St. Paul daily globe., 1885-05-31

ary, political and official. These, it is
needless to say, are one and all paragons OF
virtue. Not only no suspicion, Dut no
shadow of suspicion, has ever rested
upon them. They rise or sink In the scale
of social importance according as the party
to which their husbands are attached is in
or out of Office.
The third class are ladies who have the
advantages of birth or breeding-and upon
the rigid propriety of their life VINO can
make any imputation?-bu somehow or
other they are not quite strong enough to
lead an entirely unsupported existence,
while London establishment and London
toilets are heavy drains upon limited in
come. They have, indeed, husbands on
whom they can lean. but, alas! how fire.
quently do the exigencies OF business, or
not the less imperious demands or sport,
compel that gentleman to be from nome?
She is certain to have one or two staunch
lady friends belonging to the first or Sec
ond categories already mentioned. These
constitute her protectresseS, her guardian
angels; and should it ever be unjustly
insinuated that she is not as exactly as
C@ser's wife ought to be-, their reply
is as prompt as conclusive. Poor
little woman" they say, ''she has been
badly treated, She is really the best and
stanchest of her SEX" To put it differently,
she thrives and conquers on the suggestions
of persecution. The very mention OF her
name becomes tacit appeal to the chlyalry
of manhood and womanhOOd. She always
seems to topple over the preclplce; some
times she does; usually she contrlves to
maintain her equilibrium.
There is fourth class OF ladies whose
temperament is known as artistic. Art or
possibly science demands their whole ex-
istance. Or there may be spread over
them that glamor of equivocal, perhaps
compromising, romance which lntensifies the
interest it is natural to take in the weaker
sex.
ACTRESSES IN SOCIETY.
To London society the daily journal is a
reality, but the journalist scarcely a name;
rather nonentity. Since the days of Delane
there has been no conductOr-ln-c chief OF any
London newspaper who has figured as a
parsonage in society. While journalists and
men Of letters are content to be merged in
the common crowd in London society, art
lists and actors stand forth from it in prom
inent relief. They are personages. They
insist on making themselves seen and heard.
The actress in society is, however, still a
novel IodGuT0. MdudiHt CullotiilC ANllSSOl,
the prima donna, visits Lady Salisbury.
Mrs. Bancroft-Mari Wilton-visits Lady
Hayter, to say nothing of other ladies of
distinction, peeresses by the score thrown
in. This is exactly what might be expected
London society is, in a sense, stage struck.
1t takes the same sort of interest in asso-
ciating with the ornaments OF the stage as
boys feel in making the acquaint-
ance of ballet dancers There is
a certain prudent prudishnesS, a
salacious inuisitiveness about London So
ciety. 1t loves to hover over or alight on
the borderland which separates conven-
tional responsibility from downright disso-
luteness. There is nothing which it so
dearly loves as sOupcOn OF naughtiness.
One of the reasons why it welcoms actresses
is that it surrounds them rightly or wrongly
with halo of antecedents and environ
ment which leave much to the Imagination.
The London theatrical host and hostesses
are on the increase. The most noticeable
of the number are the Duke of Beaufort
and Lord and Lady Londesborough.