Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-09-13
ooh, splendid looking! Great tall,

aDouJ tnlfty years oi''' :.
"The wicked. abandoned creature! Y
cried the chorus, now, indeed, lrrltateo
bevond endurance. "She shall not stay
here another day. Either she must
leave or we will.
And Mrs. Lane was at once informed
that she could take her choice between
Miss Marshall and her eighteen other
| boarders.
That evening the sky was full Of
thunder clouds, metaphorically speak
ing, when the boarders gathered
around the table, Miss Marshall was
not there, and the remarks that were
made were not complimentary to that
young lady.
"What! hasn't she returned from he,
walk yet?" asked Mrs. May, with g
downward tendency to the corners Of
her pretty mouth.
"Yes, Miss Marshall has come back,
and has company in the parlor," said
practical Mrs. Lane, who had not yet
made up her mind apparently, whether
to dispense with Miss Marshall or with
the eighteen other boarders.
Company in the parlor!" cried the
chorus, and in the midst of the aston
ishment Miss Marshall came in, escorted
by tall handsome, elegant looking
gentleman, who glanced composedly
along the table and bowed to several
acquaintance among the gentlemen,
and then went and shook hands with
Mrs. Lane, saying:
ALLOW ME to introduce my wife, Mrs.
Lane"
The great publisher, Neal Raymond
The whisper went from mouth to mouth.
The wealthiest man in the city! And
Miss Marshall his wife!
The two sat down amid the dead 81.
lence and addressed themselves to the
things that We're set before them. A
long pause, during which the eighteen
boarders ate in the most dispirited way.
Mrs. Palmer, on whose face something
approaching a furtive grin had been
lurking for some time, finally burst out
with:
"And I am glad to know, Mrs. Ray.
mond, that you are the author of that
delightful Gree we have all been read
ing"
'Thank you," returned Mrs. Ray.
mond, composedly.
"And do you still write, may l ask Q
inquired Mrs. May, longing for chance
to say something vindictive.
ga little. 1 am engaged now on 9
book in which clearinghouse figures
and have been studying one from life
Will you have some of the salad?"
And the fair young bride looked
calmly on while long and sad process
sion filed out Of the dining-room and
disappeared into their respective bed
rooms along the upper floors.
M4RKs OF GENTILITY.
There are many curious persona
habits and usages that original,
marked gentility, if not aristocracy
The practice observed among Spanish
hidalgos of allowing the fnger-nails t,
grow into claw-like forms was to shoy
that they had never done any work
The same thing is done by the Chimes
for the same purpose.
Among the ancient Romans the wear
ing of long sleeves, which came dow,
over the hand, was the fashion in til,
upper circles. This advertised to til,
world that the wearer did not engage i,
any labor, and freedom from employ
ment was, according to their crude no
lions of worth, the condition Of respect
ability.
| The height of absurdity is reached j,
the fancy of the Chinese leaders Of fash
ion who have gone to the extent of in
ducing shapeless deformity in women,
feet, and rendering the victims cripple.
for life, to prove that these could affor6
to get along without doing anything To-
themselves.
Yet we cannot afford to laugh at til,
Chinese in this matter. English boot
and shoes have been designed more O.
less for the same absurd purpose. A.
early as the time OF William Rufus
"peaAed-toed boots and shoes excited
the wrath and contempt of the monkisl
historians. The shoes called yi1ncil
had their points made like a scorpion'
tail, and courtier named Rober
stuffed his out with tow, and caused
them to curl round in form of a ram
horn, a fashion which took mightil,
amongst the mobiles" It is plain tina
the purpose of this fashion was to show
that the privileged wearer was not de
pendent on any kind of labor or feet
ness OF foot for his daily bread.
The practice Of wearing tight-fttins
boots and shoes is an old one, for Chau
Ger, writing of them in his day, saw.
that it is
"Merveyle sith that they site so pleyn,
| How they come on or off again"
Later, in 1865, Horace WalDole said