| Show veto jre corf r eat ea t side de peculiar life and society theft is a world by itself A slumming trip this Is the tale of 0 a young lady visitor to new york who had bad an intense desire to go slumming the great difficulty she found in the carrying ot ait oit t of her plans wag as the absolute indifference with which her host and hostess looked upon slumming they were new yorkers ahen she hinted wit thit a few gaslight glimpses ot of the city might prove more educating k Q 1 I 0 A U an fast arse hollo than a dally daily round of the shops and the theaters they merely laughed and then after she had abandoned nil all hope ruggles ramo rame in for dinner one evening ruggles aas aa an old soung man who looked upon life through bowed gold spectacles and it a giaco affair those who did not approve the manner in which he spent hla his time and his money declared openly that lie he was a poseur that hla his interest in the poor was merely an affectation and they christened him the amateur blum it la probable that both hla his admirers and his critics were in a measure right 1 I am surprised she said to him and theio waa nas the hint of a sneer in fit her voice I 1 that ou on ne corkers i take no BO little interest in in things that aie well viell not conventional in the poor for or instance or the slums alums I 1 ani am disgusted but not surprised he d qui quickly kly that new yorkers take ane interest they to do in such things would you care yourself lie he asked ot of her with something of 0 a challenge in the question I 1 to see a little ot of the sunshine that cornea comes into the lives of this other ilala halfe deause it if you do he be added eagerly I 1 can show it you dhere Is going to be ft dance tomorrow night in which some of mi my er pupils on the east side bide nie aie interested and they have asked me to come 1 will M you go I 1 the question was waa challenge now and had bad the young woman so do cle mired she would not have declined it 1 I would adulte oil lie he said as he waa leaving to wear something well ou know just something plain and simple not the you have on oil now the other half iou understand ho ha en I 1 d inthey feebly might might think ne e were nere tra trying ing to look down upon them the next night ruggles with the 3 oung NN woman oman ft aiom oni the country ton besides beside him hailed balled a cios stoAn car going in the dirce direction tion of the east arler it was as neaily 10 0 clock before they left the cor car and made their wa na town down a ficia which the illier lights were occasionally revelled bevelled revel led fhe roon room they finally dually rei reached clied was almost brilliant lighted and cheap flags the nations of at the world tacked to the v walls valls alls in undiplomatic groups ro fo tile the girl it seemed as if a birge of tile the other iother half must already be in the ball room and else it may 7 I 1 10 ft U tho sori ofine of the other itala have bare been it was as without doubt cosmopolitan hurly heie was at least one patriot foi each lag flag on the walls when they had found i hairs a man la in an evening suit that w wis is used to woi boiking king in night and day shifts darted through tigh tile the throng with agile and elaborate to grace and stood bou iril botole them they arit talla got together set bet he be said eald apology walli waving at the same birne to tile the mn in n leaning against the windows and tho the gails gli Is li 11 the chairs the men afre w re smoking agar i and the girls were tor the roost most pait looking at their neighbors jewels youse wait till they git warmed up I 1 there won non t t he be but things doln then the agile man a prophecy was at al beady being and when the mu sic file stopped there was a general gitten together the who had been daning clan ing placed thelt pirt neis in chairs and standing beffie them tanned fanned them vigorously one oung man who could not find a seat for his partner gently tier her against one of the pillars and fanned her frantically with a handkerchief which lie he held by two ot of its cornels it was evidently looked upon as a juke joke and when another oung man called across the hall save have bour our sti enith danny shell shall he be side when you are dragged to your coiner the other naif half applauded uproariously rhe fhe lanceit was mas announced as aa the next dance by a piatt pasteboard board sign hung fiant the piano and as the sets seta feie meie being formed riggie Rig III gic calmly asked hla his comparon com it lie he might have tho the pleasure of tile the laners lane rs tie ile did not wait for a response rei but took the girl by the arm and letl leil her to a vacant place in one of the sets A proter preter naturally roan inan ani and an icily let ay iy haughty blonde made up the couple opposite tier her sho she was beginning to look upon this man with a good deal of diffidence when suddenly lu in a I 1 forward anil and back lie ho clutched her around the waist drew her close cloge to him alra and with the ease easa and rapidity of a cream separator mcp brator whirled her around eight times in a space apace that did not seem to her larger than a twenty five cent piece ahen silo she had ob bained her bearings once more she ehe was waa to find that the man still retained him immobility not long after the tha square dance one of the he amateur discovered hint and with grave courtesy brought one of if his friends to be introduced to the coni com panton fiann riom his manner and makeup the friend evidently was a young min of bp orting proclivities lie ile wore a deep red stock a thin striped waist coat affected by coaching men a short an all ill mairl doa clerk and peg top trousers trouse is ile he ap peered to bp be quite at home at such social affairs and when the boling woman having no alternative acceded to his inquest for tha next waltz maltz his big hand went involuntarily to the side of his forehead fore hrad during the dance lie he talked to her in the egiy litie of if lite hie as lie he knew it ile he toll glicr thit that tier her dancing as juat jua like stepping on eggs and that sho was beautifully fully gaited an and bitted and when lie he found a place for her and she had thanked hint him he replied gallantly keep keel the change beer and tile sold at a counter in one botner of the hall and between lances dances lure was a split splitter ted demand for these b i rages after tho the lince dince tile the young lady went horn homa to the other halt half with a fir better of the enit sido of new loik oi ahe 1 he other half li 13 eminently at till its functions and so sa are its manners |
