Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-07-06
No. 100

for himself But he couldn't touch Bar
rett as Elliot Gray. 1t was worth the
price of admission alone TO hear Barrett
sing The Foaming Glass of Ale,' and
Lord Bsteman,' and Iuddy-Fuddy'
1T was an opera thenF' / hazArded.
No, it wasn't. Opera, Why, pshawl
We'll, sir, just as Barrett said: Hadn't
you better take it of againF down from
the back of the dress-eircle, along the pas
sage to the orchestrs-seats, came one of the
oglivy twins. He wasn't much to look at,
out the noise of his footsteps, as he came
plunk- -plunk-plunk down the steps, made
everybody look round to see who 1t was,
and they waited, watching him till they
saw him stop at the row where his seat
was, when plunk-plunk- -plunk- -plunk came
the footsteps again, and If there wasn't
the same chap back again coming down
the steps. OF course it was the other
twin, but nobody knew that. and, / tell
You, You ought to have seen the people
starel 1t was not bit of use for Barrett
to shout out Wow when the pin stuck
him, for nobody paid any attention, so
busy and engrossed were they gazing at
the ogllyy twins. And, dear mel So that
Is one of them, up before a court, and in
wantf L would like to send the poor chap
tribe, out of regard for old times, if /
knew his address. Well, who would have
thought itl What commentary on the
true inwsrdness of family as exhibited
by the English nobilityl'
could not help admitting the truth of
his closing observation. One of the de-
lightfully paraded sentiments and, at the
same time, closely hugged delusions of the
English aristocracy is that all the mem
bers of family are equal in blood.
Here is an Ogilvy. He is really not a
IL l,--
from the head of the house His father
was the earl, and if he had only been the
eldest son, he would have been the earl
too. The present rich earl is the SON of
the pauper's brother. His blood is not
whit better. 1t is precisely the same.
Yet one is starving and the other living on
the fat of the land in luxury and gran
deur. One could understand this sort of
thing among the middle and lower classes
q speak from the sristocrat's standpoint)
They are people who do not GO in for, or
care fig for, family. Every man for
himself. But do not think You would
find even a coal-hearer let a relative suffer
as this earl let's his uncle. 1t is difficult to
make the cases parallel, for the conditions
of life in each differ SO widely And then
one does not know all the circumstances
Still, il seems incredible, If there really is
anything in blood, that the head of great
A0Uat lOuSt allow q TGlAiire-
so near a relative toto want for the ne
cessaries of life. of course fifteen dol
lars a week will be thought by some peo-
pie TO be ample for any mans needs. But
las the law of infancy lays DOWN. what are
neeessaries for one person would not be
for another. And that is just where it is
with this poor chap Ogilvy He was
brought up in luxury. No doubt he went
to Eton or Harrow, and afterward to OK
ford or Cambridge. Consequently he was
given the ways and tastes of a gentleman,
and is therefore unable to earn his own
living. What can he doE Break stones in
the rOad, that threatened last resort of the
shiftless English gentlemsns BE has new
er been taught to work. Much better, i
say, TO let the younger sons go TO the ma
tional free schools and learn without cost
all they need to know, and save their
money, expended on years at great public
and universities. TO give them
when they grow up. Better do that than
give them utterly useless habits, and then
cast them loose 90 starve.