Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-28
ONE FAIR DAMsEI's WOE.
The True StOsJ of What Befell washingtOn
8iyl At Party

"MY DEAR" SAID A SOCIETY GIRL 10
4NAber bosom friend, Il found gray hair
| this morning. which 1 sm sure must be the re-
suit of an adventure I had the other night al
the Suooks' party. HyoY will promise ON your
sacred word end honor net - tell"
II promise
"Well, y,u know young Jir,my Traddles?"
"rIsed - fight nth him when we were little. "
He took me 90 SUPPER
"a bad selection on your part. for he almost
slvsys takes toe much wine.
$50 have heard He mey have beer iinger-
Ing for more champagne and so left me longer
| than he should have in the corner Of lac sup
per room, after bringing me some terrapin and
sailed. Anyhcw ] wanted chicken croquette,
and asked Young msn whose face was famil-
lar to me to bring me one. He did SO promptly
and engaged him in conversation. thought
he was rather bashful, and his reply to my first
remark was simply, Yes. mees.' His accent
made me sure that WAS cafe in saving:
~ think met you the othec night at the
French legationT
mo. mees; L do not think so.' he replied
But We hat met on other happy occasions
by this time ! was convinced that he
was an attache of one OF the foreign
embassies have weakness for foreigners.
gigglod and said:
alt is very nice Of you to say that they were
"'Ah, mademoiselle must know it, he re-
sponded, with an air of ectasy.
but you foreigners are so given to compli-
ments that one hesitates to believe ANYTHING
you say
'Ah, mees,' he said, signing heavily re
ladies OF Amerique are so vary beauteefal.'
Evidently he was not blshful as had
,xnl Al.
ventured to inquire in what respects he con-
sidered that American women eXcelled as to
loneliness.
I'm effery respect, mees, he replied. Par
ticularly in re beauty of-what you call it-ah.
yes. their hides
Il couldn't help giggling again at that but
checked myself and corrected him. saying:
lyon must say skins mot hides
- But, he objected. with an accent Of doubt.
haf been told that 1t is not proper to speak OF
young ladies' shins.'
"rhen giggled some more. but not wishing
70 pursue tbs discussion further. / changed the
subject and said as saw the delinquent Jimmy
T,addles making his way in my direction. that
my day vas Tuesday and 1 should be very
pleased to bave him call. / permitted the
amiable foreigner 10 relie7e me of nv empty
plata courtesy which he thereupon pro-
"eeded TO bes.ow also upon seven or eight other
girls in my immediate neighborhood. extend
ing with the utmost GOODNESS limo Of the
plates IN order to avoid the yulgari;y of piling
them along one arm all the way from his finger
tips TO his chic. Then, waving a napkin ut me
With his other hand, he said as he turned away:
II will gn me much pleasure to call upon
you, m ses.
Within the last thirty seconds The situation
had suddenly dawned upon me. L had been
conversing with waiter! No one had OBJ
served 1t, / think. because there was such a
crowd and 80 much chattering going on, bat 1
was SO provoked that could have killed Jimmy
Iraddles when he reached me. somew what the
worse for superfuous glass of extra dry. As
it was made him take me directly out of the
supper room Just in time to oscrhear the in
teresting foreigner tell another waiter in the
doorway that he had fat IN complete ma-ash
on la file Ia plus belle de 10 soir
''Goodness!' calculated the conidant
"lou may well say SO, my dear. And now
suppose that the creature should actually callr'