Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-01-05
INTENSELY UTTER.
Effect Of Culture on an Esthetic Daughter
and a Superlativs Practical Pa.

INTENSELY UTTER.
| Effect Of Culture on an Esthetic Daughter
| and a Super1ativs Practical Pa.
A few months ago the daughter Of
Monroe county man, who has grown
comfortably we'll off, was sent away
to 'female college," and last week
she arrived home for the holiday va
cation. The old man was in attend
ance at the depot at Paris when the
train arrived, with the old horse in
the cart, to convey his daughter and
her trunk to the house. When the
the train had stopped, bewitching
array Of dry goods and wide brimmed
hat dashed from the car and flung
itself into the elderly party's arms.
"Why, you superlative pal" she
exclaimed; "I'm so utterly glad to
see YOU"
The old man was somewhat unnerv-
ed by the greeting, but he recognized
the sealskin cloak In his grip as the
identical piece of property he had
paid for with the brown mare, and he
sort of squat it up in his arms, and
planted kiss where it would do the
most good, with report that sounded
above the noise of the depot. In a
brief space of time the trunk and its
attendant baggage were loaded into
the wagon, which was soon humping
over the stubble toward home.
'Pa, DEAR" said the young miss
surveying the team with a critical
eye, "do you consider this quite ex-
cessively beyond?"
"Hey!" returned the old man with
a puzzled air; ''quite excessive be-
yond what?''
''Oh, no, pa, you don't understand
me-" the daughter explained; 81
mean this wagon and horse. DO you
think they are soulful-do you think
they could be studied apart in the
light of symphony, or even SIM
rle poem, and appear as intensely ut
ter to one on returning home as one
could express?'
The old man twisted uneasily in his
seat and muttered something about he
believed it used to be used for an ex-
press wagon before he bought it to
deliver pork in, but the conversation
appeared to be travelling in such
lonesome direction that he fetched the
horse a resounding crack on the TO-
tunda, and the severe jclting over
the frozen ground prevented further
remarks.
"Oh, there is that lovely and con-
summate mai" screamed the re-
turned collegiatess as they drove up
at the door, and presently she was
lost in the embrace of a motherly wo
man in spectacles.
"Well, Maria" said the old man
at the supper table, as he nipped a
piece of butter off the lump with his
own knife, San how d'you like your
school?''
"Well, there, pa, now you're
shout mean, I consider it far too
beyond" replied the daughter. "It
is unquenchably ieneffable. The
girls are so sumptuously stunning-I
mean grand-so exquisite-so in
tense. And then the parties, the
balls, the rides-oh, the past weeks
have been one sublime harmony"
Il s'pose so," nervously assented
the old man as he reached for his third
cup, ''half full, ,'-''but how about
your books-readin' writin', gram
mar, rule O. three-how about them -
"Pa, don't" exclaimed the daugh-
ter reproachfully ''the rule of three.
grammar! 1t is French and music
and painting and the divine in art
that has made my school life the boss
i mean that nave rendered it one
unbrollen flow of rhythmic bliss-in.
comparably and exquisitely all but"
The countryman and his wife looked
hclplcssly at each other across the ta-
BILE. After lonesome pause the old
lady said:
"How do you like the biscuits,
Nary"
They are too utter for anything"
gushed the accomplished young lady,
land this plum preserve is simply a
poem in ITSELF"
The old man abruptly rose from
the table and went out of the room,
rubbing his head in dazed and be-
numbed manner, and the mass con-
vention was dissolved. That night
he and his wife sat alone by the stove
until late hour, and at the break
fast table the next morning he raped
smartly on his plate with the handle
of his knife and remarked:
"Marla-me an your mother have
been talkin' the thing over, an we've
, come to the conclusion that this board
in school business is too utterly all
but too much nonsense. Me an her
consider that we haven't lived sixty
odd consumnate years for the pur-
pose of raisin' curiosity, an there S
goin' to be stop put 20 this un-
quenchable foolishness. Now after
you've finished eaten that poem OF
fried sausage an that symphony OF
,, twisted doughnut, you take an dus,
4 = up stairs, in less'n two seconds, an
Il peel off that fancy gown an put on q
caliker, an then come down here an
, help your mother wash dishes.
! want it distinctly understood tha,
there amt goin' to be no more rhvth
mic foolishness in this house, so long
your superlative pa an your Lowell,
an consummate mas runnin' thu
!, rancho. You hear me, Maria?'
Maria was listening.
Frank Invitation.
al Tadiao lpokipn for oa.,