New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-23

stays with her sisters for example, the experience is
always unpleasant Caroline is, of course, silly and
unreasonable. The honor of having Goddess eat at
your table should compensate for the fact that tho
Goddess complains of the fare; or, having Goddess
sleep under your roof, should amply atone for the Cod
desss habit Of demanding her breakfast served in her
own room at half past TO- To have the family beauty
staying with you, you should be willing to put up with
those whims without which beauty Is miserable
base imitation. And yet Caroline positively refused to
let the horses GO out on cold night when The Cod
dess had previously ordered Them aud even said some
thing under her breath about some peoples unwar
rantable Interference" The Goddess, according 10 her
Olympian custom, made retort, but simply looked
arisocratc and cold and resigned, and with her eye
brows loftily raised, managed I'm some mute, mys-
terious way to impress on Caroline how rough and
vulgar her behavior was, how uncouth, compared To
The Goddess exquisite elegance, Of which she was
now generously giving sample
In her intercourse with her admirers she IS some
what more gracious If the foeman is worthy of her
Steel she thinks out neat little system of capture
In this she about dazzling the foeman with the
Respondent glory of her charms. il he does not
succumb before her beauty she having been fattenet
and garlanded for the sacrifice, he has still 10 pass
through the ordeal of the four musical instruments
There is first the guitar in the shady corner OF the
divan, under the spreading spikes of palm In blue
pot, with stained glass window above in the wall
shafts of coored sun-ravs playing over stuhs with
pale bloomy surfaces broken splnters of light twink
ling satin pillows, yellow tea-gown, halfbared
arm, dmpled hand touching the strings little foot
protruding from a froth of puckered founces lying
along the carpet Then there is the mandolin, in the
conservatory below the orange trees her head bending
its long neck, the network Of dark, glossy leaves
with gmpses OF the pendant, yellow balls serving as
background the thin tones Of the mandolin mingnng
with the thin tones Of the lady. The bandurria Is
only used on the balcony, on summer evenings, when
there is a moon and the shadow Of the vines plays
On the wall. Lastly comes the piano in the bare mag
niflc,nce of the MUSHROOM, The Goddess In white
dress with her hair in Greek twist her hands mean
derng the keys her raised In rapture 10 the
candles in brass branches and the tumbed masses Of
her train reflected in the polished hoor-n this pose
The Family have generally admitted she is at her best
If the oeman is able resist It, there is nothing TO be
said but that he is an idiot And by The Goddesss
count there many idiots IN this world
In conversation with her young men the charm OF
her appearance is countcrbdlanced by sensation of
cold Indifference which emanates from her. despite her
most exotic wealth of manner. she eAhacs chill air
like block of ice in warm weather Under the veneer
of her ensavng address her companion feels an ICY,
impenetrable wall, like that which has bafied the
South Polar explorer Should he be betrayed into
confidence recital of woe he is met with wechosen
words of sympathy and encouragement, which seem 10
be shaved off the edges OF her manners lie feels sud
denly rebued and disappointed and sorry he has ever
spoken. That he should be prey 10 such sensations
is incompreheDsble to her. Hasn't she said the neat
est and incest things, fitting the occasion without
crease voice perfectly modulated her expression
all soft and becoming sympathy All the time she
was saying them she ttilated by pleased sense
Of how nicely she doing 1t and how deeply i'm
pressed he would be by her sweetness. She doesn't
want TO be really sorry for him. for then she wouldn't
say her little say in half such polished, exquisite
way
o11t Ms nd IN cnif
and encouraging manner, is violently repulsed by her
responsiveness She is like detective pearl, little
dark spot clothed round with beauty but the defect OF
tho kernel occasionally shines through the outer shell