Ellsworth American., 1876-11-09
q &isfeIIzneons.
ANodern Watsr-Nymph.
BY MARY V. SPENCER.


You've come just In time
| The speaker was Arthur Nowbray. He
and his friend Winthrop Somers. sat smok-
| ing. 10 the room OF the former, at the West
champ Hotel. q Fashionable resort omong
the picturesque hills OF Pennsy lvania.
you ought TO knew,as you came week
before myself answered Somers. Are
any Of our set herer
None, except Miss Hutchinson. l mean
the girls Of the neighborhOod.'
The country girls, Bah Milkmaids, and
farmers daughters. aod the like. Blowsy
creatures, with waists like beer barrels,
| great red hands, and feet as big and heavy
as elsdgs hammers. Thanks! None Of
them for me.
Hush. said his friend. speaking in q
whisper. Not 30 loud. The partitions
between these hotel rooms are very thin.
Miss Hutchinson's apartment Is next to
this, and. If I'm not mistaken, saw some
of those very girls go In there awhile ago
'Somers was q gentleman with all his in
sufferable coxcombry; so he dropped his
voice also, as he replied.
Sorry. pom honor, II They've heard.
Wouldn't do anything to hurt their feelings
for the world. ! suppose they have feel-
ings. you know
Wait till you know some OF these girls
before you speak so impudently OF them,
said Mowbray, little severely. There's
| Judge Morton's daughter. he was in Con-
| gress for many years. and she has spent
two winters in washington-She's as fresh
as 4 pink. and as bright as a diamond !;
rides superbly; rows like Yale or Har-
| ward stroke oar dances divlnely. sings
Spare me, spare me :; interrupted Somers,
affecting TO stop his ears. 4 know JUS,
| the sort OF thing you mean. Goes buster
Ing about in a mans jacket, apes all .
mans sports, talks in mans voice. and
has n mus.ache as thick as shoe brush
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girl. I suppose. sumo D"''''''''
That said Mowbray, gravely, is one OF
the girls OF the neighborhood, Of whom
you made fun yesterday. you REMEMBER.
Soners gave long whistle. 'Oh. Miss
Norton he cried. III she's a specimen Of
your country girls, take back all said
Are there any more like herT
Plenty, replied Mowbray. 'Bnt this is
not Judge Morton's daughter. This 10
Miss Grace Crawford. Her isther OWLS
farm in the intervals. A farmers daugh-
ter you see.'
Somers gave another long whistle, but
said nothing further.
That night there was hop at the hotel.
and Winthrop Somers, In a perfect evening
costume, with . most exquisite nosegay In
his buttoahole, the very ideal OF Phla-
delphia beau Of the first water, was seen
dancing with Miss Crawford, not once on
only but whenever she would give him
chance. 1t really seems one of those
cases. said Miss Hutchinson, so rare in
this nineteenth century. OF love at first
sight. And congratulate you, my dear
she said, turning mischievously, to Miss
Crawford. who just then came up. Miss
Hutchinson was good deal older, and
had q way Of saying what she pleased. he
is undenisbly handsome, besides being
mill onaire.'
Dear me,' demurely replied Miss Craw-
ford, you frighten me. To think that this
grand sultan should condescend to throw
his handkerchief to poor me, who am only
q country girl
Miss Hutchinson looked at her sharply.
so you have overheard that speech OF his,
she said. y hoped you hadn't. for Win
throp Somers. with all his cOxcombry. is,
| at heart. q good fellow
with blowsy, red-handed. .Iedge hammer
footed girls, answered Miss Crawford, with
q gay taugh, that was like the tinkle OF sill
yer bells. Nay. having even to dance with
them. wonder II wonld have crushed
his dainty foot IL had happened to tread
on it in that last waltz And IS II TO EN-
phasize the idea, she put out for one in
| slant. the smallest and prettiest slipper iIn-
| aginable.
You are making fun.and won't talk to
you any more replied her companisn with
= grave affection OF reproof. Speaking ra-
tionally, l don't know what our cities
would do If they were not recruited from
the country. Most Of our prettiest women
had mothers or grsndmothers born on
farm. and to that they owe their health and
good looxs. Tor the two are substantially
Synonymous. Nearly hslt Of our leading
lawyers, clergyman, physicians ana mer'
chants were country lads. Every city gen
tlemen Is not like Winthrop Somers. lou
don't find Mr. Mowbrsy disParsging the
country, do your
A deep blush rose and spread over MISS
Crswfords face, till Il dyed even the tips
OF her small shell l-like ears. She nirted her
fan before her face, nervousiy out MSS
Hutchinson had noticed the blush, and she
| made her own silent comments according
ly. v--.