Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-04-23

TO mamma Good afternoon, Captain
May. You needn't dance with me at
Lady Bolton 5 this evening, as my HAIR
annoys you So much. -
Il shall ask Miss Cunlifie instead.
She is q capital walter. Your mother
Is waiting for you at the door. Fourth
and sixth, WASH { il, and the first extra:
l must ask her at once, as she Is so
much engaged. Good afternoon, them
Miss Blanchard, if you VIII go, and. rs
the good little boys say Thank you 50
l4ls. f-r q nleasaut afternoon.
on 1...5.-. .-fr-HER soLILoQUY.
He never tnot 7ch a thing
1t never occurred to h44-I g.. a. ule
in that light. Hateful creature. And
why not, should like to know? Doesn t
he think I'm nice? never cared
for him, but he has no business not to
like me. What horrid tastel And
TO talk of dozen other girlsl That
means Lucie Charvie, l suppose, and
Adeline Rowe / have noticed that he
dances with them. ] don't see
why he should like them better than
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fully nice if like. l have never been
really nice TO him-not my very incest
or he wouldn' Z have talked as he did
today. | might try the effect this
evening. / meant - be offended, but
perhaps the other would have more ef-
feet. 1 believe I'll try it. No one can
ever say that am flirt, bat there are
occasions when it is a girls duty TO
teach man lesson, and lie had no
business TO say that about my hair
wonder if he was right? He has
awfully good taste, rs a rule. l believe,
after all. it would be rather becoming
I'll get Elise TO try tonight. and
wear my new white dress, and the
pearls, and I'll say to him the very first
thing that I'm sorry aud ask him to
dance with me, all the same Then, when
he sees how nice l am, he viii lie vexed
with himself for being 50 hasty 1t win
do him no end of good. I'd give worlds
if he would only propose to me before
the season Is over. I'd refuse him, #
course, but that wouldn't matter 1t
would be kind If me to take the trouble,
because 1t is dreadful to see man so
conceited, and if 1t were not for that he
would be quite charming. III be-
gin this evening. How e4cItingi Poor
Captain May'
HIS soLILOoUY.
"She looked disgracefully pretty
Nothing like putting a girl IN a good,
stand up rage 10 see what she's made
Of l never knew she had so much in
her before And she would just as soon
think Of falling in love with the man
in the moon, would she? That's pretty
tail. Hang it all! Why do they put
things in "a fellows head? was happy
enough before, and now this has un-
settled me altogether. 4 man
may not want to marry girl, but that's
no reason why she should be so precious
indifferent. always fancied that she
had decided weakness. So she
wants to laugh at me, does she? Little
wretch! She is always up TO some mis-
chief wouldn't object if it was at
some other fellow, for those dimples are
uncommonly fetching. l believe she is
right about the collars, all the same
thought so myself more than once If
another shape would suit me better, it
seems rather absurd to stick TO these.
Man in the MOON, eh? Humphl Well,
it doesn't dc TO be too awfully sure-it's
a bad thing to get into the way of boast
ing. How would'it be if / took her in
hand and tried to work cure? Do her
all the good in the world to be brought
down a peg or two and find her own
level, and the process would not b un-
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decent hosier's you come to- | want to
get out. "
Extract from The Times of four
months later:
"On the goth inst, mt St Georges,
Hanover square, by the Right Rev. the
Bishop of Oxbridge, assisted by the Rev.
Noel Blanchard the brother of the
bride, Cyril Aubrey May, captain Royal
Horse guards, second son Of James Eaton
May, Esq, Of Brompton manor, Hants,
to Phyllis Mary Olivia, only daughter
Of Major Blanchard of Barcombe, Co.
Wicklow, and Floraire. AlpesMari-
times Sketch.