The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-08-25
A TWILIGHT HEbYL.
A Young Mans Fearful Experience I'm the
Zee Cream seasOm.
burlington Hawkeye.l

| A Young Mans Fearful Experience In the
| See Cream Season.
| burlington Hawkeye.l
| Last Friday evening Mr.. Ellis Henderson,
| 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 lit
tie straw hat, with. g haby-blue band, d cut
| away coat, q pair Of light, wide pantaloons, q
white vest a button-hole bouquet and fifteen
cents. The evening was very warm, and as
they walked these young people talked about
the base ball match, the weather and, sun
strokes. By and by one Of the young ladies
gave q delicate little shrek.
where? Where? Which one. Elfrida?"
asked the other young lady eagerly.
HAYES" said Mr.. Henderson IN troubled
vDaa9s Wong IgHfff side q the he's street. ~
"There," exclaimed Efrida. artlessly point
ing as she spoke. GLOW funny it is spelled;
see, Ethel"
Isn't it, Mr.. Henderson,
tHa-why-aw why yes, yes, TO be sure"
said Mr.. Henderson very huskily, staring as
hard as he could at window full OF house
plants. r.,s.., -
tones Of engagement, "how can you say so2
just see ice, ice, c-r-double elm, cream
that's not tho way to spell cream"
'tDh, Eltrida." cried her companion, 'you
must be near-sighted. That isn't an g. 1t is
an n. Isn't 1t Rlr. Henderson,"
And Mr., Henderson, who was praying
harder than he ever prayed before that an
earthquake might como along and swallow
up either him OF all the Ice cream saloons in
the United States, he didn't much care whohf
looked up at the chimney OF the house and
said; ,..
"rrhat2 Oh. yes. yes; Of course. why GER
| tainly How very much cooler 1t has grown
within the past few minutes" the young man
suddenly added, with a kind of inspiration.
surely that cool wave the signal service dis
| patches announced as having entered this
country from Manitoba must be nearing us
| once more
And he took out his handkerchief and
| swabbed q face that looked as though it had
never heard of d cool wave, nor even looked
| into the face of a. man who had heard Of one.
| He knew, when he talked Of its being cooler,
that his face would scorch an iceberg brown
| in ten minutes.
| BY this time they turned corner, and the
appalling sign was out of sight. Mr. Hen
derson breathed like free man.
81 always like to stroll along Jefferson
street in the evening" said Ethel, Its SO
lively. NY, just look at that crowd of people
going in that door What is going on there,
Mr.. Henderson,
| Mr.. Henderson looked across to the other
side of the street as usual, and said;
"oh, yes; that was q clothing house y, y,
/
frida, ''that's an Ice cream saloon"
Ethel laughed merrily, "Do you know, y
| she said, Il wondered what so many young
ladies could want in a gentlemans clothing
| house,"
| Mr.. Henderson said, "Ha, ha, to be sure
And o the feeble, CHASTITY tinoture OF mirth
| there was In his nervous "ha ha.' It sounded
as though a boy with the earache should
essay to laugh.
as it true. Mr. Henderson," asked Ethel
| CnHO pxni0Hpy'
Mr.. Henderson, gasping for breath, eagerly
assured her that they did very frequently,
and that in every instance they scattered
death and destruction around. In many OF the
Eastern cities, he said, they had been abOl-
ished by the law, and the same thing should
| be done here In New York, the young man
went on, all the soda fountains had been re-
moved far outside the city limits, and were
| located far IN lonely meadows. side by side
with powder houses.
II am not afraid of then,' said the daring
Ethel, Il don't believe they are bit danger
GUS" -....y,,..t
afraid to walk up to one and stand by 1t oil
| day. Why are you so afraid of them, Mr.
Henderson,"
| Mr.. Henderson gnashed his teeth and Sc
| cretly pulled out a great sheaf Of hair from
| his head In nervous agony. Then he said that
he once had a fair young sister blown to
| pieces by one of those terrible engines of de-
! struction while she was drinking at it, and he
| had never since been able to look at a soda
| fountain without growing faint.
Glow sad," said both the young ladies
and then Ethel asked:
| "How do they make soda water. MI. Hen
derson?"
| And while the young man was getting
dirt and poison, EIfrida read aloud four ice
cream signs, and Ethel read on q transpar-
hesalthful, and EIfrlda m are read "Eadiss AM; and
gentlemens ice cream parlors' twice. and
Ethel looked at the door and said: "Oh don't
they look nice and cool in there! How com
frlda then said Eyes, indeed, it makes this
dusty street and scorching sidewalk seem
like an oven just to look in at them even. -
and then young Mr. Henderson, who for the
| last ten minutes had been clawing his hair,
and tearing off his necStie and collar, and
paving the air, shouted out in tones of wild
| frenzy:
"Oh, yes, yes, yes! Come in, come in and
gorge yourselves Everybody come in and
feed up whole weeks salary in fifteen min
utes. Set 'em up Sody, ice cream, cake
| strawberry cobbler, lemon ice and sherbet.
Set EN- up It's on me. Oh yes, | can stand
it. Ha, ha, ha! am John Jacob Vanderbilt
in disguise. Oh, yes it don't cost anything
to take an evening walk in Burlington. On
no! Put out your frozen pudding! Ha, ha,
| ha-a-a!'
| They carried the young man to his humble
boarding house, got him into bed, and sent
for his physician. He is not yet entirely out
of danger, but will probably recover, with
care and good nursing. The physician does
not know exactly what ails him, but thinks it
must be hydrophobia, as the sight of piece
of ice throws the patient into the widest and
| most furious parOXysms.
| --<a- Q E
| Poker in Colorado.
The town of Fairplay. Col, 50 named from
| the fair manner in which its DpGDlp nlav
poker, was enlivened not long since by q little