New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-02

In her In the tones OF ncr 'oiOo "ni'H SUB
costs a difference between her aud anS oihrr prr'y
vellb bred child except that her remarks indicate an
unusually apt and ingenious mind She Is dressed
10 great advantage that u.s. with simple httle cost
umes, and every possible care Is taken 10 give her
exercise, fresh air and amusement In plenty her
docIy. her sunny temper. her child manners anu
her cunning speeches render her continual source
Of pleasure to those about her
She was reading lnnocents Abroad when saw
her and was nightly tiched By the story OF how
Mark and his friends started up the mountains on me
backs OF mules but returned with the mules on thel
backs. II not easy TO question her
she wanted TO ask all the questions herself She wanted
10 know n bad road Tom sawyer and n remem-
tered about his fight and upon my confessng that
the impression left my mind by his fight was
vague and lndstnct she laughed gleefully and began
to repeat the preliminary challenges which led up TO
The final conflict She initiated the numbering man
ncr Of country small boys perfectly and as she SAID
that familiar form OF reiterated contradiction winch
has ended In 50 many bitter juvenile wars. Julid
'Judidn'tp Judd 'Juddn'tP judd = Judoh u inc
picture of two dirty, clumsy, furious little scampi
confronting each other on the very verge Of riot
completed.
she told me Of her meeting with Mrs. Burnett In
Boston.
She was all ready 10 see me- said Ebo' ana
she looked just like thought she wouid' auu Sn7
asked me to go riding, and she said she wrote A'ue
name IS VIVIAN and he lives in Washington. and he has
curs like NINE and he really knew bootblack and
man who Kept a grocery store. That's what mane
her write It, because she wanted 10 tell ABOUT her
little boy and he always dear little fellow, even
IL he did know bootblacks and sit on the barrels In
grocery store He calls his mamma Dearest the
same as in the play, and she said was to call her
Dearest too.S
"Wel do you call her sos
a didn't Just right away, for afraid 10, and
then thought her little boy mghtn't like II, but l
do now"
The relations between Mrs. Burnett and her Little
Lord Fauntlerovn exceedingly pretty. She Is
as delighted with Elsie Elsie, she is with Elsie
as the little lord. II to have the child con-
venlcntly by her that she desired Mrs. leslie TO give
up her apartments and to take Others in the same
nat with Mrs Burnett herself Here they live almost
gether and the child spends great part OF her time
with the novelist She wants 10 write stories, too
she says and has already composed tragic tale She
keers this under lock and key lest shall be stolen
and get into the papers, thereby exposing her de-
fciencies in spelling.
Since they printed my letter to Mr. sothern." she
said have worked hard learn TO SPELL but It Is
80 hard to remember. When don't know the right
way TO spell a word write IT down the way think
II is and then mamma helps me 10 hunt Il Out In
the dictionary. She Is showing me how TO find words
out for myself, and, maybe, sometime can write
letter that won't be ashamed to see in the papers
rut the papers ought to give me fair chance cause
l don't learn easy"
" Do all your letters get into the papers, asked
40, nor she said 81 wrote one 10 Mr.. Gillette
and he didn't let the papers have it. He IS more
trustable than Mr.. sOthern."
Poor child More tru Stable- II HADN'T been
hour since the Gillette letter in print and l
happened 10 have in my pocket the very paper that
contained It. But didn't show 1t to her. dldn'
want her TO say with the Psalmist, All men are
liars" didn't 10 undermine her faith in human
nature alb outely But she will discover Mr. Gil
lcte's perhiy soon or late and when she does Jet
bin get up better story than one that throws the
blame on the reporters
Mr. Booth sent Elsie tickets TO his performance
Of shyOck last week He and Mr.. Barrett saw
her in Bost ton and be wrote her charming letter full
OF dainty compliment She attended his play on
Tuesday evening and he will be glad TO learn her
comments. She said, Z" / didn't Ike it He was not
handsome he is Mostly
mostly ] take Il, means when he IS unadorned
Tor the purposes Of tragedy
But he made all his points, she went on, seri-
ously d" and you ought TO have seen him DO this "
She struck one Of Booths Characteristic attitudes,
with one foot forward and her head turned aside,
elaed half savagey and half relectvely at the floor
and rubbed her thumbs and fingers for all the world
as Booth rubs his when be says: Three thousand
ducats We'll"
"Why didn't you like Hmm I asked
He looked fierce and ugly she said He
most frightened me-"