The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-08-09
CHAPTER XIV.
SUBJECTS FOR MATFaMONY


Miss Kildare gave a shrus of her
shoulders. Yes" she said. Il p
it is a different me. I've got my hail
done up Inc longer skirts and all the
rest of it. In fact. like the young per-
son in the book, I've sro~ed. But 1
don't see that you've altered much, ex-
cept that you've just a ttny-iny bit
even grown a mustache, as l always
wanted you to do"
Didn't know l was going to meet
you, or l might " spared my razor."
Il wish you'd known then. But fancy
your turning up here Of all places! It
isNa IN extremely small world. There's
no doubt about that Well, Pat. as
we've each said at least twenty times
apiece how surprised We arctic see one
another, suppose you come out onto the
piazza n tell me things. We shall
have a crowd round US If we stay here
in the hall much longer"
My dear child. what things?" asked
Canlbel, laughing. I've been chatter
ing history to you ever since l turned
up at the hotel"
h girl seated herself in. a cool cane
rocker and picked up a palm leaf fan.
Hundreds of things. To begin with,
what are people wearing in town just
noW?"
In London? Oh. frock coats ather
longer than ever and narrow stripe
trousers and toppers with just two
penny worth Of curl in them, not
more"
~d3ut 1 mean the women"
Fifteen yards to the skirt. and
they're beginning to drape them. The
fashionable deformity at present is ele-
phantiasis Of the bicep.-I mean gigot
sleeves. They start at the ears and go
down to the elbows; some of them far
Their"
All" said Miss Kildare thoughtfully.
Il used to have good arms. Not quite
as nice as Mabels though. But latterly
L haven't been in places where evening
dress was used. BY the way, do you
dance still"'
Keen on it as ever"
What's the waltz. like now?"
"CaperinE on hot bricks, Heaps more
exercise to the furlong. People kill
themselves at is much sooner"
"Reverse?"
I'm the north of England, where they
all dance we'll, they're like the Amer
cans and go each way alternately. In,
London and the south, where most of
DANA"
Il suppose" said Miss Kildare, with
her eyes -meditatively following a
bronze green hum1ning bird which was
darting about a trumpet vine o Il. the
| piazza posts, II p we shall have
q 1lop ileIS toIllSuI. ! SldH [ reverse,
and when my partners ask Why I shall
tell them it's the latest thing. One al
ways likes to be as English as pos
sible. Tell me something else that it's
tony 10 do?"
Read nasty novels written by wom-
en- o wouldn't sit in the same room
with and then gush about them after
ward. That's a very fashionable
amusement with the up to date young
women
Ugh, Pat. don't be a pig. Besides,
that wouldn't suit my style a bit"
But wig want to change. Elsie?
Don't you appreciate yourself as you
are at present? I'm surs other people
would"
That's barney"
NO" said Cambel ju~aicially. II think
it's ordinary fact
rs it really. thoughs I am glad. You
know. I've thought lately my present
outside Florida. 1 can handle a boat
in any weather, and ride anything that
is called a horse, and dance decently in
American fashion. but l cam do any
thing else. except perhaps talk, if that
counts"
Canlbel laughed. You are refresh
ing" he said. But Why this inventory
Of stock?"
Because. Pat. I'm wondering how l
shall get on in England. I'm going
there this fail. I'm two and twenty
you know, and I can dc as 1 like, and
living In the back blocks is beginning
to pail"
Going there by yourself?"
NO. I'm not quite so independent
as that. The Van Liews, the people Tn
staying with here, spend the winter Ii
!, London, and they're going to lake m,
! with Them
And afterward you come back agar
!, to the States?"
(con+inued Ner+ weeL