The morning call., 1891-06-02
BARONESS IDA.
She Bears Her New HOnOrs With
Becoming Dignity.
The Robinson Family Besiegsd by Callers and
New Friends-Ida Will Probably Go to
Germany at an Early Date.

Since the publication of the romance
from real life Of which Ida Green is the
young heroine, the modest three-story fiat
| at TIC Montgomery avenue, in which her
stepfather, j. J. Robinson, resides, has
| been honored with more callers than have
| been noted in many month past.
The family is fortunately secure to q GER
| tain extent against intrusion. for those who
seek to interview the newly discovered
Baroness have to press a button communi-
eating with an electric alarm bell in the
| third story and then make known their err
rand through a speaking tube.
a CALL reporter, who went through this
ordeal yesterday, found the door swing
briskly open, as If the catch had been re-
leased by unseen hands, and the stairway
was revealed with suddenness suggesting
the "open sesame" of the fairy tales ne had
read in his youth. Ida and her mother
were in waiting at the top, and the door of
very comfortably furnished apartment was
opened for him to pass in.
AN AMERICAN GIRL.
Miss Ida is only beginning to realize what
a reverence tor titles is hidden beneath the
Republican or Democrat veneer of a certain
class of American citizens who have learned
somewhat to despise the views of Washing
ton, jefferson and William Penn. That is to
say, Ida has already been considerably
Iionized, and if she were not very sensible
dignifed little miss, with a strong fund of
real American pride and independence, she
would probably have her head turned al
ready.
But for girl barely 10 years of age, the
little beiress may be fairly credited with a
-t,rtp M n dot ooin
that neither money nor titles can procure
happiness Of the wholesome sort, that in
spires the Obseryant man of the world with
conviction that a strain OF good blood runs
in the girls veins. In other words, the
motto that sumo people are born great,
some achieve greatness and some have great
ness thrust upon them, would seem to apply
to her in the first of the three acceptations.
Ida has no false delcacy, partnesS or
affcctatiOn about her. Being asked il she
could play the piano, she essayed a few
lines of the "BOulanger March" with the
frank admission that she could not under
stand the bass. The movements of her
right wrist were somewhat Stiffeued from
the circumstance that she fractured the
right arm just below the elbow a few
months ago and will have at least year to
wait before the bone RECEIVERS its S0lIdity
and the muscles their natural tone.
The girl is Of slim figure, not exactly
beautiful, even if she is the daughter or
the Baron Won BarnekOw, but with pleas
ing and decidedly intelligent face, bright
eyes with finely curved brOWs ana hair
done UP in four long dark rlnglets, one Of
which is brought over the left shoulder to
the front Otherwise her dark locks are
combed high up from a high forehead,
which latter, with a long pointed chm, gives
the girl a thoughtful, intellectual appear
ance. In physical development she does
not compare with American girls of her
age; on the other hand her intellectual
powers are probably two years ahead. She
has an old-lool1ing face for child, to ex-
press the thing exactly.
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