New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-27
MISS GYURkONICS "
FROM TEE HUNGARIAN.


proceeds of the tobacco factory in their pockets
and came down to Pest to combine a visit 70
thelr brother the Deputy with a little amuse-
ment.
Along the Corso in the mornings. on the ice
In the afternoons, they were always en- evidence
while every evening at theatres balls or con-
certs they were to bc seen enjoying themselves
To the scrape of fiddles and the poppiny OF
champagne corks until the small hours while
wherever they appeared Il perfect stream Of tins
Followed Yer coachmen. walters gypsy musicians
and all sorts of hanCers-on
Then, too. they moved aboit i'm sucb -, i'm
nensc family party reminded one of pa
u1archal times; all their young men were Off
GERS or governments officials or rising young
lawyers, and had the reputation OF being ready
to firt with anybody any moment though il
was understood they not marrying men.
whereas on the other hand. il was we'll known
that no eligible parti who came within flirting
distance of one OF their sisters could possibly
escape.
Every year the Gyurkovioss parents brouCht
a fresh daughter to Pest and provided her with
a husband. Nobody knew how many girls still
remained AT home, but il is certain that as soon
MS one was settled another appeared immediate
~ To take her place. They were all charmfnclv
pretty and coquettish; could dance seven
Csardas running without feeling any fatigue
and could sit night after night at the sumner
table till the dawn began to creep I'm withou,
M
plexions
To see one OF them roll and light a cigarette
AFTER n glance at her brother the Deputy for
permission-slmply turned your hcadi No won
der II. after n good lot of champagne and tho
near proximity OF a round white shoulder an
eligible partner began to murrlur all sorts Of
RIDICULOUS things. which We're promptly clinched
by the young iady's practical answer please
speak direct TO mamma
1t was thus that three of the Miss Gyurkovics
had already found excellent husbands and had
settled down. report said. into the best of wives
men the shopkecpers in the Waitzner-gassa
were set 10 work upon lace petticoats and en-
broidered table linen. people nudged each other
ana wondered what dowry the girls had The
initiated smiled. for they guessed how Mamma
10 urho'lcS c"htrived those founced petticoats
ard other smartnes: Of the trousseau out Of her
own special industry OF peach-liqueur OF which
nevertheless. she continued to send each of her
married daughters dozen bottles every an
tumn.
Two years ago the good lady brought her
iourth daughter to Pest Ella was this ones
name. and She was quite half a head taller and
good bit more coquettsh than any Of her sis
ters before her. The young men who y,era in
Vounced TO her Swore that she was out and
away The prcttiest OF all the Gyurkovics's girls
an" 'hat meant that she was the prettiest Of
ali the girls who came to Pest. be the others
who they might With astonishing ease Ella
Gyurkovics took to the asphalt and parouet Of
town NE. having all the experience Of her three
preceding sisters to help her From the very
hrst evening. in five hours sitting at sumner
VI the BRISTOL she made a conquest of the cipsv
hestra. and So cnch lnted the first violin tina,
Il All the concerts and restaurants nothing but
s'r faVorite airs We're to be heard As ueuaI
che Gyurkoyics fever seized all the YOUNG men
- the town. and To all appearance it law com
Ie'ely In Elias power to decide which of Them
should be conducted toward the inevitab,,.
crisis. to which all laid themselves open Never
theiess everything went awry.
II was a certain Andreas Gabor whom ELLA
encouraged most markedly and as her brother
mad occasion to point out later, her UNEXPECTED
Acknowledgement OF the affair ended in the
Gyurkovics family having To return to their
country home, after their fortnight was over
without having received the PROPOSAL which
was evidently their due-a thing which had
never happened to them before,
Andreas Gabor, with whom the fourth Miss
Gyurkovcs had really fallen in love was an
exceedingly eligible and well behaved young
lawyer, perhaps almost too correct in his be /
havior to fall in with the usual plans OF the !
country family.
young man who set himself to check the
walters bill while the supper Csardas was being
danced. and who appeared to grow more and