Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-28

date mamma. the up-to-date dancing man. up
to-date music. &c. he proceeded to describe q
meeting OF his with a candid old friend This
friend though living in town where Mr. Gros-
smith had had very large audience the day
before, had not heard of it, supposed he had
had no one in the room, was quite overcome
with the idea OF people paying TO hear George
Grossnith, and finished by wondering. soto
voce, what the public taste was coming toI
BLINDNESS OF FRIENDSHIP.
This woke in me chord that had often vi
brated. Nothing is more certain than that.
when a man has lived on terms of perfect
equality and familiarity with certain set of
men, he can never hope to be anything but
plain John" to them. though BY his personal
efforts he may obtain the applause of the pub
lie. Did he not rub shoulders with them for
years in the same walk of life2 Why these
braves? What was there in him more than in
them? Even though they may have gone SO
far as to single him out as rather clever fellow
while he was one of theirs. still the surprise at
the public appreciation is none the less keen
and his advance toward the front an unforgiv-
able offense. l remember that in the early
years of my life in England, when
as yet had no faintest idea of writing q book
about John Bull, young Englishlnsn did me
the honor to appreciate highly all my observa-
tons upon British manners and customs ana
urged me hard and often to jot down aud make
book OF them. After ten years the book was
begun and was called "John Bull and His
Island" When it appeared and attracted some
public attention no one was more surprised
than this man. VINO. from kind friend was
promptly transformed into the most severe and
unfrlendly of my critics, and went about saying
that the book and the amount of public atten-
ton bestowed upon 1t were both equally ridicu-
lous.
THE PURITY VIGILANCE
associations are rapidly becoming a nuisance
= l.,
checked soon they will be Directing to our
going into the street because under our clothes
we carry our nudity. One must be filthy
minded indeed to see harm in the Zoe's poster
These would be guardians of the public morals
do lncalculable harm, for they suggest to hun
dreds OF pure young minds hideous hint of
evil which. like the pitted speck in garnered
fruit ever widening slowly, molders all"
woe be to them by whom offence cometh,"
said One whom they would fam call Master.
Since the Z. V. 4. had their latest field day
have purposely had good look at the Zoes
picture, which had never particularly no.
ticed before For the very life Of me L cannot
see what any one can object to in this portrait
OF the young acrobat as she nightly appears at
the Aquarium without shocking any one. even
the purity vigilance people, suppose, since 1t
Is not the performance, but the picture that
distresses them. But il ever SO. 1t is not
SO much the thing that offends the British tar
tuf 5s; 1t Is the name, the reflection, the idea
Unhealthy minded themselves they dread a
talnt where there Is none and imagine in others
a corruption which exists only in themselves
About year ago was to make my appear
ance before an afternoon audience at East.
bourne. Not wishing to convey the idea OF
serious DISCOURSE my manager called the en-
tertainment u causerie. The room was full
and the affair passed off well. Du. an old lady,
who was weil-known patroness of such things.
did not put in an appearance. On being asked
the next day why she was not present she
piled, well, to tell you the truth, when /
that they had given the tainment a French
name WAS afraid it might be something not
quite tit for me to hear" Dear soul!
TEE ORLEANS FAMILY.
By all that l hear from friends in France
and gather from the newspapers royalis.s and
republicans are alike heartily glad that the lit
tie tragi-comedy at the Clairvaux prison is over
The last act has been sufficiently tame. The
young hopeful" who was the chief actor in 1t
has made a comic little effort to bring down
the curtain with a flourish by sending out a
kind of manifesto. which, however, has only
been received with outlaws, and is looked
upon as nothing more thrilling than an exhi-
bltlon of his bad taste. Nobody with two
grains OF common sense believes that this
young, mild-looking. hair-par d. in the-m middle
and single-eye- glassed young man is ever 60
ing to set the Seine on fire or his foot on the
steps of Louis Philippe's throne. The Orleans
family may rain lnanifestos, but they will
never reign again over the French people
France has not forgotten, and IS not
likely to forget, that when she
down and drained by the Prus-
slams in 1871. the first thing the
dOrleans did. on re-entering the country, was
to demand the restitution of property which
Napoleon III had confiscated. Much us it cost
to do so, II. Theirs gave them what they asked
well knowing that with it he was giving them
their death blow. There is but one member of
the family who is really favorite with the na-
ton, and he is the due TAumale a man who
is clever and many -sided, man who docs not
owe his greatness to his title and royal birth.
If he had been only soldier he would have been
all the same one of our greatest generals. Ii
he had been only a literary man, historian
he would been all the same of the bright
lights in French literature. The rest have the
reputation of being good family folk. with a
very bourgeois talent for economy, to use a
mild expression.
There is an old story of the blind begger who
used to stand just outside Chantily station.
near the family residence of the d'Oreans, and
who, when penny was given him, used to
say: Thank you, monsieur" but when his sensi-
tive fingers felt a halt penny put into them
would give an extra pull to his cap and ejacu-
late, THANK you, monseigneur."
MAX O'RELL