Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-03-23

first place considering that my sister |
couldn't play and in the second place
that had no sister, might be called po-
lite fiction.
And never have forgotten, and new
er shall forget, what was brought out
for my entertainment after the playing
was done.-Without that cheerful epi-
sode call would be nothing. Without
that article parlor would look bare,
and young men and women who are
bashful would never get acquainted.
Everybody has got two or three. In
furnishing house it is almost the first
thing purchased, and when you enter
room you are disappointed if you don't
see at least two. I mean photograph
ic album. All, how many Photographic
albums 1 have looked through, and how
happy they have made me How used
to long for the time when somebody
mould bring me an album, and tell me
the names of all the people in it, and all
about each ones family affairs. And
when we came to person who was par
ticularly obscure, they would ask me to
guess who it was. It was beautiful. 1t
was exhilarating. No sameness to that.
It was a recreation never tired of, and
often when got through I would COM
mence and go all over them again, to
see if could tell the names without
making any mistakes. And if there's
any thing, to this day. I really enjoy, it
is looking through thick album of en-
tire strangers, and have one of the chill.
dren tell me who they all are. Chill
dren don't get tired, and they can go
through four or five albums and;teel just
as fresh, and enjoy it just as much as
you do. And they expect you to keep
up an excitement all the way through.
They see no reason why you shouldn't
be interested in their Uncle William,
who owns farm and has got, o, such a
pretty little calf and Aunt Julia who
is rich and has been to Europe; and
Cousin John who was shot in the war /;
and grandpa who took them too see the
circus once. They may be tires0me,
but they are honest, which can't per-
!. haps be said of all these people you've
been introduced to, who bowed so pc.
; litely, and said they were happy to meet
you, and hoped you were very well, and
all that, when you know perfectly well
that they personally don't care two
straws whether your funeral takes place
in twenty-four hours or twenty-fOuI
years.
Looking through albums has its draw
backs, though, like all pleasures. Ii
you talk too much, for instance. you are
apt to make disagreeable blunders as te
whom the parties are. 1 remember once
Y of bursting out laughing at what 1 con-
sidered very funny picture.
b "Look at this queer little old woman
said I, ''fxed up for masquerade
Who is she ?"
o "Why, it's my mother" was the in
dignant rejoinder. mother always
d dressed young, but there is no occasion
for a remark like that"
e I naturally felt somawhat crestfaller
at this, and so when came to very
fragile. queenly-looking woman,
> thought you'd recover my los
ground.
"Oh," said 1, that's what cell fine
looking woman, and can tell abou
who it is too, without much trouble
: Any body with half an eye can see thu
family resemblance there"
Family resemblance, indeed Why
you absurd thing! That's an old gypsy
woman that tells fortunes"
Ever after that I simply said thai
}, everybody was fine looking, and al
ways got onnicely.
d In making calls there are a few CUES.
tons of vital importance to young men
l. which as a man somewhat advanced
I in life may be excused for suggesting.
Does this young woman really cart
e for you or only for your Invitations tt
balls and theatres? How many times
can you call on q young lady as frienC
# and be just the same to her as any frienG
who might drop in ? Where does friend
ship cease and business commence
. Where is the line to be drawn?
Some think the old lady is beginning
q to draw the line when she tells thu
y young man all about her daughter
lovely disposition, and how generous sh'
~ was to her little brother in reference t.
a turnover pie, at the tender age of five
years, and what beautiful wife sh'
would make.
A very estimabie lady, with who's
daughter [ was once on terms of friend
ship, told me that her daughter had tot
many gentleman callers, and she shoult
not be at home to good many of them
: straightforward, but I wasn't NEAR
l enough to take advantage of SUCH ar
open disposition, and so kept caliin,
there Just the same as ever. till on,
:; evening her big brother took me ant
= set me out on the sidewalk, withou
= making any fuss about it at all. didn'
~ know it at the time, but afterwards
found out that he intended to draw thu
line. I shouldn't want to advise anybO
dy. It's like eating roast pork in I
boarding-house, you must decide it TO
;. yourself.
There are good many kinds of call
which I haven't time to specify. blu
;; there's one kind that will always wear
! and there isn't any discount on it. It,
- your good oldfashioned call in the coun
+ try, where you drop in any time, an,
= they are always glad to see you. N,
= airs there. You can take your thing of
= or leave them on, just as you have
= mind to, and if they have company yoV
~ can shake hands all round. introduction
or no introduction and can cross you
q legs, and tip your chair back, and hol'
~ the cat, and be sociable; and when yoV
3 get up to go you can kiss the girls al
3 round, and light your pipe by the kitch
= en- fire.
g WHY HE REFORMED.-Edward De
r laney was an old-timeF, and he looked
Il IL avery inch of him as he ScraEed hi