Life — May 8, 1902 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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How quickly these American bads born ani reared in roils remote from the haunts of society learn the ways of the town, as they used to tay in Jape Austen's time! Docs Warhington forget, I wonder, that chit of a Western girl, a girl from the real West, danghter of a man thrown hastily and unexpectedly into the Senate? She was as fresh and hardy as the breezes and firs of her mountains, and all her ns of etiquette and self-composure among the great were to be found in the social code of the mining-camps. Bat in a year, native wit and keenness and rome judicious novel-reading aiding her, she became as sophisticated asa lady of the republican coart need be, Hurrying into the drawing-room of the wife of a Cab- inet officer rather late, unknown and apologetic, the was re- ceived by the woman of the house with a radeness that is netimes witnessed In Washington — generally character the women whose husbands have lifted them op, and who, consequently, have not been obliged to fit themselves into their environment, to mold their tempers and talents to the sinuosities of wociety, “It is very disagreeable to be obliged to waste every Wednesday afternoon receiving everybody who has a mind to come,"* said the grand dame. “Oh, but fancy, Mrs, X—, how mach pleasure your polite hospitality gives every one who is obliged to come,”* chirped the yoang thing, blowing swiftly and quietly ont of Grace : It's too bad that Miss Waddington doesn’t get married. It’s true that she is very plain, but ehe would make an awfully good wife for some man. Mavne: Yes, and her mother has euch lovely old co- lonial farnitore to hand down, too "— Chteago Record. A Kaxeas editor wrote this obituary notice: ‘He was born May 3, 1875, and therefore escaped this earth in time to celebrate his twenty-seventh birthday in the house of his eternal abode beyond the arching skies, leaving terrestrial land on Friday, March 19, 1902, at 9.30 ¥. »t., central time.” — Oklahoma State Capital. Cotonet MaLtey tells of a neighbor of his at St. David's who went home at a rather unusual hour of the day and said to the family eervant : hesitated for a moment, and then replied 0 tell ye the truth, T really believe they are in the wath !"— Philadelphia Times, DOOLEY ON READING. Readin‘, me fritnd, is talked about beall readin’ people as thoagh it was th’ on’y thing that makes a man betther thin his neighbors, Bot th’ troth fs that readin’ is th’ nex’ thi this side iv goin’ to bed f'r restin’ th’ mind. With mos’ ye iver have something to do that ye ought to do, but did nt want to, an’ while ye was wishin’ ye was dead, did ye happen (o pick up a newspaper? Ye know what occurred, Ye did n't jas’ skim through th’ spoortin’ intillygince ant th’ crime news, Whin ye got through with thim, ye reed th other quarther iv th* pa-per. Ye read about people ye niver heerd iv, an* happenin’s ye did n't undbersthand—t! fashion notes, th’ theatrical gossip, th’ s'ciety news fr'm Peoria, th’ quotations on oats, th’ curb market, th’ real estate transfers, th’ marredge licenses, th’ death notices, th’ want ads., th dhry-goods bargains, an’ even th’ iditoryal. Thin ye r-read thim over again with a faint idee ye'd read thim befare, ‘Thin ye yawned, studied th* design iv th’ car- pet, an’ ecttled down to wirruk. Was ye exercisin’ yer Joynt intellock while ye was readin’? No more thin if ye *d been whistlin’ of writin’ ye-er name on a pa-aper. If anny wan else bat me come along they might ray: “What a mind finniesy has! He's alwaye readin’,” Bat T w'a'd kick th* book or paaper ont iv yeer hand, an* grab ye be th’ collar, an’ c » Hinnisey, an to wurrak 1" tr 1a Betieve me, Hinn' , readin’ ts not thinkin’, It seems like it, an’ whin it:comes out in talk sometimes, it sounds like it. It ‘ea kind iv nearthought that looks ginooyne to th’ thoughtless, bat ye can’t get anny- thing.on it. Manny aman I've knowed has 0 doped him- the room as ehe had blown in,— Century. people it takes th’ place fv warruk. A man does n't think silf with books that he ‘d stamble over a carpet-tack. whin he ‘s readin’, or if be has to, th* book is no fan. Did — Century. 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