New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-01-08
THE DRAMA.
MRS. TANQUERAY AGAIN.

Mrs Tanoueray. kindly escorted by those eminent
friends OF virtue Mr. and Mrs. Kendall arrived in
town last night, and during the present week per-
sons DESTROYS Of knowing the possible results Of
marriage between a BLACKBOARD and a courtesan
can assuage their curiosity by visit to Abbey's
Theatre. The results Of such an alliance would
naturally vary. according to the respective charac.
tiers OF the contracting parties In the particular In
stance recorded by Mr. Pnero and Illuminated by
Mr. and Mrs Kendall they were complicated The
man was a gross. fat-witted Englishman who lived
for the qualification of his appettes. and the woman
was a handsome virago ill-bred, ill-tempered, un-
principled se,f-wied quarrelsome and stupid. Both
devoid of sef-respect and both were vitiateo,
through and through with that Internal selfshness
which makes some persons Indifferent TO everything
except their qualification. Mr.. Tanqueray was
a wdower, with grown-up daughter.-in convent.
He had been married to woman who was coo'
He now determined to marry a woman VINO was
warm" and he therefore chose one VINO had
dwet terms of the greatest intimacy with seVerai
OF his acquaintance. That done he retired Win
his wife an6 his daughter. 10 a country-house
wherein the three of them dwet for a considerable
time in gnomn.ous discomfort; till at last one OF the
wlfe's old paramours turned up sutton for the
daughter and Mrs Tanqueray rectifed the RESULT
ant domestic disorder by self-destructon.
The urgent necessity which exists that this case
should be appreciated by the public OF NewYork is
deepIy felt by Mr.. and Mrs. Kendall In presenting
dutv: and as a great observer has remarked. there
is nothing IN the world noble as mainland
woman-of sentiment This community mas 100 long
angushed in tire midnight OF Ignorance; 100 'ons
bcen permitted TO wallow In moral degradation. 10
the Young man about to marry. nothing surely can
be so essential as the warning that, Whatever else
he does he must not choose a notorious cour,esan
10 be the partner Of his life. His great peril OF
course is the peril Of making precisely that choice.
Equally Of course the young woman OF the periou
stands in sore need Of missionary treatment'-pehs
ignorant merely OF the sacred ooisd'lo on ou'
even Of the rational value. Of chastity ana decehey
And the old rounder-poor. helpless creature!-now
snail he be protected his lonely way, and GUIDED
TO the making of his matrimonial cho!ce, wneh ar
his wild oats are sown and the calm evening Oh
misspent life comes on, unless he TOO pe sumo ot,
This dreadfI state Of thrgs has been clearly dis-
cerned by ar. and Mrs. Kendall Ihey kHow w w ,nsr
Is needed. They are on hand betiines Anu '" ar
rived and since 'John-a- Dreams. was put on Doaro
OF a guano-barge for transportation hthet,-'nass
perhaps they mIgn be ttle ls are, ber rewsrd
The great awakening Is in progress every wners r
Children cry for Mrs. Tanqusray There never Yer
such time of JOY as there Is now among M, .ns
playgoers, and never was the playhouse so chdrm-
ing! Bellevue Hospital IL nowhere. A..
TanGueray came home to the popular heart VIII
hardly be expected. Emotion Is sometimes 700
deep for words There may h@a ts 3r come
surging Ger and oer-the thought now grateful
we all ought be that the public morals at isss
Aeneas Jones and sepient Oscar Wide. and young
Mr. Chambers. ard Mr.. and Mrs kenda,,-,wSdn .ne
Mrs Urauhart Potter-all Juggling at ne wndIasS
OF morality. all making the stage odor1ferons WIN I'm
POSSIBLE even for the degraded public Of New-Y2rk
any longer 20 lack redeemng grace Ihat - ~na'
and they cannot get too much of it,-or II they
do they can carry smelling bottles