The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-05-02
A LANGUID LORD.
A NOeLEMAN WITH POETIC FACE
AND DUDlSH LEGS.
"GumbOiI" In New YorE-Hovy Miss EortOs,
cues Love Letters Were Identified
The Lord a ''DTasher'' of the
English Type.
[Blskely Hall in BROOKLYN Eagle. !

[Blakely Hall in Brooklyn EagIeJ
Lord Garmoyle who is now floating
about town with an air of melancholy
languor, has the face of poet. the legs of
dude, and the manners of a much bored
and sought alter nobleman. When I say
that his face is poetic mean that he has
high forehead, big eyes and a melan-
choly droop of the mouth, which accorG
with the traditional ideas of what a poets
face should be like There is suspicious
caving at the back of his lOrdship'S head
and his long legs are Individually weak
AS he dresses in the very height of dudish
fashion, his appearance invariably at
tracts attention. He stands at least six
feet two inches in height, and is as thin
man as one would care to see. Miss For
tescue, to whom his father paid $50, 900
in London short time ago, on condition
that she would release the precociouS
young lord from his engagement to marry
her, Is also lean, and lank. The whole
world was interested in the suit for a time
and then it suddenly dropped out of sight
on payment of the damages, only to be
recalled by the presence of the young Lo
thario here.
The most amusing feature of the whole
trial. and one which I believe has not re-
ceived much publicity, was the beautiful
letters with exalted sentiments and we'll
rounded periods which Miss Fortescue,
whose real name was Finney, wrote to
the lover, who was popularity known al
GumboiL 1t was discovered, after the
trial was all over and the money paid over
to the mercenary plaintiff, that every one
of these letters was copied from an old
paper covered book, which fourished in
England several years ago under the title
How to Write Love Letters This lit
tie book was sold for pence at the news
stands when it first came out, but it had
grown rare at the date of the beginning
of the trial, and the source of the beautiful
letters which Miss Finney wrote to Gum.
boil remained a mystery until newspaper
man, who was rummaging among the
books at an old London shop, suddenly
found a number of sentences on one of the
pages which struck him as being familiar.
He bought the book, compared 1t with the
Finney letters and the result was a com
plete Identification.
Gumboil is painting the town red, after
a solemn and heavy fashion He wanders
about from one play hOuse to another of
an evening. dimes az the Brunswick or
Delmonico's, where he often holds his
knife and fork poised in the air for some
minutes, while he stares at some beautiful
woman who catches his attention. He is
not a great man in his own country by
any means, and the woman Finney, when
she was here as chorus girl at the Stand
ard theatre, earning the magnificent sti-
pend of $15 per week, attracted attention
only by reason of her stiffness angularity
and stupidity on the stage He, too, was
thin and tall, and l imagine the love
making between her and his imperial
nibs, Gumboil, must have been rather
lank affair. An English gentleman. who
knew Garmoyle slightly in London, and
who is man of wide acquaintance in
every great city on the globe, said night ]
or two ago up town, Lord Garmoyle be,
longs to class of men. in London who
has much higher significance than it has
on this side of the water. A masher here
l take it, is a man who may be in any
position in life. from q street lounger UP,
and who walks along the street ogling the
women, or devotes all his attention trying
to make feminine conquests.
"In England such man might be digni-
fed by a number of names, but never by
the title of "masher. Most men here
would resent being called by that name,
but it is not so on the other side, where
the little band of men known as Washers
is composed of the fastest liverS in Great
Britain. Most of them are titled, several
are clever in various ways. and all of /
them spend their money recklessly. They |
are the most steadfast patrons of the music 1
halls and the light opera, and they are the
most fashionably clad men in all London. /
No man seems to be eligible to the masher I
brigade who has not had some sort # .
affair with one of the favorites of the light /
opera stage. The Washers themselves q
an enervated, dissipated and languid Ut /
of men who carry the marks of their high .
living in their round shoulders and heag 1
lily scanned faces They never move Ii +.
good society, but they are all well clubb, /
and their favorite expression is let US
live well while we live