Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-06-10

Il am glad you dropped IN just now,
Mrs. Dexter" said the hostess. hand
ing the visitor a welcome cur Of tea.
Il was just speaking OF you to Miss
Heath"
"Yes," took up that lady pleasantly,
'and i hear, Mrs. Dexter. that your
wonderful Mocking bird entertain
ment is to be quite the most fashion
able thing in society next winter sea-
son."
you're very good to say So" replied
Mrs. Aurelia. Its something new
anyhow, SO / guess I'll BOOM" added
the New Yorker, with a complacent
sel%f-assurance hat was not, however,
extensively en- evidence. There's re-
citers done to death, singers ditto,
givers of dialogues or any other
'ogues,' forsooth! apes of girls who
can't dance a step, showing off as
'sk~irt-dancers.' Even the lady-whist-
ling business is taken up"
Eyes, indeed" laughed Mrs. Percival.
"And you know they say that
GA whistling mi and a Growing
hen
Is neither fit for God nor men,"
"Ha, ha, do they now? Well, / got
my idea from the mocking bird-itseif,
and it has taken me a good spell to get
up the limitations, tell you. All from
the real bird, too, no secondhand for
me" with. a laugh.
And how the laugh betrays breeding
or the reverse. This was not the laugh
of a lady born and bred. Thy speech
land laugh bewrayeth thee"
Eyes, l suppose it was quite a work
of time and great patience to acquire
the varied imitations?" remarked
Charlotte. rs this your first visit to
England"
For the fraction Of a second there
was a pause, too infinitesimal for I'M
but a very acute observer to notice,
then Aurelia replied:
mo. not quite. When l was a girl
I was over for a spell with my uncle,
who has been dead now for several
years"
sit is almost a pity" said Mrs. Per-
civai, that you did not come here
early in the season."
WELL" said the American, doubt
fully, I'm not SO sure. You see, mine
isn't enough of an entertainment to
go in for the public platform, and if it
was'-the listeners secretly WINGED at
that VAST guess that style costs
a pile of dollars, which, frankly, / had
o got to spin up. Neither was | per-
feet enough, l considered, to start then;
SO altogether | reckoned | would begin
modestly," she laughed pleasantly,
and just perhaps get a hearing once
or twice in salons in the city-town, l
MEAN III Tic udlI III CuO eOuAiCiy y,
so as I'd be talked of a bit by the win
ter season."
She was shrewd, thought the two
other ladies, and had a common-sense
business head. Mrs. Percival smiled.
81 see you quite understand bust
ness, Mrs. Dexter, and mean to go the
right way to do business. May l ask
if you are open to an autumn engage
ment, combining business and, l hope,
p~leasure?"
MRS. Dexter's light eyes cleaned
with pleasure.
ooh. yes, Mrs. Percival. l have no
sort of invitation yet; too much of a
stranger to society, l guess"
well, then, we have a party coming
to us at Green Hollow for the fourth
week of the month, and if you would
be also our guest l should be delighted.
we can arrange matters later"
Il shall be real pleased to accept your
kind invitation, Mrs. Percival," said
Mrs. Aurelia heartily, as she prepared
to take leave. Il can't pretend to be a
rich ~oil-queen," she added, merrily,
with a charming frankness, real or ar
tifcial, which took many people. "Ha,
ha, l wish was I can't claim TO be
Of old Britisher descent as some boast,
nor to belong to one of our own first
families, not /. I'm lust a plain down
Easter, l am, and widow of a junior
partner in Wall-street. I'm a Repub-
lican, you see, and l guess we're all
free and equal, true American fash
ion'-laughing again-'which-"
Means" put in Charlotte, smiling,
that you worship \ mere title as not
even an English ~demagogue can out