Show OUR CHICAGO LL aso ANO ANOTHER tiler telles IN interesting MELANGE FROM 1 1 OUR reao REra REGULAR bialt coh COA RESPONDENT correspondent I 1 1 TILE tiie BEAUTY BE SHOW snow 1 CHICAGO march gill gili 90 mi 1881 editor deseret news nees the developments iu in both the social and political atmospheres during the last week are calculated to cause one to indulge in serious speculations in this the dime museum with its novel attractions has come to stay it can hardly be classed as an anlu aniu amusement seme rit lit and to say that it is instructive woul would be strai straining ninga a point too far however the press di and nd public seem to be deeply impressed with its importance as a social factor and as such is worthy of calm calin reflection its growth is wonderful the latest phase of its existence is the beauty show 11 this beauty show has nothing to do with the sublime and kad I 1 or with the pleasures of imagination which a contemplation of the is supposed to inspire the beauty show is simply a collection of human females placed on an raised enches benches inside a large hall hali and allot supposed ased to be tn in competition for the palm paim alm aim or to make it more classic for the a apple appie pie there are 25 of them num bared bret consecutively from I 1 to 25 and they embrace many types of ugliness and are of diverse races every visitor who he pays ays a dime may constitute himself aimse if aparis aris arts and cast his ballot for the number that approaches his ideal of female lowliness lov liness the number which seems to come nearest to the conception of beauty is borne by y a female of color the tae color is healthy and suggestive of miscegenation jt it is all ver yer very y nice to go in and have a laugh and put on nour 3 our glasses and inspect the tile cattle with an air of meek solemnity but can you help asking yourself what is there were amusing or instructive or colef edifying ng in this Is it on one of the whims of vanity vanity hair fair or is it a satire on woman pr is it t a joke on religion or is it a inoc kery of morality 0 lity or a deadly thrust at civi bation A deplorable SPECTACLE writers who are honestly interested in the welfare of humanity favor the extension of the sphere of innocent amusements but is not this beauty show trifling too seriously with a very grave matter and investing the sacredness lessof of woman with a mean nican paltry levity can any thinking man luan visit such a scene and not feel ashamed of its consequences can call any honest american matron gaze without a blush on oa th thia ia deplorable spectacle and surely among the thousands who have patronized this wretched affair there must have been some thinking men and decent women if there were nat sad indeed must be the destiny of the great republic Mora moralists lists are arc archond fond of amplifying the vanity of women they dwell sith with a kind of regretful sympathy mpa aily ally on the coarse leathery s Y luned skinned savage of central africa loaded with iron and brass ornace ornaments ats and totter 11 in in her naked vanity with rudecino 1 these moralists mora lists also descant long iong and ear car earnestly nestly on oll female wt weakness akness for s show ow in all ali ages and among all nations they ghey tell us its that cleopatra and aspa aspasia sia kia sla wrote treatises on cosmetics that the lesbian ladies of old slept on roses the natural perfume of which was artificially heightened hellit that marc mare anthonys An tonys dhu diu daughter guen nuen made earrings ear car rings for the lampre lampreys vs in her pond that agrippina and lollia lolla paulina wore dresses worth one quarter of a million dollars that madam tallien bathed in lil raspberry wash ash and perfumed milk that roman ladies were ere taught to smile gracefully that the athenian matrons matrona feared making 1 il a hurried step lest it should betray bear y a vui vulgar vular ar rusticity yes those moralists mora lists ts could tell some strange things about the vanity of woman and the tha folly of man and all this grandeur and pomp has passed away the egyptian the greek the roman itoman the napoleonic dynasty are arc all gone and with them the Cleo patras and madame Tall tali his might not these facts suggest a question ilas lias has woman anything to the stability and conservatism of civilization tais question may be rendered moro forcible by asking ourselves in what the hebrew woman wodan was placed during aurill du rill all the ages of great nesses R of other nations how do these mentioned beauties of profane history compare with the and Rach liach aels of holy writ Is not this A an n appropriate question then for the Atner american ican thinker to ask lillus himself elf eif I 1 I 1 81 SHOULD sot NOT BE we WC 1 americans am ricans are in the habit of s saying 1 y brex ibex I 1 c we ive tre are ire a young nation you cotuit t expect pc t us tobe to be perfect in everything we ve ha haave haaso debut but a short history and r our women are mhd best educated lift litt irn the tho lie lic world and wo honor them more than other peoples or races do their women this is all ail nonsense ise lse we are not young we are tile the wn md heirs of years of accumulated knowledge d our libraries contain an ali un unbroken brakert chair nair of historians from moses and herodotus to bancroft and motia malldy with all this chart of k knowledge now ledge spread spread out before us with our univ rs I 1 popular education colue a with our accomplished and educated womanhood with all our religion and philosophy our highest effort is a tea acut beauty show Is this wo vvo manumission man mans mission among us usa ila lla has she slie no other sphere of usefulness than thin mere merd show Is it ther hier only ambition to shine for a momel moment t and make tt a little flutter as a cheap beauty on a raised bench or of a new sensation in the pages of a daily newspaper can we wonder erata at a queen even writing nonsense sen se when our own sena senators tors are wr writing ting statutes that would put to shame old father gideon himself himsel f yc we must not look at the out cropping of our society of jokes or curses nor must we treat them as such A dog show a cattle shaw or even a cat sh show orv may pay be tolerated and may look a smile mile or an aphorism as it suits the temper of the visitor but a woman show must occasion s serious rious thought since it is an index of tile the weakness and amon us womans comans sphere is home ana and uia I 1 with woman there a race or a civilization an can be perpetuated and made go thundering down the ages 0 A meddlesome SPIRIT we have an instance of the folly of maddlin meddling in religious matter in that ohio ca case se ina lna in a roman catholic ch church u ach a fair was in progress and it appears oneff one of the feature features 8 of t the ile fie fair was some kind of play instrument which came under the denomination of gambling A mr macdevitt u urged by an interest in the common weal or common woe had the priest arrested for keeping kee sat vyt p a gambling bouse the friends of the hae vest priest retaliated and subjected mr macdevitt lac Devitt to serious indignities if not injuries the matter has not cul cui culminated min here but it Is likely to cause serious religious iio ilo rioting ting in the first place no law ought to lo entitle mr macdevitt to enter any church or church bul bui building Iding 0 for the purpose of hunting up some constructive illegality bality the church is nothing difiore more nor less than the family home on a larger scale seale and any auy law which invades church or home unless for the apprehension of avowed criminals Is ig a tyranny mr macdevitt had no more ri right to enter that church precinct to interfere with that priest and his people amusing themselves harmoniously and had propagating t their heir work to their own satisfaction than he would to enter dr newmans New mans mana church during one of its pandemonium m sessions to arrest dr newman I 1 if f air evitt got gob his head hurt in the latter proceedings no one would pity him and if lie he did get it hurt in the former he may thank his meddlesome spirit A slanderous BOOK in a recent issue of the neus wems of this city I 1 noticed a book review about a chapter of horrors or some such bloodcurdling blood curdling name it appears the book purports to be all au exposition of mormonism Mormon ism ibm but the neus news thinks the author who wisely hides his name must be a curious compound of humanity and devilishness As to the book itself the news thinks if the author had the perpetuation of mormonism in view he has written to good purpose the news argues that a book written in in such a spirit and with such stich total tota 1 disregard of all the laws of probability and possibility can have no other than the opposite effect to that for which it was intended it is evident the writer is some fraud of the mcd med mcdevitt evitt pattern who can find no other congenial employment than in fomenting strife disseminating semina ting au a lid iid d destroying morality it is strange what produces this destroying spirit that seems to have taken possession of the average individual man glan is naturally conservative and even in his reforms there is conservatism but somehow the reform bofto of today loday lo day means destruction the great edmund burre burke used to say 1 I would not destroy any established form on theories ilo no matter how hovy plausible these theories may be history cannot furnish a more sagacious sta statesman teiman than edmund burke and that Is his testimony regarding b established forms it would be well weli if some of these statesmen who fancy they can make a better world than the creator did would devote a little time to the study of edmund burkes barkes philosophy the fault with us as is we are rotten in ill our society every rustic who happens to get a common school education and reads reacts the life of P T barnum comes up to town gets into an editors chair or into congress and taid forthwith proceeds dg to demolish the old order of things wont do fo lie he must reconstruct but his shallow wit wic makes it destruction lib is like ilke that creature whom pope advises to i goterch go teach eternal wisdom hofto 0 rule thon tho drop into thyself and be a fool I 1 THE secret SOCIETY CRAZE the secret society Is ig at last asserting itself aud aud and producing its natural results the philadelphia cowboys ardd and tile the societies of the cultured cast ought to awaken serious thoughts in the mind of teachers parents and instructors the arsenal of one of these young brigand bands cons cong consisted isted of dime novels several bowle bowie knives revolvers and other weapons where are the estonian Nesto es tonian torian riall religionists who spend their time quibbling about tile the tanning of street cars on sunday they T hey ight profitably tako take a hint from froni schuylkill jack jack nack the captain of the tile cowboys and ami direct their educating efforts towards the inspiring dime novel wo might all take a hint and use the lesson of t the e black brotherhood for reproof and correction the pistol has become such i 3 popular I 1 ar instrument that the average citizen would as soon think of venturing into the street without idaa it I 1 s he would without his bis boots the thoma secret society has become such a bore that one ons cant shake hands without having els knuckles knuck lek iek punched and squeezed until he Is la hardly conscious whether all ail his fingers are left ills his ear car is gree greeted t ed with coti coughs hs and he hems n 9 and haws the eye Is attracted by sis sic s C nals kings and gesticulations and the tha general mysteriousness is such that one wishes secret societies and their founders in the very lowest depths of hades hade itself pernicious ioUS lous the dime novel the flash illustration and the blood and thunder drama ought to bs be summarily dealt with the p publisher uelisher ug lisher the dealer and the actor of these ought to be simply branded as society murderers no decent man matl or woman ought to recognize them but a the mind i is pe perpetually equally craving cravan a after f an ideal and if 1 at literature tera ture cann cannot 0 t p pos 0 nsf sessa thackeray it must have a beadle beldie when thackeray wrote cath enne 11 he did it to correct just such an e evil I 1 as we are at present inflicted with and it did help to reform reforms the taste of the time so as to the pistol au business ness one almost wishes for the tile good old slugging days again one is almost forced to admit that the american public are alive to the fatality of the gun when we see such receptions accorded to mr sullivan the pugilist pope says gays t all partial evil is sal sai good goo says 11 and in dealing with a supposed or real evil we must consider not its extent but in suppressing it that we ave do not produce a greater 1 I evil vil vii if the absence of the prize ring introduces the deadly pistol with the thelmur mur derous thing than without fair pla pia plax play y orarn or prin I 1 ciple then ft it is time to consider how much wiser we are aie than our fat fathers hels heis 4 had the prize ring nin rin anything to L do with Vl miera lad badajos alos alog austerlitz and waterloo waterloo had the prize ring anything to do in form inz that unswerving spirit of fairplay fair play which is a characteristic of almost every man moan even the very urchins gins and arabs of an tin english city manifest that spirit of airplay fairplay f lu in their little quarrels how different it Is in this country you can see a half dozen boys piling on to one in the street it may sound strange but when we read of northern editors ridiculing the southern chivalry and lying and li belling with a all ali il cense worthy of wishes almost foursome for some deadly code th that would atwould strike a little decency into cowardly bosoms among achong statesmen and orators ad soldiers that chastity of honor that arity of morals and integrity of principle which characterized the heroes of other periods er io ds is today entirely unknown PT the h calumny abing theologian and scurrilous editor behind beh a morality unknown to them and Und under erthe the cloak of a rell reli religion lon ion foreign to them can assail with impunity i honest men and women under these circumstances one almost wishes for that public spirit which in austria the tha other day deprived an army officer of 1 his commission for refusing to gibb satisfaction to an outraged e d victim jumus junus 1 |