The Observer Saturday, September 29th, 1883. A YOUNG LOTHARIO.

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 159, 29 September 1883, Page 2

The Observer Saturday, September 29th, 1883. A YOUNG LOTHARIO.

Depravity stalks abroad and rears its brazen*, head in all the pride of a glossy belltopper, a spotless shirt-front, and shining black, whilehonest virtue hides its diminished head under a shocking bad hat and a threadbare suit of hand-me-downs. It is often your modest-looking,, smirk young man, with a 2 Jenc^ an^ f° r soirees and little cozy parties, and a horror of beerdrinluDg and wicked theatres, who does more mischief in some circles than half-a-dozen dudes and mashers. The latter carry the dangersignal in their gait, drawl, and attire, and are generally too effeminate and timid to do much' havoc. The women tolerate, smile upon, and laugh at the colonial dude just as they do with a pet poodle, but he is far less dangerous than he j looks. It i 9 the nice young man who has read Ovid, made the art of female conquests a study, m and affects an air of dash and bonhomie, coupled- m with respectful deference, that weakens the out- m works and causes the citadel to surrender; Q^l this class is the subject of this sketch, the y<W^^H Lothario. We saw one of the same typ^^^^H other day, who was mostly stick and hat^^^^H fashionable suit of tailor's clothes thjj^^^^^H He was strolling leisurely along C^BH^^|H Beach, and in the distance he looktoJ^^^^^^^^J the dummy figures in the draper-sV^H^H^^^f are ticketed, "Our Own Make, &'2^BK^^^^^UA The particular Lothario nn^ er^B/j^^^KßK^ man who has distinguished Admiration Clubs. Possesaingjfl^^^^^^^^^^H and a retentive memory for a flH^^H|^^^^^^| combined with a good deal -^9H[^^^^^^^fl was once regarded as one oj^HHj^^^H^^H

£$y •")' ■■- >»■. 'j-fwy ■r.uuiiuinMlMu.. •'-'■'.■ i,mui«ou:i.».... < ~-..~U1.i ':pSf.&, certain ppliticaJL party, andsometim'e^.put : pe^k at public meetings. f^Ce was patted'on | r ;:-e'*U«ad by the leaders, and great things were |- ; -licted of him. Bat, alas !- these hopes were "; / v disappointment when it transpired i^^l:tke\ young man had become entangled in a' sonndal, of which an inexperienced. )'i'M : too-(ioniidin(r young woman was thp victim. fWi>ugh. he had' uot attained the years'^of man- & ' : )d, "* he 'had , nlfcady aasuined .paternal responV lities. friends, however, interposed,' and the -*.Ay was cenqv-omised by the payment of a'suin" ,-• frnoney. Tl was then hoped that lie had seen m '\u '■'•] etrax ot his wsvys, lepoj-jted of his, aberrations '■ '•'"ijtt'fke patha of virtue, and would henceforth ;.; : V;^avour to realise i\o fond hopes of his patrons, ■;,j£o--^ admirers. But ii appear^ from fact 3 whicli' '$i "'. ■ within" { 6'ur ktiowledgc, that, undismayed by '■former experience, he has betrayed another^ ,';ng woman, and, is likely ere long to'ihcur" ■■' iher responsibilib'.fes. pecuniary or otherwise.

)■■' 'The victim is a diminutive lady of some 25 or ••■■■"' . [summers, w,ell-known in- Auckland and at the anies. She is fatherless^ and resides with her ,:.; ; ' ;bher, who is in anything but affluent circuraaces. The , Lothario is an intimate friend of ■■:, family, and "used frequently to visit at the j . ise.' He had. also other opportunities of meet- : the gLi-r wlien she came i to visit her friends in ,;• ckland. It, is said that though he is a nobody ,'■>• iself, he was very angry with her whenever she <■ ■" to notice any plebeian acquaintance r ( fcheir ifireejuent walks abroad. The event which . " r ' Aikely i; 6 arise out of this acquaintance is daily ;>oeeted, but it is believed that the Don Juan H<;f\ hardly eondeseend to marry his victim, so I:'^' it in all probability the matter will have to be 1 , ppromised by the same process as in the ■- / ni ev ease. .