The Dickinson press., 1888-12-29
NEW YORK GIRLS.
A RESIDENT AND A GERMAN Wis.,
TOR AT THE HORSE SHOW.

A RESIDENT AND A GERMAN VlSl-
TOR AT THE HORSE SHOW.
A Beautiful Girl and Her Devotecs-Her
Hair in tho Latest style-sample OF the
Convcrsation-Thc Accent Astounding.
Tho German Disappointed.
At the horse show the other night l CHANGED
to sit beside n peculiar sort of n girl. Her
type was indigenous. In everything she
smacked of New York. She fitted into her
crevice in the town with an affectionate
nugncss that could only he rivaled by the
oozing mud about the bare foot of n boy ON
the swampy bank of n canal. She had even
changed the fashion of her hair that evening,
to be in with the local mode.
How do l know it2
She told me and every one else in eaJshot,
though her audience was strange to her.
81 grew dreadfully uneasy" She announced
to her sister, who had been waiting for her
in the box, as she tossed off her wraps and
sank into her chair. Had a CHASTITY pre-
monition of queerness, you know"
dear mol"
"Yes, really" replied tho belle, us she
leaned back i'll her chair. ''Funny, wasn't
itl Worried me, and l went back md did
it,"
"Did whats"
dressed my hair a la Hading. Do you
like it9 Haven't quito the knack yet-so
hurried, dearie." Her little hands wandered
upover her hair, which fell in a big, careless
loop down below her collar behind. "What
do you think of itYn
'It looks like the pony's tail when the
groom has twisted it up so as to curry his
legs"
The older girl stared at her sister with an
air of bland commiseration for q long time,
and then with icy sympathy said:
Poor dear. You've evidently been wait
ing all alone here with auntie. Haven't my
men called Oh you yet! It's very provoking,
l know"
GOT A HOSS HEAH."
If the young men had been scarce u to that
time they made up for it in the alncrity with
which they now hurried to the box in which
tho young beauty was seated Her idlec chat
about the fashion of dressing her hair Was
interesting because Indicative of the spirit
which pervadcs all the girls of her kind.
She talked incessantly. Every two min
utes the man who was leaning over her
shoulder would give way to another man,
who looked precisely like him, and who ut
tered the identical commonplace that his
predecessor had palmed off for conversation.
The accent of the speakers was astounding.
The first man was the son of IL big down
town banker. He had a pair of wabbly eyes.
Il red but handsome face, and his figure was
faultlcssly clad in evening dress. y single
glass made an earnest effort to keep one of
his eyes steady He stumbled over every
! tIipr IL, ci.l,t ~ j, h,,.;,,i ;,+otL.l -.
made one short bow to tho chaperon, another
and a shorter one to tine sister and grabbed
the beautiful heiress' outstretched hand
eagerly.
"ll"w 'do?' lie gaspcd.
"Why, Chawley Chumley-Peppers!'
"ilaw-haw."
"llavc yu bean away from taown!'
"Ya-as, ab-sull.oot-ly."
"NVlah?"
"Was'n."
"Washington?'
"ia-as. Ab-sull-oot-ly. Got Il boss heah."
"Have youa So've L."
"Mine's Il cob, y know; gray, beauty, alb
sull-oot-ly." Mr.. Chumiey-Peppers waited
after this for a breathcr, changed his glass to
his other eye, and joined the belle in waving
a greeting to Il lot of how arrivals. Then he
drew breath and said, with intense labor:
"Hou-eot-hoss-heahl'
"Rawther. My sorrel hunter Iawd Kit
t%erlorn's cntawcd fob thu jumpin' prize"
"Demme, there's BERTHE Winkleton-must
see him." gasped Mr.. Chumley-Pcppers, sig
mailing a fac-simile down near the track.
"Must see hirl."
'Rcallv?"
"4Ab-sull-oot-ly."
n hasty shaicuf the hand and ho rushed
away. while anothcro of his species hurried up.
There was u continual repetition of this
sort of thing. do not wish to play caves
dloppcr. but tho people talked SO loudly in
the place that all tho surrounding public was
taken into their confidence.
BEAUTIES WHO TALK SLANG.
Ia tho box with mo was IL German who was
seeing New York for the first time, and
studying the fashion of TIE people after the
thoughtful !n"!i!,ei of Teutonic philosophers.
He mad been listening with an air of grave
and Judicial attention to the beauty in the
right hand box, when there was IL rush and
rustic next door, and two young girls and
Il man ~strollctl into the box on the other side
OF us. They were as different from the girl
on the right as it is possible to imagine, and
yet thcy were all New York girls. The new
comcls were not in the "best" society, though
doubtless they were people of some social
pretensions. They might have been daugh.
tiers of rich people who had not had any
social a~dvantagcs-or, perhaps, they were
simply boarding house girls, whose fathers
were making money.
After ho had looked at them for some time
the German officer leaned over and paid then
a simple but tremendous compliment.
"What magnificent looking creaturcsl' liz
said softly. 81 believe that nowhere in tht
Old World could you match them. Pretty
girls here arc endless in number, but is there
not something about themg' no asked dubi
ously.
"Yes,'' l said after waiting awhile, ether,
is something"
Before l could explain what this something
was, If really knew it, tho younger of th.
girls nodded half saucily to a distinguished
but odd looking old gentleman who was stalk
ing along by the pony stalls.
Dear me!' said the other girl, with
bright smile of derision on her face. "lVha
II startling old guy that was"
(which once asked the other girl brightly
eth baldhcaded chappie with tho quisb,
mustache,' answered the other girl sedately
''Such Il sightl"
Hes one of poppa's friends. Cunning
little %tootsic, amt hes"
"Looks like the Whitechapel fiend," inter
polated the mau who accompanied the tw'
young women, with q broad grin.
The whole tone of their talk was on thi
slangy and guying level. l watched tn
German closely. | was mainly interested il
finding out whether he knew English vel
enough to understand the nature of the slang
He was too polite to %criticise them till
asked his opinion, and then he sighed mn,
said, softly, as he shook his head: 1.-THE girl
of New York are beautiful and happy
Why is it that they do not speak their owl
languages"
1t was more than l could tell.-.B.. H." il