Labeling a Boston
Dude.
From the Boston Journal.
A prominent member of the band
of gilded youths of which this city is so justly proud is in a high state of
excitement, and with difficulty held back by his friends from making a personal
assault upon his jeweler, who, he conceives, had been “putting up a joke” on
him.
The facts, as gained during his
lucid intervals, are these: - He is much addicted to attending the dramatic
performances which occur in this city, his specialty being in steadily
observing the female chorus in comic opera, and the sylphs of the corps de
ballet in their ingenious gyrations. It
struck him that it would be a good notion to wear a scarf pin suggestive of his
love for the lyric stage, and accordingly interviewed his jeweler upon this
momentous subject. The artificer in
precious metals was prompt to meet the demands of the occasion, and in due time
presented his customer with a neat design, consisting of a bar of music
delicately fashioned in gold, with the treble clef in black enamel, and two
notes in diamonds reposing between the third and fourth lines from the
bottom.
The customer, whose only
knowledge of music was as it suggested the accompanying incident of female
singers, highly approved this work of art, purchased it, stuck it in his scarf
and went down to the matinee. After the
performance he displayed his new possession to the ladies, who admired it
much. At last he showed it to the
prettiest and brightest one of all, who immediately exclaimed, “How very neat
and appropriate!”
“Do you think so?” inquired the
delightful youth.
“Certainly I do, and those
beautiful diamond notes; they fit you so well.
Do, do – that makes dodo, you see.
How ingenious and how very true!” – and she tripped away, amid the loud
laughter of all the assembly. And,
although the jeweler swears by the golden calf that he is quite innocent in the
matter, he has thus far failed to make his customer believe it.
Evening
Star (Washington DC), April 25, 1883, page 3, column 3.
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