Life — July 26, 1883 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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The débutante of the occasion was the charming daughter of the no less charm- ing Mrs. Tee-Cart, from Brewster's, N. Y. I was fortunate enough to obtain an introduction to both mother and daugh- ter, who on hearing that I was your correspondent were all smiles. The young lady was conversational in the extreme and remarked that “this was her first real ball,” but that when she was little “ before Papa died” there were three of them “all gilded” hanging in front of the parental Mansion in Chatham Square. For some unexplained reason and much to my regret the young lady was at this point of the conversation very unceremoniously “ russelled ” away by her mother, I very soon bade my hostess adieu and on my arrival at the hotel found the enclosed note awaiting me: “Cliff Walk, Toosdy. Dere Sur Plese say that I have arrived at Noodleport with mi hansom teme of Noobeau ponys and yot for which ‘stere’ I wil take you out on my yot tomorrow morning. Yours Trooley J. Bit-BoaRD FULLZAGoTE. I’m a 3rd cuzen of ‘ Freddie.’ J.B.F.” The P.S. was unnecessary. I recog- nized him by the strawberry mark on his spelling and hasten to do as he bids me for the sake of the “yotting.” Of course you will not print this letter or any of my remarks thereon, Fox hunting will begin as soon as a fox can be obtained. The Hunters complain of riding over the fields, all day long, after a bag of aniseed and re- ceiving nothing but a hair-brush as a reward for being in at the death. Polo is in full blast and the Blues and Reds win alternately. Paradoxical as it may seem when the Reds win they get the blues. There are no new engagements except that of Col: Jack Nocash to Minnie Moneybags. On dit that the lovely heiress Miss Vandergould will be taken from us by Lord Nosewhat. “JKB. P.S. Rea Estate Item:—Pretty French lawns have gone down to 14c. per yard. - LIFE: THE OCEAN STEAMER—No. 4. I SHOULD LIKE THE LARGE ONE IN MY STATE-ROOM, THE SMALL ONE YOU CAN SEND DOWN STAIRS. BOOKISHNESS. FROM the publishing house of A. Williams & Company, Boston, comes a dainty volume of poems, entitled “Sly Ballades in Har- vard China,” by E. S. Martin, a well-known writer of this city. Through some of these lyrics runs a cynical vein which will please the jilted lover and the disappointed politician, whilst others have been struck from the lighter chords of love and laughter. It is a collection worth having—polite, poetic, peppery and pointed. From Houghton Mifflin & Co. we receive “ A Fashionable Sufferer,” by Augustus Hoppin, author of “Recollections of Anton House.” Mr. Hoppin himself has evidently been a fashionable sufferer from the petty but exquisite tortures inflicted upon patient, adoring man by lovely but captious woman, for he dwells upon the practical methods of refined coquettish cruelty with a feeling and energy which could not have been born of observation alone. The language is crisp and keen, often savage and at times unconsciously funny. comicbooks.com