The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-02-11
TERMS. 81 90 PER YEAR.

nDl lar aWdN from each biltI dl Il
fete, while, with reference 10 balls,
they always had consultations, 80
that they should dress in such a style
a. not to ''kill, according to fashiOna-
bic parlance, one another, but to
enhance the effect Of both toilets.
The We're often seen together in the
same carriage in the park, quite as Of
ten riding side by side IN the saddle,
their horses being chosen for mutual
effect quite a. carefully as their dress
g., while they both nodded To the
same people, talked the same scandal
and canvassed the merits Of the
same men in the matrim Oniai mark
ct.
For, Of course, the season is really
the wedding market overt Of the up
per classes. Puritanical people may
be shocked at the idea of mothers and
fathers doing their best for their
daughters; but, after all is said and
done, they would not be doing their
duty if they avoided achieving the best
for the daughters they pOssess and who
depend wholly upon marriage for the
happiness, or absence of happiness of
their lives.
But when the Lady Annie Bcacham
appeared, the poor Hon. Miss dAcier
and Miss Smythe had again To agree
upon new points. These were that
Lady Annie was an odiOus person,
and that she was not beautiful. These,
points being quite settled, and the
conviction arrived at, that the Lady
Annie had ''taken," it was at once
agreed that Lady Annie must be
cOurted and made a third i'm the sue
/ cesses of the seasons. SO the blonde
and the brunette, who had so far car
ried the season before them, went
with offers of combination and con-
ciliatiOn over to the excessively tri-
umphant enemy,fO for a ballroom is very
much like diplomacy, and sometimes
it is far more brilliantly logical.
Triumph on Lady Annie's part, this
defeat on the side of the twOsucceSses
Of the season, and the determination
of the latter TO strike their colOrs and
10 retain position by coalescing with
the successful enemy, was the work
Of about three hours on the first Tues
day i'm May, generally the Tuesday of
IA London season, and which is reserv-
cd as a rule by the very highest lead
ers of society. People who can get
invitations for the first Tuesday in
/ Nav to the balls given i'm fashiOnale
London may consider themselves safe
to he received anywhere at any Court
in Europe.
To return. Miss d'Acier and Miss
Smythe made OvertuTes TO the Lady
Annie.
She routed them in n moment.
"My dear children" she said, she
being six years their elder, "what
nonsense you talk / am no more i'm
| the fashion here i'm London than ] am
la Mandarin. / am twenty-fOur years
old; / refused TO come out when |
was seventeen, and believe this is
my first ball since / have been a wO-
man."
90, Lady Annie" cried Miss
d'Acier, "you are surly permitting
yourself to satirize us. All the peO-
pie here were quite admiring your
last deur temps with Lord Splaigh-
ton"
"No doubt; for we always dance
well with our dancing-master. Lord
SplaightOn was good enough to teach
me the twO-four yalse."
"Indeed! When% asked MissSmythe.
"At Florence, last winter, lean
scarcely tell why learnt, for had
never cared about dancing. But it
so happened. Is it not warm ~
ayes, Lady Annie" replied Miss
PAcier, "See, here is man passing
with ice. viii you take some ~
''NO, thank you. very rarely take
ice. 1t is so stupidity dangerous.
"Indeed! What do you prefer when
dancingm
"Nothing. l never require any
thing when by chance I leave home"
"HOw strange ~ replied Miss
Smythc. "But you will never be
able TO get through the remainder of
the season and not take refreshments
at any of the houses. You would
quite offend the various people"
''I am so sorry for the various peO-
pie" replied Lady Annie, in a perfect
ly clear voice.
81 hope, Lady Annie, that we shall
tsce quite a great deal of you during
the remainder of the season. Will
you be so very good as TO take stall
with us at the Holland House Fancy
Fair? IfyOu do, it will besO very cap
itaI, and / think we shall cut every
body completely out ~
"No, thank yOu,n replied Lady An
ME, at Will notatall interfere withyOur
arrangements. / dislike fancy fairs,
| dislike balls, | even dislike the
opera. Then | go; but | cannot en-
dure the company or the houses. l
am not at all Il woman of fash
ion"
''But, Lady Annie, you have taken
your position at once as leader Of the
season"
'Have I? We'll, you know my
people for a long, long time have been
born to that kind of thing, and we
can bear il admirably. | assure you
| have not the least liking for fash
ionable life. Here comes Captain Tu-
dOrs. ! have tc dance with him. If
there is one thing more stupid than
another thing in all Mayfair, | think
it is Captain i'm the Guards. The
only true polish about him is that of
his boots ~
The arrival of Captain TudOrs, who
certainly was not unconscious of a
conviction that he was a shining
light in the world, put an end to the
conversation, as far rs Lady Annie
WAS concerned.
''Sile is perfectly unendurahle," said
Miss d'Acier to Miss Smythe.
"Intolerable," was the reply. But
what does it all mean? Why does
she come into society? However,
she must be borne with, | sup
pose ~
"UnquestiOnably," replied Miss
dAcier. "She belongs To one of the
oldest houses in England. The Earl
Normanton, her father, is one of the
few peers dating from the sixteenth
century, and his power is illimitable."
care they rich?'' asked Miss Smythe,
a very natural question for abank-
er's daughter.
"Immensely; and it appears to be n
rule i'm their family never TO spend
more than half the income; so that
every wear finds them richer and more
powerful
"Pray tell me who is her mother?
This is my first year, and know so
little about the aristOcracy."
"Her mother is dead after six years
Illness, during which, it is said, she
was nursed with intense care by La
dy Annie, who appears to be quite a
mass of contradictions. Here comes
Mr.. BIakely who dances with you
this time Pray don't listen TO hlnl
Bella They say he gambles afro
ciOusly."
al have not the least liking for him. |
hshOGId never make such a mistake |
as that you know Et.E
Here the unfoTtuuatemana approach
ed, smiled, and thought he was for
tunate to have obtained Miss Smythe
for quadrillc.
He had no idea that she only dane
ed "square" dances with ineligibles,
and reserved the .'round" dances for
naonle available As husbands. Furtb-