The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-05-28

thing said Alice Kildare, With On
impatient frown upon her wiusome
face. -,
no. no for mercy's sake don't
wish that, child Don't wish you
never forgot anything, for then you'd
always have to remember ell the dis,
agreeable things that ever happened
10 vou in your life. Believe me, it's
Vastly better as it is. IL we never
forgot ANYTHING at all, then we'd have
to carry down to our graves the Wv
ia recollection Of all the grief or sor-
row or pain we have suffered; of all
the times we've been snGbbed by
people Of oil the hateful things pso-
Die have said to Us and about as and
above ell, Of every time In cur lives
When we've made fools Of ourselves.
You will find that it's TOO much TO De
thankful fer il you can forget the oc.
casicn on which you've made a fool
of Yourself, when you come to lie
an old maid like your Aunt eutla
Alice Kildare laughed.
Not much Ike being an old mas,
is il. seventeen, and already engaged
six montbs?'
"WelL. L was engaged a. sixteen,
and have been engaged three times
in nv life, aud yet here | am, an old
maid 10 eyeglasses, aud intend TO die
the same, please God-Thiag nov,
what a budget Of hesrt-breasing re-
collections I'D be obliged to carry
about me the rest Of my life, if bad
70 remember il all. Don't wish you
never forgot anything. Alice. On the
contrary, thank Heaven, we do forget
things.'
Again Alice Kildare laughed.
She and ! ere going TO have our
fortunes told, Aunt Letie. Go with
us, venerable mother, and see ,hatits
done right
4 can tell yours without leoking
into o globe Of mosmerized water
Younl be an old maid, mark the pre-
dictlon. You have the elements q
an old maid 10 your soul-one sort o
an old maid that is
What are the elements of al old
maid Aunt Let
'Obl-of your sort Of old maids
high spirit, q bright mind, 8 sharp
tongue, and an uncontrollsble love q
flirting. You'll be the sort Of an ole
maid that takes 20 woman's rights
end tbings-not the sort to take L
cats add religion. Occe more mari
the prophecy, Alice Esmeralda HI
dare!'
For the third time Alice laughed
her bright. spunky, ringing laugh
and then clapped on her gypsy ha
and went with Der friend Sue to Sc
Madam Minchauski, he great clair
voyant sibyl, who could miraculOusl.
see the shadow of coming events in
globe Of mesmerized water-ot 6.
much q head.
Alice betrothed to G slim, hard
some, long-haired college student
who wrote poetry aud had an Eoleai
harp in one window and q rose ger
anium in the other, and meant TO g
into the literary line as soon ss b.
was done college. He was very muc.
in love, and Alice was-oh. dread
fully ia love, but that didn't at al
prevent this truthful young lady fron
kirting with half a dozen other me-
all at once, and telling no end Q
white lies about her engagement
She was exceedingly attractive, bn
not so pretty as she was bright
piquant end spirited. At this yer,
time, when she lay awake night
thinking Of her ~betrotbed, and neve.
went to bed without tenderly kissing
his photograph at this very TIM
she was airting desperately With Ton
Cruightva, hrI fuvvI5 olonemate,
rich mans son, who was at home o.
q three months leave Of absence
which had been recommended by tn
college faculty.
Worst of all she had allowed Ton
Creighton, 10 the presence Of 9 thiEt
person, 10 tell her q slsnderous stor,
about Der lover, one which she knew
must be false and there she sat aD'
listened to it without the fsintest al
tempt to fight for her lovers goo
name, just for fear Tom Creighto
would think she was engaged if SD
said anything. | don't defend hel
mind you ! think such conduct wa
simply seandalous aud such a youD
lady didn't deserve eve TO have an,
body fall in love with her +; no, nc
If she lived to be q thousand year
old.
We'll, what does the sibyl say
asked Aunt Letie.
She is a humbug,' said Alice, sa'
agely, Pm sorry | went. It's res
silly and wrong to encourage sue
wicked imposture besides
This time Sue laughed.
The sibyl didn't say Alice was I
be married, and so she thinks the S
byl 8 humbug,' said Sue. We wen
into q darkened room, and 10 one col
ner there sat a little ghostly, wax
looking old woman, with great, ho
low black ewes
She bad a glass globe of water b,
fore her on a little stand. The waite
had been magnetizsd, she said, an
she, being u clairvoyant, was adj
by her second sight, to see in III
water beautiful pictures, aud vision
OF events to come.
Then she took Alice's hand an
pressed it against her forehead, an
began to wink and roll up her grea'
hollow eyes in an awful manner.
was really scary. Aunt Letie. By
and-by she bobbed her head abou
and mumbled something, and still
with her eyes rolled back and hal
shut, she began looking into the glob
of magnetized water. Then PRESENT.,
she opened her ghostly looking lips
and said. in q sort of s~ing4song:
Ny child, | see pictures Of you
future spread here and there befor
my inward eyes like q moving pane
rama. I see lovers; you will hav.
plenty lovers, but | see no pictures Q
q wedding. Strange! there is n
wedding ring in the circle ct the bot
tom of the globe. How is this, my
childf ] see n dim picture, a Ions
way of in the future, it must be, be
cause it is 30 dim, and in ii you stan
up surrounded by p~eople-ah (! let m
see, they are children around you
and YOU are greatly changed. taller