THE CHARMER.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1189, 31 October 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE CHARMER.

llk is n sly, sneaking rcd-ln a>led ■ fellow, with slim fishy bands and a ' a silly manner, and his principal business on eartli (having means enough to live on —more is the pity), is to ■ stroll about the park or the streets, i making, as ho supposes, a great im- j pression on tho hearts of all the l voting ladies who meet him. The ■ sizsling school-girls with whom he has flirtations are numerous, some think . him ‘charming,’ others ‘quite cotni-j cal.' Now and then some papa, uncle, ; or grandpapa catches him flourishing i his handkerchief or throwing kisses —for he is very near-sighted : and he ; lias boon treated to the toes of several • elderly boots in his lifetime But there arc plenty of girls whose parents | are careless, or who evade parental i watchfulness, aud the charmer is still ; happy. The nursemaids who propel : the baby sisters of these silly girls : about the streets are quite as easily charmed, nor does he disdain a white cap and apron. To be admired is his object in life. He has ridden the length of Piccadilly in a "bus in order to keep his incipient moustache before the eyes of his opposite neighbor, and he stands upon hotel steps with his legs crossed for an hour at a time i that his small feet may be seen by the ' passers-by. He declares he also ad- ! mires the married ladies, and is often I seen acting as escort to full-blown i matrons, older and much fatter than his own mother, into whose eyes he I gazes verv tenderly, and into whose • ears he whispers sentimental nothings, | The special amount of common sense < possessed by each of these ladies guides 1 her actions. Some beat him with their fans and call him ‘ naughty thing,’ some look as sentimental as possible and sigh. He believes they all adore him, and is happy. Finally, it is to be supposed, he w ill find an ugly ■ heiress, tell her sho is the loveliest : creature upon earth, marry her, and . live upon her fortune evor afterwards, ' while he makes himself fascinating to ; the rest of her sox, and neglects and snubs her.