The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-01-03
ghe Intelligence.


Effects of Culture gu ROelIand Girl
An Esthetic Daughter and q superIa
lively PRACTICAL Pa.
T.oCkland Courier.
Afewmonths agol the daughter Of q Rock
land man, who hadgrown comfortably well
off in the grocery line, was sent away to Q
"iemale college" and last week she arrived
home for the holiday vacation. The old
man was in attendance at the depot when
the train arrived, with the old horse in The
delivery wagon to convey his daughter and
her trunk to the house. When the train
hdtf stopped n bewitcblng array OF dry
goods and wide brimmed hat dashed
from the chr and flung itself into the elder
ypatty's arms,
why YOU superlatiVe PAP she exClaim-
ed; I'm ever 10 glad to see you"
The old man was somewhat unnerved
BY the greeting, but he recognized the seal
skin cloak in his grip rs the identical piece
OF property he had paid for with the bay
mare, and he sort Of squat II up in his
arms and planted kiss where It would do
the most good with report that sounded
above the. noise at the depot. In u brief
space oil time the trunk and It's attendant
baggage were loaded in the wagon, which
was soon humping over the cobblcs toward
home.
PA, DEAR" said the young miss, survey
ing the team with critical eye, "do you
consider this quite excessively beyond?'
"Hey" returned the old man, with a
puzzled mir; quite excessively beyond
what Beyond Warren? / consider 1t
Somewhat about ten miles beyond Warren,
countin' from the Bath way, II that's what
you mean"
"Qh, no, pa; you don't understand me-"
the daughter exploited; II mean this wagon
and horse. Doyou think they are soulful?
do you think they could bestudied apart
in the light Of symphony, or even n sim
pie poem, and appear Us intensely utter to
one on returning home us one could ex-
press2"
The old man twisted uneasiiy in his seat
and muttered something about he believed
it used to be used for an express before he
bought tito deliver pork in, but the CONVEX
sation appeared to be travelling in such a
lonesome direction that he fetched the
horse u resembling crack on the rotunda,
and the severe iolting over tho frozen
ground prevented further remarks.
"Oh, there is That lovely and consum.
mate maj" screamed the returned collegia-
tess as they drew up at the door, and pres
emily she was lost in the embrace Of n
motherly woman in speCtIcles
"Wefi, Muria, said the old man at the
supper table, as he nipped piece ofbutter
of the lump with his own knife, IAN
how'd you like your schoolP
well, there, pa, now you're Shout
mean consider it far too beyond" replied
the daughter. ut is unquenChably in.
eiiabie. The girls are SO sumptuousiy stun
ning-l mean grand-so Cxquisite-sO in.
tense. And then the parties, the balls, the
rides-oh, the past week has been one Of
sublime harmony"
~ s'pose SOL s'pose So" neryously as.
sented the old man as he reached for his
cup, "haif fuii,"-but how about your
books-readin, writin,' grammar, rule o
three-how about them?"
"Pa, don't!" exclaimed the daughter, re.
proaChfully, "the rule Of three! GRAMMAR
It is French, and music, and painting, and
the divine in art that have made my school
life the bos-t mean that have rendered it
one unbroken flow OF rhythmic bliss, in
comparably and exquisitely all but"
The grocery man and his wife looked
helplessly Mt each other across the table.
After lonesome pause the old lady said:
How do you like the biscuits, Maria?"
"They are too utter for anything, "gllshed
the accomplished young lady, "and this
plum preserve is simply poem in ITSELF"
The old man rose abruptly from the
table, and went out OF the room, rubbing
his head in dazed and benumbed man
ner,and themass convention was dissolved.
That night he and his wife sat alone by the
stove until late hour, andat the breakfast.
table, the next morning, he raped smsrt-
" on his plate with the handle Of his knife
and remarked:
"Nlaria-me an your mother have been
talkin' the thing over, an we've come to
the conclusion that this boardin' school
business is too utterly all but too much
nonsense. Me an her consider that we
haven't lived sixty odd consummate
years for the purpose Of raisin' u
curiosity, nm there's goin' to be a
stop put to this unquenchable foolishness.
Now, after you've finished eatin' that poem
OF fried sausage nm that symphony OF
twisted doughnut, you take an dust up
stairs in lessen two seconds, an peel or
that fancy gown an put on a. caliker, and
then come down here an help your mother
wash dishes. l want it distinctly under
stood that there amt going to be no more
rhythmic foolisliness in this house, SO longs
your superlative pa an your lovely an con-
summate mas runnin' the ranch. You hear
me, Maria?"
Maria was listening.