The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-03-11
JUST A QUE T TIME.
The Mandolin Club Had No Regular
Meeting for the Best of Reasons.

Tho Mandolin Club Had No Regular
Meeting for the Best of Reasons.
MIssoULA, March 10.-There was no
meeting of the Mandolin club this eve
ming. The Secretary camc home from
New York this afternoon, and The Presi-
dent and The Professor were SO glad to
see him that they forgot the dignity OF the
club, forgot their Lenten resolutions. for
got everything except that The Secretary
had returned. The Result of this lapse of
memory was that when the hour for meet
ing arrived this evening, The President
was SO overcome by the depth of his joy
that he couldn't call the meeting to order.
The Professor tried to play "Home
Again." but 1t sounded so much like Fill
the Flowing Bowl" that the other men,
bers compelled him to desist.
The club spent an hour, however, in
their room, listening to The Secretary's
glowing description of life in New York
and in posting him on what had trans
pred in Missoula during his absence.
The Secretary is looking well, although he
has a wearied EXPRESSION at times, as if
he were n trifle bidse, but his friends arc
confident that that will disapp ar when
he has been in Missoula for some time.
lie had a pleasant visit at the great me-
tropolis, and would have been home a
week ago had not George Gould prevailed
upon him to remain to attend the we'd
ding. He consented TO do this out of per-
sonal friendship to the family, although it
interfered with some of his Chicago APP
pointments, which no was obliged to can
eel in order TO reach home in time.
In describing the wedding, The Secre-
tary waxeI eloquent in regard to the de-
tails OF the affair, which he says were gor-
geous. AS he progressed in his narration,
he became philosophical and finally hon.
iletic. He said: "The whole affair was
painful to me. / enjoyed the beauty and
magnificence of the decorations and the
music was wonderfully good, but through
the whole ceremony there was n feeling
of regret in my heart that the heiress of
the Gould millions could not have mar
ried an American. The count is q little
whipper-snapper French dude, who gets
himself up in great style. from a dudes
standpoint. He looks as if he had stepped
out of n fashion plate, so immaculate is
his attire, and he also looks as if he had
about as much brains as a clothing
dummy. was sorry that he stood there
before the archbishop instead of some
good, bright American young man. There
are plenty of them who would have made
better husbands than this pompadoured
l;ttle doll of Frenchman, whose only
ambition seems to be to dress well.
81 enjoyed the novelty of the occ aston,
however, aad was interested in observing
the people who were present. All of
them seemed to regard the affair as a sort
of "A circus and were there principally out
of curiosity. There was a noticeable lack
of sentiment and the whole thing looked
like the contamination of bargain.
There was nothing about it that reminded
one of a wedding except the dress of tho
bride. The incident was one which inn
pressed more strongly than ever upon
me that an American is about the best
creation that has yet been attempted"
The Professor had by this time recov-
cred sufficiently to play an accompani-
ment while the club sang America"
anu then The President called the club to
order long enough to announce that The
Secretary would now be compelled TO JOIN
the others in Lenten penitence and his
penance would be that he must wear
broad toed shoes until Easter. The club
then adjourned.