Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-21

cut aiOne. III was more Imam an hour ago, "
he said solemnly.
Lady BaGshot's dismay didn't last very
long, for just as she was sending the tidings
TO her husband at bis club, Eyangeline drove
up in q hanson, bright and beaming.
"Well, you see, she said in explanation,
~ wanted some candy, and thought there
must be a candy store on Oxford street.
went along three or four blocks, and then
concluded to take a hanson. The man didn't
seem rightly to understand what it was
wanted but at last got it fixed and he took
me 10 a store where / got the most elegant
candy I've had since left the States. Then
/ thought I'd go to the bank-way down
town, you know-that's why I've been so
long"
Lady Bagshot tore up the letter she had
written, and then gently admonished her
friend.
1--WE can always send out for anything you
may want, and I'm sure Sir Henry viii be
able to manage your money matters for you;
would if l could, but | don't understand
these things
'Oh, that's simple enough, Evangeline re-
Piled. "You just write out slip of paper,
and put down as much money as you want,
and then you write your name on the back,
and they give you the money. Business is
very easy when you come TODD it, Only you
ought always to go to the bank yourself, be-
cause when they send you the money bypost
they cut the notes in two and then sometimes
l get the wrong halves"
Miss Short took out her pocketbook, which
her visit to the bank had filed with notes.
Then an idea seemed to strike her
81 know" she said, ''you are just real mad
with mo because have been round the city
by myself. / am sorry didn't think. If
am going to do anything wrong, tell me right
away l can't keep track of what one may
do and what one mayn't, but III do every
thing just as you tell me-"
Lady Bagshot kissed her friend in enthusi-
astic forgiveness, and promised the easiest
and gentlest of guidance.
"Girls have great deal more liberty than
they used to have, she said, "and don't see
that they are any the worse for it,"
The next few days were very delightful to
both ladies, for Evangelne, after a prolonged
inspection Of tho contents of the four trunks,
decided that new dresses would be necessary; !
and though Lady Bagshot did not see the
necessity so plainly as her young friend, she
carefully abstained from offering any opposi-
were just at that time owing to Sir Henry's
meanness) little strained, and she was very
pleased to be able to introduce a customer
who ordered freely, was indifferent to prices,
and shared the transatlantic partiality for
paying cash. And then the consulting, the
choosing, the fitting, the taking in and let
ting out, the reftting and trying on-al
these arc pleasures too subtle and too sweet
l., A.. I, >. -
hended by that half Of humanity which Is
prosaically clad by tailors.
do not propose 70 give an account of Miss
Shorts triumphs in society. Equipped for
conquest, she conquered. Girls who were
envious of her COOL looks couldn't help adj
miring her frocls, and though she neither
whistlod nor played the banjo, she was still
a striking social s{,2coss and got almost as
much attention as the Manganese monarch
himself.
"She is really very entertaining" said Sir
Henry to his wife, st is like page out of
Bret I[arto to listen to her-tho Society
upon the Stanislow,' 'heaving rocks and all
that sort of thing, don't you know"
Miss Shorts careva can be traced by the
curious in the columns Of the society papers,
and details of her dresses can be gauhered
from morning paper which devotes a good
deal Of its space to millinery and tho kindred
subjects.
"GottysburGville Takes the Cakel" is the
heading of tho paragraph which describes
Et angelnes attire at tho very distinguished
garden party have alluded to-
And through all these splendors Miss Short |
bore herself with tact and dexterity which |
won the enthusiastic appreciation of her cha
peron And even if sho was sometimes a |
little unguarded in her talk, this very indis.
erection seemed to have its purpose.
For example, one Sunday she and Lady |
Bagshot were sitting for little while in the
park, and Sir Engefeld Green had come and
secured the next chair. A young lady passed
and bowed slightly to Miss Short, who ro-
turned the salute.
"You know Miss Phippsl" queried the
baronet.
~ met her last night at Lady Bounder's |
She didn't seem to know a soul, and sat in |
corner. Thought she must be just taking
rootn
81 wondcr,n remarked the baronet, 'that
she could get in there at all. She isrich, you
know, but bad style. Her fathers in the
city, in the talow business. Her brother was
in my regiment, and they used to call him
DIPS you Know
MISS snort dldl laugh
wen slo salu, suppose IL IS very
funny; but then my lather was IN business,
too, aad there Is not mighty much difference
between laiioW ana OIL
Inc Daronet looked very serious.
"Oh, but, Miss short he SAID 10 an anx-
100 tone, you Know you are an American,
and that makes al the difference, you KNOW"
why does Ii n she inquired
ION, don't know why 1t docs, but 1t does,
you know. ASK Lady Bagshot. Besides,