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Show ?ME LOiNDON JOHNNIES. toon at British IS'ohlenicn Shock follt SW defy by Their Goings On. f 1 Polito society in London has had another an-other severe shock.iu tho announcement that one of tho most oligiblo young men in tho matrimonial market has engaged himself to a port young person playing a second rate part at the Gaiety theaton The gentleman is Majoribanks, the eldest eld-est son of Lord Tweedmouth, ono of the wealthiest of peers, and tho lady is Miss Birdie Snthfriaud, better known perhaps per-haps as tho sister of Lily Harold, the comedienne and singer of plantation songs, at present gracing the Drurj Lauo pantomime. Nobody has ventured to suggest that these two young women are not as good and virtuous as they arfi undeniably pretty, and it is a fact that they reside in a genteel suburb with their widowed niothor and .frequently take part in local church chanty concerts, con-certs, but all that, with additional proof of severe respectability afforded by the fact that their father was a clerk in th? Bank of England, is scarcely sufficient to justify their ambition to contract an alliance with a family the head of which is a member of tlio British cnbi-not. cnbi-not. Lord Tweedmouth asked newspaper men in tho commons lobby to contradict the report of his son's engagement, from which it may be assumed that h? succeeded in arranging matters. But it would not bd at all surprising if the match would bo ratified after all. oung Majoribanks, who is familiarly known to the habitues of tho Gaiety thoator as "tho Skipper," celebrated hia majority tho "Other day. This infatuation is probably tho result of tho latest fad among the London Johnnies, who indulge in exciting rivalry ri-valry to scoro the highest possible number num-ber of attendances in tho front row oi tho stalls whero the most popular enter-Jainmont enter-Jainmont is given. There is declared to bo the finest aggregation of female love liness just now in "Tho Shopgirl" en tho Gaiety theater stage that was over achieved in London. Tho samo individuals individ-uals fill tho front stalls night after night. They are either very young or very old, but tho young ones predominate. predomi-nate. Tho Sun reporter in the lobbj tho othor ovening heard young Majoribanks boast to another sprig of nobility that it was his sixty-second attendanca Tha other appeared quito crestfallen. He paid it was only hiB forty-fifth. Lou-Jon Lou-Jon Cor. Now York Sun. |