The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-07-20

sick, and she has been told she mustn't 40
cept invitations from gentlemen to 90 to the
theatre or opera in London OF Paris, but
she thinks it very hard that q girl who 10
give mp her own country and her friends to
study profession must coop herself up
evenings and be lonesome among strangers
and SEQ nothing and say no always. just TO
avoid offending something that they call
propriety. And even the beast Who pohes
his bald head out of his stateroom in the
morning to bawl for mutton chop is tanned
and offers her his arm and points out to her
the porpoises.
All, yes; the dowagers may fight down
stairs, but on the hurricane We have our
airtations. We reckon mp the fortune Of
the rosy English girl who skips rope with
the children, although she is IS, and whose
aunt has made $3,OdO,00O out of cheap
theater in London, and when the night has
fallen perhaps if you listen closely You may
hear somebody whisper: Why, your lips
are salty" For, y You must understands saS,l it
and there's really even a CLINT Of white foam
on the waves, and it's very dark, and down
in the music room somebody is singing
NANCY Lee," and if we didn't flirt what
could we do but play cards or bet on the
days run.
going to master the French language on the
voyage has subsidized on Dickens and dis
covered that he makes many slips in his
English, says s'lay'' for .slie." ''be-
tween you and l." and other such dreadful
ness. The rest of us are not up to Dickens,
and there is great futtering of paper
covers.
How happy We are when we reach the
candy period. Candy is for the days when
you are past 1.-THE banks'' and we'll conval-
esced from NAL de mer. Then the English
girl tells us how astonished she was when
first invited into candy shop in America.
"Why," said she. I'm not a child"
"But here grown people eat candy"
eyes, but you don't 90 into a shop after
it?''
"How would you get it, then?''
''Oh, but YOU'RE laughing at me-"
And so the days go on. And every morn
ing say to myself to-day will 20 down
every day look down on them washing
their tin plates and pannikins in the tub of
stearning water ON deck. and do not visit
them, but say to myself, am not sorry to
have crossed once with you, hut ones tastes
grow luxurious, and after all this is more
And once again we have our concert and
post it on the bulletin board. Carriages
may be ordered at 1885, and think the
we'll worn joke good one. And once more
| the notice is up that we can obtain that
precious sheet the London Times as soon as
pass the bovine herd, as the actor dubs
those famous bluffs, the ''bull," the ''cow''
and the calf" And once again the screw
of the stanch old Servia ceases revolving.
The lawyer openly begs consolation, for he
is losing his best girl. Brooklyn accepts
his offered escort from Liverpool to Lon
don, and he beams. The tender comes out
to meet us, and a comfortable Irish woman
who has taken the steerage voyage to re.
visit her kin tangles herself up among the
railroad porters, and when she gets unsnarl.
ed remarks with feeling: tits nation Of
thieves, God forgive me if it is my own. y
And the queens redcoats pace the sea wall
and the ox-eyed daisies bloom just az al
home. ELIZA PUTNAM HEAToN.
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