Lady Randolph Churchill

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 51, 8 October 1885, Page 3

Lady Randolph Churchill

A New York paper tells the follow- - ing story against one of its own dudes : — "Lady Randolph Churchill, who was one of the brightest girls ever reared in New York, was one of the attractive features at a recent charity performance in London. Her husband, hot-headed but generous, was one of the fashionable throng. While Lady Eandolph Churchill was executing some brilliant dash on the piano keys a tall young fellow, with his front hair curled, eye-glass, and all the rest of the dudedoin's paraphernalia, stood near Bandy-Pan dy. In a feminine lisp the tall young man whispered in his lordship's ear: ' Deuced fine music you kuow ; but it lacks the weal soul, it lacks the weal soul' ! Churchill answered not, and the young man, being in ignorance of the identity of his listener, still dispensed his lisp and devoted himself to silly personalities about the lady at the piano. The next day the dude received a card inviting him to the Churchill drawing-room. He responded promptly ; but he got no further than the hall, where he was confronted by a powerful young man. It was the same gentleman whom he had favored with his lispings the previous night — Bandy-Pandy, magnificent in bis wrath. Then out floated Lady K. Churchill, and his lordship said 'This fellow's come to apologise to you.' ' Then turning to the quaking caller— 'Down on your knees— down on your knees !' And down on the rugs fell the perfumed creature. He was very abject."