Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-03

Thanks, awfully. So keyind of you.
am really quite faint for my favorite bev-
erage. Make it weak, please. Do you
know, when l am jaunting about my man
| always carries d tea basket, in which are a
| spirit lamp tea kettle cups and canister
| OF orange Peko, so that he can make my
/ tea whenever l require it, The tea one gets
when travelling is such vile slop. Ny man
knows just how much to measure out for
me, so that L need never fear that it will
be too strong. After several disappointing
experiments he found a canister the lid
OF which holds just enough for one iret
1t was quite fortunate find, / assuah YOU
l would not like to injure my system with
strong drinks"
What Was in His Head.
L wanted to scold him, but / refrained.
! Even an angle worm has it's USE and 1
thought that as for some inscrutable rea-
son the Lord had let the creature live this
long l would not interfere. The tea I'M
loosed his tongue and / found out at last
what lucubration goes on inside the skull
OF creature who thinks he is thinking. 1t
must be a curious tumble that takes place
OF the gray matter, and don't think scien-
lists can have classified 1t yet. / knew he
had been long time in London. and it
| seemed as though there must be something
| there that he could talk about, / asked
what the English thought of the political
situation here, and if he thought that Glad
/ stone would last much longer. 1 ought to
have had more sense.
Politics! My deah madam, I don't know
anything about them. That is getting so
beastly low, don't you know. But as for
Gladstone, told my man 1t was getting dis
| reputable, but l did not think that others
would notice it. l fear shall have to wait
| till can cable to Lunnon for
1 FASTENED to assure him that ii was not
his Gladstone bag that was the subject of
my solicitude, but the premier of England.
| He looked immensely relieved, and sank
back among the cushions with an ennuied
I q 40 49,. lN.,,t
Gladstone, though he believed that he had
seen him at court function. If 1 really
cared to know he would ask his man"
OF course, j declined to trouble him to that
extent. But If l cared to know about Hoole
II know Hoole very we'll, indeed. Very
well, charming manners. Exquisite dresser
Lovely mainland l learned after the ad-
jectives were exhausted that Hoole was his
London tailor! Then he got almost excited
telling me what time he had getting his
topcoats just the right length and the proper
slope to his shoulders.
Positively, / had engaged in vulgah ex-
ercises so long that my shouldahs are quite
squah. don't you know. Pom honah, my
tailor was quite perplexed until he found
way to pad my garments into the propah
slope. 1t was when / decided to have the
g-tailed cutaway coats added to my
wardrobe. 1t is one of those distinguished
looking coats. don't you know. One has to
stand properly or the wearing of this swell
style falls fiat / was quite worn out, but
! pom honah, the fit Is quite lovely"
Then he launched into fiorid description
of a private school somewhere in the W est
End, where a gentleman in reduced cir
cumstances trains a select few in arlsto-
cratic dots and dashes, and 1t Is quite the
"propah capah' to submit oneself to his
charges, If one wishes to be presentably
veneered. The chief function of this private
tutelage is to inculcate "dress-coat man.
ners and to instruct young cads how to
eliminate every atom of expression from
their faces-how paradoxical!-and to stare
/ IL r,vafxF of oil
imbeciles except themselves. II this youth
Is an example, the school must be bloom
ing success. l was never so happy IN my
life as when Dick put in an appearance and
carried the cad off to dinner But 1t was not
until he drew his length up off the couch.
where he had been sprawling, and toddled
off in a vain effort to keep up with DICK
vigorous stride, that l got the fun erect OF
this new school of senile agility. He has
the true kangaroo droop to his back, and
his walk is a cross between the stringhalt
and danse du ventre with modified YER
sion of the corkscrew wriggle aHected by
young women just now.
Not Days of Grace.
We were punished with the company OF
this Young cad for three days. His trunks
boxes he called them-came that same
night under the care of his man." whom
we could not accommodate, but he remain
ed at the hotel nearby. There were five;
only one of the boxes was opened at our
house. Dick told me, however, that in each
one was a complete outfit of morning, az
tsrnoon and evening suits, with linen,
handkerchiefs. ties. socks. &c.-'socks' is
the word that the youth used-carefuliy
packed by the valet with regard to the
probable requirements of the four other
houses where he was to visit He wore no
article of clothing the second time at our
Rouse, and when he left his valet packed
the trunk opened at our house and sent II
to the hotel. The others went to the next
I ,%1n -t,Dro IN
This gilded youth slept in silk pajamas
that cost him $50 suit. He had for each
pair of his trousers white silk suspenders-
beg pardon-"braces," with gold buckles,
that cost SO dollars a set. Each was ex-
qusitely embroidered in flower designs.
His smoking gown was a rich Indian silk,
for which he paid $500 in Singapore. His
gloves. which he imported by the gross
from Paris. We're pearl gray for evening.
such as the Prince of Wales always wears,
and Russian tan for the day. His slippers
and shoes had leather case to themselves.
His umbrellas and sticks yet another
case and his hat trunk was the largest of
all His man arranged the clothes in the
dressing case and wardrobe. There were
exqusitely embroidered channels cases for
his pajamas. shirts, handkerchiefs, hose,
gloves and neckties. They were lined with
white MORE silk and perfumed with violets.
His toilet appurtenances came in a case
by themselves They were of solid silver
anc Dick says they cost $500. He sbrought
his tub with him. He said 1t was alto
gether too hazardous an experiment get
ting into all sorts of bath tubs! In the three
days at house he never made an origi-
nal remark, never much as picked up a
book, nor opened a newspaper Dick gave
him The Star damp from the press The sec
ond evening. but he declined it with a Sc
nile shrug.
Wise PrecautiOn.
! 1T smells, my deah boy. and it's such a
dem'd boah, this reading habit Nobody
who is anybody bothers with beastly pa
pah, don't you know. 1t eXcites one. Makes
the heart beat fastah. And then the pa
pahs say such nawsty things about "a fell
lah.' And that set me to wondering if that
was why Mr.. Blount asserted that he never
read newspapers" and | concluded that
perhaps 1t was a wise precaution at times
/ When Mr.. Walter VIM left us, | had the
doors and windows thrown open and the
/ house fumigated / felt as though his Ca
| tarrh-like utterances, jerked out in Saint
/ Nitus dance fashion, had contaminated the
| air, and l shall hate violets forever.
| have been wondering ever since contact
God wasted a soul putting it in such a
| worthless tenement Not that | objected to
| the mans clothes-a woman likes to see a
man elegantly dressed, but she does not
want him to make dress the feature of his
/ life and dwarf all else. I'm perfectly will
ing he should have a change of raiment for
every hour in the day if he likes. If he has
the money to support that kind of extrava-