Morning journal and courier., 1883-09-28
Summer Scandals.
Timely Comments on Fashionable Folly
 and UncharftabIeness.


 From the Philadelphia Progrsss.I It will take a little while before the sum- mer scandals quietly settle down into noth- ingness, but most of them will do so in the end There is an all-suficiency of unsavory gossip floating around town in the winter, but it is at the summer resorts where scandal has the iveliest run, and where it is built upon the fimsiest foundation. There is fact in some of 1t, but the greater part owes it's birth solely to mean suspicion and wicked imagination. When many people have plen- ty of idle time upon their hands, as is the case at the great summer hotels, the proper l and natural thing to do viewing from the standpoint of an almost universal practice is to assaiI the characters of their friends. If husband who usually comes down only on Saturday finds it convenient to visit his wife in the middle of the week, it can be for nothing else than that he s'has heard something" and everybody expects that the result will be a separation. If the mother of bride arrives, it is because she has been sent for by the groom, who is disgusted at the manner in which her daughter is carrying on, and him self unable to bring her to her senses, has as 8 last resort called upon the maternal inau- ence He was heard to order whiskey cock tail the other morning, and 1t will be won der if he does not take to drink and go to the dogs.
 Miss Blank was walking on the piazza last night after 12 o'clock with young gentle man, and before that they had been in the restaurant. It is pity, for she is real nice girl, and nobody would ever have thought that of her. He is 8 stranger, and she told somebody he was her brother, but all under stand that he is an old flame. Miss Blank Is certainly very indiscreet
 Miss Stars has champagne every day for dinner It is paid for by bald headed bach elor. They both ought to be ashamed of all Mw n ia into icated last night and struck Mrs B. You could hear them quarrelling all along the corridor, There will certainly be divorce And so on to the end of the shameful chapter.
 But there is a satisfaction in it all These merciIess takers are themselves talked about just the same.
 There is not, I would wager, lady who has passed the season at one of the fashion able resorts who could not open budget of scandal which, if one quarter of it got into the newspapers, would set society wild and send the reckless editor to deserved prison cell And yet he would merely put into cold type what had formed the subject of conver- sation, week after week, among hundreds of people, and most of them people of culture.
 This pitiless murdering of reputation has in it still another evil feature. It accustoms young people to treat lightly matters of very serious import It encourages young men to speak familiarly with young ladies about what the unmarried girl should blush even to think of But theEs are few scandals too gross in their details to be shut out of the general talk. You may hear even the worst of them discussed in all their particulars by groups of ladies and gentlemen, young and old, and it needs no deep insight into human nature to suppose that they occupy the atten. tion of young ladies as they promenade so. lovingly, with arms twined about each oth CTS waists, through the broad corridors And their lettersI If Miss Flora, at Cape May, would but let you peep into her oorre- spondence with Miss Ella, at Long Branch My word for it, you would open your eyes. But, of course, she will not.
 The little tid-bits of poison on those per