The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-10
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! LII ~ VI III Ia l. Lie
Tho Queer Caprices Of a Society
| Girls Heart.
The same old thing, harkeel It had
been going on for two months. She
answered to all the requirements of
tradition. Her thirty-six points were
unimpeachable. She was as lovely as
a dream. Rich father, had every social
advantages; stood five feet seven in her
French slippers Her hair was the
color of a hickory nut just out of the
shell; her eyes were like wet tur-
Quoise and had delicious ghosts in them
When she was dressed in q close-ftting
suit and had her heather belt on your arm
began to describe involuntary curves.
Suecinctly, she was a beauty and a
belle, and she lived GU Murray Hill
| Parents conservative, benignant, ex-
emplary, liberal Income about thirty
thousand dollars. Belonged to an I'M
exceptional set. Brought up the beauty
guardedly, almost scrupulously. and,
withal, indulgently. They really
thoughtit would be better for her to
marry happily than brilliantly. They
let ON the available and impressionable
men as soon as she was nineteen.
| Les me see; there was de Huyster, of
the yacht club. He went alto pieces
at that rendezvous at Newport. He
saw her from his own yacht. She was
standing on the deck Of the commo-
dorc's vessel in blue suit with a
| jaunty little navy cap On and she
seemed to focus all the bright elements
of oxygen and the sea air and sunshine
that were loose that day. De Huyster
laid formal AID formidable siege. A
lot Of fellows fell back at his approach
and said savagely that they had no
show. De Huyster was worth three
hundred and fifty thousand dollars and
had large expectations. Besides, he
was swell and had Jet black mus
tache. There was nothing on the
record better than the de Huysters and
| when Paul de Hnyster danced with
the beauty lot OF the people said it
was the handsomest couple on the
| floor.
Then there was de Loonay, who
gave her finishing lessons on the harp
for six months and wound up by fall
ing on his knees and tearing his hair
and upsetting the music rack.
Lucille was touched by his dementia.
She lifted him up tenderly, gave him
her cologne and stopped taking lessons
on the harp.
Snoggleson came later. He wrote her
letters with 'ESnoggleson & Sneggleson.
Importers" printed across the top.
Snoggleson was bald-headed and a
bachelor. He had some excellent
characteristics. He remembered when
| the Astor house was built, and he read
the able editorials on tin plate manu-
facture in the papers every day in the
year. He was what the boys called
''solid and SAFE" and he could play
backgammon with the beauty's father
in the library long after the beauty
speeding him, he was SO considerata
and conscientious There was. too, a
sense of security in his presence.
Something told her he would go on
playing backgammon, and wouldn't
| throw himself ON his knees and upset
the music rack, and when he was alb
sent she had a deep a1d abiding faith
that he was reading the article on tin
plate and was thus serenely removed
above all the distractions and petty
issues of the hour.
l ought not to forget Pulque-CyriI
Pulque-because he was rather promi-
nent in the affair. Old Wood Pulque,
his father, was worth about FIVE mil
lion dollars. Young Pulque was the
only heir. He put Lucille on his re-
served list of available women to
marry when he got through sowing his
wild oats. He had . mine in Colorado
and horse n New Jersey named af-
ter her. He paid her attentions at a
water place. and had bis sister send her
father invitations for all the Pulque
receptions. He succeeded IN creating
an impression in his club that he
would marry Lucille whenever he got
his oats disposed %.
In addition to those avowed adm r-
ers there was Or. Meredith Mellow
tone of St Sophia's and Charley Dart
over, of Amherst aud the brilliant cos
mopolite, Ben Huvling. who could
make Welsh rarebit and play on the
cornet and called his den a studio"
and dabhied in OILS
1t must be acknowledged, Therefore,
that Lucille had entered upon the
woma1's career with all modern i'm
prorements- The purely feminine par.
of her existence was largely matter
of adjuncts- She carried half score
| hearts in her sleeve Some of them
represented great wealth, others great
responsibility. and others great social
distinction, and still others great tai
ents.
II was difficult 20 determine what her
Own feelings were. She exercised a most
judicious inpartiahty. She had her
fathers Eberality and liked them all
each one after his OWN kind They
eAEae and were well treated and went
away with clear prospects /. was
grsveiy intimAsed 10 her cv her father
that the tune aad come when she should
! begin 70 think of her future prospects
/ and duties: that the attentions of hall
a sc0ra ID HaaAxla:nAn s~ays M aoast