The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-08-08
CHAPTER XIV.
SUBJECTS FOR MATPdMoNY.


Miss Kildare "a a shrug of her
shoulders. Yes she said, II suppose
1t Is a different me. I've Kot my hair
done up and longer skirts and all the
rest of 1t. In fact, like the young per-
son in the book, I've groNed. But 1
don't see that you've altered much, ex-
cept that you've just a tiny-iny bit
c~rowsfooty about the eyes. You haven't
even grown a mustache, as / always
wanted o to do"
Didn't know l was going to meet
you,o or | might have spared my razor"
Il wish you'd known then. But fancy
your turning up here of all places! II
Is an extremely small world. There's
no doubt about that. Well, Pat. as
we've each said at least twenty times
apiece how surprised we are to see one
another, suppose you come out onto the
piazza and 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
Cambel, laughing. I've been chatter
ing history TO you ever since I turned
up at the hotel"
The girl seated herself in a cool can
rocker and picked up a palm leaf fan.
Hundreds of things. To begin with,
what are people wearing in town just
now?"
I'm London? Oh, frock coats rather
longer than ever and narrow stripe
trousers n toppers with just two
penny worth OF curl in them. not
more"
but l 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 bows; some of them far
Their"
All" said Miss Kildare thoughtfully,
II used to have good arms. Not quite
as nice as Mabel's though. But l~atterly
l haven't been in places where evening
dress was used. BY the way. do you
dance still?"
Keen on it as ever"
What the waltz like now?" 8
"Capering on hot bricks. Heaps more
exercise to the furlong. People kill
themselves at is much sooner"
Reverse"
In the north of England, where they
all dance well, they're like the Amer
leans M go each way alternately. In,
laondon and the south, where most Of
them waltz vilely, reversing is acel-
dama."
Il suppose" said Miss kildare, with
her eyes ,meditatively following a
bronze green humming bird which was
darling about a trumpet vine on the
piazza posts, Il suppose we shall have
a hop here tonight. I shan't reverse.
and my partners ask why 1 shall
tell them It's the latest thing. One al
ways likes to be as English as pos
sible. Tell me something else that ira
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 he 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 Won
are at present? I'm sure other people
would
That's barney"
NO" said Cambel %judicially, .I think
It's ordinary fact
rs 1T really. though? 1 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 that
is called a horse, and dance decently in
American fashion, u / can't do any,
thing else. except perhaps talk, If that
counts"
Cambel laughed. you are refresh
Ing" he said. But why this inventory
OF stock?"
Because. Pat, Tn wondering how I
shall get on in England. I'm going
there this fall. I'm w and twenty
0 know. and I 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 mo
with them.',
And afterward you come back again
to the States?"
Continued Next Week.)