The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-07-27
A SEASIDE EXPERIENCE.

coast watering places, and relates a
little of his experience in these terms:
This morning [ had a bath with a
young Nereid, who swan like a duck,
and is the Quickest of ducks in every
way-eyen though she would not let
me finish a song which she chal-
lenged me to write. The way of it
was-this=but- let me give the only
two existing stanzas of my great pro-
;ected poem, which IS to be entitled
a LATTER THE
Her skin is fresh, and cold and pink.
But warm and red the lips l press,
And all her beauty seems to shrink
Compacter in her clinging dress;
While DER her shoulders to her nip,
Z Ger swelling bust and far adoWn.
In trailing gold the tresses drip,
Which form at night her braided crown.
No more her eyes in languor swim,
But fash with gay, coquettish strife,
And every pulse and every 1mo u
Her cheek hath caught a ruddier stain.
9 And her small feet, in sane thatsink,
Are marble-white. with many a vein
Down to the OF pink.
g THE LADY OF CHECKERS"
Among the ha6itues of the Paris
cafes concerts are some singular char
acters, The observed of all observers
is a rather pretty young woman, who,
for a year past, has spent every after
noon and evening at the Alhambra,
where she drinks a number of glasses
of beer, smokes some cigarettes, and
plays checkers with the genuine ardor
of an admirer of the game. The
place treat her with great respect.
Her history is quite romantic. Sew
eral years ago she was a poor actress.
travelling with one of the provincial
companies One day the son of a
wealthy old Marquis saw her and fell
in love with her. Being a very hon
orable young man, he told his parents
he would marry her. The Marquis
and his wife were in dismay.Whatl
A relative of the Montmorency fami-
ly-the scion of one of the oldest
houses in France-should marry such
a womanlI Impossible!'A The father
of the young man, to reassure his
wife said it was a fame that
would pass, and, besides, the young
man was not yet twenty-five years
old, and could not marry there
fore e without obtaining the
consent Of his parents and
those of the young actress. When
the son would not desist from his pur-
pose, the father told him that he
could not marry the actress with his
consent. and finally he prevailed on
the young man to go abroad for a
coupie of years. But SO intense was
his love that he died in Africa of a
broken heart, before six months had
elapsed. On his death bed he be-
queathed all of his own property,
amounting to upward of thirty thous-
and francs, to the actress. His pa
rents, however, went to law to contest
the validity of the will. Though the
grounds on which they brought suit
were very weak, the young actress
consented readily to an offer they
made to her, to pay her a life rent of
300 francs a month. She said if she
received the whole amount she would
be too rich. and riches brought cares
In their wake. Eight hundred francs
a month were abundantly enough for
her. Thereupon she went to Paris,
rented a nice little house, and. being
a passionate lover of the game of
spent every day many hours
in playing at the Alhambra. The
walters call her the lady of the
checkers"
"A NOVEL ELECTION.
The Easton (Md.) Star gives an ac-
count of a large picnic held in a grove
Trappe, in that county, on the |
4th of July, and adds: |
The great feature of the day was
election, at ten cents a vote, to de- |
termine the prettiest and most popu-
lar lady of the district, to whom a
splendid fruit cake was awarded, the
proceeds of the election to go to the |
Trappe band Over 5000 votes were
cast, thus netting the band about $500. |
The principal candidates were Miss
WEIGH, Miss Caulk and Miss Oren-
dorf. Up to within a minute of the
closing of the polls, Miss Caulk was
several hundred votes ahead and her
admirers were confident of success;
but a friend of Miss Welch kept his
ballot back to the last, paid 500 and
gave her a thousand votes, WHICH Sc
cured her the victory by some six
hundred plurality, amid the plaudits
of her friends. This is a novel way
of determining the pretties girl in the
neighborhood." SOB