Connecticut western news., 1909-01-28
Barbarous Impotence.

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 How do you account" said the Eng lish girl, flor the way your American girls marry our most desirable bache- lors? I mean those cases where money Is not the prime mOtive."
 "Well, I think impudence has more to do with 1t than anything else"
 "Impudence! What do you meanT"
 "Perhaps I had better illustrate. l will tell you a story of which the hero inc, if she can be called such, Is well known to me. AS a girl she was no more like the typical English girl than a gypsy Is like queen. She was nine teen years old, not very pretty, with a 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-guideboO in hand-in company with q party from her native state, Indiana.
 Well, one morning two or three of them, the girl Eliza Kimball. I'll call her-included. went to visit an English castle near the Scotch border. There were two other girls, an elderly man and boy. They walked to the castle and stood at the gate waiting to know if 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 q man fx ,{, 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- tie? asked Eliza.
 "'Not today
 "'Oh, dear, we've come all the way from Indianapolis to see it. How dis appointingr'
 "'And where Is Indianapolis asked the man.
 Indianapolis! You don't know where Indianapolis is! I'm surprised. If you had our public school system in Eng land even a mechanic like you would know where that is. It's the capital of Indiana. United States of America
 "'Well, since you've come so far to see the castle I suppose I'll have to give you a chance. Come with me-
 He showed them everywhere, in side and outside. Eliza walked beside him, plying him with questions. She soon notined that any one they met showed surprising deference to their guide.
 "'Who is the man in overallsT she asked of lackey.
 "'He's Lord Walter Furgeson, his grace's youngest son.
 "'You don't mean 1t! What makes him wear such togs?
 "'He has a fancy for machinery. He's invented many valuable things
 "'Oh, he has! Much obliged for the information And she rejoined the party. Sailing up beside Lord Walter, she said:
 "'Come; we've had enough of these musty pictures. There's not a real bright one among them. Show us something more inspiriting.'
 'The young man smiled. There's nothing here less than 300 years old, not even the furniture.'
 "'Well, then, I think 1t time you got some new things. If a chair lasts twenty years in America we think it's doing we'll We throw it away after that and get new one. It keeps things fresh.
 ." Everything is fresh in America, I believe
 "'Even we girls. We haven't any old fashioned notions. Now, in Amer ica, if you, even in your overalls, were to show yourself worthy, you'd be treated just as we'll as any one.'
 "'Would I, indeed?
 Certainly. You come to Indianapo- lis when I'm there, and I'll show you around and introduce you everywhere. You can wear your overalls too.'
 "They went through the rest of the old pile, and at everything that was particularly ancient Eliza would say. Why don't you freshen it upY or Cant the duke afford to buy a new oneY or make some other equally dep recating remark. And when their guide led them to the gate she took half crown from her portemonnaie and handed 1t to him. He didn't want to take it. but she said: Nonsense! You've earned it. Never refuse what you've earned honestly. That's the way our men get rich and their daugh- ters come over here to marry into your nobility and keep these old cas- ties patched up with their fathers for tuneS.'
 Lord Walter took the coin and went up to his apartments to change his costume for evening dress.
 "'How I did fool that American girl" he said to his valet.
 "T think not, your lordship,' said the valet Murphy told me she asked him who you were and he told her.
 ''The young man paused in putting on white silk waistcoat with gold buttons and stared.
 "By Jovev he exclaimed, and that was his only comment.
 'He joined party of high bred Eng fish girls at dinner, but he couldn't dis miss from his mind that impudent sw-I IT,