The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-08-30
A TWILIGHT IDYL.
4 Young Mans Fearful Experience in the Ice
Cream Season.


= 'oung Mans Fearful Experience in the Ice
Cream Season.
Last Fridayeyening MIR. Ellis Hender
son, one of our best young men, went out
walking with two of the sweetest girls in
burlington. They were nice girls.
Beautiful, accomplished and modest.
And Mr. Henderson was nice young
man too. He wore that evening little
straw hat with baby blue band, cut
away coat, pair of light, wide Panta-
looms, a white vest, q button-hole bou-
quet, and fifteen cents. The evening |
was very warm. and as they walked these
young people talked about the base ball
match, the weather and sunstrokes. By
and by one of the young ladies gave
delicate little shrek.
oo'oo What funny sign "
Where? Where? Which one, Elfrida?"
asked the other young lady eagerly.
a-Yes," said Mr.. Henderson in
troubled tones, looking gently but reso-
lutely at the wrong side of the street.
There" exclaimed Elfrida, srtlessly
pointing as she spoke. How funny it
is spelled; see, Ethel"
Why" said Ethel cit is spelled
correctly. Isn't it, Mr.. Henderson %
'Ha-why-aw-why yes, yes, to be
sure, said My. Henderson very huskily,
staring as hardss he could at window
full OF house plants.
"Why, Mr.. Henderson, said Elfrida,
in tones Of amszement, how can you say
SO? Just see, lie e, ice, c>r-double EN-,
cream, that's nOakhe way to spell cream"
ooh, Elfl her companion
"you must sfsed That isn't
an e. it is an a. fsn'ti Mr.. Henderson,?
And Mr.. Henderson, who was praying
harder than hever prayed before that
an earthquaB might come along and
swallow up jther him or all the ice
cream saloondn the United States, he
didn't much care which, looked up at
the chimney # the house and said
'Tnat? O, yes, yes; of course, why
certainly. Hw very much cooler it has
grown withinthe last few minutes" the
Young man Suddenly added, with kind
of inspiration, "surely that cool wave the
signal service dispatches announces as
having entord this country from Mani
5 toba must bsnearing us once more"
And he took out his handkerchief and
, swabbed fac that looked AS though it
had never hard of cool wave, nor
r even look ed INTO the face OF a man who
. had heard Of one He knew, when he
talked OF its being cooler, that his face
t would seorch an iceberg brown in ten
G minutes
: By this tims they turned corner, and
i the appalling sign was out Of sight. Mr..
r Henderson brathed like free man.
e "I always ike to stroll along Jefferson
y street in tbesyeniDg said Ethel It's
e so lively. Ny, just look at that crowd
l. &c people giDg in that door. What is
If going on thee Mr.. Henderson ?"
u Mr.. Hen&rson looked across to the
!, other side q the street as usual, and
k said;
h Oh, yes that is clothing house"
= Why, nc Mr.. Henderson" exclaimed
"a Elhida, tlat's an ice cream saloon"
Ethel laughed merrily. "Do you
know she sid, 81 wondered what >,
re many young hdies could want in gen
tleman's clothing house ?"
se Mr.. Hendsrson said, % Ha, ha, to b
IL sure" Anddh, the feeble, CHASTITY tinct
:. ure OF mirth there was in his nervou
Is cha, ha." It sonnded as though DO.
re with the earseae should essay to laugh
" as it true, Mr. Henderson," aske'
= : Ethel, that sda fountains sometime
ID explode ?'
s. Mr. Henderan, gasping for breath
- - eagerly assured her that they did yer
to frequently and that in every instanc
1t they scattered death and destructis
ie around Ia many OF the eastern cities
: he said, they had been abolished by tn
: law, and the same thing should be don
ID here. In New York, the young ma
e went on, all the soda fountains had bee
ar removed far outside the city limits an
:. were located far in lonely meadows, sid
J. by side with powder houses
er g am not afraid of them" said tn
daring Ethel, 81 don't believe they ar
1r bit dangerous"
= Z" Nor l. echoed Elfrida, 81 woul
rs not be afraid to wax up to one an
s. stand by it all day. Why are you 5
Sc afraid of them, Mr.. Henderson ?"
= MIR. Henderson CRASHED his teeth an
n secretly pulled out great sheaf of hal
It from bis head in nervous agony. The
IL he said that he once mad fair youn
&c sister blown to pieces by one of thos
i terrible engines of destruction while sh
20 was drinking at it, and he had neve
y since been able to look at a soda fountai
without growing faint.
- q How sad, said both of the youn
t. ladies' and then thel asked.
N q How do you make soda water, Nj
'e Henderson?
I'd And while the young man was gettin
at ready to recite recipe composed mainI
AT of dirt and poison, Elfrida read alou
as four ice cream signs, aud Ethel rea
I'd on a transparency Lemon ices, COO
to ing, refreshing, and healthful," an
CT, El'rida read, Ladies' and gentlemen
in ice cream parlors," twice. and Eth,
~ looked at the door and said, e Oh, don
ur they look ME and COL in there Ho
comfortably esxhsppy they do look
d And Elfraa & Yes, indeed,
o. makes this ssi1y street and scorchir
is sidewalk seen like an oven, just TO loo
RS III at the m Gen." and then young NJ
A. Henderson, who for the last ten minut
he had bten Giving his hair, and tearir
all of his necbtie and collar, and pawir
er the air, shouted in tones of wild frenzy
a Is Oh, s,yes, yes Come in, come
Is and gorge yourselves Everybody con
its in and feed up whole weeks salary
fifteen minutess Sot 'em up Sody, II
!" cream, cake, strawberry cobbler, lemc
ne ice and sherbet. Set'em upl It's on m
an Oh yes, l can stand it. Ha, ha, ha,
on, Iobp IL xyoaJarhiIt in disolIis