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Show A SMOOTH ENGLISHMAN. A Specimen of the Scampi Who Slip Into American Society to Its Detriment. A young Englishman, "of good family," fam-ily," of course all Englishman are has been detected in stealing right and left from prominent New York families who had received him on terms of intimacy. in-timacy. The funny part, of the business ia that the young Englishman was a self confessed thief in his own country, had received letters of introduction to New York people and been shipped over here in order that he might make a living. His name is withheld out of consideration considera-tion for the families with whom he has associated here and whom he has robbed. rob-bed. Having been exposed, he ha3 retired re-tired with a choice collection of scarf-pins, scarf-pins, silverware and a substantial wad of greenbacks, which will keep him until un-til he finds another opportunity to re plenish his stock. This pathetic tale leads me to make a few remarks as to how these foreign scamps obtain a foothold in our "best society. ' ' Suppose the scene is the opera. Mrs. A. notices a stranger in Mrs. B. 'b box. "Who is that over there with Mrs. B.?" she asks. "Oh, that's a young Englishman. 1 met him at the club last' uight. I think his name's Cremorue. Seems a jolly fellow. fel-low. " "He's nice looking. You may bring him to my box if you choose. " So Cremorne, the scamp, i3 duly passed on from one family to another, no one knowing a thins about him, oi caring, for that matter, so long as he is presentable and a novelty. He may have got his first introductions through accident, acci-dent, mistake or a chance acquaintance on shipboard. It matters not. He is soon in the swim, and being an iron pot is very apt to get the best of the earthenware earth-enware families who have taken him np. In this recent incident the people who petted the pilferer are to be congratulated con-gratulated that he didn't get away with a daughter or two as well as with theii money and bric-a-brac. Chollie Knickerbocker Knick-erbocker in New York Recorder. |
