The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-10-23
A NEW YORK DUDE.
A Genius Whom the World Calls
Fool

q Fool
short timo ago, says a New York
correspondent in the San Francisco
Nfg5naut, while sitting at a table ina
Gooney Island restaurant with the re-
ti1tthteble p, best company to be
found in town, our attention was at
tractcd by the entrance Of a most Pc
eiAfar-looling man. Every ones atten-
attracted in the same direc-
ton 1t was funny to see how the con-
tagion Of amused curiosity spread from
table to table, till in the farthest- cor
her of the room people were craning
necks and bullying their eyes to
have a look at the newcomer. Then,
after a glance of arrested surprise, each
turned to his neighbor with some ejac-
ulation- of wonder on his lips. The
cause OF the commotion was only
dude. 1t would hardly be worth while
describing him, but Western man,
who had lived in New York once, told
me that there was not a genuine dude
west Of the Mississippi, so the type may
enough -excnse the descrip-
ton.
lie was with q friend, a good-looking
Young fellow and the room being
crowded they stood, for some moments,
in the doorway, looking rather aim
lessly about. Then waiter hailed
thGm over in our direction, and they
sat near us. The dude was perhaps
twenty three or tour years of age, and
looked younger. He was tall, long
avfr al nd cd
feebly, with chest followed, and his
chin stuck long way out of the high
est collar that ever encircled neck.
lie wore loose, light clothes, shoes of
the most amazing length and ending in
sharply pointed toes, white-duck gait
erS, and carried cane with a ,bent-over
top. This he dragged behind him as
he walked sin,-as If too weak to lift it.
As he entered he took off his hat, worn
back on his head like a little boys, and
disclosed shining hair, brushed we'll
down on his forehead and parted up the
back and combed forward over his
ears. AS he read the carte one could
study his face. 1t was perfectly yapid.
Tho forehead receded, like an anthro-
poid's. from this eyebrows. The chin
receded, like a rodent 8, from the lower
lip In profile, the head was like
triangle, with the tip of the nose for
the apex. On the overhanging upper
FfT there was mustache curled up at
the points, and the eyes, under straight
brows, were peculiarly dull and life
less, They looked like the eyes of a
very old person, or birds when 1T
Sleeps. - -
Settled in his chair, he stuck glass
in his eye and looked about, but without
any appearance of interest. He seemed
listless and lifeless, the product of an
=. exhausted race Ills figure seemed, to
fail together, as though the muscles OF.
his back had lost their power, and occa-
sionally; when his friend spoke to him,
he shot his long neck up out of his col
lar like swapping turtle. There were
but two things to be said in his favor:
he looked clean and he had beautiful
hands-the long-fngered, ose-jointed,
supple hands, with languid movements,
which bespeak the artistic.temperament
and, sometimes, that their possessoris
:. well-born.~ The people at the surround
ing tables stared at this creature as
though he had been Buffalo Bill or Mrs.
Langtry, and he seemed as YEARLY OBJ
4=4-4LXiaAs= Of their attention as he was of
every thing else.
j, Presently he met B--'s' glance, and
with stately and absurdly affected air
bowed and then looked away. b,
with much gravity, returned the salute,
then said in low voice:
What would you take that fellow to
be?p
IAN cgregfous ass. " 80
That's what every one says and
thinks What would you say If | told
youhe was exactly the contrary9'
That you were an ass YOURSELF
sNeH know that fellow Intimately
went TO school with him and then to
College"
And he bows to you as if he met you
last night at a ball"
That's his little way-his weakness.
! understand him and we get on per-
teetly, don't believe there are .half-a-
,--lt1l7en-peenle in New York, besides my
self, wig understand or appreciate that
man DO you know that he's very near
~ genius"
! He looks as if he might be. ] never
lac -bIta-oAe4 genius -in-lny life, and he
Mas ono Of the most successfully, tri-
4mphantly idiotic people that ever
eanc in contact WITH
*Ihat-fel Iow--his names Tompkins-
lsnt in the least idiotic. i think the
root Of his eccentricities arises from the
iact that he's merhfdly sensitive. He
Was always little queer in his style,
ana he has been guyed all his life. Hrs
used to now; he doesn't mind. That
Indifference Of his to the sensation Ne
creates is not in the least affected, it's
.perfectly genuine. He really doesn't
care OF know what people say or think
OF him, Half the time he doesn't see
ttthem.7 = =-==
Are you going to try to make me be-
heYe-1hat. the man who has the facial
angle Of an ourang is visionary
= dreanpes'' .s~
No-%he's not dreamer; that's not
ms type of mind. But fate has forced
nam into a sort OF isolation. As ] said
before, he was always queer, silent and
i i.4 You can imagine how fellow
ike that is trested at school, and after.
ward at college, Ills ifs was martyr.