Litchfield enquirer., 1876-03-02
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 replied Henry. The three persons of Il graianlar are really not enough. Afourth 5 is needed to distinguish thene of the past and future from the opresentg ego, which IS the only true one" .a. ...Ts <
 "'Oh, your getting altogether too deep for me,s said Jessie ''Come, girls, what ins the world are we going to get to wear Ds sars enongk cried ead1thha they ~ with tho one 'a accord, whne the mttsing look in their eyes r gaveyplace to aavivacions and merry ex- pression. Fys .i9ibieT I8inqog a4! o3
 "My mother isn't near as old as we're going to be. Her things won't do." said } Nellie. 5 s3 ..+
 "Nor mins, echoed Jessie; ''but per haps Mary's grandmother will let us have some of her things ' as4s ..s..f- i -... .
 "In that case" suggested Frank, ''it will be only civil to invite her to the par ty." 9"- ara aa,.s @.' -. ''To be sure, why not2' agreed Jessie. 1t Is to be an old folks party, and her stI don't believe she'll come, said George. You see being old is dead ear nest to her. and she won't see the joke.
 But Mary said she would ask her any fway, and so that was settled.
 My father is much too large in the waist for his clothes to be of any service to me, said George lugubriously.
 But Frank reminded him that this was a hint as to his get.up, and that he must stuff with pillows that the proverb might be fulfilled, ''like father like son."
 And then they were rather taken aback by Henry's obvious suggestion that there was no telling what the fashion in dress would be in A. D. 1925. ''even if, 'he add ed, ''the scientists leave us any A. D. by that time," though Frank remarked here that A. D. would answer just as we'll as Aano DGraoinis. if worst came to- worst. But it was decided that there was::no use trying after prophetical accuracy in dress. if attainable would not suggest age to their own minds as would the elderly weeds which they were accustomed to see.
 'It's rather odd, isn't it." said Jessie gravely, "that it didn't occur to anybody, that in alPprobability not over one or two of us at most will be alive fifty years hence" r.
 "Let's draw lots for the two victims, and the rest of us will appear as ghosts" suggested Frank, grinly l'- s "'' h
 "'Poor two" sighed Nellie. ''I'm sorry for them. How lonely they will be. I'm glad haven't got very good constitu tion." "..
 But Henry remarked that Jessie might have gone further and said just as truly that none of them would survive fifty years, or even ten
 "We may, some of us, escape the pang of dying as long as that, said he, "but that Is but trife, and not necessary incl dent of death. The essence of mortality iu change, and we shalltbe changed. Ten | H,Hn What though an old dotard calling him. self Henry Long is stumping around fifty years hence, what is that to Me2 I shall have been dead half 3 century by that time." 1.-The old gentleman you speak so light ly of will probably think more tenderly of you than you do of him" said Jessie
 "I don't believe it," answered Henry. ''In fact, if we were entirely true to na- ture, next Wednesday, it would spoil the 1 fun, for we probably should not. if actual :. ly of the age we pretend, think of our i youth once year, much less meet to talk 1t over'' . lad E- 't
 ''Oh, I don't think so, D protested Nell lie. ''Im sure that all the story-books and poetry say that old folks are much given to reviewing their youth in a pen sive, regretful sort o way"
 That's all very pretty, but it's all gam. mon in my opinion,' responded Henry. ''Tbe poets are young people who know nothing of how old folks feel, and argue ness of things l believe that reminis- cence takes up very small part. of old l persons time. It would furnish them lit- tie excitement, for they have lost the feel ings by which their memories would have | to be interpreted to become vivid, Re- membering Is dull business at best. notice that most persons, even of eventful lives, prefer good novel to the pleasures of recollection. It Is really easier to sym pathize with the people in novel or dra- ma than with our past selves. We lose great source of recreation just because we cant recall the past more wildly.
 ''How shockingly Henry contradicts to- night" was the only reply Nellie deigned to this long speech. .-. ,..
 "What shall we call eack other next Wednesday," asked Mary. By our first names as now?" =n
 Not if We are going to be prophetically accurate" said Henry. Fifty. years hence, in all probability, we shall. most of us, have altogether have forgotten our present intlmacies and formed others, quite inconceiyable now. I can imagine Frank over there, scratching his bald head with his spectacle tips, and trying to re- call me. Hen. Long, Hen: Long,-let me think: name sounds familiar, and yet I cant place him. Didn't I know him at C., or was 1t at college- Bless me, how forgetful I'm growing"
 They all laughed at Henry's bit of act ing. Perhaps it was only sparkles of mirth, but it might have been glances of tender confidence that shot between cer- tain pairs. of eyes betokening something that feared not time This is in no sort love story, but such things can't be who'll I ly prevented. ... r...--..s ..,-. ..5
 The girls, however, protested that this talk about growing so utterly away from each other was too dismal for anything. ] and they wouldn't believe it anyhow. The old fashioned notions of eternal constancy were ever SO much nicer. It gave them the cold shivers to hear Henry s ante-mor- tenn dissection of their friendship, and that young man was finally forced to ad- init that themembers Of the club would probaSly prove exceptions to the general rule in such matters It was agreed, therefore, that they should appear to know each other at the old folks party. ..-...
 'All you girls must, of course, be called Mrs. instead of Miss, suggested Frapk, ''though you will have to keep your own names, that is unless you prefer to disclose any designs you may have upon other people's;' for which piece of impertinence l Nellie, who sat next him, boxed his ears. for the reader must know that these young people were on footing of entire famiii- arity and long intimacyaH'dt saTHt5gae 1 Do you know what time it is?" asked Mary. who, by virtue of the sweet sedate- ness of her disposition. was rather the monitress of the company. sdtgsoos .'.'
 ''It's twelve o'clock, an hour after the clubs curfew.'' ..s.s. D.. fas,. r,z..
 Well" remarked Henry, rousing from the fit of abstraction in which he had been pursuing the subject of their previ- ous discussion, It was to be expected we should get little mixed as to chronology over such a talk as this.'
 with our watches set fifty years ahead, therell be be no danger of overstaying l our time next Wednesday. aByhow" add