The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-08-08

SUBJECTS FOR MATRIMoNY.

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Miss Kildare gave shrug of her
shoulders. YES" she said. s''I suppose
1t is different me. I've got 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 growed. But
don't see that you've altered much, ex-
cept that you've just tiny-iny bit
crowsfooty about the eyes. You haven't
even grown mustache. as I always
wanted you to do"
Didn't know was going to meet
you, or might have spared my razor"
II wish you'd known then. But fancy
your turning UP here of all placesi It
Ia 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 cane
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 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." aN
"Ah," said Miss Kildare thoughtfully,
II used to have good arms. Not quite
as nice as Mabeps though. But latterly
haven't been In places where evening
dress was used. BY the way, do you
dance still?" ..Eg. ...... -.
Keen on it as ever"
Whats the waltz like now?" ..,
"Capering on hot bricks. Heaps more
exercise to the furlong. People XIII
themselves at is much sooner"
"Reverse?"
ain the north Of England, where they
all dance well, they're like the Amer
leans and go each way alternately. In
London and the south, where most OF
them .waltz vilely. reversing is acel-
dama." .H. ms. at
II suppose" said Miss kildare, with
her eyes meditatively. following a
bronze green humIning bird which was
darting about a trumpet vine on the
piazza posts, II suppose we shall have
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 very fashionable
amusement with the up to date young
women"
ugh, Pat, don't be 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" in.
NO." said Cambel judicially, II think
it's ordinary fact"
rs it really, though? / am glad. You
know, I've thought lately my present
stock in trade wouldn't pass muster
outside Florida. can handle boat
In any weather and ride anything that
Is called horse, and dance decently in
American fashion, but / can't do any
| thing else, except perhaps talk, IL that
counts" a-. ..' '..#
Canbel laughed. "Yeu are refresh
ing" he said. But why this inventory
of stock?" f....
Because, Pat, I'm wondering how I
shall get on in England. I'm going
there this fall. I'm two and twenty,
you 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 me
with them"
"And afterward you come back again
to the States?"
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