The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-04

cussion, and can appreciate the point of a joke.
whose recital would have delighted Dean Swift.
or would make some other wOmans hair stand
on ends She has Jolly, hearty laugh, which
is never heard to more advantage than when shel
retells the story of how, on her return from her
honeymoon she teegraphed to the Queen at
Windsor 1.-The Campbells are coming ana
how her mother absurdly supposed it was a.
delicate announcement of an interesting char@
acter.
1T was too utterly silly of mother" she always
ends up. Why, we were hardly month mar
red, not that time has made any difference in'
that respect, l am happy to say"
She is confirmed smoker, tptop judge of
tobacco, and won't stay at any place as soon ass
she finds out the wine isn't good. She is given,
too unknown to her mamma, be it understood,
for Lorne doesn't care a button), to driving out
alone with young gentlemen, and goes on fish
ing and sketching excursions with them quite
unattended by any one else. She neverhesltates
to show not only her feet (which are better out.
of sight from their sizel but a considerable por-
ton of the stockings above them whenever oc-
casion offers; and what is more excusable, for
she has one of the prettiest necks in the world,
her evening dresses are about as decollete as a
man could wish She is very partial to the at
tentions of cookbook young officers and her
husbands Canadian suite had more than one
attached to it. Another fast one is
the Countess of Lonsdale-I mean Gladys
Though scarcely more than girl she goes
about by herself like man, and does things
that young women of her station in her mothers
time wouldn't have dared. She is wonderfully
pretty, and has most perfect figure. She is an
other extremist in the matter of decollete even
ing dress, her frequent trips to Paris, which she
makes quite alone with her maid, having doubt
less rendered her decidedly Frenchy in that re
spect | am aware that enough things have been
said about her to insure her being classed fast
in the American sense, if they were true, which
is extremely doubtful The envy of less favored
women has much to do with the stories about
her STILL that She sails pretty close to the wind
can't be gainsaid in the face of her remark to al
man who sat next to her at a dinner party one
night: Il know there are lots of women who
say wear my gowns too low, but they should
remember it is not for their benefit 1 do it at alt
events
mistakably fast. She is the daughter of the
Countess of Stradbroke, who got herself into
such mess some time ago by writing somei
scandal to the world about the present Earl of
Lonsdale and his wife, She goes an out-and-out.
quick pace does Lady Augusta, and is fit com
panion for the rapid Gladys Her husband
doesn't seem to care what she does Lady Hllda
Higgins, Lord Wilchesea's daughter, can slap al
man on the shoulder and say, Tip us the torch,
me boy, when she wants a light for her cigar
cite with as much ease as though she were only
asking to be shown a new stitch in crochet, and
to see her chase her partner at times all over the
place to hit him whack with her hat because
he missed easy half Voley is only equaled by
the extensive display of decorated hosiery she
unreluctantly makes during the performance.
She was a great beauty as Lady Hilda
Finch Hatton, and exchanged her fathers pa
tronymic for the plebeian one of Mr.. Higgins, of
the Guards-a great swell, by the by, and one
of the Prince of Wales's set-whose money made,
up for the lowness of his name.
Lady Seabright is undoubtedly fast. She is ans
amateur actress of the most pronounced eharac
ter and thinks nothing Of sending to dashing
young gentlemen such kilograms as these: II
am Pauline tomorrow night at the Windsor;
come and be my Claude;" or, Twill you be my
Romeo for two nights at the Willoughbyslq She
is great gambler, and can sit up all night over
baeearat or lansquenet without losing her appe
tite for breakfast though she may have made Al
painful hole in her quarters allowance at her
| bankers by the checks she has parted with to-
| her adversary. She is more like a man than
| some men one meets.
Lady Florence Dixie | need not speak Of She
is too well known to need any reference from.
me. For the same reason do l leave out Mrs.
Langtry and Mrs CORVALLIS West. Not that
either could fairly be put beside those l have
1aAeaatoaaea- Wbora q tisaa L daDo saw, that
the Jersey Lily's little ways justified no stronger
| designation than fast and that she was thought
| to have no harm in her | don't say that she has
now But assuredly her unblushing behavior
with Mr.. Freddie Gebhardt, and her acceptance
| of jewelry from him and other young Ameri
tans, must put her beyond the pale within which
| the others have kept. In England l might say
| that Mrs. Langtry is now socially, as she was
| financially, ruined-no matter what the news
paper correspondents say to the contrary.