New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-16
An ESTHETYC SOCIAL CELEBRITY.
FLEUR DIES AIPEs; OR, P0sTLErHwAITEs LAST
LOVE.

From Punch.
SSa MsS boo oss @ se y IL
his hand and the Peacocks Feather an his hair ne read
aloud
about me to read to the likes of you! and IL did
you couldn't understand then-and IL you could.
should be Supremacy disgusted-moreover, you
would have the ADVANTAGE Of me-
But can speak plain English when II suits me,
and make myself pretty well understood when
lke--even By snch as ypnrseiys,sww since
tonight, far, far away from the Cimabue Browns.
remote, ah me, from the tender companionship OF
my Maudle!
You have never heard Of Maudle and Mrs. Gina
hue Brown3 dare say not. To knew them is o
JOY. and the privilege of select and chosen few;
for they are simply Perfect. Yet in their respective
perfection, they diferentate from each other with
quite ineffably subtle exqnisteness.
For She is Snpremey Consuinnate.whereas He
is Consummatey Supreme. constantly tell thcin
also make point Of telling everybody else.
NY modesty prevents me fGom revealing 10 you
ali thew tell me land everybody else about myself,
beyond the mere fact that they consider me- aIone
to combine. in my own mind and person. Supreme
Consummateness with Consumnate Supremacy
and agree with them. We get on unc0mmOuly
well together, can tell you.
II viii not surprise you, seeing that l am TINS
gifted 10 hear that for the last year or two have
been quite Social Celebrity. 1t happened 10 this
One evening, for want of anything better 70 say,
told Mrs. Cimabue Brown, IN the strictest con-
tidence, that could sit ND all night WITH Lily.
She was holding one in her hand. as usual She was
deeply moved. Her eye mosiened. She said.
Quite sou and wrung my fingers. Aud it strnck
her as such "A beautiful thought, that she couldn't
help letting 1t out before that laundering buffoOn
Grigby, who always tries to poke his vulgar iSa
to every soul lie knew as good joke against Mel
Now Grgsby. for some reason or other that could
never make out, knows everybody worth kno WING,
and everybody worth knowing very naturally
wanted 10 know man who could sit up all night
with Lily! n,.r-.,
TT I,,k l.,pfy nf
what flow er to have chosen! and for what pur-
pose! How Consummate! How Perfect! how
Supreme, Precious and Blessed! Nay. low Utterl
have grown into household words. Even Gngsby
nses them now, aud about me- of all peoplc me,
whom he pretends to hatel For does he nct call me.
aud 10 my very face too, Supreme duffer, COii-
summate ass Blessed idiot, Precious fool. Pea
feet noodle nay an n, Utter NiIcomp99pl him, D..
he lacks the real sense of humorl
mad mitators, of course. can hardly call them
rivals PilcOx declared he could sit up all night with
u Stephanous--and actually did so, l believe. and
was seedy for month in consequence! Ald as for
Wilmington SOpiey. he swOre he never went to bed
without an Aloe Blossomi a thing that only happens
do. And GrigsDy let them alone.
Next season took Maudle aside and whispered to
him lin the hearing of Grgsby) that sat all night
with Primrose. ! thought it capital change after
the Lily So simple. you know! And we al went
in simplicity inst then, even the little Clrnabue
Browns And what sell for Pncox and sopiey,
with their Aloe Blossoms and Stephanotises:
tear rolled down the Perfect cheek of Maude
(foI his check is almost as oonsummate as mine;
pressing me to his bosom. he said, Distinctly sOW
iirigsby let of big D., aud went forth like an in
dignant lamb 20 spread the news abroad.
GrgsSs's people, hal hal literally fought for me
Grigsby was nowhere. .
Picox followed suit with Marieol2. or o Dande.
lion or some such twaddling superanDuated Old
weed. Aud Sopley, poor boy! tried it on with
Snowdrop, 80 he said but it was in June, you
know and didn't do at ALL They oycrdd " as
amt got no tack as Grigsby says when be wants
to be funny. And as for the sense Of huinor, they
are as badly on AS Grigsby himself Besides which,
PcOx gets his clothes ready-made at Ephraim
Brothers, in the Strand or somewhere: And Sopiey
can't bear up against snub from lady Of title ~
upsets his stomach. and he goes home ana tens as
mother and ssters-and then they tell everybody
Now the Lily had carried me through my FIRST sea-
arose: What Flower Of Flowers Is to carry me
through my nexts 1t must be simpler than the
Primrose, rarer than the Lily. and as consummate
rile Grigsby to madness. and leave Sopley and Pill.
cox sticking in the mud for the rest OF their lives
sat up all night with a Botanical Dictionary,
and hit upon the very flower at last-the Utter
Blossom! The Perfect Thing!i Oh, my G1gsby!
1t will be the death of you! And you, Professional
Beauties, look we'll TO your laures! for tnS
stroke of Genus and will carry me on to 1sS3-or
even Il.
And that is why am here tonight.
Good Phstines' every one; you ars T Gt;wshv
for instance must testify to the fact that Jeaoy
Postlethwaite was actually caught. by an inteIli-
ligent little quadruped answering to the name OF
T0by-n a snow storm at MIDI inter,n ine thonsand
feet above the level of the sea, lat. 420 % N,
long. 10 l2' t., under most unfavorabe circom-
Stances and at considerable personal rlsA ana IL
convenience 10 myself in the very act OF
SITTING UP ALL NIGHT With An EDLKwEIss!
Here the IFsthetic Postethwaite produced dred
specimen, snelt 1t passiOnately, aud tainted away
Punch revived linn. Three sniHs did It
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