Telegram-herald., 1890-06-07

twenty. This Is q gc-ahead ace; ask
her, and prove II IL isn't.
she skipped ont Of her cradle away
there In the ancestral home IN ClOd-
shire when her half-yesr anniversary
came around. turned a somersaglt clean
over her old nurses PROSTATE form and
bounded into her brothers gymnasium
with a war-whoop that made their ribs
rattle with terror.
The girl Of the period is wrongly
named She isn't girl any moro, strict
ly speaking, IN tho old English mean
ing Of the term, and she is not OF the
period. There's nothing OF the full
stop about her hardly pause enough for
a comma Suppose We rechrlsten her
the belle on the dash-rhymes with
mash, don't you see. This IS the belle
OF Cockaigne, OF course, and yet, as We
know our London as lovingly as the
coalrgact knows the anatomy OF his can
vas-back, | think VIC shall be able TO
get lust a snap yiow OF the pure, ursO-
phisticated English miss from the prov.
inces II we were in u certain snug corner
OF Regents Park where it touches St
Johns wood 4 goodly number OF these
fine old mansions are now boarding
schools, where country girls get their
London finish.
Pretty, OF course; captivating? we'll,
IN away. Lacking in finish a bit, just
trife raw. high-stepping action wanted
"Why, you are judging park pony
by the standard OF ! Life Guardsman's
charger" That is SO, therefore let's
bark back 20 fair dealings with the fair
darlings. What is more lovely than TO
watch two OF these charming pussies
chatting over their iavorites in the big
boy school at the opposite corner. But
we must not bet-ay State secrets. Why,
certainly not. even If we had the chance,
which the subtle diplomatists never per-
nit.
Do Won tAink. honestly now, that
Gwendolino really believes Ciccly is
confdin- 90 her the veritablo secret she
asked her 70 share? II you do. Gwen
doesn't, any more than she expects
Ciss 70 be taken in by hcr own protesta-
ton that she hates Gus but adores Bob.
A finishing torn in London school
gives 4 marvellous gloss OF art 70 tho
charms Of nature at sweet seventeen
SKIP year or SO, and 10. the dear
creature is "out," out Of girlery into
flirtery, out OF her sweet seventeen into
her sharp onc-scorc or thereabOuts. See
With what guileless art she plays upon
her instrument I mean tho victim
transfxed at her side. She knows how
70 make his heartstrings quiver with
Wagnerian discord of vaguenesseS.
she will wind up, at her soreEo pleas
ure, By tying those strings up into the
tanElodest knot that was ever cut apart
in q divorce court She doesn't really
mean il, oh no, but OH isa't it scrump-
tious 70 feel one has a good Walter
dangling from ones banFlef
Third season "out" carly COckney ma
tur.ty. full blece OF the firtage period,
old enough 70 need 10 escorts, young
enough 70 hccd no criticisms, they form
companies for skirnishing whithersO-
ever thcro is the spico Of danger. Tho
soldiers tournament-the very thingl
We're ever fr-ps Of harmless bent more
FOLLY than these three grave and rev.
Crend unsophisticated females "a thoy
took hanson down 20 Olympia and
paid their way in % tho balcony "all by
our very own selves. there" Below
them staIwart guar1smen whacking
each other into dust-clouds with mighty
quarter-stsves and fBncing-stiCks
Above tbcE a SQUAD Of handsome young
officers Kissing thoir necks ia their at
tcmpts Co qri1 She trio Of critics in pct
ticoats in the box beneath. Around
them thousands. tens Of thousands ot
admitting eyes, shooting glowing beams