OCR Text |
Show REVIVAL OF THE BAGPIPES. Two Young Women Are Looking for Engagements. London society Is threatened with nn outbreak of that eccentric Instrument, Instru-ment, tho bagpipe. Sovcral novelty seeking society girls havo learned how to play, and aro on tho lookout for ovcnlng engagements. Rumor has It that petitions will bo circulated to stop thorn, says tho Minneapolis Journal. Jour-nal. Thero Is no dlcountlng tho wave of terror which tho announcement has sent billowing o.vcr London. Everybody realizes that If tho bag-plpo bag-plpo wcro onco let looso In a privato drawing room tho futuro of English homcllfo would bo seriously imperiled. Tho two girls leading off in. this latest accomplishment aro tho daughter daugh-ter of Lord Archibald Campbell and tho daughter of tho lato William Black, novelist and newspaper editor. Both young ladles wcro Instructed in tho noisy art by tho best known bags-ter, bags-ter, If ono may invent tho term, in England or Scotland. His nnmo is Frasor, and ho Is the man whom King Edward recently attempted to luro away from tho Scottish regiment, with which ho has so long been connected, to bo privato bagman to tho king. But tho loyal Frasor decided not to break associations of long standing. |