Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-07
TALK IN LONDON CLURs.

/ Oons0hnB tue OPRer len lnOuS8D0
Expesed by the Gordon Cumming Scandal.
CARD PLAfINa FOR MONEY IN ENGLISH SOCIETY
TIPfU r1B LIKELY TO BE THE NEXT SOCIAL
IIoS--A STORY THAT CONES From 81. PETERS
BUne-srASLEr's VISIT.
Special Cable Letter to The EVENING Star.
LosDoS. Feb. THE sensational case Of Sir
Gordon Cumming which has set people talk
ing, has opened the eyes Of the multitude to
the fact that gambling il becoming q greater
vice In society than ever. In this connection
the following letter, which q correspondent
has written to Vienna paper, will be Of inter-
est:
People Of refinement are no longer content
| with a quiet rubber or innocent game of
ecarte High stakes are the order Of the day in
| country houses. Since the police closed the
| west end gambling clubs card playing goes on
In private houses. A rich friend is invited to
take the bank at baccarat aud he. cannot refuse
rniess he wishes to be considered mean. When
ladies' lose they appeal next morning to the
generosity OF the winner who cannot resist
Ererybody knows that there is LOT Of cheating
and nobody would think Of denying that ad-
vensurers are tolerated in the best houses of
England who are worse than those Of Monte
Carlo"
| RESULT or THIS STATE OF THINGS.
An amusing result: Of this state of things il to
be heard among the middle classes--'the glori-
Gus bulwark of English liberty" as it has been
! dubbed. The members of this august body are
| nothing If not exquisitely virtuous. and their
comments, which may be heard in public places,
are humorous in their intense indignation al
the depravlty of the upper classes aud the Sc
rene competency of their own passing good
| ness in comparison. 'Who ever heard of such
episodes in our classes?'' is the question which
settles the matter as far rs they are concerned.
RACING FOR socfEry's BLUE RIBBON.
socicty-again that portion Of it which all
Journalists delight in spelling with capital s.
is very much auttered at the promise of fresh
lion. At this time of the year speculation is
always rife as to who will be the bright par
t,cnlar star OF the coming season. and the can
didafes are discussed in much the same sort Of
way that obtains with the list Of entries for the
Derby. And when one considers the matter
from real point OF view IL becomes question
whether something Of an injustice is not done
to the horses. They are at least among the
best OF their kind for all the qualities that be-
long to their species, while the humans in the
race for the blue ribbon of society, it must be
confessed, have frequently nothing more than
a more or less uncertain newspaper or other
notofiety to win for them the regard and tho
advertisement they need. The new specimen
who viii In all probability be trotted out for
the editication OF Mrs. Tuft Hunter
and her friends belongs to the spe-
! NLce ouDOcu hlIlCtHub Nv eOtlal n0Iural1s
This ones name ID none other than Tippu lib.
Society people are already studying the pro-
nunciatiOn of his name, an erroneous idea of
which was given by the old spelling, Tippoo
/ lib.
! To use that form would be to argue oneself
! hnfit for meeting HIM. and therefore it is well
THAT all good Americans who are coming to
| London should recognize the fact that the ''u'
Is very short and the accent is on the lib.
| THE ADVENT OF rIPrU TIB
! Tippu lib, the king of slave dealers. one of
the leading actors as it were in the Jameson
affair, to see whom in fact Mrs. Jameson and
her brother-in-law have gone to Zanzibar in
order to try to learn from him his version of
the cannibal story which a few short weeks
ago had stirred public opinion to such depths
and started the tide running in a way they
| have not yet been able to stem. This is the
man who talks of coming to London and who
will be fetcd dined. wined. and to see whom
the world and his wife will crush, crowd and
/ strain their necks.
| Should he decide to come to England his own
object will be twofold: first, in order to sat
isfy his curiosity with regard to the extent of
the English nation and in the next place to lay
| before Lord Salisbury several of his grievances.
de Is undoubtedly very angry with Stanley.
PERSONAL GOSSIP.
Lord Randolph Churchill. who has been for
years one of the standbys of the caricaturists.
has just served them bad turn and provided
them with an unpleasant quarter of an hour.
He has made his appearance in the house of
commons with beard. Think of it! Lord
Randolph of the curled mustache wearing
beard.
The men who were always sketching him are
in despair. for nobody recognizes Randy" in
his present guise.
Lady Edith Ward. the daughter of the Earl
and Countess of Derby, is once more being
talked about. Her reputation for beauty grows
daily and many think she is even prettier than
her mother SO that at most social fnncotins
some one or other who has not forgotten all
the Latin he had drummed into him during his
school and college career may be heard muir
mer the well-known words of Horace. .'Natre
pulchra fila pulchrior." The gossips have it
that she is engaged to be married to a rich
Russian named Narifchkine who il descended
from the mother of Peter the Great, the cele-
brated peasant girl, Natalia Naryschkinc. Lady
Ediths name was only few months ago in
variably coupled with that Of Count Bismarck,
but nothing came Of it, and if this time the
upon not to substitute some other name for
that OF the Russian.
A TEMPERANCE ORATOR TOO DRUNK TO SPEAK.
st. Petersburg il vastly amused ut late ex-
emplifcation OF the well-known doctors ad-
vice, "Don't do as do, but do as I tell YOU"
It seems they have fashionable temperance
society in that city especially for the benefit of
the gilded youth who indulge too freely in
champagne cognac and vodka To confer i'm
portance on the society the civil governor Of st.
Petersburg. Count Foil, was elected president
and was put down for a splendid oratorical dis
play in favor Of tetotalism at the first meeting
The count, however, turned out to be a whited
| sepulcher and came to the meeting in q state
appropriate to his name, id est ''Foll, !" which
means ''fulL" When the time came to deliver
his temperance speech and to call sinners
to repentance he was found to be so drunk that
speech was almost denied to him. His friends
aver that he was only nervous and his enemies
| insist that he was drunk AS David's son. One
party voted to expel him as an unworthy
brother the other stood up bravely for his re-
tAntion on the roll of members The latter
party was victorious and the hero Of the dis
pute was sent home in q sleigh to sleep off his
'nervousness."
NEW ILLUSTRATED PAPER.
The new illustrated paper, Black and While,
has made very good impression, but it can
hardly be said to be better than the old-estab-
lished ones, the Grophic and the Illustrated Lon
don Ne,cs, which are as well known in America
as they are here. As it was expected it would
certainly be ahead Of them, the result is some
what disappointing.
sANTLEY's COMING VISIT.
Mr.. Charles Santley, after his long absence at
the Antipodes and brief sojourn among n, whore
he has been repeating his old round of success,