Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-31
MRS. LANGrRY ON CHICAGO.

Her Impressions Of the Great City-ItS
Language and its Female Reporters
From Advance Sheets of Mrs. Langtry's Forth
coming Book, impressions of America
MONDAY.
have been very much interested in the
city of Chicago. It's people are very IA
tiguing in their hospitality. There are
hundreds of newspapers published here
The ladies appear to be interested in my
shoes. They always inspect my feet with
curious wonder. Can it be that there is
something peculiar in the foreign foot?
Retired early after having the reporters
elected from under the sofa and wardrobe,
as 1 felt weary.
TUESDAY.
F. has just shown me criticism in the
- which gives the names of my an
cestors and questions my legitimacy. How
Henrietta would laugh over that.
F. has just found a reporter curled up in
the bottam drawer of the wardrobe.
never saw such enterprise. We found yes
terday that one of the walters was a re-
porter in disguise F. says that 1 am
working too hard and ought to take more
recreation.
WEDNESDAY.
Weat out for short drive on Michigan
avenue with F. 1t was very beautiful and
animating to see the mob running after
| dred of them. F. says that the mayor
and aldermen were among them. The
police cleared a path for US when we came
| back.
chided F. this morning playfully be-
cause he was getting more notices than
myself in the papers. He pouted and
seemed to be hurt, and 1 felt sorry for
him. Poor fellow, how sensitive he is!
must give him more of my time.
| The literary circles of Chicago give a
great deal of attention to the discussion of
feet. What a curious custom. 1 under
stand that the ladies of st. Louis are as
celebrated for their big feet as the Chinese
| ladies are for small feet. 1 spoke to F
about it, but he was still pouting, and only
said "dam'd nonsense" He can be quite
profane at times.
One of the papers said to-day that had
omitted whole scene in ''Rosalind."
shall have to ask the manager about that
| How careless of them to let me leave out q
| scene.
The more I see of Chicago the more an
| interested. The customs and even the
| language are so strange.
One of the female reporters who came to
see me looked all around the room and
then asked: "Where's your mash?" F
says it is French for ma chere-but what
an idea! Last night the remarks of the
| nd I ha,
some of them, for wrote them down il
preted:
Shoot the feet.
Where's his nibs?
How's the prince?
Cheese the daisy.
Hold up your Greek head.
F. says these are technical terms used by
| Chicago critics.
In the last act they threw sticky kind
of candy that they call taffy on the stage
and abused the conductor because he has
bald head. 1t was really too bad.
have always found baldheaded men very
| nice.
The Chicago critics are very fine gentle
| men, bat of course, not so cultivated as the
| New York critics. But their customs are
| peculiar. When they get through with my
private letters, they always send them uI
to my room with an apology. shall never
forget their politeness.
We go to st. Louis tomorrow. The
houses have not been good here. But OF
| course, so far away from New York one
cannot expect the people to appreciate the
divine works of Shakespeare.
Chicago is situated on a sea they call a
lake. The city burned down some years
ago, and when the people rebuilt it they
made this lake to provide them with water
in case of another fire. F. took me down
to see it, but couldn't see anything but
ice. and couldn't understand how they got
at the water.
St. Louis is in the chivalous South and
expect to meet great many people of my
own station there.