The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-10-01
Two Young Mem
New York Correspondence San francisco
Argonaut.
THE POMPOUs NTNNY.


THE POMPOUS NINNY.
Last winter I sat opposite one of
these heavy youngsters at q dinner of
sixteen plates. He took rather a VII
vacious young married woman in and
sat beside her, with his smooth-shay-
en-. and complacent face held high in
the air, his eyes half-closed, and the
corners Of his mouth drawn down.
There was an expression of severe
reticence and overwhelming reserve
about him. He was about twenty
three years old.
II see you very often as the opera
and occasionally at dances, Mr..
Burke-Jones," she began, shut you
always come late and drift off before
one has a chance to nod to you"
They bore me-"
A pause. Then she continues:
81 suppose you sec SO mnsh OF life
that the more modest and unspiced
entertainments which we women con-
slider SO exciting are dull to you"
EYES"
Another pause. He glances with
cold esteem at the soup and permits
himself to taste the sherry. The fish
passes in silence, while a man across
the table talks to the viyacious young
married woman. She is exceedingly
pretty, and her black eyes snap with
the gossip, chatter and lights. She
turns twice and looks at the solemn
face beside her. Then, evidently think
ing that she has been stupid, she says,
with a bright little emile:
"Of purse you're going down to
Jerome on the opening days"
Never do the races"
"Ah! Isuppose you 60 in for more
college sports; most men in your club
do I'm told"
There was such q long wait after
this that my neighbor-a sister of the
black-eyed talker-suggested that I
should rescue the earnest little work
er across the way. The solemn young
man evidently did not consider her
last remark weS+h O comment. She
waited and then made another dash,
He wouldn't talk about the opera.
music, the clubs, races, colleges or
athletics, so she tried him on the
theatre. No results. Then she ask
ed him what steamer he had last
crossed in. and he said it was the
Alaska.
"Ah, SHE'S a beauty" said the de-
termined conversationalist. Then she
went of into a monologue, and told a
charming little story about a love.
match which occurred on board that
steamer-at least she said it was that
one-when she crossed, in September.
Still the pompous ninny at her side
said nothing. But she would not give
him up without one more struggle;
With what I've always claimed since
was a stroke of genius, she got him of
on the topic of London ~tailors, and he
spoke at least twenty words before
coming to a halt. Then the hard
working little lady glanced over at us
with triumph beaming from her eyes,
and we felt like applauaing her efforts.
But the dinner was over by this time,
and she did not try her skill with the
reticent youth again.
THE COOL EGoTIsT.
Men of a certain class are confined
to New York. They won't grow any
where else, and they only flourish in
the first circles. They are exotic
plants, which only come to perfection
In the dollhouse. I know one of them
possibly as good a specimen OF the
species as one could find. He is per-
haps twenty-four or five-a kind OBJ
serve would say eighteen. He doesn't
about c~ultivating q mustache, it
Is commonplace-fast becoming vul-
gar. There is an air OF gentle lassi-
tude about him-might one say weak |
ness in his legs? He is always a little
over-dressed-a popularity which he
outgrows in three or four
years-and always some rings
diamonds, gypsy setting--on the
engagement finger" Whether this is
TO demonstrates that he is bespoke
"a proclamation for all spinsters
who run to read-or merely a form OF
exterior decoration, / have never
summoned the courage to inquire.
When q girl-a green girl-goes out to
dinner, and finds him sitting at her
right hand-as in nine cases out of
ten she will find him-she is at first in
censed. She sits brooding sulkily,
considering herself snubbed in having
been invited to meet q callow boy.
Presently the boy begins to talk, not
eagerly, but rather as If it was expect
ed Of him. Like Annie Laurie, his
voice is low and sweet; at times So