St. Paul daily globe., 1885-07-19
LIFE IN NEW YORK.
Miss Cleveland to Make the Sum of Ten
Thousand Dollars Out of Her
New Book.
Tales Told by Club Men as Startling
as Those Revealed in the Great
London Sensation.
Style of the Blase Young Man of the
Period--The Decorative Craze
Running Wild.

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seem 10 have made a good business hit for
which they owe something to the Sun, which
advertised the book so largely in advance.
Though they had printed three editions they
were unable to fill all the orders received
up to the day of publication. They think
the sales will go up to 100, 900 copies by the
time all demands are met. Should this cal
culatiOn prove correct, Miss Cleveland will
at least make SO, 900 by the book. Most
of the press notices are long and nearly all
are friendly. The only adverse criticism
comes from the Catholic papers, and is
based ON Miss Cleveland'S somewhat hasty
comments on mOnastic life in general. That
Is subject which many persons have dis
euSSed without understanding it. 1t needs
q Especial study. and any person not thorough
ly familiar with it is likely to make mis-
takes in writing about it. / think Miss
Cleveland has done SO-nOt so much through
prejudice, perhaps, of which she is accused,
as from imperfect knowledge. 1t might be
rs well if the mOnaStic essay had been left
out of the book. 1t does not serve any
good purpose, and it provokes great deal
of undesirable hostility. Why, wonder,
can't sensible people of the world let church
matters alone? Nine-tenthS of those who
discuss them do so without any proper prep
aratiOn.
MORALS OF THE METROP
n good many New Workers are talking
about the revelations of the Pail Mall Ga
zette as to high life immOralitieS in London.
Should a few thousand copies of the Gazette
containing these revelations be brought over
here, they would certainly be snapped up
pretty quickly, provided Anthony COmstock
did not pOunce upon them at the dock.
Most of those who talk about the London
sensation say they have no doubt that mat
terS are just as bad here as over there.
There certainly is no doubt that great deal
of what the Gazette alleges as to London
might also be said of New York. But tn en-
it might probably be said of all large cities.
Club men and other men about town in New
York tell tales just as startling though they
have not quite so many to tell as those
which have given London a new sensation.
But it is something to see those high-toned
libertineS of London shown up in their true
cOlOrs. a great deal of the SO-called moral
law Ofthe world is manufactured in that
town, and by the very same social class to
which those rOgueS and TascalS belong. |
don't see why there should be any great sur
prise over the revelations of the Gazette
People have studied English social history
with little profit if they do not know that
moral iniquity has tainted the ariStocracy
over there for centuries. The story now
told is new only in form. In substance il
Is as old as the glorious British constitution
itself.
THE GTLT-EDGE YOUNG MAN.
1t is always amusing to note the young
man who has just been elected member OF
a good club and who starts in as regular
club man. Take him at an immature age
and confer upon him the dignity of club
member, and he either becomes loud bOOr
or the most proper and reserved of men. As
a rule, he picks out some timewOrn blaSe
club man for model and apes him in
everything. lie assumes a Stolid and indiffer-
ent air, sits as his model sits, eats as his
model eats and smokes the same brand of
cigars that his model affects He is slow,
languid, but not lazy, and his attire is of the
most fashionable cut. Another sort of club
member is the one who makes up his mind
to feel perfectly at home at all hazards. He
cultivateS an easy and careless air. He
learns the Christian names of all the mem
berS, Jokes with the porter, SprawlS OveI
two or three chairs in the smoking room,
cOnverSeS at the top of his lungs at dinner
and has his club printed on his visiting card
more prominently than his own name The
effect of club life on young men of all, dis
positions is good. however. The rough
edges are soon worn off by the sharp com
mentS of the elder club men. and raw
yOungSter is turned into polished man in
less time at a good club than anywhere else
on earth, except at West Point. 1t has al
ways astoniShed me to observe the effect of
the military training upon the boys who go
up the river TO learn to Ee soldiers. The
uncOuth, clumsy and stumbling loutS who
enter the first class are turned out models of
1s.r, af,f l,NfT
even Turveydrop might be proud.
SILLY DECORATIONS.
The decorative craze has struck the bar
Der shops now, and before long l suppose
the boot blacks will have it. Decoration
has got to such point that it is tireSome to
the eye and everything but beautiful.
Nearly all the hotels. public dining-rOOmS.
picture galleries and good many of the
shops are so much Overpainted, overdec-
GRATED, OveruphOlStered and Overdone gen
orally, that | begin to think that a plain.
whitewaShed room with Puritan furniture,
Straight-up-and-dOwn chairs and sanded
floor would create decided furor if it were
introduced into the heart of the 9Sthetically-
decorated region of New York. Invent into a
BARRIERS shop the other day on upper Broad
way which was as gorgeous as a factory girls
idea of palace. The chairs were models
of the carvers miSdirected energy. The
mirrors were surrounded by extraordinary
frames; the floors were tiled with various
cOlOred woods; the ceiling was a mass of
curious, uncOuth and diSagTeeable designs
and the walls We're arrayed in the widest
excess as far as papier mache, plaques,
stuccO work and drapery were concerned
At the six chairs stood six BARRIERS, wearing
blouses made of striped material that re
satnbiaI the ,1I1 Stvtp nf A snaII
and very miserable looking boy with red
feZ upon his bulging head sat within
A CASHIERS ENCLoSURE,i
and the boss, who was presumably re-
SpOnsible for it all, had his chair raised on
platform, whence he kept supervision
over the other men. The brush boy wore
| livery, and altogether the whole establish
ment was about as gorgeous as the most
ambitious barber could dream of. A man
whom / knew was just getting out of a
chair. AS he passed me he said, in hOarSe
voice. that had better take his advice, and
get shaved somewhere else. but by that time
the brush boy had got me in hand, and L
looked along carefully and chose the mild
est looking barber of the lot. He didn't
speak a word. None of the BARRIERS are al
lowed to in this particular establishment.
That ought to make it famous. of course,
ana IL Is HOIe OF less OI SOOu lnlnS 10 nave
a silent barber, but barber who is oppres-
sively and painfully silent is as bad as one
who talks. This particular one was solemn
looking and quick. He gave me the worst
shave that ever had in my life. After was
shaved he gave me a large gilt check, about
the size of a visiting card. After l had
escaped from the brush boy and paid my
check to the cashier and got out on the
street, l came to the conclusion that little
less decoration and better BARRIERS would ell
hance the value of the shop considerably. A
barber shop is not an inspiriting subject to
write ahnnt hut since they are naneSSar1r to