Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
DISPATCH BOXES.
Plenty of English Notions In New York,
NOTHING of Thfs Sort

Plenty of English Notions In New York But
Nothing of This Sort.
mo. thanks, 1 detest jewelry, and
have already had four card cases, sill
yer toilet set, two gold fillets, a whole
cargo of books, and one of those new
enameled orchids given me. There is
but one solitary thing for which my soul
yearns, 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. 'sPll get it if it
breaks the bank-but-wouldy you mind,
dear, explaining just what the thing is
like ?''
''Don't you know she returned.
"Why, 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"
81 suppose 1 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 GESTURE,
waved the shrinking girl from her pres
ence; how the old lawyer suddenly APP
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 rivet!
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 Well, that is pre-
cisely the style of thing 1 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 bandboxes, and
every variety of dressing and jewel case,
thew sought an authority and laid their
needs before him. The clerk knew
right away what was wanted, but said
that not single specimen was to be
had in the house.
''It is curious he explained, s'that
Americans are so very slow in taking
up some really clever English ideas and
yet go daft over stupid lot of foreign
affectations of luxury. No more secure
or convenient way of carrying ones
treasures can be found than in one of
those English traps Several years ago.
Uhon William Wo1darf on
pointed Minister to Italy, Tiffany made
him gorgeous one. It held his official
as well as private papers, and was a
triumph in CONT ined beauty and con-
venience. OF the softest, costliest
leather, richly finished and embossed.
the price was some hundreds of dollars.
Since then a numb of Mr.. 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, hav-
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, leath 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 sports
mans shop compromised on decent
looking bait-box.-N- Y. Sun.