Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-02-11
BabarOus ImpudenCe.

girls marry our most desirable bache-
lorsf mean those cases where money
IL not the prime motive"
"Well, think impotence has more
20 do with II than anything else"
'Impudencel What do you mean"
Perhaps ! had better illustrate. I
viii tell you a story of which the hero
ine, II she can be called such. In well
known to me. As a girl she was no |
more like the typical English girl than |
q gypsy IL like a queen. She was nine
teen years old, not very pretty. with
q thin. fairly tall figure and a pair of |
eyes with which she could express any |
emotion she felt or did not feel. She |
was doing England as thousands Of
Americans do Europe guidebook in
hand-ln company with a party from
her native state Indiana.
'WelI, one morning two or three OF
them, the girl Eliza Klmbali. I'll call
heF-inclnded, went to visit an English
castle near the Scotch border. There
were two other girls. an elderly man
and a boy. They walked to the castle
and stood ut the gate waiting to know
IL strangers were admitted; but, since
there appeared to be no gatekeeper
about. Eliza led the way in. They
hadn't gone a dozen steps before man
in overalls. his hands covered with
black grease, came out of a basement
door and. seeing the party approach
ing, waited till they came up.
"'Are strangers admitted TO the cas-
tle7' asked Eliza,
"'Not today
"'oh. dear, we've come all the way
from Indianapolis to see 1t. How dis
appointing
"'And where 10 IndianapolisY asked
the man.
Indianapollsl You don'tknow where
Indianapolis Isl I'm surprised. II you
had our public school system in Eng
land even q mechanic like you would
know where that In. It's the capital
OF Indiana. United States Of America
"'Well, since you've come so far to
see the castle suppose III have to
give yen chance. Come with me-
"IIe showed them everywhere. In.
side and outside. Eliza walked beside
him. plying him with questions She
soon noticed that any one they met
showed surprising Difference to their
guide.
"'who u the man in overallsT she
asked Of lackey.
| Hes Lord Walter Furgcson his
kTace's youngest son.
"'You don't mean Il! What makes
him wear such togsT
"'TIe has fancy for machinery
He's Invented many valuable things
"'0h. he has. Much Obliged for the
information. And she reJoiued the
party Sailing up beside Lord Walter
she said
"'Come; we've had enough Of these
musty pictures. There's not real
bright one among them. Show us
something more insplriting.'
The young man smiled. There's
nothing here less than 800 years old,
not even the furniture
"well. then. think IT time you got
some new things, II chair lasts
twenty years IN America we think
It's doing wen. We throw It away
after that and get new one. 1t keeps
things fresh
Everything Ii fresh In America. !
believe
"'Even We girls. We haven't any
old fashioned notions. Now. in Amer
len, II you. even In your overalls. were
to show yourself worthy. you'd be
treated Just as well as any one
would |. indeedf
Certainly, You come to 1ndianapo-
lls when I'm there. and I'll show you
around aud introduce you every where.
You can wear your oVeralls too
They went through the rest Of the
old PIE. aud at everything that was
particularly ancient Eliza would say,
why don't you freshen II upg OF
Cant the duke afford to buy a new
onef or make some other equally dep.
recatlng remark. And when their
guide led them to the gate she took a
half crown from her portemonnaie and
handed II to him He didn't want to
take Il. but she said: Nonsense!
You've earned II. Never refuse what
you've earned honestly. That's the
way our men get rich and their daugh'
tiers come over here TO marry into
your nobility and keep those old cas-
Ties patched up with their fathers for
tunes
Lord Walter took the coin aud
went up TO his apartments to change
his costume for evening dress.
"'EIow | did fool that American
girlr he sald to hls valet.
81 think not. your lordship.' SAID
the valet Murphy told me she asks
him who you were aud he told her,
'"rhe young man paused In putting
on q white silk walstcOat with gold
buttons and stared.
"'Ry JoveP be exclaimed, ana thai
was his only comment
"He joined n party Of high bred Eng
fish girls at dinner. but be couldn't dis
miss from bis mind that impudent
American girl who had dared to tail
to him. knowing his station. as n h'
had really teen a greasy mechanic
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