The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-12-15
MIss rINK.s TIRsr sEAsON.

Miss Pink has a hundred ard twelve partners
and she does not know their names she does not
even expect to know them; hut there is one who
has earned her eternal gratitude by wearing a
little curly beard, and she always remembers his
dance. Ard there is a lord, no has such very
red hair that one cannot mistake him. What a
pity they don't each have a mark2 Would not a
cipher tattooed on the cheek be brilliant idea
Or cut in tn whiskers-Of such rs have uhiskers
AS one sows a name in lustard and cress, you
know Rather poetic idea eh On the whole,
Miss Pink is not sure that she appreciates the
clerks, her cavaliers. She had visions OF siT-foot
heroes-like the pictures If "Chsrles O'MalIey"-
beautiful people, with long moustaches whilst
amongst her partners there is not a midde-sized
mOustache Poor dear Miss Pink Mamma
puts all her grievances in her pocket as she goes
up stairs, aud smiling bowing, and amiabiity In
general goes on when that ruJicon, the narrow
door, is pasred.
1t is quite possible TO speak 70 three people
at ouCe-to recognize the acquaintances and
70 mark the likelest place tor seat. chape-
rome Ga stout one especially must have her wits
about her, pretty much as q fox hunter in
crowd before big fence. NJ one so sharp as
Mrs Pink. She avoids good-,cmpered Lady Aune
harygold, who is in her usual corner near the
window, not for the supposed purpose Of thereby
obtaining fresh air, but that her three stout
0auRhterh may nelp ueT 10 keep tue hAbNt5
closed The dear old thing Is rheumatic and
cannot bear draught. A battle goes on, as
might be anticipated, between the oppressed
dancers and her lndyship, for the right OF way to
the atmosphere, and one road to victory, alone IS
open. Let their partners be found brave enough
10 risk their toes with the daughters, and let
another hero entiCe the mamma to regions OF
lobster salad and champagne-then only
may "the easement be thrown WIDE Alas as
yet the solution Of that great problem, "whether
any one can he found TO dan @ with those patient
graces," has not yet come of.
MOnotony CharaCteriZes thei, naTt OF the even
ing's prOCecdings-monOtony, diversified by fear
or hope, on the score Of chicken and peaches,
towards midnight. "Will supper be attauabe
or not :" Not SO with Miss Pink. She is in
tremendous state Of mind at first, lest no one
should dance with her; lest her nose should be
red lest her hair should be rough. Oh, dear
lest mamma should stay IN the great rOom-and
then it is so hot, and Mss Pink feels utterly
miserable for precisely two seconds, at the end
of which period she perceiyes three of her pet
partners coming towards her; that Laura Finch
has her old green gown on aglinj tnat DuIci-
belle is not Waltzing and that ti,l, in his white
waistcoat, is in the next room, looking as If he
had lost his way. FitZ always looks so ; 1t is so
cerrect. You should give the young lady, whose
hand you are soliciting for N'se, the Impression
that you are philosopher bent on the discovery
of the most abstruse sCienCcs-nonchalant and
slightly melancholy.
II is the Faust valse and Miss Pink is lancee,
sailing round the rooms, before the crash begins
with little Whites, Of the Rifle Brigade. Happy
Wifiles he is nephew of the house; had come up
from Winchester on leave; did not expect to
know a soul; had met and worsnpped Pnkina at
Bromley last autumn. Was en- gltette by the door
when she came in, and i, for the present and
future, triumphant Whites. Miss Pink fears no
longer the fate of the Marygolds. She is espe-
cially popular tonight. PukinG writes in her
journal, after each ball that 1t has been even
mere delightful than the last" OF course one
does not allude to that horrible one at Mrs.
Mesallianee's, where ones dress was all torn to
shreds, where that horrible msa with long hair
squeezed ones hands iu the LIncers, and was a
nuisance in general by spCechifying; where
(wOrst of all msfOTtuues) one partner for the
second galop never appeared to claim his prigi-
lege, hut stayed in the tea room with some one
else miss Pink saw him there. Mo- that ball is
erased from the tablets Of ones memory
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