Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-08-09
CHAPTER XVI.
sUBJECTs FOR MATFIMONY.

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Miss Kildare gave a shrug of her
shoulders. Yes" she said, Il suppose
it is a different me. Nv rot my hair
don up n longer skirts and all thu
rest of it. In fact, like the young per-
son in the book, Iye groNed. But I
don't see that you've altered much, ex-
cept that you've just a tiny-iny bit
crowsfooty o the eyes. You haven't
even grown q mustache, as l always
wanted you to do"
Didn't know / was going to meet
you, or / might have spared my razor"
Il wish you'd known then. But fancy
your turning up here Of all places! 1t
is an extremely small world. There's
10 doubt about that. Well, Pat. as
we've each said at least twenty times
apiece how surprised we are to see n
piazza and tell me things. We shall
nave a crowd round us if we stay here
in the hall much longer"
MY dear child, what things?" asked
Cambel, laughing. Nv been chatter
ing history TO you ever since l turned
up at the hotel"
The girl seated herself in a coo 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 rather
longer than ever and narrow stripe
trousers and toppers with just two
penny worth of curl in them, not
more
But 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 biceps-I mean gigot
sleeves. They start at the ears and go
down TO the elbows; some OF them far
ther."
All" said Miss Kildare t~houghtfully,
Il used to nave good arms. Not quite
as nice as Mabel's though. But latterly
/ 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?"
"Capering 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 well, they're like the Amer
leans n go each way alternately. In,
London and the south, where most of
them waltz vilely, reversing is acel-
DANA"
Il suppose" said Miss Kildare, with
her eyes meditatively following a
bronze green humming bird which was
hdi iii dbout a iuiiiDtl NlIc Ol Tic
piazza posts. Il suppose we shall have
a hop here tonight. / shan't reverse,
and when my partners ask why / 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 to do?"
Read nasty novels written by wom-
en- you 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 why want to change. Elsie?
Don't you appreciate yourself as you
are at present? I'm sure other people
would"
That's barney
NO" said Cambel judicially, Il think
it's ordinary fact"
rs 1t really, though? I am glad. You
know, I've thought lately my present
stock in trade wouldn't pass muster
outside Florida. I can handle a boat
In any weather, and ride anything thai
Ia called a horse. and dance decently in
American fashion, but I can't do any
thing else. except perhaps talk, IL that
counts"
Cambel laughed. "You are refresh
Ing" he said. But why this inventory
OF stock?"
Because, Pat, I'm wondering how I
shall get or In England. I'm going
there this fall. I'm two and twenty,
you know. and 1 can do as I like, and
living In the back blocks is beginning
to pail"
Going there by yourself?"
mo. I'm not quite so independent
as that. The Van Liews, the people I'm
staying with here, spend the winter in
London. and they're going to take me
with them"
And afterward you come back again
to the States?"
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