The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-01-11


donation signifcative of bigotry and
prejudice. His neck projected forward,
and his figure was thin and curved like
the new moon. There was Mr.. Beau
fort, once clergyman, now an actor,
large headed, small bodied man, with
big nose and deep set eyes, extremely
graceful and deliberate in his attitudes
and gestures, wearing in repose an ex-
preston of thoughtful melancholy, as if
rejecting that he had been clergyman,
but frightening, when addressed, with a
smile of almost excessive sweetness, as
if remembering that he was an actor.
Such of these gentlemen as possessed
wives were accompanied by them, but
the latter were for the most part like
the e1lgravings of ladies in fashion pa
pers-though their faces might be pref
ty, it was the dresses you looked at and
recollected. When an American lady is
distinguished at all she is apt to appear
almost too much so. Not to mention
the hostess of the evening, there were,
for example, Mrs. March, of the Wom-
ems Political association, slim, erect,
holding her elbows close to her sides,
with tight business mouth and yeah
ing, melancholy eyes; possessing an in
sufferable command of language, en-
HANGED by faculty of seeming to re-
press more than she uttered; Miss Kor-
ner, of German extraction, with short,
sandy hair, pale, prominent eyes, snub
nose and protruding jaw; her volubility
was as great as that of Mrs. March,
and her rapidity greater; but whereas
the former lady's conversation was
mainly explanatory and argumenta-
tive, Miss Korners was interrogatory
and anecdotical; Mrs. Bright, beauty,
the wife of wealthy brewer, holding
herself as if she were on horseback, rush
ing at a topic or an enterprise as if it
were a five barred gate, and forgetting
it the next moment, headstrong, enthu-
siastic, blase; she had embraced Her
bert Spencer during the last season, and
reproduced him in jets and sparkles;
Mrs. Musgrave, the dramatic reader.
But why continue? The popularity of
New York society is that no two people
are alike; you have to focus yourself
anew III CNCIs pC1SOIl yOd ll1CCI. WliClC-
as abroad the difficulty is to distinguish
Mr.. Smith from Mr. Brown and Mrs.
Jones from Mrs. Robinson. People there
seem to be born, bred and nodded in
platoons; the various social grades each
has the same traditions, the same pros
poets, the same resources, the same top
les of conversation, the same tailors, and
the same faces.
But in New York we have not settled
down yet; our people have what may be
called New York look, but there is no
New York type-the former being a
trick of facial expression merely; the
latter matter of feature and struct-
ure. But we are preparing to people a
hemisphere, while the European nations
have to pack themselves together like
sardines in a box, or pickles in jar.
mathematically, economically and IL,
revocably, and by natural selection have
long since lost their elbows and idiosyn,
crasies. We are all elbows on this side
Of the water, especially since we have
ceased any longer to be all fists and
shoulders.
In addition to the guests above men
toned there were several of our Older
acquaintances-Gen. lingo, Hamilton
Jocelyn and Bellingham. When dinner
was announced Wallie Dinsmore took
: in Mile. Mariana and seated her at hi!
right hand, and it turned out that Bel
bingham sat next below her, much to hi
displeasure. He told himself that h
owed Wallie one. On the other side O
him sat Mrs. Bright, whom, indeed, h,
: had taken into the table. The othe
gentlemen thought that Bellingham haC
nothing to complain Of Mrs. Bright
who could interest herself about almos
anything, provided it did not last NOR
than an hour or SO, noticed that he
companion was good looking, and deter
mined to exploit him on the subject O
architecture. She had read Ruskin'
''Stones of Venice" and had seen classi,
l and medieval antiquities abroad.
Y Accordingly she rode at him wit
: great dash and courage, and at first h
: answered her graciously enough Be
S fore long, however, he perceived tina
a she did not know the meaning of he
}. own information, and then he becam
/, laconic. Young Mrs. Bright, on the 9th
: er hand. was not accustomed to rebuffs
n and Bellingham's reticence only stimr
u lated her enterprise. She sparkled on lik
cataract in rainbow, determined tina
j he should fall in love with her at an
|, rate. Meanwhile his other ear was be
It ing visited occasionally by the low an
: varied music of voice the freshest an
0 most melodious, he thought, he had eve
y listened to.
d At times, too, as the dishes wei
passed, the lovely speaker would lea
/ toward him, so that her soft white plum
IS age brushed his shoulder. The Nj
o rama and Wallie We're having a most Ell
tertaining conversation. It was nc
y about architecture, and yet Bellinghal
felt attracted by it. Wallie was smilin
: and chuckling, and ever and anon NAL
l. ing some pithy or arch remark. TIL
:, diva seemed to be attempting to descriE
/ the mental visions which certain kline
+ of music called up for her. At last sh
d said, ''The end is like the awful rose {
o dawn and it seems to keep unfoldin
2, more and more, but the twilight darker
r. between, and you can only feel that I'll
Il great flower blooms at last in the morn
# ing of the other world
= AT the same moment Mrs Bright WI
e saying to Bellingham: ''In that wa,
it don't you see, the second and third boxt
would have just as good view of I'll
y stage as the first and yet the parqut
d wouldn't lose anything. Now, isn't thu
is q nice plan?"