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ing been specially favored by mutual
friend at the club. and from the top of the
room We contemplated the very crowded
competition that was going on all around.
Whenever | was not on the floor, which,
| am bound to say, was seldom, | was re-
marking the peculiarities of the dancers
and the fact that | had seldom seen such
a strained expression In human coun
tenances even at a bicycle race. This
could only have been explained by the
superhuman effort required TO keep ones
feet on the floor. which, as the dancing
progressed became more and more slip
perry, until at about ; a. m, it reminded
me OF nothing so much as the st. Nicho-
las skating rink. Even Uncle G.. who had
encircled the Weston lady's waist, and
vas being rapture whirled into the
seventh heaven of a-ltz, felt the floor
glide from under him went way back, ac
cOrding to Dick. and sat down.
Il told you so!' | said sweetly TO ny
crestfallen relation. at which he was not
pleased.
Fascinating Experience.
But all the same, the cotllilOh was Il
fascinating experience and as the human
flowers foated against the floral back
ground and the music played continuously
and triumphantly the well dressed women
appeared at their best Now, it was n
lady in emerald green crested with dia-
monds and with delicate punches of pur-
pie and green grapes in her dark hair and
in her corsage, now the brunette beauty
Of the season. Mrs. Crackenthorpe n la
Empress Josephine. In her empire dress
and looking wonderfully vital. now some
woman in black, with dropping sleeves
caught with pink crush roses, now really
Titania-like figure In spangled white
tulle, now a young, girl in pink, matroh
in white embossed in pink and greeh-the
very latest from Paris, now black, now
pale blue, now cream color, ana all biehu-
ing admirably and unconsciously TIL DICK
said-he had become very poetical at .
q. m.-that the flowers and their stalks
had seemed to get down from the wall ana
we're indulging in sort OF horticuiturai
contest Suddenly caught sight OF mine
no-more Congressman dancing what was
apparently an Irish Jig of a waltz anu
looking exactly like one of the stars OF
polite vaudeville; when he sat down he
explained to me that this was the only
way he could keep from falling,
The dreamy diplomat in the waltz ire
quently leaves much to be desired HOW
ever adept he may be In Berlin or vienna
or Paris or wherever he comes from MS
deux- temps may not chime with our Two
step At the same time. these cosmopoi-
tan partners are a liberal education ana
at the Assembly some of the dancing sec
retaries were disposed to be confidential
between the pauses and temporarily apan-
doned their diplomatic reserve. Ihere Is
one of these sphinxes shall never unoer-
stand, so broken is his accent even IN Ms
Inellifluous murmurs, but when ne Is iar
away and | am Mrs. Dick ! shall Always
remember him as quite the handsomest
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ing stately bows with the men, who were
also extremely formal There was none
Of the hip-hip- hurrahi | had observed at
some of the dances of January, and yet
everybody was either there already or
kept coming, and remarking. as we did.
the beauty of the floral decorations
What did 1 tell you," again said I'm
Gle G.; and certainly this floral bower was
up to anything. even the most eXtraya-
CANT entertainments New York and
Newport could have offered The effect
rather suggested a huge floral valentine
possibly because st. Valentines Day was
so near at hand Yellow gauze ribbon
knots set off the pink and white bloom of
the embarked walls, and there were the
sweetest little baskets OF roses, intended
for the cOtillion, clustering in the green
and pink and white screen. behind which
was the band of musicians; the electric
| lights were like stars in this constTya-
tory, and altogether the person who
wasn't transported out of this working
day world must have been what Dick
calls "a chump-" There was u lancers
forming as we came in. | danced it with
! Dick, with Uncle g. opposite. and Mrs
| Gardenia. Ny dear uncle was not at all
pleased, because some of the young
| sters" tried to change the formal charac-
ter Of the dance by introducing a waltz
on every possible occasion. At least leave
us the lancers intact-the sole successor
| Of the minuet Then came waltz. |
| danced II with Dick, and scarcely no
ticed that the floor was slippery, he has
such a way of sustaining me with one arm
and keeping me just off my feet with the
other. When. however it came to waltz
ing with less enlightened partners. de-
voutly wished that | had chalked my
slippers; there was one moment when it
was a choice between taking tumble
with a careless little diplomat or fling
ing myself into a chair that happened to
be vacant l chose the latter. dragging
him after me We were both spared
disgrace, and another international treaty
was saved.
Then came the signal to go into sup
per-rather an early one for people who
had dined late and long, but in accord
ance with the tradition that refreshments
should precede the cotillion. The con-
test for my company at table-poor Bees
sie!-was compromised by Dick, the Con-
gresham. and a couple of dips" one
European and one something else, all
coming in with me and Clara and Mrs
Gardenia. while Uncle G. led the Western
siren to another table, and we drank to
his health in champagne which am glad
to say, was not too sweet. For some
mysterious reason we girls are supposed
to like sweet champagne. but l wish to
enter protest ard remark "et tn Brute"
is our motto. hope this will be seen to.
The defle in from supper after the com
binations at the small tables afforded the
first real chance of seeing who was there,
but it takes the cotillon to display the
individuality of the dancers and the eff
feet of dresses. Fortunately, Dick had
managed to secure excellent seats, hay
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fist who wishes to sketch him. You may
take him If it pleases you, or YOU may
let him alone-he treats you with SUI
preme indifference. l have often stood
at busy corner in Piccadilly sketching
the Dassers-by. But the crowd did not
heed me. and never once did a policeman
invite ME to move on. Here in Paris
could not do that, and the difference
struck me forcibly.
It's Different in Paris.
Il remember one evening" had just
come out of my hotel and WAS walking
along Charingcross-when l saw a superb
artiIleryman in front of me. forgot
all about my dinner and followed the son
of Mars. BY and By he met friend and
stopped to speak to him. That was my
opportunity. and l walked all around him,
counting his buttons and working in the
details.
His friend looked at me once, but the
soldier never deigned to glance at ne.
If a foreigner had attempted 10 do that
in France he would probably have been
arrested as spy
On the subject of the Stock Exchange,
VI. sergius imparts the information that
many hnanciers go down to business in
an elegant phaeton, which they drive whip
in hand and pipe in mouth. like the late
Lord s. But they stop two or three
houses away from their offices so as not
to dazzle their employees with their splen-
DOR Business is business"
The Gallo Viewpoint.
Frenchmen are informed that lit takes
a long apprenticeship TO become gentle
man. Never 10 have cold or to betray
emotion is a sine qua non. for what is
more vulgar than to blow your nose. and
to be moved would seem to indicate the
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ing chair an hour or two rubbering at the
blackboard and listening to the telegraph
man calling off as winners the names Of
the cheap skates I'd played on that ticket,
May Hampstead, the sensational mare,
with the prohbitive price of one to TWEEN
ty-f,e about her, goes out in two-horse
race and gets tow-roped! My ticket was
a 200-1 shot and l had s. on it. But for
May. OO5 large American dollars would
have been doled out to me-and I'd have
kept up the poolroom business of course,
lost my job and
But who beat her." asked a listener.
I'll tell you in a minute. l wanted to
sandwich in the fact that hot sport
who played fancy bets in the room came
to me just before post time on the Hemp
stead race and offered me $500 for that
ticket. You see there was virtually no
price against the mare and he was sweet
on her chances and was wildly anxious TO
get a bet down. especially as it was a
wo-horse race and ii looked an absolute
cinch that she couldn't lose. That's the
way the other fellow looked at 1t, and
that's why he offered me $500 for the
ticket. cash in hand and take no chances,
he to run the risk on May Hampstead.
But | felt like that race was as good as
run myself, and that in few moments
OF time | would be at the cashiers win
dow collecting the whole sum called for
by my little piece of pasteboard. Some
of my pals told me l was sucker to not
cash the ticket for $500 and be Si95 to the
III Flr
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NY Dear Fellow-Ameri

NV Dear FeIlow-Americans:
THE principle of our blessings
Frightening as they take their
flight. the inclination to dance
which has been one of the fea-
lures of the first Washington season
for many years with debutante in
the White House, became regular pas
sion on the days before Ash Wednesday;
people who had been dancing ever since
aearly December danced the more; others
who had danced but intermittently, spur
red up with the last opportunities, and
Uncle G., who has made touch Of rheu-
matism his excuse for lapsing into wall
flower at the age when many of the men
We all know are bachelor butterflies hold
ing their own with the boys, announced
his intention of not only escorting Clara
and me to the Assembly, but of showing
Us how a member of the old guard could
get through the cotilIion. OF course. We
were delighted at this. for we knew it
meant that we should not be hurried
away from the last ball OF the dancing
season and that we should all 90 home
from the dear old Arlington at the same
hour that the early milkman was rafting
his load OF cream and milk over the as
phalt.
And then. too. / was all the more pleas
ed at Uncle G. IS statement that although
the old guard may become tribe equity
and rheumatic it never surrenders the
fayors of the cotillion to the fiedslings
of 1.-The Bachelors Corps" for ! wanted
a long dancing tete-a-tete with Dick-my
Dick-who appeared the day before the
most blessed Sunday that ever was, and
Instantly assumed The position of the
man in possession, frightening a couple
of dear little diplomats nearly to death
as he glared at them from the favorite
seat near my tea table and established an
Instantaneous antipathy with my" Con-
eressman-mine no more-who had drop
ped in to ask us to-meaning Cousin Clara
and myself-to lunch with him at the
Cspitol and didn't seem at all inclined
20 include Dick in the invitation. How
ever. when l had informed him that
wherever | went Dick went during his
weeks visit to Washington, the bill was
PASSED and the appropriation raised.
In the meantime, we had only one
thought-the Assembly-a regular Wash
ington ball on stately subscription lines;
what should We wear-sOmething old or
something new? Clara was for the old
and went in her best black, which she de-
ciared was quite safe. as she had new
artificial roses arranged about the
sleeves. was Cor the new and had my
maid decant a sweet frock just from Paris
and showing little delicate color on a
creamy foundation. If had been poured
into IL Il couldn't fit me better and when
came down in II that night Dick, who,
of course, had been asked TO dine with US,
said all sorts of things and tried to hold
NV hand very much longer than the law
allows even for couple supposed TO be
secretly engaged Our dinner was event
less save that Mrs. Gardenia, who was
there with a new woman mot the" new
woman from the eWst to counterbalance
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Ohte Day. the Dreadful Day. When the Lengths Away

The other horse, The Rush, got off first.
At the quarter The Rush was five lengths
in front. Same at the half. The Rush
first by ten lengths at the three-quarters.
The pikers were all on The Rush. of
course. with their dollar bets at a fancy
price. The man who offered me the
$500 for my ticket said: oh, The Rush'll
come back; you'll hear from May in the
stretch The dollar bettors snarped
their fingers and called out Come on, you
Rush; come on, you baby!'
Strangely, did not feel at all I'M
easy. May Hampstead ran most of her
races that way. Lay behind all the way
round and came like a cannon-ball in the
stretch. | felt as sure as anything that
when the stretch announcement came it
would be May Hampstead first by a
length But nay; it came The Rush
in the stretch by ten lengths. l wouldn't
have sold out then. No; not II l had
been given time to consider the propo-
sition Such is the stubbornness Of a
man afflicted with the horse-bug. who
thinks he knows all about the racing
game So, when the final call came. and
The Rush was announced the winner by
fifteen lengths. l felt about as cheap as
plugged dime.
THAT was enough for me. May Hemp
stead had lost few races before the one
I'm telling about. mighty few afterward:
but, OF course, l was Jonah enough TO
play her the one time she failed to land
in front. In view Of which l went out OF
the racing business and proceeded to
patch up the precarious hold l had on
my Job. All of which goes to show that
in racing you can't most always some-
times tell"
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TT is one of the most amusing and com
Portable things to see other people
L caricatured successfully and with
point. wherefore enc of the latest
Of French books, "Messieurs Les AnG-
Iais." is doubly amusing. because the pie
lures by u. Theleon would be most en-
PERTAINING even if they did not hit off our
cousins so successfully. The text of u.
sergius is in keeping with the drawings.
So clever is the book that reviewer on
the London Mall says of it:
How the English Take 1t.
The policeman, the newsvender, the
masses of the East anG the classes Of
the West End, Rotten Row, Clubland, the
Salvation Army, the sportsman, and many
other institutions equally British are here
portrayed by pen and pencil in pleas
antIy Iibelous. entertaining fashion, and
if we cannot always agree with the au-
thor's Interpretation of things that no
Frenchman can ever thoroughly under
stand, we can at least philosophically
smile at the diverting sketches which are
the chief attraction of the volume"
The Writer'S Idea.
When NJ Sergius was asked where he
got his materials for the text he said:
For long time contemplated the idea
of taking other people as a subject Of
study and presenting them as they appear
TO the eye of a Frenchman, without par
TALLY, spitefulness, or jealousy That
was my first conception of series of al
buns. TO which the pencil of an artist
should give life and movement.
What l remarked above all while In
England" he said to the interviewer, was
the national sangfroid. The average
Enclishman pays no attention to an ar
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our best diplomat and mine no-more Con-
gressman-actually tried to get up fir
tation with my Dick. She doesn't know
him or she wouldn't have exposed herself
to the humiliation OF defeat.
Cousin Clara Talking Politics.
Cousin Clara was talking international
politics with our best diplomat-who
really can converse on impersonal mat
tiers; the new woman from the prairies
was doing very well for herself with my
widowed Uncle G.. who likes vivacity
Mrs Gardenia consoled herself for Dicks
apathy by resuming sentimental relate us
with her Congressional child OF nature
who was 'devouring me with his eyes"
reproachfully- why? and Dick kept asking
me where, some day, We should spend the
honeymoon-Palm Beach or Lakewood.
This lasted until II O'Clock. at which
hour a little procession of cabs and car
rlages conducted US swiftly from Dupont
Circle to the dear old Arlington, for the
dear old Assembly. Now said Uncle
G., solmenly, to Dick and me. who were
in the same conveyance as the vivacious
Western lady and himself, we will show
you what ball is like" Dick afterward
told me that Uncle G. reminded him
vaguely of Ward McAllister. whom he
used to see going to and fro from the
Union Club when he was little boy
and who is now one of 1.-THE patriarchs'
in Paradise.
After we girls had gone up in the ele-
vator to the ladies' dressing room and
come down again We found Uncle G. and
the other men waiting for our party, and
made our way through the parlOrs to
where the hostess selected for the occa-
sion was stationed. between two gov
errors of the Assembly. This lady proved
to be Mrs. Wetmore, of Rhode Island,
and an old friend of mama's: of course,
she greeted my l. TIERS daughter cor
daily, but / noticed that. as usual, her
manner TO everybody was very gracious
ana friendly-in which respect she has
long been an object lesson to her CON
ternporaries ard the rising generation.
Pattern of PoIitencss.
Mama has often singled out Mrs. Wet
more as pattern of politeness and sug-
gested that l and all other young girls
should try to diffuse as much moral sun
shine. She has also called attention tc
the fact that The wife OF the Senator
from Rhode Island and the hostess of that
charming place. Chateau-sur- Mer. at
Newport, never seems to change. either
IN appearance or manner. At the AS
sembly she was certainly looking her
best. and portrait painter would make
his reputation If he could paint her just
as she appeared-her mature blonde
beauty. with the fair hair and delicate,
colOrless skin, set off by rich dress OF
black velvet and white lace and with a
court bouquet of superb orchids in her
hand. What did tell youi" said Uncle
G., triumphantly, in a stage whisper.
what about our hostess, eh?"
AS We passed into the ballroom l re-
marked that everybody was wearing her
very best, whether older or newer, and
that the women had all their diamonds
out for the occasion, and were exchang
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played six -horse combination
with a hand bookie, the ponies all came
in as selected, the ticket called for Il ton
of money. and then the bookie WEIGHED"
said one-t time member of the st. Asaph
poolroom talent who occupies Govern
ment position.
Il certainly sympathiZed with the win
ner of that six-horse combine in failing
to get the coin. Any man who can pick
six and get EN- over the plate the way he
likes 'em to show deserves the money.
Which reminds me of my experience with
one particular combination ticket over
at the Virginia barn. l used to have
bad case of the horse-bus myself, which
regularly drove me over to the poolroom
on the AIS train. Twas this combination
ticket which cured me OF the game-none
too soon, | afterwards learned. for | was
slated for scalping had I not cut it out
Just about when did. That ticket should
have been framed and preserved, for it
was made up of about as sorry lot of
plasters as ever lined up before a starter,
barring one, May Hampstead, the beau
teous mare who waltzed away with most
of the purses in classic events in the
Western turn as a two-year-oid, came
East as a three year old, and, when pitted
against some OF the best a-running this
side OF the Alleghenies. showed her pretty
heels to them over all distances of ground.
And yet this baby, the only class horse
on my combination ticket, Is the one
which busted it. After sitting In rock
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The King of sports.
BRITISH WANT CLERKS.
Fourteen Shillings a Week Do Not
Seem to Bring in 4 Harvest of
WOrkerS-ManV Vacancies.


Workers-Many Vacancies.
The British Government is badly In
want of junior clerks to fiji about q
thousand vacancies caused by the expar-
sion Of work. They are unable to get
half the number in spite of the fact that
the entrance examination has been SO
relaxed in severity that it is practically
a farce. This state Of affairs is not
surprising. but it will probably surprise
the average American that the British
Government offers these Junior clerks
only IA shllings a week, or. if they pre-
fer piece work, 4 pence an hour. Each
lad has the prospect of rising TO the giddy
emirence of is shilIings a week; but
against this wealth is set the hard fact
that on reaching twenty years OF age
he is co!npulsorily and automatically
elected from the Kings service to battle
in the open market, after having wasted
five or six Invaluable years.
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| gius contributes some very agreeabl
pages on the subject of following the
hounds
| The Most Popular Sport.
1.-THE most popular sport among our
neighbors," he says sis hunting, and you
must hunt or make believe that YOU are a
! great hunter IL you wish to be considered
anybody in England. 1t is good form to
add. L have left my hunters in Ireland,
| that country being somewhat difficult to
reach. But IL you really wish to earn
! the esteem of your fellows you must en-
| deavor to acquire the reputation of being
"a hard man at hounds -
An Englishman's education is thus COM
mented on: zone of the most important
| parts of every English household is the
nursery. It is an enclosure sacred to the
raising of the human foals.' The head
nurse fulfills the role of groom. and the
parents are the proprietors who come
from time to time to visit their year
lings.
Taught to Count.
eat odd moments they are given some
notions of arithmetic. so that they may
be able to count without mistake the
points In the different games.
1.-The same life is continued at the uni
yersity on a larger scale Decked out in
the most varied costumes adapted to their
sports. wearing caps and colors of their
colleges, the students go of. these TO
their skiff, those to their football, one
or two to their examinations. The lat
ter, who might easily be mistaken for
curious animals, may be recognized by
their square caps, fiat on the top, and
resembling the 'schapska' of the old-time
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lancers. Erudite specialized German pro-
fessors elbow in the streets of Oxford
sporting students in white breeches and
Jerseys.
The King of sports.
Football is the king of games, the
image of war. a melee horrible, and
sometimes deadly. But 1t is a very good
sport, and that is the principal thing. In
fact, a man at Oxford who follows no
sport would be as useless and as much
despised as canary who could not sing.
When he leaves the university, the Eng
iishman's education is complete"
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possession of heart. whereas the heart
is the most commonplace OF organs.
IF it is true that clothes do not make
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little catalogue OF tradesmen, complete
and exact. for each has his specially"
An ardent sportsman himself, NJ. Ser
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the man, in England. at least. they make
three parts of the man. Every gentle
man aspirant must therefore compile
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mi cav cole h at o hey IRE Q
the ymay De to &C wit mis- h Ho pon i the Hn games"
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the story of 'phenoni' down
i at the Center Market who
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-07-03
Rec HEIGHTS.

Married. June 30, at the resi-
dence OF the brides parents near
Holabird, Miss Mabel Mason and
Clarence Smith. The best wishes
of host of friends are exten ded
to "Bob" and and his bride.
James Thorne and Miss Chris
tina Miller were married last week
at Miller.
Mrs. Huntley left Wednesday
morning on a three months va
cation, which she will spend in \.
Y. at her girlhood's home. She
goes TO escape hay fever, from
which she suffers greatly in na-
kota. During her absence the
pulpit will be filed by a young
student from Redfield college.
Miss Mabel Moore returned
Saturday from a two weeks Wis
it with Rev. p. Fish and wife at
Lake Henry. Miss Eta Berry,
who accompanied her, remained
for a longer visit.