The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 12: In MotleyBierce, Ambrose
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The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 12: In Motley
Bierce, Ambrose
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There will be another _musicale_ next Tuesday evening at the residence
of Mrs. Jonas Goard. Professor Henrj Beerbellj will be present with
his violin, and will play some choice selections from Schopenhauer,
Mazzini, Gambetta and Murillo. Mrs. Goard says it is her intention to
make her weekly _musicales_ the most peerless that money will collar.
The Hiflungs are at the Splurge House. Their health has not been good
since their return from Europe, Colonel Hiflung, Miss Hiflung, Miss
Phlebotomy Hiflung and Masters Thanatopsis and Epithalamium Hiflung all
suffering more or less acutely from brain failure.
Gargoyle Squutney has arrived from Paris, where he had the distinction
of ascending the Eiffel Tower. The Emperor paid him a great deal of
attention and he met the Tuilleries.
Society is justly indignant at the threatened publication of an _Èlite
Directory_ with an “Appendix of Antecedents.” Strenuous efforts at
suppression have resulted in nothing, so far, but hopes are entertained
of conciliating the author and publisher with an invitation to the
Pursang luncheon next week. In the mean time that hardy and desperate
man speaks of the ladies and gentlemen whom he weakly maligns in the
columns of an infamous daily newspaper as “Our Sore Hundred.”
The fashion of leaving the dog’s card with that of the mistress is
obtaining favor again.
The new spring-style coffins have oxidized silver trimmings.
Our distinguished townsman, the Hon. Mr. Col. Samuel Jiggs, Esquire, is
understood to deprecate Society’s attitude toward him. He has confided
to a prominent society man the fact that he is tired of attending his
wife’s entertainments and hearing himself addressed by her guests as
“Sam” and “Jiggsy.” He purposes, he says, to make certain radical
improvements in the next galoots as allows they kin prosper withouten
good manners.
At the funeral of Miss Nobbie Skihi, last Thursday, the corpse was
attired in a Directoire costume from Worth’s, and wore a diamond and
sapphire necklace valued, according to the tag, at $15,000. In removing
this at the close of the entertainment, the mother of the deceased was
overcome with emotion, which found audible expression. The lady’s voice
is a clear soprano of remarkable power.
The Lalligaggs have taken rooms at the Hotel Paradise for the winter
and the Mollicoddles for the storm. The Von Doodles are reported as
storming at Hohokus.
At the Rodaigent-Cadje wedding reception a new and admirable feature
was introduced. On one end of a table were displayed the wedding
presents, with the donor’s names attached. On the other end was a large
number of wooden naughts, gilt and variously decorated. These bore
the names of friends and acquaintances who gave nothing. It is said
that some of the persons blacklisted have applied to the police for
protection.
Mrs. Wollysnopple is in town again, where, being at present afflicted
with smallpox, she has a wide circle of acquaintances.
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