Life — October 18, 1900 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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TO THE GIBSON GIRL. (La Bele Dame Sans Mera.” ) © fair and tall divinity t Imperious queen of tiquid al When wilt thou cease to fr With arctic stare? mankind Hast ever had a suitor smart Whom thon couldst thoroughly approvet And art thou not a bit inclined To tread @ groovet A touch of petulance dispels ‘The charm of @ patrician head, Provincial boredom iil becomes A thoroughbred O deign to give one human smile, To undramatic attitude, One glance of toleration, Just As interlude. =@. W. Adams in Boston Transcript. Many of the newspaper biographers of the late Prince Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, overlook the fact that he was one of America’s small list of royal guests. Several years ago, while a midshipman in the Britlsh navy, he made & brief stop at Vancouver's Inland, and was entertained at & ball given by the Governor. He was very much struck by the appearance of a girl who seemed to be the belle of the assemblage when he en- tered the room, and learned by inquiry that she was the aughter of the Governor, whose wife was a full-blooded Indian. The Prince asked the honor of @ dance; but the girl, having been educated at a fintshing school ln Portland, Or., held her head very high, and, not knowing the Prince's soctal station, responded that the Governor's daughter was entitled to dance with officers of higher rank than mldship- men. The Prince took the rebuif good-naturedly, His time for revenge came when one of the Governor's suite, not knowing of what had happened, begged his royal higtness’s permlasion to present the Governor's daughter as & partner for the next waltz. The Mrince politely declined remarking that “his mother would be deeply mortified to hear that he had danced with # squaw," — Argonaut. Tne following anecdote Illustrating Balzac's prodigious memory has protably been long enough tn desuetude to have regained its freshness On one occasion, having promised M, Lireux, manager of the Odéon, a five-act drama, entitled “Les Ressources de Quinola,” Balsac duly appeared at the appotnted hour, and— leantng carelessly against & window—unhesitatingly read to the committee the promised five acts, After the usual com- pilments and congratulations had been exchanged, M. Lireux proceeded to examine the manuscript, and found merely Jour acta written—the pages devoted to the fitth act being sitll blank. He immediately Informed Baizac of bis dis- covery. The great writer was In no wise disconcerted. “Its true,” he blandly acknowledged, * that I bave not yet written my fifth act, but I have it so well In my bead that fam able to repeat It precisely as if I read it from the mano script. Besides, I have two other dénouements quite ready— 1n case you are not satisfied with the one I bave Just recited to you !"— Evening Post. STovauToN : Did you have @ good time at the banquet, last night? MANHATTAN : Splendid, J drank myself into insenstbtlity betore the speaking began.— Buston Transcript. Mn. A.T. Vance, an Engilsh critic, takes the scleay to task for thelr abuse of long words, Their Latin and ¢; Jargon has driven out plain English, so that even pos sclence ta scarcely capable of beng understood by People. Mr. Vance had occaston to look up the word “1d dactyke" in the “Standard Dictionary,” where, to immediate enlightenment, he found that it meant a p of collomorphic osciue Lirds."* Even the most widely. writers on science are sinners in this respect. Romanes, in speaking of plant life, says : “All the mulucellular organisms propagate themse not exclusively by fasion or gemmation, but by sexual 14 Mlization.” Which, transtated {nto common Engitsh, that the higher plants multiply not only by division and b but by seed. A litue further on Mr. Romanes speaks of the “uot! ferentlated tdto-plasm of the first ontogenetic stage.” Set words are simply staggering. | Time was, says Mr. Vance, concluding, when the cil could express his Idea of the world’s make-up thus almpiy Little drops of water, Little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean, ‘And the pleasant land, Nowadays, to meet the full requirements of polysyliait actence, he must paraphrase ft thus : Infinttestmal particies of saline humective fluldity, Minute corpuscles of non-adhering Inorganic matter, Conjotntly cause to exist the unmeasurable expanse ¢ aqueous sections, And the resplendent superficial area of dry solidity. — Exchange, How tndistinctly the actors speak, Probably they do not wish to compromise the avthe. —Fliegende bitte. For sale by all Newadealers in Great Britaio. The Inter- national News Company, Bream’s Building, Chancery Lane, London, E. C., England, AGENTS. ECROPRAN AGENTS—Mesars. 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