New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-14


81 don't want 10 be put down as cync.
or a woman-hater a man-hater. or "A So
ciety-hater anything Of the Kind ne san
IL don't want anybody to think that 80
off Yachting all summer and shooting all ran,
and travelling whenever / can make the opportunity
because i am Disguised with society and see
the hollowness and sham of 1t all There's an
awful lot of silly rot talked in this way Some men
make a fad of scorning the frivoity or society,"
Now l go yachting and shooting and mountain
climbing and investigating out-of-the-way places
because like doing that better than anything else
That's all there is 10 it, don't consider that m
a bit more useful to the world than the man who
is always in demand to carry along a dinner or
lead cotllon | don't consider that my way OF
ENJOYING myself is a bit better than his | don't
say that / am bit wiser than he is; only my way
suits me.
But there Is one thing that do think" he said.
his bronzed face showing a gray light as If ne were
bent on tger-hunting some other severe busi-
ness land going to say ii. / think the way
that some people SANDER one another Is outrageous
And outside Of that it's positively reckless. /
stepped into a theatre the other night having just
come ashore from yacht to see play which
had already seen in London. / picked out that one
because | had II before and enjoyed II ana
wanted TO have real good time. 1t was one Of tire
mos, uncomfortable evenings that | ever spent In
my life Behind me sat a woman TO whose CONVEX
sation / did not pay any attention at first, but
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ticing IT,
Now want to say right here that very nasty
things are said about eavesdroppers but a man
can't help being eavesdropper. When somebody
behind you begins between the acts TO attack your
friends you can't very we'll help hearing It, And
you can't very well stop 1t. You cant turn
around and say. Excuse me, but you are
talking about my cousin or my dearest friends
wife You simply can't do II, YOU know or course
the young woman in fiction or on the stage always
does just that very thing with flaming cheek ana
flashing eye OF course the young man from the
same place always does the same thing, only with
"a voice that thrills with indignation But com
monplace man In everyday life can't do It, He'd
make a fool Of himself. and everybody would vote
him fool for making spectacle of himself and
other people in a public place.
Il trlel in the best way that gentleman could
to hear az little possible. but the stuff kept
knocking at my ears. The gossip instrucing
stranger an Englshman. about the people whom
he had met and she did give them fine names, let
me tell you. First she opened up on a woman who
Is as well known any one In THIS country. she
simply nayed her. Now could stand that In IL way
Tor every IS welcome TO his opinion. and though
] myself like the woman immensely. ! don't PR
tend 10 say that every one should Ike her But In
running over the list OF women whom she selected
for scoring this person finally landed on the wife OF
one Of my warm friends / am fond or her and OF
him. and 1t made my neck grow pretty warm to
"edI Wndt was SAID But Hnen Sllc iH'aHs iN"N"'t
my little cousin | thought surely l should cause
trouble. There isn't better woman In the world
Than my cousin. and there isn't any one VINO mas
more jus, claims to whatsoever position she occu-
pies than she has but she got her scoring just the
same. and hot II was.
Well, ali right by this time was prepared Tor
anything but controlled myself so that did not
even make an impatient gesture. had determined
UPON two things; first that / should not see the
woman who had been slandering people light and
left, and. second. that should say anything
about t. did not want TO look at her. because
Old not wan; TO know who she was had no right
10 hear wha; she said consoled myself with de-
Caring that would not know who had said IT,
When the play over sat In my seat TO give
Inc people behind me chance 10 get away. They
eld get away. for when finally turned around TO
Isave the building every one ahead OF me was our
VI MS seat. so that for the life OF me. IL had
wwahted TO, could not have told who had sat be-
s'ina me- But out In the lobby heard that voice
ssSalh-l should not forget IL II l lived TO be
thousand years old-and the woman standing
SSsesore me looking back for some one. IL really
S.an make any difference. but despite my good
s..s,ntion: had Seen the woman. She isn't OF the
ssnEntsst Importance. and IL she were should never
~. VINO she vas. But point want 10 make IL
9A This woman. who Is newly arrived from the
nd baarH If hof