Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-08-04


NEW York, July 2o-Somehow, in the
summer time if one stays in New York,
one sees an element that isn't visible dur
ing the few days that the fashionable peo-
PIE call THE season." For instance,
Mademolselle Languor slowly moves
Through waltz at Newport or Bar Harbor
ana quietly requests her partner not to re-
verse, because It is so "unpleasantly Amer
scan But Maggie, on the east side can
dance, and dance no matter how hot the
night is, and would think very little of
partner who couldn't reverse her in tho
received fashion. 1t is a fashion that is
decidedly energetic. But she is used to H.
After she has consented to "twr,n She
Is violently seized by the young man,
clutched closely to his bosom, his huge
red hand is spread ont on her back, while
his other one, grasping hers, is stretched
out the full length of the arm and works
up and down like a pump handle
Mademoiseile lIanguor might feel that She
was being held rather closely but Maggie
never thinks Of such thing. And Vet
!. etiquette rules with an iron rod at any ball
on the east side, and the gentleman or lady
who fails to observe all It's rules is simply,
but firmly, bounced long before the even
ing is over.
'INTERDucE ME- TO SOME GIRL"
IL Tommy comes into the hall and has
no "lady friend, but knows some of de
1eliers, he gives one Of them a nudge
under the arm, and says "Interduce me To
some girl Then follows the introduce
ton. Tommy is gently but emphaticaly
iPrahced up to young woman whose
costume is gay with PINK streamers and
who is, as friend near her remarks
"gettin' her wind after prolonged
waltz. Her gentleman friend says, "Ar
Tommy Flaherty, let me interducse You to
Miss Maggie O'Hara." Maggie gives a
smirk and a bow, the streamers fly in
every direction, one getting over the neck
OF her steady company, and Mr.. Elaherty
shuff1es on one foot, and SAYS, PLEASED to
meet YOU" You'd think there would be
some conversation after this, but there
isn't. Maggie looks at her steady and
then she looks at his friend; then she
straightens all the pink ribbons, and
when the music begins She taps her foot
'linpatiently on the iioor.
She hasn't come there to improve her
mind; she hasn't come there to extend her
circle Of acquaintance She has come
there for one thing only, and that is to
dance hopping his feycred brow with
handkerchief that has pink MONKEYS on
It's border, Mr.. Flahcrty says to the steady,
say, CHIMNEY, kin | give Miss Maggie
twirl? And CHIMNEY, looking with pride
on his possession, atfably answers.
YOU KIN TAKE HER"
Then they begin to dance, and they
never stop until the music does all over
That hall, no matter what is whirlinE and
twiring, Maggie's pink ribbons are iloat-
ing to and fro, and Alaggie's bright face
shows how She is enjoying herself. The
dance over, Mr.. Flaherty starts to return
her to CHIMNEY, and the three of them sit
down, and Mr.. Flaherty entertains them
with a glass of so-called beer-that is to
say, 1t is three-quarters foam and one
quarter beer. CHIMNEY tells how Maggie
and he won the prize at the last dance, and
Maggie fondly says: There amt no
gentleman i'll the ward that can give the
steps that he can
Soon the music begins, and to Magge's
surprise She is permitted to dance again
with the stranger, She suggests to him
that she would like to stop when the
dance is about half over, and tells him
that she wants TO be taken where Chimmv
IS. In her face is a combination of sorrow
and suspicion.
MAGGlE's LABOR AGITATION.
CHIMNEY is soon found; he is sitting at
table with four other men, one of whom
IS violently npbraiding all employers, who
is insisting that the worklngman doesn't
get his due, and is advising the rest OF the
party to 60 out and strike for higher
wages. All the fight in Chimmy is IN. |
Maggie stands behind him for just min |
ute, then she puts her hand on his shoulder, |
Startled, he sees her, Then she looks The
tiaN way iS 'alhllS rISnu straight III the |
lace, and she says; "Chimmy will have
nothin' to do with yous. You got no bust |
ness talkln' this way to decent men |
you're loafer yourself, who lets your
poor wife earn your bread and butter for |
you, while you're runnin round talkn'
and talkin' and doin' nothin' but takin'. |
Chimmy's got a good place, and a good |
employer, and he does good work, and he
gets good wages, and if you did the same |
poua nave the respect of everybody, in |
Mead OF pein' supported by a sick woman.
What did your Anarchist friends do for
YOU when your two children died last
winter? Nothin' 1t was honest WORT.
men like CHIMNEY who took their money
aand buried them pore little souls, and who
fixed your wife so she could rest Tor a week
or 10 days? Don't come around here with
your nonsense aboutthe workingman being
better than his employer; he's Just as good
and Just us independent when he does good
work, but when he's lazy hound like
you he deserves just what he gets, and
that's too good for him. Come on, CHIMNEY;
I'm going to the floor committee to have
This man put out"
CHIMNEY looks very downcast, but there
IS an expression. about Maggie's mouth
ana hrmness in the way the ribbons
hang that mean victory or death.
MAGGIE HAS MR.. HOGAN FIRED.
She goes up to one of the floor commit
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mustache and many badges, and she saws,
say, MI. Muliigan, that fool of Hogan,
VINO does nothing but work mischief and
never buys any beer is maxim trouble
between my CHIMNEY and me Now, Won
KNOW me, and You know that there amt d
glrl that comes 20 these balls that makes
them pay as well us | do, and il that
Hogan amt put out at unct, me and my
company go, and we never comes back 10
more, Mr. Mulligan gave his best bow
and said he would do anything to oblige
LADY IKE Miss Maggie, So, with the assist
ance OF bouncer, MIR. Hogan is helped
out of the hall, I'm sure Maggie and i
sent up the same prayer, that he might be
kicked out OF every place where he tried to
lnflame the minds OF the honest workmen
because he was lazy cur himself.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT FINEElEs.
You look down on the ballroom, and it
suddenly strikes You that never in your
ne dld you see so many yards of ribbon
pink and pale green seem to be the
favorite colors. There are ribbons hanging
from shoulders there are ribbons arranged
as braces, there are ribbons that hang
down in straight independence from the
neck, and there are ribbons Caressing a
waist and tied in long loops and ends at
the back 1t is a fashion that has takcn
on the East Side. First. because ID is
thought pretty next, because it's cheap.
The shabbiest of dresses is supposed 10 1
look less shabby, is pink streamners float
from the shoulders, and the scantest of $
sKlrts IS believed TO have its defects hidden !
j sash ribbon is worn with it. Ii Is a bit i
painful to you and Inc, for after ali il Is
not only the desire to look we'll that makes
these girls SO anxious about their IiItle !
tineries, but it is the desire to look well in :
the eyes OF somebody for whom they care. i
Just as Madeinoiselle Ianguor assumes her /,
finest Parisian gown ana wears d white !,
rose close to her dark hair, because She