The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-01-16
OLD FtAM ES.
4 Camp--Niceting Romance.


It's too aggravaling, so It'll Dear me. l
wish | never forgot anything.
NO, no, for mercy sake don't wish you
never forgot anything; for then you'd al
WAYS have 10 remember all the disagreeabe
things that ever happened to you in your life
Believe me, it's vastly better as ii Is. II we
never forgot anything at all, then we have
to carry down to our graves the vivid rccOl
lection of all the grief, or sorrow, or pain we
have suffered, of all the hateful things folks
have said to us and about Us, and, above all
If every time in our lives when we've made
fools OF ourselves You will find that it's
much to be thankful for you can't forget the
occasions on which you've made fool OF
Yourself when YOU come to be an old maid
like your Aunt Laetitia.
Alice Kildare laughed.
Not much like being an old maid, is if,
seventeen, and already engaged six months:
Well | was engaged at sixteen, and have
been engaged three times IN my life, and yet
here am, an old maid in eye. glasses, and in.
tend to die the same, please GOD. Think, now
what budget Of heartbrcakIng reeollections
I'd be obliged 10 carry about with me the rest
of my life il had 10 remember it all. Don.
wish you never forgot anything, Alice ON
the contrary, thank Heaven We can forget
things
Again Alice Kildare laughed
sue and ] are going to have our fortunes
told, Aunt LyCtc. Go with Us venerable
mother, and see that it's done right
1 can tell yours without looking into a
globe of mcsmcrzrd water. You'll be The
old maid make the prediction. You have
the elements 81 IN old maid in your soul-OnC
sort of old maid, that is
What are the elements of IN old maid
Aunt Lact"
oh OF your sort of an old MAZDA higl
spirit, Il bright mind, Il sharp tongue, and al
uncomfortable love of flirting. You'll be IN,
sort of an old maid that takes to women
rights aud thinCs-nOt the sort that take {,
cats or religion. Once more mark tho pro
phecy Alice Esmerelda Kildare
For the third time Alice laughed her bright
spuuky, ringing laugh, and then clappcd O
her gypsy hat and went with her friend Su
10 see Nine. Mlnchauski the great clairvol
ante slbyl, who could miraculouSly see ill
shadow of coming events in u globe OF nc
mcriZcd Water-ai 50 much head.
Alice Was bctrolhCd Ia a slim, handsome
lOnghalrcd college student, who wrote pucll
and had an LOian harp in one window and
rOse-geraniuM in lhr ether, ana meant To 9
into the literary line rs soon as he was don
college He was very much in love, and \
ice was-oh. drcadiully in love, but TN
didn't at all prevent this truthful young lad
from I'll ing with dozen other Young me
all al once, and telling leo end of white lie
about her engagement. She was cxcecdingl
attractive but not so pretty as she was brigs
pIquant and spirited. At thi, very tim
when she iay awake nights thinking Of hC
betr0thcd, aud nrycr-SycDt 10 bed withol
tenderly kissing his photograph, at This yer
time she was iiirting desperately with Tol
Creighton, her lovers cllss-maie, rich man
son, who was home on a three months loa'
of absence which had been recommended
the college faculty. Worst of all, she had q
lowed Tom Creighton, in tue presence Of
third person, 10 tell slanderous story abo
her lover, one which she knew must be falls
and there she sat and listened TO il witho
The faintest attempt 10 fight for her lover
GOOD name just for fear Tom Creight'
would think she was engaged If she said an
thing. don't defend her, mind you; thin
such conduct was simply scandalous, al
such o young lady don't deserve eveS 10 ha