The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-09-24
FORTY GIRLS FROM WALES.
A LIVELY INVASION OF BEAUTY At
THE HOTEL ST GEORGE

They Have just Won q Prize for Singing ut
Chicago. and They Have Lots OF Fun
While Mrs. Davies IL Not Looking.
From Capt. Tumbridge. the proprietor. down
to tho most reckless hall boy-the eamut In
eludes the guests-the inmates OF the Hotel
st. George IN Brooklyn are in b state OF be-
Wilderment. delight and surprise. Capt
Tumbridge is continually blushing and smil-
ing and saying things which he. himself. does
not exactly understand The hall boys. being
black. do not blush. but they wear q grin which
Is most expressive. The guests-oh we'll. it
depends entirely upon their sex and their age.
Forty girls-oh. gentle reader! Stop and
count forty-all young. red-cheeked. bright
eyed. we'll built. with lips like cherries teeth
like pearls eyes like stars. hair like sunlight
on the ocean, forms like Grecian statues.
voices like sorrowful niRhtingales-all this
dazzling beauty swept into the hotel and-it
Is painful to think OF Unregistered upon tho
hotel book.
Capt Tumbrdge Is in daze. Tho hall boys
laugh and say Huh! huh" And the guests
you never saw a more agitated lot OF young
men in your lie
- Nor gan wv cymru gyd" There is a
powerful meaning hidden in those words. for
one Of the girls repeated Thorn. And she went
On to say:
1t Is so strange! Everywhere that We
nave been people-men in particular-hhve
looked at US as though We were some peculiar
Kind OF beings. Now. don't see anything
strange about us. Do your In Wales. whore
We come from, we never take SO much interest
In strangers But you Americans are SO hos
pltabe Nearly every man we meet wants to
hieus to theatre or concert. and sends US
confectionery and flowers. l could Just live
here forever"
These girls all came over from Wales several
weeks ago to compete at the Worlds Fair for
the prize for the best ladies' choir They won
It And now. glowing with triumph. smiling
with happiness. and suffering from surfeit OF
candy they are on their way back to Cardiff
and the land OF "genyf Ode all rhoddir
eynensdra / rai," and other things. They came
here under tho leadership OF Mrs. Clara
hovello Davies. With their music. however.
this story has nothing to do: the critics In
Chicago have attended to that. Their jollity
their smcs. their ripping nonsense, and their
feminine ways would interest any man In the
world.
lhey came down to breakfast yesterday
morning much as a troop OF cavalry would
MAKE charge The other guests were sitting
N'he tablos reading their papers. and eating
N mat hali-hearted way In which people in
ole cities usually eat their morning meal. All
Nohce arose Il buzz Of many voices and the
,uSt'inG OF feminine garments. The guests
'ooKed at each other in mild surprise. The
ttouhds grew louder and tho tread OF healthy
v ~. became audible and the surprise became
EEsater until. ala ut once with u swish and a
a So% ana 4 bumn forty girls came rushing
tImh mo lining room stairs. two steps at q
nt use' ana landed, flushed aud glowing. in tho
'SeSSSSHh'o Of the guests
mat a Jolly big room!"
IN Isn't II loyelym
ytsss SoAss Hio Come "TGh sec Stt 1s
PAR ribbon 10 looscl" Where do We sitr"
MO We al sit at ono table," "Whsre---"
Nv, Why" ''Br-r-r-r-r-r-r-r!! I" all
ob Mn,yHS = and forks were dropped and eyes
tir.i%, N amaHcment The Welsh singers. on
nttTVD unconscious OF tho attention they were
Sso,s lpG. marched down the hall to their
Wa'n ah' began TO eat. 1t was a pleasure to
MAJ ma men, whether they ate or whether they
kJ'srI 'h"lr waists and sighed because they
tIa tfalrl too much. Wales Is undoubtedly
sucb nrall NEST land on earth. such checks,
M } - such appeiitesl
loaEni az" through seven courses and then
wait"r iGsce'hnEly at Mr.. Gibbs the head
lore. w." was feeling as he never felt be-
sating an MI , ntheI guests cheeriully stopped
soon 40 tho girls at one table finished