The Daily Picayune New Orleans - Tuesday, May 21, 1895

BEHIND
THE SCENES.
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of the World.
Personal and Social Events Occurring
Abroad.
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of Royal and Imperial Life.
Reported Daily for the New Orleans
Picayune by the Marquise
de Fontenoy.

Lord Douglas of Hawick, the title by which the eldest surviving son of the marquis Queensberry prefers to be known, has earned for himself the contempt of all decent people by going bail for Oscar Wilde. It is thoroughly in keeping, however, with his action a few days previously, when he had the audacity to apply to the presiding magistrate at the Bow street police court for a warrant for his father's arrest on the ground that he had threatened Lord Douglas and Lord Alfred with personal violence it case they continued their intimacy with Wilde. The magistrate very properly declined to grant the application, and took tihe opportunity of pointing out to the young man that he was rendering himself an object of public reproach by his continued intimacy with the fat aesthete, as well as by his unfilial attitude towards a father, who, no matter how erratic under ordinary circumstances, has in this instance, at any rate, given evidence of a degree of common sense infinitely superior to that possessed by his sons.