The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1882-12-16

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with some woman whose name happens
10 be tie talk of the town. The scenes
nnd characters described oy Zola are bad
enough to read about as having occurred
In other lands. Let us not have them
enacted before us in reality in this coun-
thy, and that too by striplings who are
not men enough to play at vice.
1 am not in position to say much
about Langtry from personal knowledge,
but none the less am convinced that not
one half Of the vile statements and viler
insinuations concerning her are founded
on facts. l have this on the statements
OF people who know what they speak of.
She has been indiscreet, she has been
guilty OF follies which a woman like
Mary Anderson, Maggie Mitchell or Lot
Ia, would not have been reproached with
"mnis, que voulez.vous1" She is more of
a natural Bohemian than they are, she
has been brought up in different at
mosphere, she has had two seasons OF
London society," which according 10
the admissions of the better members of
it. is as corrupt as French society was in
Napoleonic days. And, after all, her
greatest crime is that she has been init
mate with o set of brazen donkeys in
stead of assooiating with people of con-
sequence. Fortunately for herself she
bus 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
highwaymep. "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.
saw Oscar Wilde the other evening
in new English chop house on upper
Broadway. 1t was after the theatre, and
although the place was filled with theat-
rical and literary people, the long haired
apostle of cheek sat alone, pensively dis
cussing 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 do
ing but little or any literary work now.
He says that he is suffering from ex-
haustion and over work. The truth is,
however, that no newspaper or magazine
ublisher of consequence cares to pur-
chase or print his twaddle. As q men,
Der of the Century Club, literary man
of note put it, if he stays here another
six months he will have to do police court
reporting for living. Still Oscar is not
so badly of. He has posed before the
American public to the tune of some six
ty thousand dollars, and he can afford to
look on for while. while the public re-
covers from its disgust of having been
drawn by the nose by q man like Oscar
Wilde,
That "brass" pays is further evidenced
by Col. Ingersoll. have on the author
lty Of a man closely connected with him
in business way, that since the twelfth
OF October last, be made no less than
$4,000, by his lectures. In a great
many States there are old laws on the
statute books visiting blaspheny with
heavy fines. Blasphemy fills Col, Inger-
soils pockets, and enables him to folio q
his epicurean tastes in the matter of eat
ing and drinking to his hearts coLtent.
All of which goes to prove that what is
sauce for the goose is not always sauce
for the gander.
AS have given you so much personal
gossip, let me eadd another bit, which has
caused great deal of amusement among
the theatrical fraternity. Everybody
knows John Stetson the genial and as.
tute manager of Booths and tue Four
teenth Street Theatres. Unfortunately
be has acquired the reputation of being
q sort of male Mrs. MRlaprop, and thus
the actors are constantly circulating
"bon mots" alleged to have been uttered
by him. The latest is this: he was speak.
ing to O number of friends at the bar OF
the Monitor House, when conversation
turned On theatrical manager who was
constantly Shipping up because he was
not quick at swapping at good things.
always the case" said Stetson dogmat
ically. "Once man gets on the sus.
pender bridge of hesitation. there is but
one one step to the absccSs (abyss) Of