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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2101, 29 January 1870, Page 2

Old for His Age. —A ridiculous story comes across the Atlantic, concerning Mr Charles Eeade’s dramatisation of Tennyson’s poem, “Dora.” At the performance of “Dora” the other night in a western city, when Mary Morrison made her exit to bring on her little Willie of four years, she was shocked to find a lubberly boy of at least 14, and as he was the only Willie at hand on he must go, though he was well-nigh as big as his mother. The Farmer Allen of the play, being equal to the emergency, instead of inquiring, “How old are you, my little man ?” endeavored to remedy the matter by saying, “How old are you, my strapping boy ?” But he failed, for the boy, who was instructed to say, from “four to five,” said it in such' a hoarse sepulchral tone as to drive the good-natured grandfather to exclaim, “Forty-five! You look it, my boy, you look it.”— Orchestra. Fine Language tor Fine Ladies.— Strange as are the fashionable costumes now in vogue, the words used to describe them are to our minds stranger still. For instance, look at this : “The basque is edged round the bottom with a small fluting. The tight sleeves are trimmed at the wrists with a bouillon with two headings.” As there is a musical resemblance in the words, it is possible that “ fluting” may mean the same as “piping,” a term which we distinctly re* member to have seen in some old fiddlefaddle fashion book. But how can sleeves be “trimmed with a bouillon,” unless, indeed, some French soup happens to be spilled on them ? “A broth of a boy” is a foolishly incomprehensible expression, and perhaps a girl who chooses to wear bouillon on her sleeve, may, with almost equal foolishness, be said toj have a soup con of being a fine lady.

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