The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-26

T. B. Aldrch, in From Ponkapog to Pesth.
Smith is aman of about forty, but so I'M
assuming that | do not think he would as
sumo to be so old or so young as that; tall
and straight, with scant faded brown hair
parted in the middle, and a deferential
cough; clammy blue eyes, thin lips, sedent-
airy complexion and careful side-whiskers
He Is always in evening dress, and wears
white cotton gloves, which set your teeth on
edge, during dinner service. He is person
whose gravity of department is such as to
lend seriousness to the ooal-scuttle when he
repenishes the parlor fre-a ceremony
which the English April makes imperative
the English April being as raw as an Ameri-
can February. + He is not taciturn
but he gives you the impression of
unconquerable reserve. Though he sell
dom speaks, except to answer an
inquiry, he has managed in some occult fash
ion to permeate US with a knowledge of his
domestic environment. For the soul of me,
L cannot see how | came by the information
that Smith married Lady Hadelaid Scarbor-
oughs first maid twelve years ago nor in
what manner got hold of the idea that Lady
Hadelaide Scarborough's first maid rather
stopped from her social status when she
formed a matrimonial alliance with him.
Yet these facts are undeniably in my posses
sion. [ also understand that Smith regards
Mrs Smith-who quilted service at the time
OF this mesalliance as a sort of fragment "a
little-fnger joint. if that will help convey
my meaning) of Lady Hadelaide herself
There's an air of very good society about
Smith. He evidently has connecting tendrils
with beings who, if they are not roses them
selves, have the privilege of constituting the
, dust of the roses feet.
Smith has been very near to royalty. To
be sure it was fallen royalty, so shall waste
no capital letters on it. 1t fell at Sedan, and
picked itself up in a manner, and came over
TO London, where Smith had the bliss of
waiting upon it. The Hemperor was very
civil-spoken gentleman" observed Smith,
detailing the circumstances with an air OF
respectful patronage and showing that he
had a nice sense of the difference between an
| English sovereign and an uncurrent Napo-
| leon.
| The plain truth is that Smith is an arrant
gossip about himself, without in the least
| having the appearance of it. He so inge-
niously embroiders bits of his autobiography
on alien textures that one is apt to get detail
or two quite unawares. do not know how or
when si& little Smiths glided into my intelli-
| gence (they cost me a shilling head) but l
think it was in connection with an inquiry
on my part as to what hour the morning
train left Paddington Station for Strattord-
upon-Avon. Two nights out of the week
Smith retires to his domestic domcile stu
ated, infer, in some remote suburb of Lon
don for he always takes a bag with hin-a
respectable, drab-colored nd-bag, with a
monogram on it. AT little distance the
twisted initials, in raised worsted resemble a
reduced copy OF the LAGOON, the prominent
serpentine S having, l suspect no small
share in producing that effect l somehow
pose and mix up the six little Smiths in this
monogram