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Show THE LONDON JOHNNIES. too of British KoWemon Shock JPollt Society So-ciety liy Their Goings On. Polite society in London has had an i other severe shock in the announcement that ouo of the niost oligiblo young in6E In the matrimonial market has eugagpd himself to a pert young person playing a second rate part at thoGaiefy theator. Tho gentleman is Majoribauks, tho eldest eld-est son of Lord Tweedmouth, one of ho wealthiest of peers, and tho lady is Mis: Birdio Sutherland, better known perhaps per-haps as the sister of Lily Harold, the comedienne and singer of plantation songs, at present gracing the Drury Lano pantomime. Nobody has ventured to suggest that these two young womoc are not as good and virtuous as they art undeniably pretty, and it is a fact that they reside in a genteel suburb with iheir widowed mother and frequentlj take part in local church charity con certs, but all that, with additional proof of sovcro respectability afforded by the fact that their father was a clerk in th Bank cf England, is scarcely sufficient to justify their ambition to contract an alliance with a family the head of which is a member of tho British cabinet. cabi-net. Lord Tweedmouth asked newspaper men in tho commons lobby tocontradiot tbe report of his son's engagement, from which it may bo assumed that h? succeeded in arranging matters. But it would not be at all surprising if the match would bo ratified after all. iToung Majoribauks, who is familiarly known to the habitues of tho Gaioty theater as "tho Skipper, ,f celebrated his majority tho other day. This infatuation is probably the rosult of tho latest fad among tho London Johnnies, who indnlgo in exciting ri Talry to scoro tho highest possible number num-ber of attendances in tho front row ol tho stalls where tho most popular entertainment enter-tainment is given. There is declared to bo tho finest aggregation of female loveliness love-liness just now in "Tho Shopgirl" on :ho Gaiety theator stago that was over achieved in Loudon. Tho same individuals individ-uals fill the front stalls night after night They aro either very young or very old, but the young ones predominate. predomi-nate. Tho Sun reporter in the lobby the other evening heard young Majoribanks boast to another sprig of nobility that it was his sixtv-second attendance. Tho other appeaivd quite crestfallen. He said it was only bis forty-fifth. London Lon-don Cor. Now York Sun. |