Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-01-22
AN ESTHETIC SOCIAL CELEB
R1TH.
Fleur des Apes: or. Postleth W aite's
Last L0ve.

LaSe Love-
lFrcm Punch.
THE 1Esthetic Young Man rose langu,dly
from his seat, and leaning against bookcase
| with the Lily in his hand, and the Peacock
Feather In his hair, he read aloud
Good Philistines all. don't carry manuscripts
| did you couldn't understand them-and If you
could, should be Supremacy disgusted-more-
| over, you would have the advantage OF me.
me, and make myself pretty Wen understood
when like-even by such as yourselves
wherefore, since you are willing to listen,
| away from the Cimabue BrownsNremote, all
Maudle.
You have never heard of Maudle and Mrs.
Cimabue BROWN / dare say not. TO know
them is JOY, and the privilege OF a select and
chosen few: for they are simply Perfect Yet
IN their respective perfection, they difrerentiate
exquisftenesS.
For She is Supremacy Observation-Disclosures
he Is Consummately Supreme. ! constantly
tell them so, and they agree with me.
also make point OF telling every body else
My mOdesty prevents me from revealing 10
you al! they tell me fand every body else) about
myself, beyond the mere fact that they consider
me alone to combine, In my own mind and per
son, Supreme Consummateness with Consum-
mate SUPERNATURAL agree with them. We
get on uneommonly well together, l can tell
you.
It Will not surprise you, seeing that am thus
gifted, to hear that for the last year or two
have been quite Social Celebrity. 1t happened
In this wise:
One evening, for want OF anything better to
say, told Mrs. Cimabue Brown, In the strictest
confidence, that could sit up all night with a
Lily. She was holding one in her hand, as
usual She was deeply moved. Her eye
m0isteDed. She said. ''Quite sOl' and wrung
my fingers. And 1t struck her as such a beau
out before that laundering bufTOon Grigsby
who always tries to poke his vulgar fun at
Maudle and myself; and Grigsby went and told
IL TO every soul he knew, as a good joke against
Now Grigsby, for some reason or other that
could never make out, knows everybody worth
knowing, and every body worth knowing very
naturally wanted TO know a man who could sit
up all night with Lily!
A Lily! just think of 1t, ye worthy Phllis.
unes! what flower to have chosen! and for
!ect. now supreme, Precious and Blessed. Nay.
how Utter! l became the fashion. These very
aoJecuVes OF mine have grown into household
words. Even Grigsby uses them now, and about
me OF all people; me, whom he pretends to hate!
For does he not call me- and to my very face
too, supreme duffer, q Consummate ass
Blessed loiot, Precious fool, Perfect noodle,
nay an Stter Nincompoop!
ioor STigsOy! What an utter sell for him.
But he lacks the real sense OF humor.
had lm1tators, OF course. l can hardly call
them rivals, PilcOx declared he could BET up all
nlgnt With StephanotiS-and actually did So |
believe, ana was seedy for a month In conse-
quence: And as for Mnkington Sopley, he swore
he never went to bed without an Aloe Bios
som: thing that only happens once IL cen-
fury! They 0verd!d It. They always do And
GrigsDy let them alone.
Next season i took Maudle aside and WbiS-
peled to him On tie hearing OF Grigsby) that [
sat up all night with Primrose. / thought it
a capital change after the LILY. So simple, You
And we a went IN for simplicity
what sell for P1lcox and Sop.ey, with their Aloe
Blossoms and Stephanot1ses
b. A tear rolled down the Perfect cheek OF Maud
DOR his cheek is almost as consummate as
minel; pressing me to his bosom, he said, Dis
1nctly go" Grtgsby let Off a big d. and went
d9 forth Ike an indignant lamb to spread the news
1t took Immediately; the people worth know.
ing Grgsbys people. ha! ha9 literally fought
lot m1e.Grigsby was nowhere.
P1lcoX followed suit with Marigold or a |
Dandelion or some such twaddling superannu-
ated OLD weed. And Sopley, poor boy. tried it
on with snowdrop, SO he said; but 1t was in
overdfd it as usual and were out of 1t again,
me TACT Is, they amt got no tack as Grigsby
says when he wants to be funny. And as for
Grigsby himself. Besides which, PIlcox gets
his clothes Teady-made at Ephraim Brothers.
IN tie Strand, or somewhere. and Sopley can't |
pear up against snub from lady OF title. 1t
upsets bis stomach, and he goes home and tells |
his mother and sisters-and then they tell
every body all round. Fatal.
Now the Lily had carried Inc through my first
cSeASoAs enC liuAOSc IuUuSu mJ SecOUu. Inc
question arose: What Flower OF Flowers is 10
carry me through my next? 1t must be simpler
than the Primrose, rarer than the Lily, anu as
consummate and all that as either; and sucl
moreover, as to rile Grigsby to madness, and
leave Sopley and Pllcox sticking in the mud for
the rest OF their lives.
sat up all night with a Botanical Dlction-
airy, and hi: upon the very flower at last-the
Utter BlOssom The Perfect Thing! Oh my
Grigsby! 1t Will be the death OF you! And you
Professional Beauties, look well TO your laurelsi
For this Is stroke OF Genius, and Will carry me
on to 1SS3-Or even 4!
And that is why am here to-night
Coco Phillsifnes, every one, you are witnesses
thereof-and when called upon to do so 10Y
Grisby, for instance) must testify to the fact
that J., Jellaby Postelthwaite was actually
caught, by an intelligent little quairuped
answering to the name OF Toby-in a snow
storm at mid-winter, nine thousand feet above
the level OF the sea. lat.42 deg. 50 min., N long
deg. ~ min. E., under most unfavorable cir
cUmstances, at considerable personal risk and
inconvenience 10 myself, In the very act OF
SITTING Up ALL NIGHT WITH EIDLEwETSS,
Here the Esthetic Postlethwaite produced a
dried specimen, smelt 1t pasS1onately, and
tainted away. Punch revived him. Three
shifts did it,
Care Of Horses HOOfs In Winter.