Show Mr Oscar Wilde When he first appeared in Londc n society he was a pleasant looking gentleman tall and comely on man test good terms with himself and inclined in-clined to be agreeable to others in appearance remarkable for nothing save the length of his hair and coat and his neckties more toyant and aggressive ag-gressive than is usual in that sober clime bat in manner described as highly peculiar He had two claims to distinction one bathe bad taken high honors at Oxford and the other that he was the original utterer of the now famous saying We must try and live up to our blue china He is said to have native wit and that peculiar bashfulness which is so essentially Irish There is a painful pain-ful rumor going about that Mr Wilde has donned his eccentricities simply to guy the London world and that it is he who furnishes Punch with descriptions of the absurdities of his unsuspicious followers |