The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-06
a Social Scene In Chicago.

Col. 2. Donan. 10 a private 'etteT ir9u
CHICAGO TO ,fr.end in this city, under
date OF January 18th, says
"Well. | have seen Irving, and he Is
a Magnificent Mechanic, spelt with big
big NJ. / saE him last night 10 hls
great specially. The Bells Haverlys
Tbester was jammed from orchestry
chairs to peanut gallery, from stage 70
/ entrance gates. with the cream Of the
cream. and tha, skinned again. of Chic
ago society. Every box was sled, and
everv foot u a~udiag-room hal two feet
/ If pireon-taiICd and white uecktled hu-
msnIty planted 10 IT or on Il. The whole
house blazel with diamonds. aud was
! redoleut with the rich fragrance ct SHARP
pork aud lard aea.s, aud wheat cvrue
roures. The dressing VS. gorgeous apd
the hUme.iue.s intense. For downright
iestitution OF personal pulchrltude, a. !
have often before renars ed, an average
! Chicago uuper-cru>ty audience not MY
AXE. the pium-caAe. bT' gels away win
the dough-pdn aud the bake oven.
among al the municipalities OF the pc"
world. Even CT Icinnati has 10 yield her
long-bJrue palm Of ugliness. a. wei a
pork pachiug. to the lakeside metropolis
I~rying's vast auditory maGe up IN en-
thusia,m what it lacked in beauty. lie
was called before the curtain after every
act, and at the close OF III scene N when
the marriage c,utract j, signed he "a
recalled FIVE times, anu greeted wlth
thunder- Of appliance. !, Ike n untu
tored DAkotan, outhisSed all the geese O.
the Roman citadel at this uproarlou-
manifestation 1t American funkcylsm,
which ever holds itself ready to yell it'
fool throat h0arse and clap out it, SIX
button Kids in iudiscriminate glurihca-
ton Of every imported celebrity, mons
frosty or iniQuity, that comes over bear
ing the stamp oil titled approval. Lei
the importation be what 1t may dul'
lard like Camel n Arnold a ~disreputable
woman like Langtry or Bernhardt, or 8
driyeling knee breeched ass like Oscar
Wilde-ifi it ouly comes wearing the y
mark Of appreciation Of some vulgar ole
woman If accident had not made her
queen, or some beast.y r0ue who happen
ed to be born a prince or a duke instead
of a butcher or a rat-catcher, 1t Is sure o
i rapturous reception by American snob
ocracy. | have never seen anything
more weirdly CHASTITY and ghostly shar
lie DGllS. III Is Il LudSlcl plCNC W
stage machinery and effects. The music
and the strange jangliug Of the bells ar
suggestive OF everything wild and IN
earthly. The scenes are marvellous IL
their phantasmic horribleness. Gobiln'
and spooks cavort around IN the .uperna'
tural darkness of forest and hall. The
dream scene, with the mesmerlst and thu
phantom court, surpaSses anything !
have ever witnessed on the stage. |
literally makes a nervous fellow han
stand on end, and sends a million icy
shivers galioping up and down that yer
tebral portion of his anatomy. by a cauda
continuation Of which, according {
scientific h~umbuggers, his ancestors useC
to swing to the limbs Of cocoa-nut trees
In the sinless days when Susan Is An-
thony, Lolita and Clara Louise Kellogg
were going to school to Methuselah. The
dense, dismal blackness of the entire
house, only broken by the tapers tina
dimly light the orchestra ana turn ever
the musicians into spectres, the SLOW
looming into view Of the apparitlon o
the court, the red robed judges, thu
awed spectators and the guilt-crazec
murderer. all seem but the shadows q
hideous, distempered vision, the phan
tasmagoria of the maddest night mar
E that eve pranced.