"AWFUL" TASTE IN 1875.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2109, 7 October 1875, Page 3

"AWFUL" TASTE IN 1875.

Scene—A ballroom. Fdwin leads out Angelina, as arranged earlier in the evening to dance a promised " Square.",' They walk through the first figure. A pause. Edwin: Been to the academy of course ? Angelina: O yes. Been several times. So fond of Miss Thompson's picture, you know. I like the group of the dying soldier and the boy laughing at having killed a Frenchman, awfuly clever, you know. Edwin :O, awfully! The wounds are so awfully true to nature, you know. Do we begin? They walk through the second figure. A pause. Edwin: Been to see SalviniP ; Angelina: Of course. Isn't he awfully | nice ? I think he is perfectly charming in •'Othello." His face quite reminds me, in the jealousy scene, oi dear Mr Irving in the last act of "The Bells'" His euicide at the end of the piece, you know, is really quite too awfully clever, isn't it?" Edwin: You mean the throat-cutting affair, eh? When he falls on his back and dies quivering, eh ? O yes ; awfully clever. It's our turn", I think. They walk through the third figure. A pause. ] Edwin : Bead any novels lately? Angelina: Just re»d an.awfully nice book, " The Law and the Lady." One of the heroes it a monstrosity without legs, Mi.-errimu3 Dexter, don't you know. Awfully clever. Edwin : O yes. Read the book myself. Clever notion, the idiotic man-woman, «h, wasn't it ? Angelina: O 3'es, awfully good. I think they are waiting for us. They walk through the fourth figure. Promenade. Edwin : Did you go to Stafford Houbo to see the coffius ? Angelina: O yes, we all went—mamma, papa and the children, don't you know. Met everybody there. Such an awful crush. Edwin : Like the coffins ? Angelina: Oso much. They looked awfully nice. So deliciously cool, don't you know. Kdwin: Cool ? You like that kind of thing cool, eh ? Angelina: Yes; I think so. Edwin: Ah, then you must be againit cremation ? Angelina (hesitating) : ' Well — yes-r perhaps. (After consideration.) Yes, I think so. Yen, I think I like the basr kets best. (Fane herself.) , Edwin : Apropos—may I get you an ice P Angelina: O, thanks so much. Yes, Grandpapa was awfully delighted with the wicker coffins, and has ordered a couple lined with charcoal, for him and Grandmamma. I am going to the shop to-m6rrow to choose them' for him. Thanks—strawberry, please. (They into the refreshment rooms, with a view to getting cool.) — Punch.