The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-12
MADE A GALLANT BOY.
Irish Girl Knew How to Resent
SOIdierIy InsOIence.

SOIdierIy InsO1ence.
A really romantic story Of Woman's
daring, and how 1t successfully punish
ed the militant bullying of an Inbred
German officer. comes from Stuttgart,
via London. The heroine is Miss May
Langrishe, Well-knOWn in the United
States as a former lady lawn tennis
champion. In three consecutive tennis
tournaments Miss Langrishe defeated
Miss Mabel Cahill, the woman cham
piOn of America, and she has won for
herself considerable fame as the best
pett1coated fencer in Great Britain and
Ireland, or, indeed, in all Europe. Miss
Langrishe is the eldest daughter Of Sir
James Langrishe, an Irish baronet OF
good family.
THE OFFICERS RUDENESS.
Everybody who has travelled in Ger
many knows the bumptious nature OF
the average officer. Only quite recently
two respectable civilians were killed by
uniformed followers of the emperor,
just because they interfered to save
their wives from insult in public places.
AS matter of fact the officer in the
various Teutonic states considers a
gentleman in plain clothes, as we'll as
the ladies who accompany him, fair
game for impertinence. Every now
and then some plucky American or
EngliShman reSents these insults at
the sword point or pistol muzzle, but
the native civilian prefers to grin and
bear.
1t happened Just a year ago that
Miss Langrishe, in company with her
aged father and a clergyman Of the
Church of England, was listening to
the band in the kursaal at Stuttgart,
when some young fellow in uniform APP
preached the party and made impertl-
nent remarks. Sir James Langrishe,
although q very feeble man, resented
this conduct and struck one of them
with his cane. He was instantly con-
fronted with a drawn saber, and would
have been run through on the spot had
not some walters dragged him into
safety. Miss LangriShe, seeing her
fathers plight, walked boldly up to
the ringleader, and, drawing off her
long glove smote him across the face.
Bully as he was, the fellow could not
well stab a woman.
HAS the fraulein a representatives"
he demanded.
brother would act for her; and, giving
her brothers address as the hotel in
which she was staying, she took the
arm of the English clergyman (whose
cloth, Of course, precluded his fighting)
and rejoined her father outside the
kursaal.
When the offending officers reached
found two young gentlemen, attired in
the conventional frock coats, and
armed with rapiers, awaiting them.
These, they were told, were Miss Lam
grishe's brothers, and they certainly
resembled that athletic young lady
greatly.
SURPRISE FOR THE DRAGON.
In the duel that resulted the insult
ing dragon was run through the neck
and disabled. 1t was not until the
encounter had closed and the opposing
parties returned to their quarters that
the Germans seconds received the fol-
lowing message:
Sir: There is no Herr Langrishe
The person who punished your princi-
pal 50 justly this morning was the
FraulAn May, daughter Of the elderly
gentleman assaulted by him SO das-
tardly last night. The Fraulein Lam
grishe will feel great pleasure in meet
ing any or all Of the wounded officers
regiment at swords points. The frau
lein also wishes 1t understood that sh9
is dead shot, and that her sister, the
Fraulein Beatrice Langrishe who sec
onded her today, can likewise handle
either rapier or pistol
So great was the ridicule resulting
upon the defeat Of the dragon bully
by woman that that hero was forced
to exchange into another regiment