Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-12-27
LONDON SCANDAL.
sport aud scandal the Popular Social
Topics of London.

Apart from politics, the fine arts, htera.
ture. Shakespeare aud the musical glasses
there are two subjects which Interest ladies
and genllemea durlu- the London and the
country house season more than any others
one Is sport, the other Is scandal. The
scandals discussed with much aviditY
swallowed in every detail with infinite
gusto invariably hinge upon breaches OF
the seventh commandment. Ii man Is
caught cheating at cards the Incident Is
hushed up ss quietly as may be, and the
culprit disappears That ls too serious a
matter for uuls-tattle, because the puohc
oDIu.on of society is against cheating at
cards But il is not in the same degree
AGAINST the violation OF this particular ar
tIuie Of the Decalogue. And so not only
the more volatile spirits, the frivolous but
rernlss Of bouGoirs aud smoking rooms,
The mere triGes, but the eE:ineDtly serious
and respectable the husbands and wives
Who have never given q handle to cslumny,
seyeres, OF matrons and the chsstest OF
maids, gossip about inGdelities and the ru-
mors 0. lnhdshues imminent or accom-
phshed, which msy wreck homes, With as
much gest as, if they understood French
sufficiently we'll, they chuckle over the
sc,.celY veiled indecencies, they innuen.
does and eGul-ogues of play by HSlevy
or Albert Milhsud What Is the story
What do people say Is there any truth
a. al ir ~ What will te the end Of II :
How wss it done, when, Why, and where
T., its serious llsison or ieeting plstonic
af4ir these are the points on ,. hich the
most decoriols o! English men aud women
line to dwell In other words the ierelio
,ious o! social duty, which according to tie
principle OF Eaglsh society ought to be
e.,ser impossible or objectionable and
s,,r.ny t-tooed, are, to speaks the plan
rvurh. tn aynpie - societys conversation
lr,a uii,,ous ID uretenG, y he face o.
such facts as these that, however genuine
the rryret which breaches OF the seyenIf
c4uIaadmeat occasion, they arouse any
thing Ike the horror which they would a'
Il society was cent upon putting them down
The sg'a,t comparison for Engtlsn socl
e,v il perhaps TO be found IN the Pretec'
rurs O, Police in Paris. In that famous
detective repoaitory there exists complete
dossie5 OF sll wao are likely to become
criminals. Everything which concerns
hem IS carefully recorded. But the indl
yiduals are treated with the greatest con
sideratiou until theymake themselves amen
able 10 law. In the same way society IL
England has the dossier Of all its members
The contents Of these documents do no
r,-'-Iice q sgsinst them, nor are the.
5sl3 ,,ellyto have :ncrimiusted themselve
until hey - arranged before the tFiouns
of the Eaglish pres>. Formerly this pres
was looked upon By the governing cIasse
a. + political engine. 1t has now oeoom'
the cusodisu and inquisitor OF our who'll
soci,l sys,eul, the censor Of our homes snt
rka cE:ticioi Cur hesrths. 1t brings aIl oi
teDdipg Bsitons hoEeys1 i9:ty their degree
bs&>-s rbst Which tbey reail =ast drss@, tn
srss, ,,,v = - ,hsiF fellow eountryueu. \,
voodyr, therefore. 49, 49, sLS .PEatOi'y 0
which It is the instrument is uEs.- a Su'
ceested by those whom it concerns.