The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-08-16
THE PARLOR MATCH.
Showing That One and One Make
Two.

shadow the place increasing the gloom.
Miss Ethel. who has been for half an
hour entertaining Bob Tracy on the
broad piazza, the opportune absence Of
the family on drive having thrust
that duty upon her, suddenly starts up
exclaiming:
did you think you saw light hat
going by the syringa bush then?"
mo, | didn't think anything of the
kind" Bob retorted, with rather un-
necessary severity, who'd you ex-
pect9"
"Oh, nobody. Do you like those
very light hats they wear now?"
mo, hate 'em."
81 don't think l should express so
strong an opinion just about hat"
"Humph! 1t isn't the hat so much
as it is the dudes that wear them"
81 don't see why you need call a
man dude just because he dresses
better than other fellows and happens
to have dog-cart."
''Oh, that was the light hat you ex-
pected. was it?'
"a don't know what you are talking
about Who said | expected any
body"
The young man replied by compre-
hensiye exclamation, half snort of
contempt and half a sheer of incredu-
lily. There follows a silence of some
minutes broken only by the mellow
croaking of the distant frogs and the
nearer, shriller and far less soothing
hum of the mosquitoes.
How cross you are tonight" Miss
Ethel observes at length, feeling that
the duties of hospitality require her to
reopen the conversation, but by no
means prepared to descend at once to
amiability; perhaps it is the mos
quitoes."
"Yes, | think it may be- Tracy re-
spends with great dignity, II won't
keep you out here any longer to suffer
martyrdom"
He rises with stateliness the effect
of which is unfortunately lost in the
darkness, and stands glazing in the d.
rection where he knows pretty Miss
Ethel to be sitting.
Don't be goose; come into the
house. Perhaps your temper ii be
better in there, It's worth trying any
way
with such an example I'll own it
ought to be, Bob returns with crush
ing sarcasm. But you couldn't
watch for light hats if you went in"
How hard you do try to get up
quarrel when I'd just made up my
mind to be very amiable.n
"How long after you've made up
your mind shall have to wait for the
resolution to take efiectpn
Come in. Music hath charms, you
know. What shall play to your"
Can you play in the dark" go.
81 can, but on the whole think l
won't; because Mammals off to ride,
and doubt if its proper anyway"
Since when were you so par
ticularP"
"Well, if play, you see, Mrs. Hun
would know we were here in the dark
she's such spy"
Dent play then. We can sit in tn
dark and talk, can't weP'
'.No, thank you, I'd rather
proper. Shall l ring or have you
mattel"
81 ought to have one. Botherr'
The exclamation was caused by
stumble over one Of those minor piece
of furniture the whole object of who's
existence is to get under unwary fee
and to render otherwise tranquil live
burden. He regaiRs his equilibrium
swallows his wrath and feels in hi
pocket for his match-safe. Finding t
his disappointment, that it is we
nigh full he recklessly losses the col
tents out of the window by which h
has just entered, and calmly remark
my match-safe is as empty as
FOOLS head. There isn't single site
in il"
'Theres new kind of matches,
Ethel observes in tone Of disnteres
ed instructiveness. Jim was e,
planning them to me; patent kline
you know. There's something come
down like a CAP"
"a cap doesn't come down." Be
interrupts, stumbling over more furni
ure in fresh attempt to follow b
hostess, who, more familiar with Il
arrangements of the room, has safe.
crossed to distant corner, dexterous
avoiding obstacles. ''Jehu! Ho
many foot-stools are there in tn
room?'
'1f you don't want to know abol
the matches
"Oh, do"
Then don't interrupt. There's
Kind Of cap comes down"
Comes down from whereof
81 shall positively not tell you abol
those matches"
But I'm dying to know!"
"Did you think somebody came u
the walk thenPn
SIS there any connection betwec
matches and somebody's coming I
the walk?n
"There might ber'
"Humph! You'd better 90 on abo
your patent match. "A light hat com
down, think you said; over fool
head, l suppose. Go on
He has by this time made his way
the sofa upon which Miss Mott is sea
ed, and without apology takes pla
by her side.
bob, this positively is not propC
II you can't DO agreeable, we will
l., no "