Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1879-04-22

much less acute observer.
did YOU notice the latest arrival:
asked Miss Alice carelessly Of her partner
for the promenade, young lady of the
brunette pattern, some years her senior,
whom her envious rivals were uncharita-
ble enough to say she had chosen as a
companion picture, to heighten the effect
of her own fair order of beauty.
The brown man, with the savage
moustache; Yes,--a foreigner, isn't he !:
A count, or a barber, or something OF
that sort, dare say.
Brown: and why not;" responded
the Younger lady. You have been used
to our hot-house plants so long that you
don't know a child of Nature when YOU
see him. And he's not a foreigner. No
subject of an effete despotiSm has indie
pendence enough to tip his chair back on
its hind legs and take his comfort, in such
place
mo: | should hope not, dryly re-
sponded the other; but this one may
have been naturalized
Il tell YOU he is not a foreigner, said
Miss Alice, with decision. Not one Of
them that I've ever met could look at
lady in that way.
In what way; wasn't aware that
the man looked at us Perhaps you can
tell what he had on. and all about him
"Of course can. Didn't | see him:
Do | need TO ask a gentleman to get up
on stool and give me sitting in order
to tell what he is like: He has gray blue
ewes, and wayy brown hair, and a splen-
! did moustache, and an awiully set mouth,
and he wears a dark gray suit, with a
crimson necktie, and dear little sparkler
in his shirt-front.
And YOU saw all that in just passing
him. How the noble savage would be
fattercd if he knew it,
"Oh. he knew it lie looked me over
Just as quickly, and had time enough left
to let me know that he caught me at my
inventory il was only three winks
long at the most That's what interested
me. Your foreigner stares so. And
some of our own swellS are even morc
hateful. I've longed to be man, many
a time. that | might WIRING the noses
of the iuSolcnt puppies and the bright
beauty twisted her dainty fingers with an
energy that proved her eamestness. NO
body but an American-and might al
most say one from the farther West at
that-looks at a strange lady with such
frank and vet respectful admiration
such clear-eyed and calm intentness,-
such honest homage and pure pleasure as
shone in that strangers eyes, I'd trust
him ike brother for that one look.
You are clearly hit hard, Allie dear,
said her companion, with mock serious
ness. Il shall take especial pleasure
hereafter in contradicting the cruel gossip
which say, that Alice Sterling Is a heart
less firt. Meanwhile, let us see If your
knightly border-rutfian, about whom YOU
don't know a thing except that he flat
tered YOU by worshipful look, has spit
on our trails. That will fix his locality
beyond doubt
Perhaps, if YOU prefer caricaturc to
truth in Judging Of your countrymen' you
can report to me that you saw him pick
ing his teeth with bowie knife, replied
the fair Alice, slightly flushed, and with
a little more feeling than her friend
thought the occasion seemed to demand.
And as the promenaders turned into
the little room that did duty as "parlor,
Robert lighted cigar and strolled down
to the beach, saving TO himself: YES,
the Autocrat Is right; the intelligent lux
ury of three or four generations raised be-
hind plate glass, in this internal climate,
does result in some as fine women as the
sun shines-no, as the wind blows on,
he added, as a puff of the chilly sea-
breeze caused him to button his coat.
1t will save considerable space and
trouble if the reader will make his or her
own ideal of young -womanly loveliness
do duty under the name of our heroine
for this occasion. You have my word for
it that she was beautiful; bat that phrase
means such different things to different
people that if should proceed to dilate
upon Miss Alice's statuesque form, her
:. glorious eyes, strawberries -and-cream
complexion and rayishing hair,-her de
licious double chin, and all the other re-
vealed and logically inferred outlines and
curves,-her perfect mouth, with all the
sweetness nestled there, and the rest of
the customary inventory, should only be
doing bunglingly what your imagination
or memory can picture for YOU in half the
time and with twice the effectiveness.
Alice Sterling was not only beautiful,
but great many people had made her
conscious of the fact: some with words,
but more by looks. Without being ex-
actly spoiled by the fact and the knowl-
edge, she was still not superior to it, and
took girlish pleasure in making her
beauty felt. Although not yet twenty,
she had already
Rejected several sui.ors, just to learn
How 10 accept better in his turn"
ut doesn't hurt them any," was her
comment to a superserviceable adviser
land if it did, how am to help it: Shall
l wear placard hung round my neck
bearing this strange device?-
"NOTTCE!
Al Men are Warned
AGAINST PROPOSING