The daily gazette., 1883-09-28
sUmmER SCANDALS.
Timely Commenes on Fla hionable Folly
and uBchalttablenosa.
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It will take little while before the sum
mer ecandals quietly sei tie sDwn into moth
ingnese, bpt ms'st oftilem will,do so In the
end, There b ANAL sufiiciency Of unsavory
gossip floating around town 10 the winter,
but II is nc the summer resorts where scan
dal has the liveiest run, ,and where II Is bullt
upon the himsiest foundation. There Is
fact in some of IL, but the greater part owes
it's birth solely to mean suspicion and wicked
Imagination. When many people have
plenty Of idle time upon their hands, as is
the case at the great ummer hotels, the
proper and natural thing TO do, viewing
from the standpoint OF an almost universal
practice, is to assail the characters OF their
friends
II a husband who usually comes down
only on Saturday finds IL convenient TO visit
his wife in the middle Of the week, IL can be
nothing else than that he "has heard some
thiRg,v and everybody expects that the re-
suit will be a separation. If the mother Of
q bride arrives, II is because she has been
sent for by the groom, who Is disgusted at
the manner in which or daughteris Is carry
ing on, and himself unable 70 bring her to
her senses, has rs a last resort called upon
the maternal influence. He was heard 70
order y whiskey cocktail the other morning,
and 1t viii be a wonder II he does not take
70 drink and go to the dogs.
last night after IL O'Clock with a Young
gentleman, and before that they had been
in the restaurant. 1t Is pity, for she Is a
real nice girl, and nobody would even have
thought that of her. He is q stranger,
aud she told somebody he was her brother
but all understand that he is an old fame.
Miss Blank is certainly very indiscreet.
Miss Stars has champagne every day for
dinner. 1t is paid ior by bald headed
haAk Akal-W EA..wu k.-sN
OF themselves. Mr.. b. went to his room In
toxicsted last night aud 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 1t all. These
mercilesG takers are themselves talked
about just the same.
There lie not, 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 eonver
sation, week after week, among hundreds OF
people, and most OF them people of culture
This ptiless numbering Of reputat ton has
In 1t still anothereVil feature. 1t accustoms
young people TO treat lightly matters of very
serious import. IL encourages young men
to speak familiarly with young ladies about
what the unmarried girl should blush even
to think of. But there are few scandals too
gross III 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 1t needs no deep insight into hu
man nature to suppose that they occupy the
| attention ol young ladies as they promenade
so lovingly, with arms twiDed about each
| others waists, through the broad corridors
| Aud their lettetsi II Miss Flora, At Cape
May, would let you peep into her CORES
pondence wilt, Miss Ella, at Long Branchl
| My word for 1t, you would open your eyes
But, OF course, she will not.
The little tid-bits of poison on those per
| tuned sheets are reserved for her sister pos
sips when they get altogether in her room
after the bath. Aud the ''Mys" and ''Ohs :"
as they roll the delicious morsels under
their tongues, express their enjoyment. But
! 1t is poison nevertheless-pOison to some
ones character and poison to their limo
cence OF heart. II is dealt ont I'm strict CON
| hdeuee, but in an hour thereafter 1t is float.
ing over the hotel, mingiug with the mass
OF slander. II is all as Oad as it can be, but
there is DO remedy for it and nobody is to
| blame. That is, all are to blame. Gossip
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| OF enjoyment which are not TO be driven
out. Their hold is too deep aud too strong
| Gossip may be pleasant and innocent, yet
! few can indulge in it without wounding
When we tear to bits the characters of
! those around u.s. there Is at least chance
| that they may hear they are attacked and
| defend and revenge themselves. But the
| material near at hand is apt to give out, or
we may weary Of slandering always the same
q a.
ami strike those at distance. On coming
home, therefore, fromuur summer outing il
behooves us TO look about aud see how our
dear friends really stand We have heard
so much OF them while away that We must
| book ourselves up anew. We must discover
If Mrs. Alpha is still living with her hus-
band, aud how it happened that she spent
the summer at Newport and he at Saratoga;
and whether Mrs. Omega is going TO do
anything about it because Mr.. Omega had
| another woman for a week al Coney Island.
All these little affairs must unrayelled be-
fore we can fairly enter upon the winter
gayeties. And when they are unraveled,
then the skein is pretty straight after all.
There is hardly knot in it. Scarcely a
divorce case is on the tapis. There was all
that summer smoke and not spark of fire.
Oh, yes, that was not his wife that Jones
had at the hotel, but Jones never had a
| tuouSHt tnAt any bOuy would take her fOr
his wife. Jones had been going on with
that sort OF thing for years, and Mrs. Jones
had long ago made up her mind to it. she
never allows what Jones does In that line to
worry her for a moment. 1t was impudent
OF Jones to bring that woman there when
everybody was acquainted with him, but
Jones did not care. He ought to have been
put out of the house, Of course
And have any OF us the slightest panp
that we let our tongues SO run away with
usi Surely, no. Pshaw we never thin
of it, No Earm done. Was there mott /,
, 1t no harm to woman to guess that hel
honesty has been suspected Is not that al
awful thought to herr 1t ought to be, If II
is not And we who have wrongly suspected
and voiced our suspicious, on ht our con
science to be quiet?
Yes, what you say is so. Some of tn,
worst Of these scandal mongers are men.
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