fresh by his having his club for a refuge; and many a love which
has cooled almost to indifference has been prevented from turning into
aversion by the soothing influences of that refuge. For the leisurely
classes of men clubs are a benign invention; and women should in their
own interests avoid giving them anything of a "middlesex" character.

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--WHILE we write a new grand scandal is impending of the Beecher-Tilton
kind, which will attract less attention than that did because the
parties to it are less widely known. But as the principal person is a
late minister of Trinity Church in New York, and now the head, of the
far-famed charitable association known as "St. John's Guild," and as
the principal witness and complainant is this gentleman's wife, who is
the daughter of a late rector of Trinity, and as she has already,
before the investigation is begun, shown an inclination to have no
connubial reserves with the public, the affair promises to be what the
journalists call a rich case. It certainly is a very deplorable one,
however it may result to the persons principally interested. It is much
to be regretted that the investigation has been announced with such a
flourish of trumpets, calling in the wife, who declares herself so much
injured, inviting the press, and announcing that the investigation will
be held with open doors; and this after a publication almost in minute
detail of all the charges brought against the Reverend defendant--at
whose own request, by the way, the investigation is set on foot.
Investigations like these must needs sometimes take place; but
everything should be done to confine a knowledge of them to those who
are called upon to take part in them, either as parties, as referees,
or as advocates. On the contrary, everything is done to make them as
public and as injurious and offensive as possible. In this the press is
chiefly culpable. Nothing is gained for justice by such public
exhibitions, and much is lost to decency.

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