Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-06
THE FOUR HUNDRED AGAIN.
Mr., Watterson Has Some Further
Vigorous Remarks.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Remarking that the Courier-Journal has
taken a number of subjects into consid-
Grafton of late" our esteemed contemporary.
The Evening Star of Washington city. goes
on to say that 1t nay be expected to get
round to the Four Hundred again In the
regular course of events" Naturally. 1t
is the office of the daily newspaper, among
other functions, "to shoot Dame Folly as
she flies and. the CourierJournal being
like The Evening Star. daily newspaper,
how could it, in the long run, escape the
occasional recurrence of the Four Hundred?
But why should we be so exceptional in
this as to provoke remark?
We observe that several of our contem
poraries besides The Star make similar
suggestion. To what shall we ascribe at
tentions so unusual? 1t must be, it can
only be, recognition Of the COurierJOurnal
as leader of the moral no less than the
political thought of the time. else how
could so many join in directing our atten-
have overtaken the Smart Set Of Vienna
and the unsavory incidents attending the
elopement of the Crown Princess of Sax
ony? They are indeed held before US as
tense of the Four Hundred of New York
and other American cities, that these lat
ter are no worse than their betters that Is
to say, that High Life is much the same
IL.
Truth to say, these recent examples of
titled depravity are not worse than many
OF their precursors. Assuredly, they are
not nearly so tragical But yesterday it
in mystery and death Today, it is the
liason Of a Crown Princess, resulting thus
far In nothing more serious than a run
away and fisticuff. The suicide Of Ru-
RIGHTEOUSNESS Of the Austrian capital,
which these later revelations merely am
plify and heighten. The escapade Of Louise
Is simply comic opera of the kind that
Onenbach delighted to revel in
And, speaking Of comic opera, what Is
the matter with King Leopold Of Belgium"
asks one Of our appellants, and Consider
Ing that Col. Watterson almost succumbed
to horror and Indignation at the festive
proceedings of Duke Boris, it is narrowing
to think of the colonels condition when
that frisky old person lands on our shores
and proceeds to do some decorative work
with the boys" Alas. it is our staid friend.
the Chicago Chronicle, which would thus
make game of a long-lost brother! That
we should live to see the day and survive
it!
have on our hands next summer not only
his Belgian nastinesS but, mayhap, the
Crown Princess and her Frenchman, and
Brother Leo, and his Inamorata, whoever
she may bel Boris was not circumstance
to these. Newport will have to give two
monkey dinners and have two monkeys at
each dinner. We mourn for Oscar. Not
the King of Sweden and Norway. He of
the Waldorf-Astoria. Be sure. the brunt
will ultimately fall upon him. There come
the yacht races in August. After the yacht
races the horse show. With the King of
the Belgians giving state dinner in the
Aston dining room upstairs. the Crown
Princess and her suite in the South Palm
Garden down stairs, what viii poor Oscar
Tschirky do? Figaro ci! Figaro, la! And.
in the outer corridors, all the Divorces sit
ting round and. whilst shrieking Oscar"
murmuring to one another. wouldn't It De
just too lovely to be herr"
Why, bless you. We don't object to that
sort Of thing in the least. Not In the least
We rather like it. 1t is all right. kept with
In the bounds. We just don't want to see
1t spread. That is ALL The Smart Set Of
the east Is like fire in a certain district:
the house, or houses, a-fire. are doomed;
there Is no saving them; so. the energies
Of the force are bent to the rescuing of the
adjacent tenements. New York. the city,
we mean, is able to take care Of it's own
licentiates. Newport, being wholly lost.
doesn't mind. Is the Courier-Journal far
out Of it's duty when 1t raises it's voice now
and then to "holler fire." and thus per-
chance to reduce the area Of the confiagra-
ton; to keep it where 1t is; to warn the
vulgar and brutal men Of its own baiiiwick
that money cannot always bring immunity
from misdoing. nor silence scandal; to in
innate to light-headed and vain women,
newly used to riches and untut ored In the
w!ckedness Of the world. that approval of
the Smart Set Is their first step downward?
Each and every community has it's would
be four hundred. Must we be condemned
II. in a general way. we hold up the aegis
Of the republican idea-of the home-of the
f1reside-the aegis OF any old idea SO 1t be
American-to remind them of our common
birthright our title deed to the simple,
homespun origin of the whole ships crew
Of us-better than the crowns of kings and
the diadems OF dukes and princes. even