The evening world., 1889-10-05

beau's apartments. There Ia additional zest in
IL II the sight be snrreptitious; yet invitations
to suppers, such ~ our swell bachelors have
taken afRnoy to sometimes give in their lodg-
ings. are always accepted with avidIty. The
party muSt be chAperoned. Of course. to be
quite right, aud IL was 30 with the one which /
enjoyed last evening. The Cr0sus's d~ining-room
was extemporized ont OF the parlor. Usually
he eats at Dclmonicos or his club. The Croisis
apartment house, the Knickerbocker. the Cum
bertrand and others have many suites that excel
tlis in size.
Here are only two rooms, but these are
spacious to o degree that il old fashioned in
these days of oompactness. The bedroom and
drawing-room are separated by a passageway.
out of which opens a bathroom, wardrobes and
storerooms. The bedroom. hung with Indian
silk, lowered in crimson and cream, has a
canopied bed that might do for q monarch.
Isn't il n shRme that II should have no queen ?
The drawina-room, crowded with superb oak
cabinets. seems half q divan. for soft seats
cushioned in crimson plush are to be found on
every side. There l. one cabinet particularly
interesting TO connoisseurs. Whom opened IL il
found to contain every imaginable liquor. and
tho newest and rarest glassware. The owner
has only to telephone to be served with dinner
or supper from a restaurant, but he keeps
stocked with beverages. Thanks to his inherited
wealth he il entirely independent.
Yet mystited mothers, chagrined ohaperones.
wonder why the master Of Liberty Hal, con-
tiguous TO the restaurants of Madison Square,
does not pop the question to the pretty girls
with whom he talks and wRltZes at Tuxedo.
While about this particular apartment there il
an atmosphere OF the refinement Of existence,
from tho statue Of Cupid triumphant to the
flask Of creme de menthe half empty, another
bachelor apartment in the same block indicates
the manly tastes of a master who rides hard at
polo, engages the foils at the Fencers' Club. and
has a bout with the boXing-gloves at
the Racquet. On the walls are hung
foils and fishing. rods, the pictures perpetu-
ate cross-country exploits Of the good old
coaching days, and the small but well-stocked
library is full Of volumes of sporting reference.
But In order that the aesthetic side of life may
not be sighted there IL q piano-forte and u
banjo, and. while q Chopin selection or a Niger
melody ripplo4 from the ono or the other. a
capacious divan il occupied by spellbound,
golden youth. drinking at once the music and a
brandy and soda, such being the contrasts of
life in the abode of rich mems sons. But this
sumptuous lodger il 40 anchorite hermit. He
often invites bevies of his fashionable feminine
friends to feastings.
CNKEPT MARRIAGE RoMIsE
All the Summers promises Of marriage are not
being kept this Autumn. To one hotel near TO
New York came q dainty little maiden one warm
July day, with q pair OF feet 30 small and well
shaped that before thirty-six hours had passed
midst all the gaiety and fun she was the envy OF
the girls. Her numberlesE variety OF shoes and
silken hose simply drove them wild with jeal-
ousy. Attached to this dainty maid with the
wonderful feet was q handsome mamma,
and q devoted fance. SO devoted was
he that the other tri-colored blazer young
men simply stood at n distance cursinR
the lucky one, and vainly signing for All intro
duction to the modest maid with the innumer-
able shoes. As the Summer wore on the fun be-
came fast and furious, and the soft, gentle girl
was beginning to change. The timid. helpless
look was giving WAY to a defiant. independent
gaze, and the associations with the poker-play-
ing. cbAmpagne-loving crowd wac gradually
doing its work. The devoted lover looked on in
a dcspairing kind OF way and vainly expostulated
with mother and daughter. One day he went to
the city to buy q birthday present for his reck-
less sweetheart.
He intended to remain away until the follow
ing afternoon to attend to some business, but
as the man was out of town when he reached
his Office. and the longing to get back and pro.
tect the pretty little girl was 70 great. he rushed
to the depot, swung OH to the last car and went
back to the hotel. 1t was 10 o'clock when he
arrived. He hastily inquired for his fiancee,
and was told she was walking on the beach. He
started down there, listening for the merry
laugh he knew so well. Az he hurried ON he
came to q tiny pair of red shoes and stockings.
He stopped q moment and examined them. As
he stood there he heard the laugh lie mad been
listening for, coming from Il turn in the beach
just in front Of q fantastic little tent. He
went quietly up to it and looked. Out in the
water, with her pretty skirts held up, was the
girl wadiug. Her companion was a man whom
she had promised her lover never to speak to.
and sitting on the beach was q red-lipped
blonde girl. The man listened and heard
the girl laughingly tell her companions what a
good joke it was on him; how he would scold
her If he knew; what a bore he was, and how
she was only marrying him for his money and
how independent she meant to be when she
was married. The man stole quietly back to the
hotel. wrote 4 few lines, put them in box No.
10. took the midnight train back to the city and
thanked kind heaven for letting him find out
lis mistake in time. The affair on the beach
was too much for him. CLARA BELLE.
Copyright, 1889.