Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-03

| who could ride like a centaur could sing
like MeHba; n soon there were offers
to go o n the stage, to sing in public. to
Iappear at any time or place. But Mrs.
Gibson refused them all. Her husband
had no idea of losing his domestic star
to the Metropolitan management. and for
awhile Mrs. Gibson refused to sing at all
outside her own home. She SO hated
notoriety.
Southern girls have one popularity, II
you have studied them you AVE noticed
it. Before marriage they are the worst
flirts in the universe. When you tax
them with it they will laugh and tell you
that a girl must ave somebody to fall
back upon. And they will even strive on
this frail ground to excuse the fact that
they have engaged themselves to marry
two persons, one in the frozen north and
one in the sunny south. 1T will all turn
out right" they will tell you.
That is the southern girl before mar
riage.
But once you catch your bird and put
her in a cage and it is different. Sudden
~ from a Maynard thing she turns into
a model of domesticity. Such devoted
wives as the girls of the south make were
never seen elsewhere. Flirtatious and all
but naughty before marriage. they sud-
denly house themselves up afterwards.
go out no more care nothing for other
girls and other men, and with thoughts
on home alone, cater, M serve, and
wait pom and worship the man to whom
they have said. II will"
That is the way with the subjects of
his sketch.
And now another beautiful southern
girl has come up from the south. Her
name is Phyllis. She has blue eyes put
in "the smutty finger of Ireland; under
those low dark brows those eyes play
furiously. Her hair is beautifully glis-
tening, her figure Junoesque. Though
visiting her intensely domestic sister,
Mrs. Gibson, n the two babies. Miss
L~anghorne escapes to ride with the
Meadowbrooke Hounds. to go coaching.
to golf on Long Island, to attend the
great balls. to be petted and coddled by
the 400. New York has few such girls.
The Langhorne family has long been
known in the south. or the IF. F.
v.s"-First Families Of Virginia-they
nave been leaders. In horsewornanern-
cry, they have excellsd. In beauty none
euualled.
Miss Phyllis is nineteen; and already,
with only a seasons experience in New
York. she has all the beaux after her.
Even the are singing her
praises: she cocks so well upon a chat
ing dish, is SO very courteous to the
chaperones, so utterly refined in speech,
men mention other qualities more de-
sirable. such as the ability to ride to
hound and to take all obstacles as
though they We're ant hills, and to eat
a hearty hunt breakfast afterward.
They tell a pretty story Of how the ir-
repressible Miss Phyllis. riding to
hounds, tore along upon the pack Of her
hunter. through an orchard where the
apple boughs hung low. One of the
branches. more persistent han the rest,
caught into the band of her derby and
tore it from her head. But on she rode,
,,nnorcoto,rC ~, f1oa ovA;for,nrf ~ <hN
chase, and so came in at the death. hat
less but flushed and beautiful. A dozen
gay cavaliers rode off to get that hat,
while the pretty owner f1icted desperately
with a dozen others, as she rode back
to the club house, hatless but happy.
with the foX's tail Is a trophy of her
SUCCESS.
There is another sister, little Nora, a
girl in school. Will she be as destructive
as the others?