CARRIAGE PEOPLE.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2144, 17 November 1875, Page 4

CARRIAGE PEOPLE.

(feom belgravia.)

•<& The modern profligate is can eminently well-behaved, precise, reserved young simpleton. He wastes his estates, and sometimes wholly ruins himself before ho is twenty five, without getting any enjoyment for his expenditure. He loses thousands by betting; but he is ashamed to be seen in the ring or at Tattersall's, and Captain Kitejy, late of the 13th Fandpurs, bets for his lordship "on commission." He would • shudder at the thought of entering a common gamblinghouse, or calling;.;a main with a vulgar box of "bones;" so he is elegantly swindled at baccarat or \ chemin defer in the cardroom at tho Richelieu Club, or he loses five thousand pounds at the ingenious and intellectual game of American bowls; As for Kate Hackabout and Dolly Drury, those young ladies are far too sensible nowadays to incur the risk of being sent to Bridewell* there to beat hemp and suffer stripes. What do I speak of ? Bridewell itself has disappeared, and Mr Keyser's new hotel has risen, and the new Royal Mint will rise, on the site of the old grimy gacl, every brick in whose dingy walls might have been cemented by the tears of hapless women and naughty 'prentice lads. ; Mesdames Hackabout and Drury have nothing to fear from a sudden visit on-the jpartef Justice de veil and the parish-constables. Only fancy Sir Thomas Henry or Mr J£nox going the round of the realms of naughtiness, and taking a fair (and false) haired Brompton and piebald-pony-driving South Belgrayia (it used to be called Pimlico) into custody. As Alcibiades has grown more and more brainless and vapid, so have the naughty dames of Athens grown more shrewd and worldly-wise. m Do you know Mrs Catesby Parkhack P You may call her Mrs Colonel Parkhack, it being currently reported (by herself) that her gallant husband, late of the Omnithug Irregulars, is in India, political resident at the Court of, the Rajah, of Rbttencore. If you write to her as the Hon. Mrs Parkhack, she will

not be displeased; and in her : diningroom hangs a fine line engraving after Sir Fabian FitzdottreKs B.A. well-known portrait of the Eight; Hon. the Earl <of Notimberland, presented to ..him by his tenantry on. the estate. Was not Mrs patesby Parkhack a relative of that distinguished riobleman ? She was nothing of the kind A hundred and odd years."ago she was Xate Hackabout—Hogarth's jKate Hackabout, who came to London in the waggon, and" was met in the inn-yard by vile old Chartres; who was kept by the Jew money-broker, and jilted him; who lived with Jemmy. Dalton the highwayman; who fell' into poverty and stole a watch, and was taken up by Justice de Veil and his merry men, and so was sent to Bridewell to have her

shoulders swinged by the beadle. But lira Colonel Catesby^ JParkhack has the tiniest, prettiest house in Mayfair you ever beheld. Her equipage—a low phaeton, ■with a pair of exquisitely-matched bright bay ponies-^is-the talk of the town; she has been seen on the box-seat of the Duke of Doublethong's drag- = (his grace is a leading member of the Jarvey Club); the broughams and the cabriolets of the grandest dandies in London wait at all hours of the day and night at her door; she patronises the entire brigade of Foot Guards, but rather looks down on the Blues as being sons of country squires, rich merchants, and the like; and she knows all the Corps Diplomatique. She toils not, neither does she spin (the hussey B but she lives at. the v rate of at least three thousand a year; is the most punctual of paymistresses; deals at the Civil Service Co-operative Si ores; has a banking account and a cheque-book; and, I have not the sligtest doubt, has put by something comfortable ior a rainy day in Indian Guaranteed or Consolides. Mrs Catesby Parkhack is an eminently well-behaved, discreet, and

rangee person. She is too judicious to attend St James's, Piccadilly', or St Kidwhite's Chapel, Lavender street, May fair; but she never misses any of the " functions" at. the fashionable ; Ritualistic church of St Punchinello,.Pimlico.