The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-03-15
A GIRL SLAPPED HIS FACE.
What Count CastcIsane Got For Insult
ing Woman.

Ia o.
Gertrude Corey. a living picture poser
OF the s'ii1 company. now at the Co
lumbia fheater. tucked the coveriet up
close about her .'Triiby" chin today as
she lay sick with the grip. and talked
about that lively scrap with Count de
Casteiiane which In feeding the appetites
OF cluhmen In New York. She has been
III with the grip for several days and not
able to do Trilby and Nyeiia. the blind
flower giri, In Mr.. Rice's gallery OF iiv-
Ing art.
Yes Gertrude remarked with lively
emphasis. '.I did slap his aristocratic
French face. II was at little dinner
PARTY a few months before the Gould
nupsials. but / only mentioned II to few
cronies at the time and never meant to
have IL in print. II was only an incident
OF life in Bohemia
Hers was long slender hand, and look
ed incapable OF injuring anything. And
such, &c seems from the story. was the
view taken by the Count de Casteliane
A aat-handed smack from weak woman
could not make man wish to XIII her.
only for honor's sake.
ut was not on account OF myself but
of my ehum. Ninette Burdasns. that
struck him." said Miss Corey. she was
always n delicate girl. and somehow fell
into the habit Of defending her at all
TIRES"
her friend. Miss Burdains. is now at her
home In Albany. N. Y. dying OF con-
sumption. HE made an offensive remark
TO her." she contiaued. land IL occurred
in my rooms on Thirty-first street. be-
tween Broadway and Fifth avenue.
asked him 10 repeat II. saying | thought
did not quite understand him, He re-
pcated II. and I--well have quick tenn
per" she said. as Ii In extenuation, land
quick as a fash had slapped him on the
left cheek. His face flushed scarlet, and
he said. shutting bis teeth very tight:
IF you were a man 1 would Kill you -
And Mas Corey forgot herself and rails
ed up I'm bed. pointing to the door. Her
head dropped back OH the pillow. and as IL
10 make light OF the affair she branched
Oft, saying. s'in our lives we do not set
much store by little thing like that
We have TO take our own part and fight
our battles after our own fashion. What
the count said was really not so had. But
/ really think I took extra offense be-
cause he was a count. You know we do
not care much for that sort OF thing"
she said: I'VE may he Bohemians;
we don't claim TO be anything else. but
we are Americans and independent. After
] struck him." she continued, coming hack
TO her subject. 'he began looking for his
hat. and as he went out OF the door," and
here she laughed, showing "A mouth fun
of white even teeth, "Ninette threw after
him big bunch OF pink and white roses.
three dozen of them. which he had sent
UP In tho afternoon. We had had a little
dinner party. as we often do, after the
theater. But the dinner was over and the
trouble. was that the count thought he
ought to have all the attention. ] suppose.
because he was n count and my friend
did not care for him and turned her hack
to talk 10 one OF the other gentlemen.
After IL occurred the men who were with
him. an attorney and two Engiishmen.
stayed and tried 20 chat little while as
if nothing had happened. Then they left"