Club, literary man of note put
it, if he stays here another six months
he will have to do police court report
ing tor living. Still Oscar is not
badly off. He has posed before the
American public to the tune of some
sixty thousand dollars and he can
afford to look on for awhile, while
the public RECEIVERS from its disgust
of having been drawn by the nose by
a man like Wilde.
That "brass" pays is further evi'
denced by Col. Ingorsoll. l have on
the authority of man closely con.
nected with him in a business way
that since the twelfth of October last
he made no less than $50, 900 by hi:
lectures. In a great many state:
there are old laws on the statute
books visiting blasphemy with heavy
fines. Blasphemy fills Col. Ingersoll :
pockets and enables him to follow
his epicurean tastes in the matter o.
eating and drinking to his heart:
content. All of which goes to prove
that what is sauce for the goose i.
not always sauce for the gander.
The new penny morning paper
The Morning Journal is crowdiug the
other penny daily. Trutb. very hard