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

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TO ThE GIBSON GIRL. (* La Belle Dame Sans Mercer.” ) © fair and tall divinity + Imperto pf liquid air! When wilt thou cease to freeze mankind With arctic stare? Hast eve had a suitor smart Whom thou couldst thoroughly approve? And art thou not a bit Inclined To tread a groove? A touch of petulance dispels ‘The charm of @ patrician head, Provinctal boredom tll becomes A thoroughbred 0 deign to give one human smile, Jn 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 lat of royal guests, Several years ago, while a rldsbipman tn the British navy, he made '& brief stop at Vancouver's Island, and was entertained at a ball given by the Governor. Me 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 Aanghter of the Governor, whose wife was s full-blooded Indian. : ‘The Prince asked the honor of a dance; bat the girl, having been educated at a Gaishing school in Portland, Or., held her head very high, and, not knowing the Prince's social station, responded that the Governor's daughter was entitled to dance with officers of higher rank than mldship- men, The Prince took the rebutf good-naturediy, is time for revenge came when one of the Governor's sulte, not knowing of what had happened, begged his royal higtness's permission to present the Governor's daughter as a partner for the next waltz. The Prince politely declined remarking that “his mother would be deeply mortified to hear that he had danced with a squaw."" — Argonaut. Tne following anecdote Illustrating Balzac's prodigtous: memory has protably been long enough in desuetude to have regained Its freshness : On one occasion, having promised M, Lireux, manager of the Odéon, & five-act drama, entitled “ Les Ressources de Quinola,” Balsac duly appeared at the appointed hour, and— leaning carelessly against a window—unhesitatingly read to the committee the promised five acts. After the usual com- pliments and congratulations had been exchanged, M. Lireux proceeded to examine the manuscript, and found merely Jour acta written—the pages devoted to the fifth act being still blank, He immediately Informed Balzac of bis dis- covery. The great writer was in no wise disconcerted. “It is true,” he blandly acknowledged, “that | have not yet written my fifth act, but I have it so well in my head that 1am able to repeat It precisely as if I read tt from the manu- script. Besides, I have two other dénouements quite ready— tn case you are not satisfied with the one I bave Just recited to you !"— Evening Post STOUGHTON : Did you have a good time at the banquet, last night? MANMATFAN : Splendid. 1 drank myself Into Insensibility betore the speaking begun. — Buston Transcript. MR. A.T. Vance, an English critic, takes the sctentig to task for their abuse of long words. Their Latin and Gree Jargon has driven out platn English, so that even popotr xclence ts scarcely capable of belng understood by tm people. Mr. Vance had occasion to look up the word “és dactyl@" in the “Standard Dictionary,” where, to te immediate enlightenment, be found that it meant “a phate of collomorphic osciue birds." Even the most widely-rey writers on science are sinners tn this respect. Romanes, tn speaking of plant life, says: * All the multicellular organisms propagate themselvy not exclusively by Osslon or gemmation, but by sexual fe. Hlization.” Which, transtated Into common English, meas that the higher plants multiply not only by division and bat but by seed. A litte farther on Mr. Romanes speaks of the “unde ferentlated Idlo-plasm of the first ontogenetic stage." Sad words are simply staggering. Time was, says Mr. Vance, concluding, when the chit could express his idea of the world’s make-up thus s!mply: Litue drops of water, Little gratus of sand, Make the mighty ocean, And the pleasant land, Nowadays, to meet the full requirements of polysyilatie sclence, he must paraphrase it thus : Infinitesimal particles of saline humective fuidity, Minute corpuscles of non-adhering Inorganic matter, Conjointly cause to extst the unmeasurable expanse ¢ ‘aqueous sections, And the resplendent superficial area of dry solidity. — Exchange. Sue: How tndistinctly the actors xpeak, Probably they donot wish to compromise the author, —Fliegende bhitur, For sale by all Newsdealers in London, E. C., England, AGENTS. reat Britain. 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