Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-02-18
Fl u II 0 Il.
FEMININE DUPLICITY.

1t was q South Hill girl No other hui
man divinity could play such a heartless
trick on an admiring, nay, an adoring and
adorable young man. He always praised
the flowers she wore, and talked so learn
edly about flowers in general that this in
credulous young angel put up a job'' up
on him-if one may be so sacreligeous as to
write slang in connection with so much
beauty and grace. She filled the bay win
dow with freshly potted weeds, which she
had laboriously gathered from the sidewalk
and in the hollow under the bridge, and
when he came around that evening she led
the conversation to flowers and her admit
rer to they bay window. "Such lovely
plants she had.' she told him and he Just
clasped his hands and looked around him
in silly ecstacy, trying to think of their
names.
''This Cataga,aip imJlasensis Mr.. Bogard-
US" she said, pointing to miserable cheat
of young rag weed, ''did you ever see
anything more delicate ?"
"Oh," he calculated, regarding it reve-
rentially "beautiful A.! What delicately Sci
rated leaves!''
"And," she went on, with face as calm
and angelic as though she was only say
ing: "Now lay me down to sleep,'' sit
breaks out in the summer in such curious
green blossoms!" And she gazed pensively
upon the young man, as though she saw
something green that probably never would
blossom.
"Wonderful, wonderful indeedp' he said
tone can never tire of botany. 1t con-
tinually opens to us new worlds of wonders
with every awakening flower and unfold
ing leaf"
s'And here" she said, Indicating with
her snowy fingers a villainous sprout of
that little burr the boys call 'sbeggar's
lice, 'nae1,dica,atis parasitatis! What"
sOh,'' he exclaimed rapturously, "where
did you get it ? Why, don't you know
how rare it is ? I have not seen one in
Burlington since Mrs. O'Gheminie went
to Chicago. She had such beautiful spe-
cies of them; quite a charming variety.
She used to wear them in her hair so Of
ten.''
'No Doubt" the angel said, dryly: and
the young man feared he had done wrong
in praising Mrs. O'Gheminie's plants SO
highly. But the dear girl went, and poin-
ting to a young jimson weed, said:
sThis is my pet, this Jinasonata 1fgiosen-
sis.o
The young man gasped with the pleas
ure of true lover of flowers, and inhaled
it's nauseous odor. Then he rose up and
said
''This plant has some medical proper
ties.''
ssAh !" she said.
eyes," he replied, stifly, cit has. 1
have smelt that plant IN my boyhood's
days. Wilted on the Kitchen stove. then
bruised and applied to the eruption, the
leaves are excellent remedial agents for
the poison of the ivy" He strobe through
the smiling company that was gathered in
the parlor, and said sternly, 1--WE meet no
more y and selling her fathers hat from
tile rack, he extinguished himself in it.
and went banging along the line
of tree-boxes that lined his darkened way.
-BaHtlngt0n Hdauk-ege.
Bismarck is baldheaded, but you don't
catch any German newspapers saying that
Mrs. Bismarck is a high-tempered woman.
or making any jokes about baldheads gen
orally. The baldheaded man in that
country is looked up to.
An English woman advertises herself as
corn-cutter to the royal family. She prac-
tices on ''the light, fantastic toe"