New-York tribune., 1884-01-27
LONDON GOSSIP.
AN ENGLIsHMAN's NOTES on ENGLISH
TOPICS.

most depths Last summer Carlsbad was all the rage.
Everybody who had occupied the season In dining not
wisely but too well, made rendezvous with his friends at
Carlsbad and dreary gathering it wasa kind Of phys
ica Cave OF Aduain which all whose brains liver or
other inward stood In need Of cleansing bctook
themselves Carlsbad may be described the head
quarters of the ascetio OF disease
tremey popular with Sir Andrew Clark and other lead
ing physicians Whether the patient works too hard or
lives too hard. or both he Is II the season he summer
packed of TO Carlsbad; II he winter nearly starved to
death at hoe The latter alternative ismuch the less de-
tesable OF the two, for I'm his house. the patient
however starved and doed with mineral at
least occupy himself with something and divert his
mind At Carlsbad he can do nothing hut sink into
gloomy wrechedness Every body, including myself, who
has tried this famous treatment agrees To its I'M
mediate effect but experience varies greatly to the
speedmanncr and completeness Of recovery Some people
go TO high valley i'm switzerland 10 get the de
pressing effect OF Carlsbad Others wiser in my poor
Judgment TO Scotland Yorkshire TO shoot grouse
and eat the and others who have been brought very
low indeed go TO Paris TO shake of the queer sensation
OF languld idotcy brought about by the treatment
fancy IL does good very strong who eat and drink
too much and make blood rapidly, but IL plays terrible
mischief with weaker vessels brain-wOrkers who have
led life OF intellectual excrtiOn and have besides played
the rireur, sitting up late at night, and 50 on.
Mr.. Frederic Clay and sir Arthur Sullivan, tho first of
whom was parayzed and the second stricken down by
fainting At after the production of n musical piece,
both popular men and charming companions as well as
brilliant musicians arc unfortunately for themselves.
neither hunting like John Lecch Sir Francis Grant
or Anthony TroOpc, shooting men like Mr.. John
Everett Mlais and Mr.. William Black. yachting
men like Mr. W s. Gilbert Like other musical men, they
do not so out Of the range OF panofore and would feel
very Ike fish out of water in Highland shooting box
a great in the middle of deer forest as the
most dreary wastes of water stones and hog are humor
ously called. They also both Of them of the soft,
lymphac artistic temperament and therefore the very
last men who should have been sent to Carlsbad But
they went last nevertheless. fed after three
weeks misery TO Paris and then came home 10 20
fiercey to work The result Is dreadful Mr. Clay who
is reported the mend is really unable to speak word
and in state Of utter prostraton and sir Arthur sul
vans fantng fit Is at least dsagrecabe symptom in
man of early middle age
In the time OF Samuel Pepys, Secretary to the Ad-
mray and President OF the Royal Society, the hard
lvers of the day. among whom Pepys himself must be
included Sundays 10 Epson TO the well which
made the place famous long before the Derby
even the race-cOursc dreamed or There plenty OF
racing but it was held at Newmarket, whittier King
Charles and his merry Court went to enjoy it. On Sun
days "he quality" drank the celebrated solution Of
sulphate of magncsia known EPSON salts, and prob
ably prolonged their lives by that sautary practice
Most assuedy they increased their enjoyment Of exist
as Pepys couesscs till they did know how they got
to bed made strong corrccyes necessary It requires
very vivid imagination To picture forth Pepys I'm his
black bOmbazeen summer suit imbbing the healing
waters OF EPSON after week OF dissipation with mad
Tom Kegrew and other roaring blades OF the Wychcrly
period
Nobody goes to the EPSON Well now the crystals of
EPSON salts made at chemical works cheapy that
he is a strong man who needs pcnnyvorth Too cheap
be popular this ancient medicine is nevertheless in
high favor with Jockeys who find it sovereign specific
keeping down their weight and clearing their brains IL
is howcycrque out Of date with fashionable patients and
fashionable doctors who prefer sending dreary
den in Bohemia, Germany, or the Pyrcnees 10 be
drenched with gallons OF very inferior mineral water
There Is a legendary inscription tombstone
Here lie l. and my three daughters.
Dead from drinking Cheenham waters;
If we bad stuck tEpsom salts
We shouldn't have been lying in these here vaults"
Probably this was invented by the EPSON people who
loved the rivalry OF Chetenhnm My own opinion Is
that a pound EPSON salts and month at HarrOsate,
or better still on a high moor would do any man who
lives much and well more good than all the
waters OF Kqrlsbad, Day, AlX Wildbad kissngcn and
the rest OF them.
Mr. Gilbert whose ibgetto of Princess ida does not
strike funny that OF the Immortal II. NJ. s.
Pinafore" is not only yachtsman but on enthusiastic
and determined Although he sits up To such hours
of the night mornlng that he at time called
the late Mr. Gilbert, ne Always fresh colof aud
appears in perfect condition Yet yachting and lawn
tennis are his only exercises OF all the literary men
now 10 FORE Mr.. Gilbert enjoys the most leisure and
at this moment occupies the largest share of public at
tcntion His Princess Ida occupies the Savoy The
atrc Pygmaliou and Galaea and Miss Mary Anderson
iii the Iyceum the Princes Theatre, brand-neN
house in Coventryst. close to leicester Square is
open with The Palaceo Of TRUTH ana piece for
Miss Anderson Is in rehearsal This is pretty well for
one author, than whom since the world began dc
served better Of his kind for he the first really TO
bring managers IN this country TO book aud Insist OH
fair share Of the profits This is quite reversal of the
old system, under which managers who had Origi-
naly been check-takers. boX-Openers or pothOuse
keepers, swndled gentlemen of culture ont OF
everything but mere pittance Mr. Gilbert owes quite
much his and kccnness to his literary
talent the considerable fortune he has accumulated His
fine new house Is the talk of ondon.
Mr. Gllberts smart sayings rctaied In every club
and drawing room When "Pygmallon and Galatea
was first produced, Mr. Burnand now Editor of PuHeh
and although a sincere Roman Catholic of Hebrew
traction Iote 10 Mr. Gilbert joking letter couched
thus Dear GIlbcr-I DO not like Pyg." to which Mr..
Gilbert replied: " Dear Burnand,-NO more did your
father before you" His last feat OF this kind the
Miss Fortescue rather Fnney that is 10 say
the Lady Garmoyle aud ultimately Countess Cairns
10 be. The young lady some time suce engaged to
Mr. Harry Quter Mr. James Mcneil Whistlcrs AIRY"
the son OF the great house. OF accountants. and one
time allowed to write art criticism In that mystic
rously conducted newspaper The Times AIRY"
as his tormcntor calls him, Is a ruddy young man,
very English I'm his appearance, and is OF those
extraordinary persons whom well-bred persons
find difficulty in understanding Rich and independent
OF the world he an comic singer and rcciter
That any person who docs not money should make
On ass OF himself by grinnng through Is 10
me nconceiyable. 1t Is pitiul ambition" am not
in the rejecting professional low comedians and
other varieties OF the genus clown" These mummers
mop and NOW for money-Often great deal OF It
but It impossible gauge the mind of man who vol
unfairly descends from the level OF gentleman TO that
OF Trbouet and condesccnds TO make sport for the Phil
istnes gratisl
Mr. Harry Quler, say, was engaged to Miss Flnney
when the young lady wrote letter TO Mr.. Gilbert IN