The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-05-10

| passed. as Close 10 FRED ana Pamela
as could. They was talking in low,
earnest tone, and | heard something
about 4 scheme of cosmic philosophy.
Now did you ever The idea of
dragging girl off into a conservatory
to whisper such jaw-breaking things in
her ear felt sort of relieved, for it's
a comfort. after all, to have a lover
! who's too big goose to hirt with other
girls.
But when | thought it over that
night, while | was taking out my hair
pins, | began to think there might be
more in it than met the eye. | didn't
know but it was the intellectual way Of
making love.
was very cold to him when he
brought me chocolate creams. told
him | ahominated chocolate, and it
was very plain he found it too trouble
some to remember my likes and dis
likes.
Well, then, in the midst of this, he
had to go to St. Louis on business );
and while he was away | repented, and
began to feel sort of soft about him.
He had written he was pretty sure
to be home Tuesday evening. | was
sitting by the Window, and the gas was
| turned low, and somehow | felt blue.
could see Mrs Calvin's house, where
that horrid Pamela Stonehenge was
staying and as was looking, two men
went up Mrs. Calvins steps. 1t was a
hateful showery night but they were
laughing and talking, and when they
put down their umbrellas | saw some
thing 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 at me i'll the gas-lght across the
street. | was so mad | just cried
regularly howled. TO think that Fred
would 90 TO see her first of all
Well. who should walk in bright and
early the next morning but Fred him.
self. He looked palc-wth remorse,
| thought. But icebergs and polar
bears are nothing to me in the way of
GOODNESS.
He began. Il wanted to see you the
first thing, Marie
"Indeed?" l interrupted. Il feel
quite honored."
He turned very red and stared at me.
Then he said: *'What do YOU mean?
What are YOU talking about?''
"Oh of course YOU haven't an idea,"
said and so it went on from bad to
worse, until he just got up and remark
ed, with the most dreadful dignity.
You seem to be accusing me of some
thing; but as you will not do me the
justice to explain yourself, l will bid
YOU good morning and good by, Miss
Cassidy"
OF course | never meant him to get
on his dignity, and when | saw him
going | had half mind to run after
him, only was too proud.
Two or three days passed, but still
nc sign or symptom of Fred. Mommer
was getting ready to go to Chautauqua,
and the house was turned upside down
and | was fairly distracted. At last I
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. l just decided
life wasn't worth living, and I'd be SUI
perior, and 90 in for sociology and
demonology, and all that sort of thing.
So l told Mommer | was going to
Chautauqua with her. and she said she
was glad | had awakened at length to
a sense of my own deficiencies ahLI
we started off.
1t amt any fun to travel with Nom
mer. She always declares she's suffo-
eating in the Pullman, and she thinks
the trains running off the track every
few minutes, and drives the conductors
half crazy asking questions. Then
she's always dropping her eyeglasses
and and-bag and handkerchef-par-
ticularly her handkerchief. l tell her
its like the French exercises. "Ou
est lc mouchoir de ma mereo" But
that makes her hopping mad.
Chautauqua's an awful bore. don't
YOU know-a lot of old drones and
mummies going about. and pretending
they enjoy it so much. believe they
really hate it, only they think it looks
nice to be profound.
And then Palestine Park a. Oh, m, .
how those Eastern people can make
such guys of themselves, and dress in
bags that haven't any hang, or fit, or
anything, | can't imagine. Mommer
would drag me about everywhere, to
improve my mind, she said. She has
a mania for measurements and Galcu-
lations, and one day she was Calculat-
ing the dimensions of the Great Pyra-
mid. and | said, "Lor-r-d, Mommer
YOU must have been evolved from
measuring worm" She didn't like if
one bit, but think she ought to have
been glad | knew how to apply my
knowledge.
was SO broken-hearted | took I'D
Hebrew, and it most blinded me.