The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-09-27

arrived In England with only d few
pounds and the kudos resulting from
distinguished admiration to support her.
For few months she had been, in her
own words. a big boom and had lived on
credit. This credit exhausted. she left
the shores of Britain to indulge on the
other side of the pond in many a hearty
laugh at the guileless Britishers who had
blindly mistaken her uncultured vulgar.
lty for American wit
Mad with rage when his gigantic bill
was returned TO him from Miss boilers
address at the Merropole. bearing the
legend IN red ink, LEFT; address not
known, the senior partner In Crunnp &
Crushit wrote to Lady Charlotte Grad
dock to inform her ladyship that as he
had lost considerably by her introduction
Of Miss boilers as though had wished
to introduce the minxr thought LADY
Charlotte indignantly he felt that he had
a right to expect that her ladyship
would help him to meet that loss by
paying for the dresses that he had
then in preparation. He had charged as
little as possible and incIosed an account
for the two dresses for the theatrical per
formance Ordinarily the price asked
would De eighty guineas. He would
only charge seventy, and he expected a
check immediately. The costumes would
be sent by a special messenger, to whom
Lady Charlotte might intrust the check.
as he would receive orders not to leave
the Abbey without payment. This let
ter, in conjunction with her utter inabil-
ity to comply with its demands, increased
those sensations that made life and the
preparations for the play a burden al
most too great to bear.
As Of late years charity has proved a
very convenient social stepping stone.
Lady Charlotte suggested to Mr.. Wash
ington Potts that charity should be made
the raison d'etre Of the performance. A
ritualistic vicar of neighboring parish
was soon found and easily persuaded
that the cause Of Rituaiism required that
in his little tumble down and moss grown
church, with its ancient square tower
lop sided and sinking sideways into. the
soil. the moldering horse box pews
should be replaced by open Gothic
benches, that the damp and woolly toned
harmoniunf should retire in favor Of an
American organ In fact, that the
whole Of the interior of the parish church
of Sieepston. which had begun life as a
Roman Catholic chapel, which had been
whitewashed under Cromwell. and gem
orally uglided by succeeding generations
of Low Church Wears, should now be
beautifed and transformed into temple
OF Ritualism.
There was to be no vulgar reclame, no
one was to canvass the charity. A short
| paragraph in one of the best papers only
would make it known that there was 70
be an open air performance for the pur-
/ pose of raising money for local charity,
that fauteuils would be three guineas.
that family ticket to admit three
would be five guineas, that a special
train would leave Paddington, and
that two or three dozen of the more
distinguished spectators would be enter
tanned at luncheon By the master Of Rem
INSTALL Abbey.
Lady Charlotte had the disposal of the
tickets, and within few days of the an
nouncement of the performance the
greater number Of seats had been taken
The charge was SO high people who
thought ten shillings and sixpence dear
for stall at the Lyceum, felt sure the
performance, although amateur, must
be really worth seeing, and people no: in
society rushed at the bait. and very
few in society and few on the i'm
mediate outskirts received compli-
mentary tickets and were invited to the
luncheon.
A play Of the Elizabethan era was I'M
earthed and clothed in chaste modern
garb by penniless and aristocratic
younger son. who affected long hair,
weird garments and literary turn Of
mind, and made little money and a
great repute in his own family by con-
tributing paragraphs to weekly papers,
and who annually wrote very weak
and mystic novel, devoured by class. of
readers with an appetite for anything
written by an honorable. baronet, or lady
of title.
To Be Continued