The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-03-17
TUDOR VERSUS TANTRILL.
STORY OF AMERICAN ARISTOCRACY

ODON NENoOS AIN MILL.
a STORY OF AMERICAN ARIsTOCRACY.
My business for the last thirty years
has kept me at the mercy OF the telt-
graph aud connecting trains and if a
veteran traveller gains nothing else, he
acquires a comfortable resignation ami a
convenient mental elasticity as regards
the inevitable. Summer hotels are the
headquarters of giggle and cackle.
Letest giggle and abhor cackle. The
Hotel Fiddlestick l. no exception to the
rule. But the interests of Aremberg &
Co. sent me there. and the interests of
Aremberg y Go. kept me there during
two months OF the past season: and
made myself comfortable.
To begin: nay room, No. q. is the best
in the hotel. A southerly exposure, two
windows, a balcony; view of the Mar
rows crowded with sails: of New York
gloriiied like SO much opal against a
family tinted sky; Of the water darkeu-
ing and ripping in a freshening breeze;
all the European steamers as they pass;
all the trimmest yachts; should you ever
visit the FldGlestick. ask for No. g, and
if you get i'll, congratulate yourself, and
remember ine gratefully. To end :
though hate giggle. like girls-genuine
girls: not the sham. There is delicious
enthusiasm about them (it exhales. of
course, like dew, or the b"quct Of wine) !;
but while it lasts, taken in con junction
with curves Of waist and shoulder. light
and shade in hair, smooth Or tossed. trim
shoes dainty collars, happy looks. cooling
voices-why there is nothing else so pref
ty in life. And the girls like me. They
always like appreciative old bache-
lors, with Il fine taste in flowers, bon
bons, and horses.
There was snake in our paradise
that is inevitable (tirst catch your snake,
if you wish to be sure You are in para
dise)-or rather what call spider.
You have noticed of course. that spider
is restless, uncanny beast, refusing to
fit into chance holes and odd corners,
and with not grain Of decent respect in
her for the proprleties. AS Solomon
says-or was it David p" She taketh
hold with her hands in kings palaces =
There you have her. Wherever she
goes. no matter 'rhers she goes, she must
spin her Own system about her. There
is no peace till she does Nestibue, ante
room. inner chamber. SO many lines and
threads to each, and there she sits al
day and pounces on flies. and would dc
it in the very temple of the Muses.. Mrs
J. c. 1udor Smith (accent on the Tudor,
was our spider. There was no mathe
NAUTICAL morality, no sense of social pro
portions, in the woman. In a summer
hotel, with, say, five hundred guests
she insisted on setting out herself anc
| belongings on the same SC he as at home
that is, at home your friends bow to you
with an implied consciousness of tn,
| history of Gerrtt, your father, and Davit
your grandfather; of your taste in music
dinners and charity bazars: of the cost o
your silver, and the style OF your conver
sation. There is 4 sum total in thei
minds of your views, virtues, and claims
great and small, and the never think o
you apart from it.
Among strangers, there can be nothin,
Of the sort. You stare at them: the
stare at you. To each other you ar
simply Il stenographic character. Ho,
much or how little it may mean there
seldom leisure to discover. You accep
each other III oHtline.t BY common con
sent you receive and bestow so muc
consideration as belongs to outlines an
title pages. You are kind and courteou
as to chance passengers in car; you noe
smile. chat, help amuse, and be amused
say good by, and forget each other. as
rule. Now don let some dear little VIC
man rise up and storm at me as hare
|
own case and some half dozen others.
am not talking OF the exceptions, but {
the rule. Quite right, quite reasonable
it is. take the world as it wags: 70
take the world as it wags: Mrs. J. {
TUdor Smith would not take the worl
as it wags, with its culpable indill,renc
| co. b., ,f In. lo& Il,
said thirty years ago. She would tie
You about it. She would give you he
views on her ancestors, and your probs
BILE lack of them. She might have bee
Il butcher, for the persistence with whic
she came to blood She might hav
lived III the twelfth century, for the Ell
ersy with which she opposed 1.-THE edit
cation of the Masses" She might hav
belonged to the tenth. for her sins agains
the grammar of her own native tongue
She isht have been directory, S
loudly did she claim "to know everbod
OF any consequence Size lay in wa
for every chance proper name, and pr'
claimed that the family grandmothe
was a washer woman, or that they mu:
be very inferior people, as she had nevt
heard of them. Undoubtedly woma
might be created who could make he
self more disagreeablc, but undoubtedl
one never was. She stirred even m
gall, and as an Old traveller piquc NJ,
self on my tolerance. In short, | wis
you to observe that she had made herse
Il public nuisance. TO share ii plot f,
its removal was not, then, in this cas-
frivolous and unworthy of my years an
gravity. 1t was to act with public spiri
Aremberg * Co. plume themselves c
their public spirit. SO does their repr
sentative.
Lorne Tennis aunt, Madam Lathro