Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-16

neI eott Ielt SOFT OF renewed, Tor It's
comfort, after all. to have a lover
who's too big goose to flirt with other
girls.
But when l thought Il over that
night while was taking ont my hair
pins. began TO think there might be
more in IL than met the eye. / didn't
know but il was the intellectual way of
making love.
was very cold to him when he
brought mo chocolate creams / told
him I Rbominated chocolate. and II
was very plain he found Il too trouble.
some TO remember my likes and dis
likes.
Well, then. in the midst OF this. he
had 10 90 TO 81. Louis on business;
aud while he was away 1 repented
and began 10 feel sort Of soft about
him.
lie had written he was pretty sure TO
be home Tuesday evening. 1 was sit
ting by the window, aud the gas was
turned low, and somehow | felt blue.
i could see Mrs. Calvin's house. where
that horrid Pamela StonehenRe was
staying; and as was looking. two men
went up TO Mrs. Calvin's II was a hate
ful showery night; but they were laugh
ing and talking, and when they nut
down their umbrellas | saw something
that made me jump.
Fred has an umbrella with the fun
NEST head. an ebony skull With Rhine
stone eyes that flash in the most life
like way and there that thing was wink
ing Mt mo in the gas-light across the
street. / was so mad I just cried
regularly howled. To think that Fred
would 60 to see her first of all
Well, who should walk ia bright and
early the next morning but Fred him
self ! lie looked pale with remorse, /
thought But icobergs and polar bears
were nothing to me in the way of cold
ness.
lie began: Il wanted to see YOU the
first thing. Marie"
.'lndeed'' | interrupted. 81 feel
quite hOnored."
lie turned very red, and stared. at
me. Then he said: what do Won
mean! What are You talking about?'
"Oh! OF course you haven an idea. ~
i said; and so IL went on from bad 10
worse, until he just got up and re-
marked, with tho most dreadful digni-
":
You seem to be accusing me of
something; but as you will not do me
the justice 20 explain yourself. / will
Oh you good morning and goodbye,
Miss Cassidy"
OF course never meant him to get
ON his dignity. aud when / saw him
going l had half n mind to run after
him. only was too proud.
Two or three days passed, but still no
sign nor symptom OF Fred. Mommer
was getting ready to go TO Chautauqua.
and the house was turned upside down,
and | was fairly distracted. AT last
Just wrote him few lines, telling him
l wished to explain something.
waited all that day, and all The next.
but no answer came.
Then got desperate. Just decided
life wasn't worth living, and I'd be- SUI
perior. and go in for sociology and
demonology, and all that sort Of thing
30 / told mommer l was going 10
ChautauIu qua with her, and she said She
was glad i hal awakened at length to a
sense of my own deficiencies; and VIC
started oil.
IL ain any fun TO travel with nom.
mer. She always declares she's sulIo-
eating in the Pullman, and she thinks
the trains running of the track every
Few minutes, and drives the conductors
half crazy asking questions. Then she's
always dropping her eyeglasses and
hand bag and haplkerchief-pari
larry her handkerchief. / tell her it's
like the French exercises "OU eSt D,
H2nchoir de ma mercf' But that makes
her hopping mad.
Chautauqua's an awful bore, don't
you know-a lot of old droncs and num-
mics going about. aud pretending they
enjoy IL so much. believe they really
hate II, only they think IL looks nice 10
be profound.
And then Palestine Park Oh. nv
how those Eastern people can make
such guys OF themselves, and dress in
bags that haven't any hang, or fit. or
anything. l can't imagine. Mommer
would drag me about every where. 10
improve my mind, she said. She has n
mania for measurements and calcula.
tons, aud one day she was caIulatino
the-dimensions Of the Great Pyramid
and l said: "Mercy, mommerl Won
must have boen evolved from a measur.
ing worm" She didn't like il one bit.
but think she ought TO have been Glad
knew how TO apply my knowledge.
was so brOkeu-hearted | took nm
Hebrew, aud IL most blinded me. How
people could ever have talked in such a
language,
Well. one day was in the steamboat
on the lake, and Twas looking over nv
account book. Pepper always makes
such point OF my keeping accounts.
because he says Il teaches me the yalue
OF money, but no one ever knew the
value of money better than I do. had
liigi with me, and it's awfully expens-
I've boarding with dog; and then the
servants are always so grasping. / de
clare they re Just like those horrid
daughters OF the horsc-leech that said:
Give! giver' though why the daugh-
tiers were n bit worse than the sons /
never could 500. only people arc always
slandering women.
Somehow or other I never can get
my accounts exactly right. There were
Tour dollars l couldn't account TOR. so I
Just put them down to charity" be-
cause ''sundTies' has such an unbusi-
ness-like look. though, to tell the truth.
10 only given ten cents to an organ
grinder.
was so hard at work that I never
noticed I'd been taken ever so far past
where l ought TO have got out. so 1 Just
stepped out at the next stopping-place.
and waited for another boat to take me
back II was quite pretty spot, with
trees aud things. and a sort Of cave not
lar on; and l sat and sat, and gazed at
the beauties OF nature till was most
starved. All at once heard a noise be-
hind me, and looked around, and there
was Fred coming out Of the cavel
L thought for moment maybe re-
morse had driven him TO retire from the
world and be hermit. Wouldn't that
have been romanticP 80 y
Iglanced at him very haughtily, but
ne began right away: Miss Cassidy
oh, Mariel don't let us make ourselves
miserable by keeping this upr'
Who's miserable?" I INQUIRED.
Speak for yourself. Fred-I mean, Mr..
Delbert."