, 1882-10-06
A TRUE HEROINE.

"This would be Jolly, Tom, if il
wasn't for that miserable shanty just
under our window, and those Internally.
noisy urchins across the street, and
"Don't expect, my dear boy, to Sc
cure all the beatitudes at rental OF 800
per month"
"And if you wasn't so everlastingly
bearish, and"
"What more. my dear fellow? Out
with it"
"And if that shy daughter of the
landlady wasn't so frightfully ugly"
"Well postscripted, Jack | knew
all along where the chef objection lay"
"Upon my soul, Tom, believe you
rented therooms Just becauseyouth thought
her looks would annoy me"
"You compliment me undeservedly,
my dear boy. | had notthat much fore
cast. But, now that you have suggested
it, l think will adopt new method of
torturing you. The great Aristotle i'm
bued his followers with philosophy
while strolling about the groves and
thoroughfares of Athens. Why should
not initiate the master Of the peripa-
tetic school, and make San Francisco
lodgings means of inculcating moral
precepts upon your mind ?"
"Good enough, Tom. But not such
confoundedly-disagretable lessons, if
You please"
"All wholesome instruction, my dear
Jack, is oistasteful to the beginner.
You will relish it more as you advance.
"Never, Tom, never. ii Miss Corbin
is an average specimen OF the studies
proposed i'll your new system Of object
teaching"
Don't speak SO confidently, my dear
boy. The future is II great guinsayer of
thoughtless ulterauccs. Bat, to maug-
urate the course, the school will please
come to order. First class in moral phi
losophy, attention !"
"Ready, sir"
"Why have you seen fit to speak OF
the landlady's daughter as a drawback
to the jollity of our present location 2"
Because she is 80 terrihcally hideous,
and because"
"No generalities, sir. Answer me
categoricalIy, Exactness OF definition
was the great point for which Socrates
contended. She has lovely h0ir--brown,
sleek and tastefully arranged
yes"
Blue eyes of singular brilliancy and
gentleness
eyes"
"Fine eyebrows and lashes, and
beautiful mouth and teeth?"
Yes"
"An elegant :Giglu-srlish, but sym
,ue euical and well dcve.oped-and ad-
mirable hands and feet ?"
"Yes,"
"Taste in dress, grace in bearing. and
prepossessing voice and Inanner?"
"Yes."
"Ihen so to! II the total OF these
he not loveliness, tho world is decep-
ton"
"But, Tom, did You ever see any ono
so fearfully pockmarked?"
" If put To my mettle, Jack, you know
mover Welded the sup-rlative TO living
Elep. Miss Corbin's features haze sos-
ahslt smOothuess--a very gloss o. lEish
Cor lpared with faces I have seen. /
have beheld cOuntenances that resemb!ed
a coiander-yea. that were engrailed
and corrugated like mass of conglom-
crate But, after all, it is only skip
deep. Ii the nature within be loyeliness,
these surface blemishes may become as
attractive to the eve as a piece of orra-
mental iret-work."
"I eru,t yon, Tom That Miss Corbin
is honely enough t. eilord to be good. "
PERHAPS she is good enough to af-
ford to be homaly. At any rate, you
were not BON I'll o censor Of her or any
body rl'e's appe.r na. The iato you
dislike may be- conc.y % others and to
the Creator. Aul, i NOT, remember,
my dear hoy, thut urm" hn, , license
to exist in this world %, well Us beauty. "
and I have e right 10 express my
onil IAN ~ .s"