, 1876-10-01

| even LII 6pOlleSs stockings, Tor The # Orld-
There Is gentleman conducting pretty Ger
man blonde On what Is evidently her first ven
| ture IN the sea- She pauses at the edge OF the
water, looss down at her scant dress, at her
+ veined ankles which never before saw any light
but that OF her OWE room; she blus6es and
bushes and looks helpless; her companion
| gives her precise aud elaborate Information as
| to how she is to enter, to breast the waves, to
| put her hands SO, and her feet SO; she listens
carefully and then makes q little feiut OF going
through with it. But nothing short OF VIOLENCE
will make her 90 In up to her knees The gen
| tieman implores her to lie down; Il What! In
the water!" She is quite dazed at this sugges-
| non. But before week Is over timid Gretchen
! will be splashiDg out there along with the rest
LADIES IN WANT OF LEMONADE.
Justice and the public {says the London 4Ners
are indebted to Mr.. Vine, DeputyJaiier at Mar
borough street, for An instructive revelation
touching London roguery. well-dressed, mid
dle-aged woman was charged With stealing flor
in from q gentleman who had met her IT
George street, Hanover square, about Il thu
| previous night. She had accosted him, saytns
that she lived in handsome house close by
that she had forgotten her purse and her latch
key, and that she was thirsty and wanted glas.
| Of lemonade. AS she was wel1-dressed and civ
| lily spoken, 1t occurred to the gentleman to
| give the belatcd lady sixpence, but he
happened to have no smaller change
| about him than q forin, which he produced.
and, as She refused to restore it, he gave her
| into custody. The defense OF the Prisoner at
| the Police Court vas that she was~taldng
| walk with " lady frtend,' when the prosecutor
| to his advances, had her arrested on false
! charge. The lady friend, she added. would
| fully corrobornte her statement, aud this was
speedily and stoutly done by q lady clad in
made Objectionable proposals, and that he had
been Indignantly repuIsed by herself and her
companion. Inns oid mattees stana,-and
hy, W. ~, aa.e ~ the rho
/ informed The public th:.t he had known the
| ladies for five years, and 7ha@ they belonged to
gang Of four middie~aged adventuresses,
neaaei ny an e!ueF1y person. ca14eu Tue aen,
natsa -. .sGh;,tana ;, r. e.. ~
! custom. added Vine, Of these r.prehensi-
bly, frisky matTons ;" to prowl about
the West Emu ut night accosting gentlemen who
were retufnias from thetr ctuos, Telling them
they were tns wires Or wsdo~s ol officers, and
Tnat Aot' nua extracting money from them on
al Klnas OF lalsc and lranauIent pletcnses' fhe
woman was 'ischarged; the magistrate remark
lns TINT uo jury Would convict her OF stealing
she norln, ont tflat ne entertalned no doubt es
60 the fea4 eharacter o. neTscH aug the WILLOW.
II Is to oe hopeu that ~. slne Wlll continue to
"aica Tue movements OF the aen ana Cilck~
eus, auu, as leSalus Iue so!t1neal1eu eentie-
men "no are ~ Tue naolt OF Walking, nome troM
h .helr e!uos On ane IN evenings, We snouiu auvise
theH ~ a'o!u a!' 1sules u tonaely e1teslos "ao
tney nave nls'e1o -esss .:-:.s .e;s, aad VINO re-
qure Aenlonaoe-
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IaE ENdLlsH.
l.. d. Jennings writes from London to the
New York World: II doubt whether the Eu-
c1ish will erer he n no}ite neon]e-it ia not In
+hcir h,o,a Whan COO q ,tnzen IF Them 70
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setne'-"ne'he' III .ne counliS y, ~ 'o"n,
Il am always struck BY their rudcuess to each
other Tbor will ecanrlv answer , ou.etion f.,
.,t,.t, ,,,a,na- Tha ,x.ii +1,o ,l.tfo,.~,,,
~ ua s,,. 1Iss ~-n .1so sae ;.h 49,.
hats on, and shut out for aud to the waiter in
their louuest and most commanding tones.
They stand all across a doorway. AMI, will MT
-As' '11Aa - ~ - '
MAKE room LUZ aosooo' W pass' aao 1ou
OF them arc, they giurc at you til
ulauhel "lcn spSooit ,... tou .n<'t
an nnwarrantah1c m Intrusion. VT tia hraris;.
mss IA cIieay On tie SURFACE, and uudcrneath
the Englishluan is indly-l4eartcd, ho=ptablt
sort OF man, although must say that he manage:
70 u's uise l. pIetty iuosbuss: No opses'e; ha
~ .nai oT1Si .rh"d hv th' snnar:ia, m.nners
or habits Of any people um3,4g whom he may be
living. I can quite imagine any one coming
over here Tor ths ~ nrst tInls anu puzzli1g h!t!.-
T!u e. IL ~ tx,', ~. tr35 nnt !, n
MT, cnnrcrsation. rsncra}ly among ladies'. Il
is difficult to describe pronunciation by written
signs, anu the style Of talE which is *fasl1:un-
able now cannot be explained to any Que who
has not heard It. 1t stems to CONSIST in ee,i-
er,l clipping and minc,ns Of words, suixed w:th
curious druwl, tile elect produced upon the
ear being that of new language. It is fact
I often fad great difficulty in understanding
what hear said, and am a4tually obliged to
ask to have some remark repeated; The word
here is pronounced very much as have heard
negroes pronounce it in the South, five be-
comes something like taye, pleasure is turned
into 'pleashaw,' later into siatar,.. and So
forth. No examples, however, can give AL in
tcllisiblc idca-or Ilce-aw-of the aftectaton
and the desire to be tine which are tE working sub
curious transformations In :, our IN mother fonsIs; s;
to do justice to the subject"