The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-03-27
A LANGUID LORD.
4 Nobieman With Poetic Face and Dudish
IAus.

4 Legs.
@ Lord Garmoyle, who is now floatin.
0 about town with an air of melanchol,
: lapguor, has the face of poet, tn,
) legs of dude, and the manners of ;
much bored and sought after noble
{ man. When | say that his face i.
poetic, mean that he has high fore.
head, big eyes and melancholy droor
of the mouth, which accord with the
, traditional ideas of what a poets. face
should be like. There is suspicious
caving in the back of his lordshp's
head, and his long legs are indubita-
bly, weak. AS he dresses in the very
heighth of dudish fashion, his appear
ance invariably attracts attention. He
stands at least six feet two inches in
height, and is as thin a man as one
would care to see. Miss Fortescue, to
whom his father paid $4,000 in Lon
don 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 time and then it suddenly
| dropped out of sight on payment of
the damages, only to be recalled by
the presence of the young Lothario
here.
The most amusing feature of the
whole trial, and one which | believe
has not received much publicity, was
the beautiful letters with exalted sem
timents and well rounded periods,
which Miss Fortescue whose real name
was Finney, wrote to the lover, who
was popularity known as 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 tlourished |
in England several years ago under
the title How to Write Love Letters"
This little book was sold for 6 pence at
the news stands when it FIRST came out,
but 1t had grown rare at the date of
the beginning of the trial, and the
source of the beautiful letters which
Miss Finncy wrote to Gumboil re-
NAMED mystery until a newspaper
man, who was rumaging among the
books at an old London shop, suddenly
found number of sentences on one of
tho pages which struck him as being
familiar. He bought the book, COM
pared it with the Finney letters and
he result was complete Identified
ion.
Gumboil is painting the town red, af-
CT solemn and heavy fashion. He
vanders about from one play house to )
mother of an evening. dimes at the l
brunswick or Delmonicos, where he
ften holds his knife and fork poised 1
n the air for some minutes, while he !
tares at some beautiful woman who I
atches his attention. He is not d
reat man in his own country by any u
leans, and the woman Finney, when >
he was here as chorus girl at the .
tandard theatre, earning the magni- l.
emit stipend of SIS per week, attract
d attention only by reason of her :.
fitness, angularity and stupidity on 3
lie stage. He, too, was thin and tall, q
nd Imagine the love making between ~
er and his imperial nibs, Gumboil, ~
ust have been lank affair An Eng W
sh gentleman who knew Garmovle =, 81
lightly in London, and who is a man III
wide acquaintance in every great 81
ty on the globe, said night or two Pr
70 up town, Lord Garmoyle belongs "
class of men in London who are. Vi
Town as Washers. The term there Sc
IS much higher significance than it Oh
IS on this side of the water. A mash Id
here, take it, is man who may be Co
any position of life, from street
lnger up, and who walks along the tr'
'eet ogling the women, or devotes an
his attention trying to make femi- .oi
ne conquests, TAI
''ln England such man might be pa
ynified by number of names. but e.,lS
yer by the title of "masher." Most its
N here would resent being called est
that name, but it is not so on the gee
Ter side, where the little band of tno
n known as Washers is composed of
fastest livers in Great Britain. yot
st of them are entitled, several are cas-
yer in various ways, and all of them Wo'
nd their money recklessly. They Du'
the most steadfast patrons of the 10
sic halls and the light opera, and ana am,
are the most fashionably clad t .ne
n in all London. No man seems to WI
eligible to the masher brigade who ono
not had some sort of affair with aiu
OF the favorites of the light opera trus
re-. The Washers themselves are ana
'nervated, dissipated and languid incl
OF men who carry the marks of ou
r high living in their round should nou
and heavily scanned faces. They lutu
or move in good society, but they
all we'll dubbed and their favor
Expression is let us live well while T.,
,hve.-BlaSely Hall. in Brooklyn Wir