Show KANDOLPHClfOB hAn h-An Anecdote of the New Secretary for India Lord Randolph Churchill so conspicuous I just now in the affairs of the English Government Gov-ernment recalls a good story to be heard at New York clubs Lady Churchill who was I one of the brightest girls ever reared in New I York was one of the attractive features at a I recent charity ball in London Her hits i band hotheaded but generous was one of the fashionable throng While Lady Churchill Chur-chill was executing some brilliant dash on I the piano keys a tall young fellow with bangs eyeglass and all the rest of dude doms paraphernalia stood near Lord I Churchill In a feminine lisp the tall young I man remarked for his lordships ems Deuced fine music you know but it lacks I I the weal soul it lacks the weal soul Churchill gave him a half contemptuous I glance The tall young man still dispensed i his lisp He had nothing original to say I but his criticisms made up for what they t lacked in that direction by silly personality He was in delightful ignorance of the I identity his listener and seemed much amazed by the spirit of a low phrase that I I finally flew into his ears sounding very like this For a shilling Id wallop the I life out of you here on the spot A soothing sooth-ing panacea to wounded feelings came to the tall young man on the following day I when a card unexpectedly invited him to the Churchill drawing room He wasnt long in I I responding Neither was he long in departing I I depart-ing He got no further than the hall A burly young man met him there It was the i same gentleman whom he had favored with his lispings last night Lord Randolph Churchill Then out floated Lady Churchill This fellows come to apologize to you Thus the Lord to the lady Down on your t knees Thus the Lord to the caller And down on the rugs fell the perfumed creature I He was very abject He even consented to be kicked I havent much pride in chronicling the fact that this youth is a New YorkerNew York Times |