Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-05-24

VI NY oNH ueHCleuCleSs anu we started
off
1t amt any fun to travel with NOM
mer. She always declares she's suffocat-
ing 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 Nna handbag
and handkerchiefs-particNlarly her
handkerchief.
Chautauqua's an awful bore, dan't YOU
know-a lot of old drones and mSinnnies
going about, and preterding they entdA.
it so much. believe they really hate it,
only they think it looks nice to be pro-
found
And then Palestine park Oh, N.Y.
how those Eastern people can make such
guys of themselves, and dress in bags
that haveiReany hang, or fit, or anything,
| can't imagine. Mommer would drag
me about everywhere, to improves my
mind, she said. She has a mama for
measurements and calculations. and one
day she was calculating the dimensions
of the Great Pyramid, and / said,
"Lor-r-d, mommerl you must have been
evolved from measuring worm. y She
didn't like it one bit, but think she
ought to have been glad knew how to
apply my knowledge.
was SO broken-hearted | took up
Hebrew, and it most blinded me- How
people could ever have talked in such a
languagel
Well, one day / was in the steamboat
on the lake, and was looking over my
account-book. Pepper always makes
such point of my keeping accounts,
because he says it teaches me the value
of money, but no one ever knew the
value of money better than LIDO. had
Gigi with me, and it's awfully expensive
boarding with dog; and then the
servants are always so grasping! de-
clare they're just like those horrid
daughters of the horse-leechs that said
"Give! give ~ though why the daughters
were bit worse than the sons / never
could see, only people are always SANDER
ing women. Ak.
Somehow or other I never can get my
accounts exactly right. There were fotffs
dollars couldn't account for, so just
put them down to charity" because
''sundries" had such an unbusiness look,
though, to tell the truth, I'd only given
ten cents to an organ grinder. 81
was SO hard at work | never noticed ]
that I'd been taken ever SO far past
where ought to have got out, so Just
stepped out at the next stopping place,
and waited for another boat to take me
back 1t was quite pretty spot, with !
trees and things. and sort of cave net
far off and / sat and sat, and gaZeH a.
the beauties of nature till / was mos
starved. All at once | heard noise y
hind me, and looked around, and taerev
was Fred coming out of the cave .%Es
thought for moment maybe renSrse
had driven him to retire from the @SrIft
and be a hermit. Wouldn't that hkTfs
been romantic? 80
glanced at him very haughtily, h181
he began right away ''Miss CassidyA 9
oh, Marie! don't let us make ourselve
miserable by keeping this upl" he
"Who's miserable2" | inquired
"Speak for yourself, Fred-I mean Nh
Delbert."
A horrid. unfeeling twinkle came into
his eye, and he said, "Do you remember
Miss Stonehenge?"
"Oh, yes,n said /, icily. "She had
such long noser'
She has it still
Don't jest on such subject, if you
please, " / said
Well. said Fred, 81 admit that it
is serious one. The point is that she
was married last week to professor of
Sanskrit.' .
4 suppose she's refused you," said;
land you've come to me to be con-
soled.
Then he said lot of absurd things /
won't repeat; and / told him how /
thought he'd gone to see Pamela that
evening. 1t turned out that the poor
boy had come back sick with malarial
fever, and wasn't able to leave the house:
and Ned Parkinson had dropped in and
borrowed his umbrella
But that doesn't explain your not an
swering my note, J" / said.
'sYou see, when it came was vel
sick at my rooms, and there wasn't so
to do anything for me but an old ma
with a wig"
well, did his wig prevent you fror
writi1MtO met" asked; for | can b
VERY stic when feei like it.
/ Course not; but was too sid
even 70 raise my head. As soon as
could stand. rushed around TO see you:l
but you had gone DeIlie Jones told me-
you had gone to Chautauqua; SO fol%
lowed you, and here / am"
WELL said, very sternly. "I'll for
give you this time, Fred; but you've
treated fnae very badly. And, Fred. she
has got a long nose-hasn't she2-