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Show THE LONDON JOHNNIES. dons of British Noblemen Shock Polite Society So-ciety by Their Goings On. Polite society in London has had another an-other Eovere shock in the announcement that one of the most eligible young men in the matrimonial market has engaged himself to a pert young person playing a second rate part at the Gaiety theater. The gentleman is Majoribanks, the eldest eld-est son of Lord Tweedmoutb, one of the wealthiest of peers, and the lady is Miss Birdie Sutherland, better known perhaps per-haps as the sister of Lily Harold, the comedienne and singer of plantation songs, at present gracing the Drury Lane pantomime. Nobody has venturer' to suggest that these two young women are not as gooa and virtuous as they are wudeniably pretty, and it is a fact that they reside in a genteel suburb with their widowed mothor and frequently take part in local church charity 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 the British cabinet. cabi-net. Lord Tweedmouth asked newspaper men in the commons lobby to contradict the report of his son's engagement, from which it may bo assumed that he succeeded in arranging matters. But it would not be at all surprising if the match would be ratified after all. 5foung Majoribanks, who is familiarly known to the habitues of the Gaiety theater as "the Skipper," celebrated his majority the other day This infatuation is probably the result of tho latest fad among the London Johnnies, who indulge in exciting rivalry ri-valry to score the highest possible number num-ber of attendances in the front row of tho stalls where the most popular entertainment enter-tainment is given. There is declared to bo tho finest aggregation of f omale loveliness love-liness just now in "The Shopgirl" on the Gaiety theater stao that was ever liioT.nrl in T.nirlrm Tlifl Knmfl inrli-cifl- nals fill the front stalls night after night. They are 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 sixty-second attendance. The other appeared quite crestfallen. He said it was only his forty-fifth. London Lon-don Cor. New York Sun, Over 40,000 women aro attending the various colleges in America, yet it has 0uly been 25 yoars since tho first college col-lege in the land was opened to women. |