Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-07-31
GOTHAM GOSSIP,
The Mly's -"Freddie" Not
Likely to Accompany Her-The Scar.
city Of Manageable Young Men.


Likely to Accompany Her-The Scar
city Of Manageable Young Men.
Special Correspondence of the TINES
New YORK, July "A, 1882.
And SO the Lily goes at last, with
a bank account Of 100000, with
which we silly Americans have pre-.
scented her in recognition of the pat.
ronage she has bestowed upon that
exquisite representative of our gilded
youth, Freddie Gebhardt. 1t is
rumored that Freddie will quietly slip
away with her to England. l asked a
friend of his at the Brunswick Hotel
whether there was any truth in this.
"None whatever" he replied. eng.
land is not America after all, and be-
sides Mr.. Langtry is there and the
iady's family and friends. They will
certainly make it hot for her if she
should continue on her hayward
career, and make it hotter for Freddie.
He will there have no loud talking
Western reporters to deal with, but
he will have to meet men who are in
every sense his superior. English So.
ciety of course is rotten from begin.
ming to end, worse in fact than French
society was in its worst days, but
somehow they always manage to keep
up appearances. II Freddie goes
abroad at all, and means to keep up
his intimacy with the Lily, the pair
will have to go to Boulogne, France
that Mecca for all broken down FASH
ionables, be they men who have lost
their fortunes at the card table, un.
lucky and perhaps defaulting turf
spectators, or heroes and hcroines of
tile divorce courts"
The old complaint comes from the
watering places that there are no mar.
riageable young men, and that if a
few do now and then lose their way
among manageable young women
they fight shy of them. At the hop
and balls the girls find no one to dance
with except dudish striplings or ven.
erahie old beaux. The fragrance Of |
their flowers is wasted on the desert
air. and the beauty of their toilets
passes before unappreciative ewes.
The truth is that young men at pres.
cnt care too much for out.of-door
sports, and for the various forms Of
gambling to expend much time on the
gentle art Of conversation or enter.
taih'ng young ladies with small talk.
FOR this reason there is gradual ten.
de"cy among the gentle sex to meet
men on their own chosen ground.
They are becoming close students Of
che financial reports in the papers. A
broker OF my acquaintance, who has
large circle Of female friends. told
me that they pestered him to death to
make Investments for them. ~Thev
come to me-" said he, "with twenty.
I'VE, hfty or hundred dollars and
ask me to make some money for them.
AT times they get insane on some par. |
dcular stock and no amount Of advice
and persuasion can bring them back
TO their senses. need not saw that
they are always on the bull side of tn.
market AT other times they simply
hand over the money without anv in.
s'ructions which is much worse for M.
for as you may imagine, cannot 90
back and tell them that have lost il
Many and many time l had to put
my hand in my pocket and give them
few hundred dollars, because / had
not the heart to tell them that | had
lost, and to save my reputation as a
cIear'headed fellow and to give them
actual proof that had been wiuninr"