Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-14
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Plenty of EnRlish Notions in New York, Bul
 Nothing of This Sort.


 Nothing of fhls Sort.
 "No, thanks, detess iewelry, and have already had four card cases, Q sal- yer toilet set, two gold hllets. a whole Cargo of books, and one of those new enameled orchids given me. There is but one solitary thing for which my soul yesrns, and that is dispatch box"
 "You shall have it." he replied, trans ported to find some special gift to bestow upon his best girl on the eve of her de- parture for England. "I'n get it if 1t breaks the bank-but-would you mind, dear, explaining just what the thing is like ?'
 Don't you know" she returned. "Why, a dispatch box. The kind En- glish people use to carry about and keep all their jewels, love letters, certificates and bonds in. can't understand how you ever read one of their novels with out making acquaintance with such an all important part of their luggage"
 'T suppose I am stupid and all that, but when a man spends his life chasing fortune all day and worshiping beauty all the evening, he has precious little time to waste in finding out what Brit ishers do with their private papers,"
 Nonsense" and without deigning further notice of his cogent excuse, she went on: Surely, you remember when the crisis was reached, and naughty Lady Imogen, with one superb jesture, waved the shrinking girl from her pres ence; how the old lawyer suddenly ap- peared on the scene, produced the late Captain Cyril de Courtney's lost dispatch box, and behold there lay the license and marriage certificate, right as rivetl The sobbing widow was tenderly as- sisted to the arms of her now loving mother-in-law, and amid the fumes of curry and plum pudding the curtain fell on the first volume of Harold Dare, or, the Child Widow We'll, that is pre- cisely the style of thing want" Next day they wandered up town and down, vainly searching the big city of New York for this interesting article of English manufacture. After unavail- ing inquiries in dozens of shops, and after no end of offers of lawyers sach- els, doll trunks, tin bandboKes and every variety of dressing and jewel case, they sought an authority and laid their needs before him. The clerk knew right away what was wanted, but said that not a single specimen was to be had in the house
 ''It is curious" he explained, ''that Americans are SO very slow in taking up some really clever English ideas and yet go daft over a stupid lot of foreign affectations of luxury. No more secure or convenient way of carrying one's treasures can be found than in one of those English traps. Several years ago, when William Waldorf Astor was ap- pointed Minister to Italy, Tiffany made him gorgeous one. It held his official triumph in combined beauty and con- veuience. Of the softest, oostliest leather, richly finished and embossed, the price was some hundreds of dollars. Since then a number of MT. Astor's friends have ordered dispatch boxes, but the fashion is not yet pronounced enough to make it worth while keeping them in stock. You have never seen the genuine article? We'll, they are usually fourteen inches square and eight inches deep, bound in Russia leather, topped with heavy silver plate, hay ing name and address engraved in full. You use a short silver key, press a spring, and the raised lid discloses a velvet lined interior, with couple of trays, receptacles for jewels, lots of rubber bands, leather and satin pockets, in fact the completest arrangements for order and security"
 After listening to this description, the quest was abandoned as hopeless The shoppers turned away and in a sports man's shop compromised on a decent looking bait-box.-N. Y. Sun.