Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-09
NEW YORK GIRLS.
RESIDENT AND A GERMAN ViSI-
TOR AT THE HORSE SHOW.

Conversation-Ths Accent Astounding.
The German Disappointed.
| At the horse show the other night CHANGED
| TO sit beside peculiar sort Of O girl Her
! type was indigenous. In everything she
! snaclaed of New York. She fitted into her
crevice in the town with an afectionate
snugness that could only be rivaled by the
oozing mud about the bare foot OF a boy ON
the swampy bank of a canal She had even
| changed the fashion of her hair that evening,
| to be in with the local mode.
How do know it?
She told ne and every one else in earsbot,
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 CHASTITY pre-
monition of queerness, you know"
"Dear mer'
ayes, really" replied the belle, as she
leaned back in her chair. Funny, WASH t
it? Worried me, and l went back and did
itn
s'Did whatl"
Dressed my hair La Hading Do you
like iti Haven't quite the knack yet-so
hurried, dearie-" Fer little hands wandered
up over her hair, which fell in big, careless
loop down below her collar behind. what
do you think of itF'
cit 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 long time,
and then with icy sympathy said:
6aari VctTtVa avidautlu haay,
ing all alone here with auntie. Haven't any
l know"
''GoT HosS EEAH."
If the young men had been scarce up to that
time they made up for it In the alacrity with
which they now hurried to the box in which
the young beauty was seated. Her idle chat
about the fashion of dressing her hair was
interesting because Indicative of the spirit
which pervades all the girls Of her kind.
She talked necessarily. 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 commonplaces that his
predecessor had palmed off for conversation
The accent of the speakers was astounding.
The first man was the son Of big down
town banker. He had pair Of wabbly eyes.
a red but handsome face, and his figure was
faultlessly clad in evening dress. A single
glass made an earnest effort to keep one of
his eyes steady He stumbled over every
thing in sight as he hurried into the box,
made one short bow to the chaperon, another
and a shorter one to the sister and grabbed
the beautiful heress' outstretcned hand
eagerly.
How dor he gasped.
"Why, Chawley Chumley-Peppers"
"Haw-haw
'Have y'u bean away from taown!"
"Ya-as, ab-suil-oot-ly."
"Whah"
sWas'n.n
"Washington?"
"Ya-as Ab-sull-oot-ly. Got a boss heah."
"Have yous So've l."
mines cob, y know; gray, beauty, alb
sull-oot-ly." Mr. Chumley-Peppers waited
after this for breather, changed his glass to
his other eye, and joined the belle in waving
a greeting to lot of new arrivals. Then he
drew breath and said, with intense labor:
"Yo -got-hoss- heahT'
''Rawther Ny sorrel hunter Lawd Kit
terlorn's entawed fob tn jumpin' prize"
"Demme, there's BERTHE Winkleton-must
see him." gasped MIR. Chumley-Peppers, sig
mailing a fac-simile down near the track.
"Must see hiJn."
Really"
"Ab-sull-oot-ly.n
A hasty shake of the hand and be rushed
away, while another of his species hurried up.
There was a continual repetition Of this
sort of thing. l do not wish to play caves
dropper, but the people talked so loudly in
the place that all the surrounding public was
taken into their confidence
BEAUTIES WHO TALK SLANG
In the box with me was q German who was
seeing Ne,s York for the first time, and
studying the fashion Of the people after the
thoughtful manner of Teutonic philosophers.
He had been listening with an air of grave
and Judicial attention to the beauty in the
right hand box, when there was a rush and
rustic next door, and two young girls and
a man strolled into the box on the other side
OF u.s. They were as different from the girl
on the right as it is possible to imagine, and
yet they were all New York girls. The new
corners were not in the chest" 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 advantages-or, perhaps, they were
simply boarding house girls, whose fathers
were making money.
After he had looked at them for some time. !
the German officer leaned over and paid them
a simple but tremendous compliment
What magnificent looking creaturesi" he |
said softly. ~ believe that nowhere in the /
Old World could you match them. Pretty
girls here are endless in number, but is there |
not something about themln he asked dubi |
ously.
Yes" said after waiting awhile, there
is something"
Before could explain what this something |
was, if really knew it, the younger of the |
girls nodded half saucily to distinguished !
but odd looking old gentleman VINO was stalk. /
Ing along by the pony stalls
Dear mel" said the other girl, with a |
bright smile of derision on her face. "Wha. |
a startling old guy that was
Which one" asked the other girl brightly. |
The baIdheaded chapple with the quisby /
answered the other girl sedatelY /
''Such a siChtin
Hes one OF poppa's friends. CUNNING
little tootsie, amt heF'
Looks like tie u hitechapel fiend," inter
polated the man who accompanied the two
young women, with q broad grin
The whole tone of their talk was on this
siangy and guying level watched the
German closely. was mainly interested IN
finding ont whether ne knew English well |
enough 10 understand the nature OF the slang.
He was too polite to crIticise them till
asked his opinion, snd then he sighed and
said, softly, as he shock his head: The girls
Of New York Sre beautiful and happy.
Why is it that they 90 not speak their OWE
languagei'