The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1886-01-31
THE LOuNGER ON THE AVENUE.

The LOuNGER ON THE AVENUE.
During her fathers Senatorial term few Young
isdics were better liked and moro Justly favortes In
sccie,y than Miss Flora sharon. Her subsequent
marriage 10 Sit Thomas George Francis Heskeh
was quite romantic affair, he not knowing that she
vassn hciress, while she was equally ignorant the
fact that he was a baronct whose title datedIback
% me seventeenth century, until after he had pro-
roacf 20 her and been accepted. When Senator
shsfon was consulted he found that his to-be sonn-
law was not only bafonet OF old creation but had
an income OF 100000 year in his own right, and
tina, there were but two lives between him and the
heif 10 the title and estate OF Lord ualdon. Sir
Thomas Hcsketh has very valuable estate in Lam
csshire atoui hfiy miles from Liverpool aud twenty
from Lancaster called Rufford Hall, which has be-
i'ngsd 10 the family for almos, eight hundred years.
senator sharon len his daughter s9 900 in nrst-
/ class securities She has two children, the edes,
eeins hne, handsome lad, now almost three years
eid. Ascne.hhf his grandfathers donation to the
iads mosher IL to he held In trust until the child
reaches his majority, the heir OF the eskeh estates
ana uile, when he becomes OF age will be one OF
/ ths richest rouue men In England. This marriage
is one ~ the very few international matrimonial
snairs which has turned out well. The Baronet
adorcs his srri,cd little "Yankee wife," as he ad-
nJrinry cals her, aud the young Californian does
the honors 0fhe husbands stately ancestral home in
= vay thu has won the approval Of "the county
society. which Al nrs rather resented the idea Of
e. rcod matrimonial "caichn going ou, OF his coun.
try 20 secsawie. II s no trinine srdeal, let me tell
you, that an American gir has TO undergo when she
tases position like this, ani both good sense and
isa are requisite. Fortunately the young Ap,eri.
cofns possessed both, and lady In the county
Ia more PERSONAL, beloved than the bonanza ex.
sensiors daughter.
A Young lsi, Who says she IA yet az school, hut
who writes a vefy pretty, dainty little note, says
40 tell me n there IL an English nobleman whose
tnie is hostcni The girls were talking yesterday,
and one Of them sald the city which Is famous for m
culture and all that was named for an English
nobieman. WIN no, Tnk HERALD, which papa
tAtes In every sunday, tell us n the statement was
torreci7r I have great pleasure In answering the
question for this Young English glrl--as suspect
net to he from her saying "akcs ID, = instead Of
takes, a. an American would. There Is a noble.
man whose title IL Lord Boston, and a very nice
young fellow he IA, too. uls name is George Flor
ance ffby-BNon Boston. lie hasa beautiful coun.
ny residence which he Inherited from his grand.
father, Lord SGnmarc1l called uedsor, In County
Anglesea, Wales He Is bachelor, about thlrty.nye,
and uncommonly handsome. As the title only dates
from iieo-I think Il isihe city you speak OF could
not have been named for him. II was the custom
the English colonis,s to call the settlements they
made here after some familiar place a, home. Thus
the early cocnlsts called their chief city In Massa
chuseiis sfter the old town of Boston. ina orkshre
There are two places with this name in England, one
called simply Boston, the other Boston spa the lat
ter because II was once q waierng-place, where
hard-irinsing York ana Lincoln squlres could relieve
themselves from the III results that sometimes fol-
lowed In the nne old days when every gentleman
could take his three bottles OF heady Old Port be-
sides the usual modicum OF "strong wafers,n as
brandy was called when George the Second was
King OF England. and the colonies OF New England
as well.
Not TO be acquainted with my young friend, Gussie
veri-sopht, lhis name used to be pronounced
In one time and motion, but II being extremely
English 10 part the name In the middle, he
does IT, Is 10 be unknown. lie Is so.
cial leader among certain sort OF the elite in the
Capital City. There are circles In which he is an
oracle and there social events that are like the
ray OF "IIamletn with Haihe, left out, II Mr. veti-
Sopht is not there. For the rest OF 1t he Is a not
unamiabc youth, whom Providence, with curious
rony-has permitted TO inheri, his close hard
working old fathers money very early IN his life.
He possesses very large feet and extremely small
head and his good foolish mother has assisted Ma
ture somewhat in making Gussie, as his dotpg
parent calls him, fool.
With this sigRdiemsm may proceed with Whist
commenced TO tell you. When this amiable and
Intelligent social light took the trouble TO climb up
to my four-pair-back lodgings, knew he was loaded
with views. SO as soon as he ccud get his breath
and refresh himself with a cigarette -"tobacco
makes the poor child fearfuly ILL., his mother
pratled In my ear the other night at the HaucTons
reception, "and why he ,rW smoke cannot tel"-
when he had, say, finished his fumgatory rejection
he thus addressed me. "Something has got TO be
done about It, AMI we society men are thinking Of
holding a meeting TO consider the matter.
There are some girls whom you can never
get rid of II you ever speak to them, and what
am talking about is some plan by which we can
make EN- understand that though We are willing to
talk few minutes, and even take a turn on q waltz,
we don't care to have any one girl on our hands the
whole evening" "Yes, see," said the Lounger, as
faint light began 10 dawn, ''tell me what the
trouble Ia. "Well, you see. there are always more
girls than men every place you go. Some OF them
are strangers, others have Just come out. The new
girls seem to have learned everything except what
they ought TO know. For instance, there was the
hdutt-lous icttpuuu thc OtntT ulRHt, I buN you
there. Did you notice how confoundedly bored
was9" was obliged to say that that particular
feature Of the entertainment was one had not re-
marked. swell, Susie Hyaclnthe was there This
is her first season out. Susie likes to Dance and SO
took her out for waltz. After few turns was
ready TO quit, but, bless you, there no quilting
FOR her. We spun around until thought the top Of
my head was coming of. Finally the 1ddlers gave
out and the music stopped. / said, Don't you want
to sit down. Miss Hyaclnthc?' p oh, no. she
chrruped; I'D much rather walk wouldn't you p
Now, what wasa fellow to do? We Wemarched around
the room again and again. Nobody seemed to know
her. j tried my best to get some one else to take
her, but no. I was stuck. Now, what want 10 know
Isl quote the young gentleman literally-"why
girls mother allowsths? she ought to know better
II the young one don't. The mother certainly
doesn't wish her daughter TO hang on to fellow like
that old fellow In Shakespeare or the Arabian
Nights, or somewhere, to the sai.or-you know what
mean. Can't you write something about it, and
let em know how we society men feel?" And I
said would.
OF course Gussie Veri-Sopht 10 a weak-minded
young IDIOT but we have eminent poetica authority
fos declaring that even worm will turn In saying
what he did-leaving the personnel Of the complain
ant entirely out OF the question--the youth uu-
doubtediy voiced a thought that has occurred to
wiser and greater brains than those he wears
under his No. Shat see this question Is beginning
TO agitate social circles In other places, and the
Gusses Of other towns are beginning take up arms
saw an elaborate paper upon this very question In
the Ttn,es-Democra, Of New orleans, and the views
advanced are those which all people OF the true
| social monde must hold. A chaperone IL now con-
sdered indispensable to young girls and Indeed
those who are not so young as they were ten years
ago, on certain occasions. The system Is one OF
many things we have borrowed from France. There
indeed the chaper0ne has her uses She sees that
the girl who is 10 her charge has the proper degree
OF attention, but nerer let's her become bore to
the man who Ia willing TO do his share IN conrlbul-
Ing 10 her evenings enjoyment. In Parlsan salon
no girl Is permitted 10 remain more than ten minutes
| In the charge OF any man. They walk or dance aud