Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-01
CHAT.

1t was the spectacle of all the twelve
months-nay, of five twelve months for
suggestiveness.
AWhen that novel Hobby Horse quadrille
opened the festivities one could imagine,
with a toucho of Dean Swift's grim humor,
q quadriIle representing the disecta mem
bra of old Cornell as he was chasseed about
the New York courts in the autopsical dis
play which proved that cystitis made him
incapable OF dividing his millions fairly.
Poorf folk are prone to keep their family
skeletons in the closet, but when It's a
question of millions the court instead of
the closet is the latter day method.
Cadavers leaving cash unduly detected
can be shown up in ecceniricities of physi-
cal dishemper which shall prove them
very derelict in having left money enough
to be made q post mortem show of.
The utter abandon with which the com
modore's worn out old carcass was ran
sacked to show imbecility in will making,
was about as delectable a process as that
DR.. Lsasxre gravely recommends to the
householder, DESTROYS of re-utilizing the
dried droppings of the earth closet, /. e.,
picking them over and removing bits OF
paper, etc., etc.
Whew!
Wopldn't that be a famous dance of death,
though, the Quilted and dismembered skel-
eton tripping aboUt plece-meal to the mu-
sic of so much disease, vulgarity and rail
road jobbery, in that mobile house built by
Richard NJ. Hunt with money mainly fur
nished by the old man!
There is scandal and scandal. We con-
done money scandal-the ripping open of
family relations, and relatives too when
money is to be plucked from the process
and we hold our noses over Colorado Ia
boris magnifcence and matri-monies.
We smile at his $50 night shirts-but
come now do you really think a fifty dol
lar night shirt is any more out of place on
the Colorado Croesus. than the Gobelin ia
p~estries on old man Vanderbilts grand
sons walls?
To be sure Tabor's domestic affairs are
4 little cloudy, and he might lave fewer
wives and less loud ambition for display
ing his riches. We don't in the least mind
nOW AC A1GNO II h1OLOy oS liz AoO OhOOSA
of it to take for his motto "the public be
id"
But those wives-we must strain at them
as if it wasn't getting to be the fashion
according to the Rev. Morgan Dix to have
a retired list of eI-wives nearly as large as
tbs number of those in active service.
We've got the laws all fixed for the bust
..-- ~ 49, ~rLo,, 5000 aoor folIn- Iibo
Tabor wants a snowy change from his toll
worn consort. and makes it, what a howl
there ia!
Who is going to do any bowling over the
~scandalous acquisition of wealth which
gives US hobby horse quadrilles ano
Gobelin tapestries and can spend $4,000
in one night for our entertainment?
Great Scott! Think of Cornell, grandson
and namesake of him of the cystitis, dressed
TO represent a fsrrJman, a vegetable
gardener, an engine driver? Not muel
Louis XVI. with a d~ismond-hiltsd
sword"
Rapless Louis Capet had all sorts of in
dignities offered to him in life AMI death
But Vanderbilt to take him of! Sure
ly here's bouIerersensent enough to please
Johann Most.
By the same token here's where the So
~cialists interfered with the entertainment
after all. Not by bombs and explosives
but by bursts of laughter at seeing gran
deedom Ieveled when W. K. Vanderbilt
went for the Due de Guise, Henry OIewl
attacked Louis XIV, and Cornell save
d. Louis XVI. the uukindest cut of all with
1 that f'diamend hilted sword" Here
where the Socialists had them.
Reading the newspapers is salutary. Yol
; get an idea of sectional prejndices. East
l ern journals mostly believe that Western
, ~millioRaires are only Bret Harte's hsroe
semi-civilized, bat always unmistakabl.
. redolent of Poker Gulch.
l We Won't brag of old nan Tabor. H
DOESN'T belong around here anyway. Blu
l this much can safely be said, that he repre-
: sents quite as much refine
ment as the senior Vanderbilt, and
5 that he may perhaps endow a family abb
to give $4,000 Hobby horse balls. VIII
knows?
Nevertheless, he is geographically wrong
now, and if he persists in wearing So
night shirts, there won't be much margin
left for Gobslin tapestries. Meanwhile
let US strain at his wives.
l There is nothing ever wrong in societ
} where there's plenty of money.