The Indiana State sentinel., 1879-02-05
AN UNHAPPY DEBUT.
A Heuiufscence of Warrington Society
AN English Bellies Misfortune.

A EsPEnEuEScSEce Oh Wasn1nEtOn society
AN EnSlis;, Bellies Misfortune.
philadelphia Times.l
Friday morning, while attired in an old
garb sitting for picture in Miss n 5 bright
studio on Chestnut street, she requested that
1 should relate to fellow worker. a prom
ising young amateur. some anecdotes of
Washington society. Perhaps my own fan
tastic dress brought viyidly TO mind a scene
in which another tri-cOlored costume figured
conspicuously. Washington goes beyond
any other city in America in its love of for
eigners. Alteration offered at the shrine of
our Lady of Lourdes is not greater than
ours to aliens of any and every descrip-
| ton. Miss G. was more fortunate than
most of the pilgrims, for the Sunday
Herald announced "the engagement OF
one of the most beautiful brunettes to
Penrvn Archibald Glendenning, an attache
of the British legation, the son OF an English
! country gentleman, etc and so on. Penryn
| Glendenn1ng and his beautiful and only
daughter will arrive on the steamship Ital,e
! in time for the marriage, which takes place
! as early as the 10th of January" As Penryn
| Archibald GlendenniDg confirmed the re-
| ports of his sisters extreme loveliness, we
! all looked to our laurels and waited anX-
iously for the next army and navy german,
| given in Miss Glendenning's honor one week
before the wedding. 1t was also predicted
| that ''the young English beauty would
eclipse Us with her fresh Essex roses and her
| bonnie Saxon lace.
| The night OF the german at length arrived.
| Much disappointment was felt at the non
appearance of the brilliant stranger. The
absence of Baron Schwartz was also noted.
! Baron as he was,
WITH LANDED ESTATES,
! pictures, family jewels, q delicious baritone
| voice. musical accspt, distinguished per-
! social appearance, no one. not even the de-
vout worshipper, would or could dance
! No xpt,, I'll Ind lod u
| He ragged ne tore, he rushed; the stoutest
| heart quailed before his advent. At length
his reputation became so we'll established
| that it was impossible for him to obtain a
partner. Judge then of our surprise. when
| at the close of the first figure Baron Schwartz
appeared with something on his arm. 1t
| was-yes, it was-a young girl. But her at
tire, SO wonderful, SO impossibiel Who and
| what could she be? Pullbacks were just in
| fashion, but had evidently not reached her
| vicinity. The first skirt was white tarlatan,
! made full. The next skirt foot shorter, of
the same material in brown. Then still
another, to vary the monotony, of black. A
| brown tarlatan waist low necked and short
sleeyed, ornamensed by long and wide
pink iaratan sash, fastened on each shout
der by pearl pin; her
really lovely pale brown hair had evidently
been up in papers, and was curled in myr-
| lads OF cUrls-those curls that dance up and
down like India rubber; her long. slender
/ feet were encased in heelless white satin
| slippers, her mothers wedding slippers (at
| least they were just like my mothers and
all my aunts have them of the same kind,
wrapped in white tissue paper.) To COM
| plete this
! GRoTEsQUE EAIMENT
| two ostrich feathers, one of pink, one of
| brown, nodded In the breeze from the top of
| her curly brow. She was tall and angular,
! not graceful even, but withal pretty, fresh
/ f1pcI oir -,raparlr Haro
| deep blue, her color changing her nose
/ straight and thin, but at Glance one only
saw this queer, ridiculous figure, and the
first inclination was to laugh. My surprise
at hearing, however, that this was Miss
| Glendenning, wes SO enormous that it rem
dered me speechless. had heard that Eng
llsh ladies did not equal Americans in their
toilettes, but. OH what massive brain could
! coDjure up anything SO awful!
| The second figure of the dance commenced.
| Lieutenant L. motloned the baron to take
| out his partner, and he did. Presently a
| wild scurry OF coat tails at right angles pink
and brown tarletan, India rubber curls. slim
legs, long white satin slippers, an eye-glass,
| a scarf, a fan, were all seen in wild cOnfu-
sion scurrying down the room; the hall
dozen couple on the floor sat down aghast,
but the colored ball still wildly reyolyed.
at first she struggled little to be free. but
in Yain-she was held in mad embrace
The baron was by this time reversiDg-s
| tnlng ne most prl0eC himself upon. 1t seemed
to consist IN swinging his partner half way
round. then grasping her firmly and going
with extreme velocity the other way. Dur
ing this movement nothing was seer save
the buckle on the baron's weistcoat and
ROUND RING OF TARLATAN
apparently without head or feet. Then the
race up the room commenced. 1t became
more and more rapid, until, as they nesred
their seats, they became apparently one. The
baron deposited Miss Glendenplng in a chail
IN a limp and tattered condinon-the scar
was entirely gone, one feather broKen, the
other dropping, she so exhausted, physically
and mentally, that two men came gallantly
to the rescue with fans, while third started
off in a little dog trot for water. From ths
loose condition OF the baron's waistcoat il
front, and q steel buckle shining on the pol
isbed floor, We inferred the baron, too, hat
suffered; certainly his gloves had, for the,
hung in rags upon his sIalwart hands, Poo
Miss GleDdenningl Nothing is such blow
to belledom ss ridicule. and although befor
the winter was over Mss GiendenniDg wa
voted pretty girl, we never forgot her un
fortunate debut, and. as a clever man styled
her dance of death, for the poor baron die,
few weeks after of heart disease.