The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1884-03-16
NHAr 10 GOING ON IN kN0LIsh
HOCIETY.

about the German InpersAd Courts
LoYpoN, Feb. H." People who live In
glass houses should not throw stones has held
its own a. . good. prudent old proverb quite
long enough. Its sound advice has lived its
day and has been superseded by more effect
ual md moro logical sentiment. Tho wis
dom OF nations" Is progressive. aud We have
adopted different system for protecting the
brittleness Of our tenements. We deliberately
smash our neighbours windows. and while he
10 engaged with tho glazier and plumber In
repairing them. he has no time to take I'D.
vantage OF the Transparency Of ours.
The superiority Of this modus oparandi has
Just been tested with infinite success In the case
OF what we are pleased to call the Paris Club
scandal. We have In terse language roundly
anathe m affixed French Institutions, com mittees.
members. management. marked cards. We have
exhausted our phillipics against the decadencs
Of France. the want Of honor in the detested
foreigner. and made out OF the ferocity OF our
attacks rampant for our own derelctions. We
have buried under our vrtuous Indignation
the memory Of our own-did we call them scan
dals ?-no only regrettable incdents-ns when
the younger brother Of peer was paid OIL by the
head Of the house to drop the family name he
It'd disgraced by too fantastical gaming. and
spend the remainder OF his dishonored life in
tho oblivion Of foreign travel; as when abroad.
British subjects belonging to the gentlemanly
professions werc watched exposed and elected
from well-known gambling casinos the thou.
ire OF the same sharp practice. and when even
our home clubs were not absolutely sans pe,ir
ct sans reproche. The stranger In our gates Is
daz1lsd by tho unrestrained impetus Of our
condemnation. by the national label OF fair
play with which we mark all our actions. and
forbears to exercise his own judgment on our
ways. He respects our privilege Of doing our
own laundry work strictly In the family circle.
smirched article comes to the wash tub. to
smugHe Il through and give no sign.
buildings Of Pail Mall and II. James are no
longer exclusively the temples Of solver read
dinners. and staid whist; they have wnvered
In their al legnnce to the tenets OF their found
wicked name; they harbor the demon OF pro-
team shapes. baccarnt. lansluenot. rouge OF
noir. Large sums have been lost and won, and
mixed with the car ~ toll Inns Of the Sabbath
bells ON those mornings when the greatest in
the. heavy carts which under the windows OF
their CLUB. bring food to the unsavory noisy
Tas ,bs
ger the mpromptu distraction. Of few gentle
munt; 1t is the organized business Of the gam.
bling house. with Its ons. It's dangers.
has become impreanated: the club servants
are more or less Insurers: they WELD capital
either their own 9r intrnsted to their manipu.
coats and hats they remove at the door and
those men are Ia their books more deeply often
opened their eyes; they have come down on
the offenders with heavy retribntion COM
and hs o tse @ a
losses. Every member Of the club was muleted
in q fine OF $500. and the committee in 6 1000.
a nU1s mn nj tynh ptnN a onon yAnl
ruin and shame SO acutsly rs the Russians
and Italians who court both at Monaco and
revenge their losses by lying in wait ' for the
winner ct y deserted street corner and plung-
ing q stilstto into his heart; we are therefore
shores, or the blue Meditsrransan. But the
social ife and Tor sugSt we ' see we might
almost be governed by the miseriy old Carlo
%a9 sSes IN III
whose daily records reveal no further preoccu.
wresched old Prince win. however, SssurstNy
heis compelled to do 50. France. whose IN ission
impotent as long a. her Govern msnt does not It
s II; = s:S: $751; 49,
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the universal query. The MATRIMONIAL affairs
OF an insigniticant cadet Of Sandhurst and y
an inespcabie iascInston on nn' Society and
hSroqghhti ,n With dangerous prominence before
tinetion.. The breaking on Of that too much i
talked OF engagement has been; II possible.
Of the damages claimed by the disappointed
Yi.l being the topic on which opinions most
msnt none Ms to the dishonorabIo 'n fashion in
which it has been broken. and unfortunately
q high sympathetic ground by a young girl
, WLo: II not aetnated by merely Interested mo-
set an inordinate value on a coronet Those
Mhe most DECLARED tha. The
inent will ncliats the conflicting parties II
ably teen with "details and diaciosnras out H OF
n nsr. e Wpb VIII 20 male to III the news TS
make them most Improbable reading for the
greater number Of young womsn and even
mittsd to satisfy an unwho esoms craving, for.
n 70 say the Least very dubious toric: From
ease would pander to tho general morbid curl.
osIty which preys on the darker. meaner. uglier
TO feed upon at all times: the demand creates
the supply, and from the apparently innocent
merely indisoreet paragraph OF the organs Of
fashion We glide inperceptibly to the, action
S S and further still to the 6sSas
succsedad ~ calling forth q general tn's of In
dignAtion. La Societd de Bsrn." The secret
OF its anonymous writer is safe MS yet; in vain
have the scouts Of the great world and the nyr-
mtdons Of the law underworld to tear of tho
mask OF the titled pssudonym; In vain has its
authorship been Htributed to y lady n the
diplomatic corps to Nine. Adam herself In the
pages Of whose Revue 1t first appeared. to tho
Q: h. OF political fame. to % Prussian Secretary
OF Legation. to y French literary man-they
have all In turn repudiated tho compromising
oArentaGe The real culprit dares not come for
ward ai,i assume the responsibility Of his per-
ndlous denuncations; he has. thrown his stone
and shattered tho crystal OF fair regulations
and womanly honor undstectad and unchal-
lenged. His luminosity and bitterness betray
some personal vindictivsness. some individual
fancor. NJ DE 8,
The South ses Isiaaders ~ They Are.
From the Republic.
H. uor Hal,