Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-03-25
MANHATTANISMS.
pRo-coNNUBIAL PIEFY DURING TIE
LENTEN SEASON.
Decline Of Moving Custom-Diuner to
Edwin Booth-The Great Musical
Festtval-Etc
New YORK, March II, 1882.

New YORK, March II, 1882.
The Lenten season does not make any
perceptible difference in the social gayeties
of March, except in few handsome houses
where theology and fashion are combined
Almost the only sects that lay any stress
on Lent are the Episcopalians and the
Roman Catholics, and the latter occupy
very little space in the world of mode. A
certain number of rich cultured Catholic
citizens of Irish birth OF irish extraction
have position and influence, though the
great bulk of them are, as may be supposed,
too undisciplined to have much weight,
save at party caucuses and at the polls
There they are as strong as ever, stronger
indeed, for it is estimated that our
Hibernian population is more numerous by
nearly 10 600 than it was at this time last
year. 1t has long been large enough
to control the municipal election, and
by it's overwhelming majority deter
mine the State election also. The
most jealous keepers of Lent are
Episcopal young women who have danced.
firted and been supremely festal up to
Ash Wednesday. and have at that exact
date grown suddenly and superlatively
austere. They have compounded for their
transgressions against conventionality by
taking on an indigo hue of piety. They do
not go out except to church they dress
in plain colors-generally in black; they
discard all ornaments they read only the
ritual and the Bible they pray morning,
noon and night they mediate much and
long they go to bed early they visit the
poor; they, fguratively, don sackcloth and
| ashes. This is all sentimentalism. They
fancy they excite interest among their &C.
quaintancas by such appearance of rigor:
| They want to make themselves talked
abous-to get reputation for profound
spirituality, and they usually succeed.
| They 90 SO far as to talk of retiring per-
| manently from society, in order to devote
themselves to good works. They are sure
that they shall never marry they look
back OF their late fashionable designations
with a deep sense of contrition. How
could they have been SO worldly, so earth
stained
THE PIoUs FERvoR
Will not last, of course it is cooling al
ready before Easter they will resume gay
colors Jewels, their regular habits, their
modish frivolities. They find they can't
be very "pious' more than three or four
| weeks consecutively the strain Is too
great upon their pleasure loving natures.
Doubtless temporary abstinence yields
new zest to the resumption of enjoyment.
Ii is ALWAYS noticed that, later in the sea
| of ba md
carry their miscellaneous hirtations to
point of desperation. They are pretty apt
| to get engaged In the summer, and to be
welded in the autumn Or winter. Piety
and matrimony may be as cause and
effect. II they fail to enlist under Hymen's
| banners, they will go back to their pre-
tended austerities when Lent again comes
round, and discontinue them once more
when the season has partially past. Isus-
pect that the theologic character they play
has definite connubial purpose. 1t GER
tainly seems to be attractive to young men,
who are seldom safe in the society OF 4
| hall. Lent devotee.
The LIST of the coming May viii not be
much of moving day here, compared at
least with what it formerly was. A few
years ago it was little less than nuisance.
Workers annually took possession of onS
anothers houses without petterment and
without reason. One cause was that land
lords generally thought that rents would
advance, and tenants thought they would
decline, before another year; and thus
long lease could not be secured. Another
cause was that May lst was almost uni
versall- the moving date. Now autumn is
often the moving time-the last OF Septem-
Der. Oesober or even November, particu-
larly, when apartments are wanted. More
over, all New Workers. who can afford it
are inclined in these days to own their
houses. They believe, rightly, that 1T ID
the best investment they can make, and
they make it accordingly. Ten times as
many private residences, real estate agents
inform me, are owned by their occupants
as were owned at the beginning OF the
civil war; This is surely one long step
toward true domesticity, in which this
city has for many years been lacking
| am sorry to learn that sharp dlscrim-
nation is now making against German
Jews as tenants Many landlords will
not let to them at all ; not, they say, be-
cause they are either Germans or Jews, but
because, they allege, they are extremely
careless and untidy in their ways and hab-
its, and because, they say, they seriously
damage the property they hire. Another
reason given is that their presence as neigh
bors, especially in apartments, prevents
heater people of other creeds and national
tiles from dwelling under the same roof.
am told of several rich Jews, owners OF |
apartment-houses of the best kind, who
have standing rule not to let any part OF
those to persons of their own sect L am
acquainted with other real-estate holders
VINO for some time refused to be governed
by this apparent prejudice. But, after re-
peated unfortunate experiences, they sue
cumbed to it from a sense of self.interest.
The feeling is not one OF race or faith, but
simply OF financial advantage.
EDWIN BOOTH
Intends, as you have heard, to 20 to
Europe on professional tour next May, |
and, after he has filled various engage.
ments in Britain, to act in the principal
cities of Germany to which he had been
CO rdially invited last year, when the seri- |
GUS illness of his wife compelled his return |
home. He will speak his native tongue on
the stage, though supported In German by |
German players The Germans are such |
deep students, such enthusiastic admirers
of Shakespeare that l can not help |
thinking that his Hamlet" "Iago,"
"Othello, " Richard L., +" "Shylock" and |!
/" Brutus" will make an extraordinary i'm |
preston on them. Some of his friends |
purpose, l understand, to give him
dinner before his departure. The number |
will be limited to 200, and will be com.
posed of prominent actors, authors, journ- |
alists, painters and others of the artistic |
guild, similar company to that which |
invited him to breakfast at Delmonico's |
last June. The occasion can scarcely fail |
to be one of marked interest.
By the by, Asia Booth Clarke's new vol
ume, the Elder and the Younger Booth,
is valuable and attractive addition to
histrionic literature. 1t seems from this that