Ladies (Newspaper) - June 22, 1872, London, Middlesex No. 13.-Vol. I. TWIth a and an e Registered for Transmission CHARITY & THE humbler worshippers of le beau whose scanty means are not adequate to living up to the mark of those they aspire to mingle with are much to be It is true that they mix with the elite of share all their enjoyments and grow radiant in the delight of speaking familiarly with and of dukes and eat of the very drink of the most and look and talk and write down at the the mere rabble who are out of Yet they are not The humiliating excuses they have to the mean shifts they have to the degradation of which they are unable to the horrible fear of being some day found and thrust from their paradise of snobs haunt the poor little shams and render them Those whom they ape smile at their ridiculous and make them pay handsomely for a front among the upper and others of their own class laugh openly at their paltry desperate These the very people who always most and bitter in denunciations of the and is to their querulous complaints the Saturday Review of the 15th inst. its pages in an article on Let us hear how Jeames complains of the gall and of living above his a honourable of being intimate with ladies not unfrequently play at Such time as they can spare from dress and amusement they give to framing plans of relief for the These are always plans that give their inventors a prominent that include society in its holiday and that depend for success on other people's Sometimes it is a where you have to buy a ticket at an exorbitant price to hear indifferent music badly rendered by second-rate or it may be an amateur the is yet more and you have to applaud greater vehemence to cover the lack of interest and intrinsic or it may be amateur when you pay a week's living to see Lady Callipyge in tights and Miss Auricomus with back hair But you have to Your fine lady friends count on your and hold you to your sacrifice by the honour of your knighthood and as the confession If you are rich and a parvenu it is all very You do not miss your and you are content to pay handsomely for a front seat among the upper and to be able to discuss my Lady Callipyge and Miss Auricomus among your own set with the air of a man who knows his world is a privilege worth a. handsome ' If you are orie you pay of course for the honour of your though you think it a bore all the but if you are only one of the one of the the impecunious appearances that float about the great mere gilt and not and very thin gilt you know then what the force fashionable is when it is put on and you have to submit to be squeezed if would sWl be There is of course the of the WdL the honour counts for but your sparse Sixpence 142. Dinner Toilet page 300); guineas have their own eloquence and when you have to live up to the mark of people whose thousands would cover your you find encroaching on your alarming You not mind .sa if you could distil any of youn But save for that barren honour of the pleasures which fine ladies get up among themselves are mostly of the dullest private fetes a sense of weariness steals over us as we jot down the The yawns that would not be try as heroically as we the laugh that would not come the things were ' though we * hideous which we hoped for genuine interest absolutely refused J to be- and that no amount to surface ineffable and silliness and boredom of it and that of. muscular men and women who be go miserable kind as if they and at outbreak of - old disease -is f a a a of Poor dear Is he What is the unhappy He can't retire from He can't refuse to bored by other people's He must in society or What is Obviously the mountain must Here is remedy and Saturday provides institutions want be brought before the public in a straightforward A statement of their distinct an of their a simple and therefore of the more striking of their and indisputable evidence that are wanted both in the sphere and the locality they have are more earnest and more dignified means of appealing to the But suppose these means ave been Suppose the results of such trials are very seldom and that one-half of the noblest charities in London would be compelled to close their doors to-morrow if it were not for the large sums raised at these harmless associations of kindly thoughts and actions with the enjoyments and pleasures of. In that case Are starving go the sick to uncared because Jeames finds the demands upon his scanty means made by those who have every right to believe he is what he pretends to source of and are ladies to relinquish their harmless pleasures and amusements because Jeames de la finds that they bore Thackeray ' Why should Jones and who are in the middle pur being to secure ah e'clat which not belong to us No one is deceived by such splendour in- * the silly who a peacock's feather behind and to simulate the gorgeous bird whose nature it is to strut on and to flaunt his ( magnificent .in the plate for bias bidden others contentedly to wear the willow Aid being perfectly contented humbly look O and see the myriads who are not so to wear honest magnificos are adorned with cambric and point lace surely we ought to hold as those wretched Beaux society who