The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-12-18

uteS. but the butler is as SteadfaSt as
rock. do admire that butler. | hope
you will break the news of my depart
ure gently to bin, for he proposed 10
me, and he has not yet had his answer"
There is still time said Edith, smil-
ing in spite of herself. Shall ring for
him?"
please do not. / want to avoid
painful scene. because he is so sure of
himself and never dreams of q refusal.
1t is such pity. too. for the butler is
my ideal of what a member of the aris-
tocracy should be. lis dignity is some
thing awe inspiring. while Lord Fred
die is such simple. good-natured,
everyday young fellow, that if l i'm
ported him to the states l am sure no
one would believe he was a real lord.
With the butler it would be so differ
emit" added Jennie, with deep sigh.
at is too bad that you cannot eX-
change the declaration of the butler for
one from Lord Frederick"
TOO bad!" cried Jennie, looking
with wide-open eyes at the girl before
her. "Why, bless you, had a proposal
from Lord Freddie two weeks before
l ever saw the butler. l see you don't
believe a word l say. Well, you ask
Lord Freddie. I'll introduce you and
YOU tell him you don't believe he asked
me to be Lady Freddie, if that's the
title. He'll look sheepish, but he won't
deny it. You see, when | found l was
going to stay in England for time
wrote to the editor of the Argus to get
me bunch of letters of introduction
and send them over, as / wanted par
ticularly to study the aristocracy. So
he sent them. and, assure you, found
it much more difficult to get into your
servants hall than l did into the halls
of the nobility; besides, it cost less to
mix with the Upper Ten"
Edith sat in silence, looking with
amazed interest at the young woman,
who talked so rapidly that there was
sometimes a difficulty in following
what she said.
NO, Lord Freddie was not half SD
condescending as the butler, neither
was his language so well chosen; but
then, suppose, the buffers had more
practice, for Freddie is very young. |
am exceedingly disappointed with the
aristocracy. They are not nearly so
naughty as l had imagined them to be.
But what astonished me in this country
is the way you women spoil the men.
You are much too good to them. You
pet them and fawn on them, and
naturally they get conceited. 1t is
such a pity, too, for they are nice fell
lows, most of them. 1t is the same
everywhere I've been-servants' hall
and ALL Why, when you meet young
couple, of what you are pleased to call
the lower classes, walking in the park,
the man hangs down his head as he
| slouches along, but the girl looks de-
family at you, as much as to say: I've
! got him. Bless him! What have you
to say about it?' while the man seems
to be ashamed of himself, and evidently
| feels that he's been had. Now, man
should be made to understand that
you're doing him great favor when
YOU give him a civil word. That's the
proper state of mind to keep man in,
/
him. l generally make him propose,
so as to get it over before any real
harms done, and to give an artistic
finish to the episode. After that you
can be real good friends, and have a
Jolly time. That's what l did with
Lord Freddie. We all went up the
river one day-two young men friends
| r 4 ~ Evils oh
eron, and myself. Would you believe
that those two girls proposed to tow
US up stream, and the young men
actually allowed them to do so. |
was steering. and it made me so angry
l couldn't speak. Lord Freddie seemed
to feel that it was necessary to keep up
| a conversation, but when | didn't re-
| ply TO him he calmly lit his pipe and
began to smoke. The other two re-
clined with their hats over their eyes
and. | think. went to sleep. Mean
while the two nice girls trudged along
the bank together, pulling the rope. |
would have sunk the boat if | could,
but didn't know how. Well. when we
got to the place where we were to have
tea. the young men said it was jolly
nice of the girls to tow them so far;
then they went and sprawled under
some trees. leaving the complacen:
girls to get tea ready. | couldn't stand
it any longer. | went up to the three
| sprawlers under the tree. and. bidding
them good-by. | started down the tow
path. Lord Freddie sprang up and.
| running after me. asked where ! was
going. | told him was going to walk
back TO London. lie laughed and said
| couldn't; it was so miles away. But
when he saw | was in earnest. he be-
/ came anxious to know what the matter
was.
Il told him | thought ! bad come
out with three gentlemen. but. find .nE
was mistaken. | was just going back.
He got very red. and then J just gave
| him nv opinion of him and his friends.
coming out with three girls and Tay-
ing no more attention to them than
| if they were three dolls. That settled
things. Freddie apologized- and he
said he would go back and shake tn"