Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-11-20

IlM'M[ g 81 OF london.
:.cookaigno' Explains why II. II. !. N
kx'posnres are BY the Arts.
tocracy and Nobility. fs7'.s
London Letter to San Fra lncisco Areona,ut.
Instead Of applauding the nobility
Of purpose and Independence 81
character shown By the Pail Mall
Gazette in fearlessly publishing to the
world the existence 81 this preaf WRONG.
instead Of upho lding by word . ana
deed tho publishers and editors Of the
brave Journal, no stone seems to be
lett unturned by the squeamish Phari-
sees and prigs with which society
abounds, to injure and ruin the paper
and its owners. What / especially
desired to point out, and what I be-
gan by referring to, was the utter In
consistency Of high society, not only
IN Ignoring as much as it can theprev-
alence in q grade beneath it of i'm.
moral practices, but in being incensed
(as it isl at the factthat an effort has
been made to suppress the evil.
Still, one is not so very much sur
prised when one comes to think it we'll
over. ~ Whatever this selfshly good
bringing up Of young girls in high life
may be, be it strict or be it loose, Ger
talnly the present condition of high SO.
ciety in q moral sense is sadly deplor-
able. Let me give few instances Of
what is winked at and allowed in the
highest. society that England can
boast. As q first illustration don't
know that can cite g. better instance
than that of the Duke Of Beaufort.
And it is one, as well, which seems
peculiarly apropos OF the subject we
have just been considering. Several
years ago his grace, with few other
jovial spirits like, himself (among
whom, it is said, was the Prince OF
Walesl, was dining at the Orleans
Club. The enlivening influences of un-
limited Pommery Sec had reached far
beyond the mellowing point, when it
was suggested that the party seek
what the Germans call bakfische.
can't begin to follow the subsequent
careers of all the youthful fish
that came to the nets of the entire
party of licentious ibertines on the
occasion, but is pretty generally
known that the one who fell to
the lot of isgrace OF Beaufort has ever
since remained under his immediate
protection, and at the present time is
d favorite actress of the London
board. It is quite needless to say
that the duke is still in "society."
The peculiar intimacy which exists
between the Marquis of Harrington
and the Duchess OF Manchester is one
that in any decent, consistent and
we'll ordered society would result in the
ostraclsing of both, The two are al
ways invited to meet each other. If
you want Lord Harrington to come
you must ask the Duchess of Manches-
ter, and vice versa. OF course, on the
surface there is nothing to cavil at in
their conduct. The affairs are quietly
and judiciously managed. But PEG.
pie know pretty we'll what is going on.
1t IS often wondered why Lord Hart
ington, heir as he is to a dukedom and
some OF the most magnificent estates
in England, doesn't marry. The fact
fact is, the. Duchess of Manchester
won't let him. To the credit OF
English women in high life-let
us give them all the credit we can
they need 1.-THE duchess is q French
woman. But, all the same, she is an
Englishman's wife, and the disgrace Of
the thing attaches to him. How, as
man, let alone duke, he stands it, is
past comprehension. But he doesn't
seem to mind it a straw, and laughs
| and grows fat over what most mer
would regard as humiliation and de-
graduation.
One Of the favored 'Fset" to meet the
Prince of Wales at Goodwood this
year, invited by the Duke of Richmond
AS he is for every Goodwood week
was Mr.. W. G. Craven. This gentle
mans only son has just been up as co.
respondent in the divorce court in q
suit brought by O gentleman named
Bosville, for seducing and clipping wit!
his wife. Mrs. Bosville is the daughter
OF General Willis. Another correspond
ent was the lady's trustee under he,
| marriage settlements, colonel in the
army, and son of Lord Sidmouth---
namely, the Hon. Charles Addington
The letters which this honorable
wrote to his friends wife, and which
were read in court, were those OF ar
simple and out-and-out scoundrel anC
backyard. The verdict was against
young Craven, and the divorce
was granted, Craven paying the
costs. Then there is Lore
Alington's brother, Colonel Ma
pier Sturt. An officer in the Grenadie1
Guards, he ran away with the pretty
wife of q clergyman named Sparkle
The clergyman got q divorce, and Sturt
married the lady. The two go every
where, and were at the receptions o
the Duchess of Westminster and thu
Marchioness OF Salisbury a few nights
ago, Again, there is the Earl of Eus
ton. Do you suppose he is left out o
any swell entertainment becahs.
| he is married to a prostitute?
should fancy not. His sister, too
She ran away from an invalid hns
band with Lord Sumeld's brother, tn,
Hon. Walter Hartford, when he was
fleeing to the continent after hav
ing been caught cheating at cards. Thu
two are back in England again, "mar
ried and settled" and, as Lady Flea
nor Hartford and daughter OF the Duke
of Grafton, society doors Swing oper
to her, Harbord's offense, however
still keeps him out. You see, in thu
exalted opinion OF society, cheat
/ ing at cards is worse than thu
most fragrant immortality and vicious
ness. There aremany circumstances
: but these will do. It is not to be ex