The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1871-08-31

eleven Of them. She said that she
was weary Of clothes and Of the friyoli-
ties of dress, and the vanities of silken
robes, and consequently, she had sent
her wardrobe to town, and had come in
her simplicity and naauralness, TO seek
Tho innocent pleasure, and rest among
the simple folk who had fed to the
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What q plunge she made into the very
depths of our rural quietude! Imay be
permitted to tell you, because it is the
ruth, that she stirred every manly bo-
som with admiration, and every woman
With envy. She seemed the offspring Of
Natures most lavish mood, and afiuent
in wealth ofcoloring, and beauty offOrm.
She made even the hearts Of the trio
for their IS yet undivided por-
ton Of the widower. .She smiled her
pearly teeth 1t the porter, and he trem-
bled so deliciously at the favor that he
never could tell whether or not he was
offered pecuniary compensation for car
rying up the eleven trunks. He is "cer-
tain sure" that he did not accept any,
thing but radiant glance from her pink
lips. For one entire day she held her
self aloof from the sleepy people, while
she took her bearings and formed her
plans Of attack upon whoever was avail
able prey. The married men might do
for present amusement, but she had tri-
fed away too much other youth already.
and she meant business. The slips d
future men could do nothing but adore
this creature Of glow, and color, and un-
told magnifcencc, while they held their
breast with one hand and felt for their
approaching boards with the other, and
kept silence. She did not 60 to sleep in
the forenoon, rs the other ladies did, nor
wear a coI.ccaling turban at breakfast
time to hide some unknown badness, or
q pile of barbarous crimping pins. She
ate beautifully rs if it were . fine art.
It was not long before she discovered
the rotary motion of the one beau, and
she focused her witcheries upon him
with most wonderful power. If she did
not make him tremblc, she certainly did
make the poor little slippers of Lily
White, Pearl Powder and Rouge shake
like aspen leaves. OF course mean that
morally speaking" they shook not a
little.
o, what muslins she wore! The maj.
who saw the "hounccs of fog" on the
skirts Of the mountain, perceived the
marabomt plumage Of an angel on the
borders of her garments. The next day
but one every turban in the house was
of, all the paper crimping pins were gone
and the outline of every woman's brow
was softened with those fairy shadows
which suggested the moss which dcepcns
the beauty of rose. How We all did
bloom, though! Not because We felt
equal to the required emergency, but it
was an effort which selfprcservation de-
manded. Tresses foatcd in the morning
breeze, and by some hcrculem effort of
the general dressing maid, they did not
die at eventide, but looked even lovelier
than ever. How beautifully she waltzed
with the widower! Her lovely outline
against his dark evening dress was
thing of beauty to be remembered with
pleasure-by him but to us it was heart
break, and envy, and general misery /;
while to the trio, it meant absolute and
utter defeat.
The evening went, and the heartsick
retired to their troubled slum,
beers, resolving to distinguish themselves
by appearing as ugly and being rs stu
pid as possible, but they rose to fresh
dresses, fall-blown crimps, and touch
of hopeful color, for all that.
The beau saw nobody but Lady Clara
Vera de We're, and he could not drink his
goblet of milk, poor sick calf! The trio
saw the waning appetite OF the man lost
their own, much to the delight of the
landlord. Lady Clara was dressed in
cambria robe, with lavender
and pale, pale rose in her ches-
nut tresses. How meek and unconscious
she looked. The beau, who seemed to
be haunted by an accusing conscience,
turned his eyes to Pearl Powder, and
resolved to be true to his determination
eff equal distribution, but Lady Clara's
beauty, and her Waiting, had been too
much for his heart while but few hours
after, when he found her reading her lit
tie velvet bible to small uhalphabctic
boy, under tree, his very knees trem-
bled with generation.
Later in the day. Lady Clara COM
pleted the exhibition of her complex i'm
preston by taki"g to the latler-day mus
cular accomplishment of pulling an oar
on the lonely lake which has the wooded
fringes. This time the head of the beau
was quite as much affected as his heart
had been, and We were all waiting upon
the shore to sec him plunge down upon
his knees before her rs soon rs he was
safe on the land-(a boat is such an un-
steady thing in which to do any of that
sort OF thing when by some agitating
over they both went, and the
water carcssed them in it's unkindly
arms. He fetched her ashore in state
Of blissfal brcathlessness, and when he
laid her reluctantly down in the arms of
women, his heart was broken
with sudden snap.
Explanation. Her paint came of. Her
crimps, fluffy, and shadow, and sweet,
were Ief, in the ripples, which were still
trihing with them. Her padding got
away. Her teeth fell out in her gasps
for breath.
Consequence. The beau left on the
irst train. She went on the second
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