The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-05-15

who's too big a goose to flirt 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. l didn't /
know but it was the intellectual way of |
making love.
l was very cold to him when he
brought me chocolate creams. 1 told /
him | abominated 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 90 to st. Louis on business:
aud while he was away ! repented
and began to 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, and the gas was
turned low, and somehow | felt blue.
] could see Mrs. Calvin 5 house, where
that hOrrid Pamela StOnchenge was
staying; and as | was looking, two men
went up to Mrs Calvin 5. 1t was a hate
full showery night; but they were laugh
inc and talking. and when they pUt
down their umbrellas I saw something
that made me jump.
Fred has an umbrella with the fun
nicst 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 in the gas-ight across the
street. ] was so mad | Just cried
reg lar.y howled. To think that Fred
would go to see her first of all
Wen, who should walk in bright and
early the next morning but Fred him
SELF! He looked pale with remorse, /
thought. But icCbergs and polar bears
were nothing to me in the way of cold
ness.
He began: Il wanted to see you the
first thing, Mario
'Indeed? l interrupted Il feel
quite honored."
He tarned very red, and stared at
me. Then he said: ''What do YOU
mean? What are you talking about?''
ooh! OF course you haven an idea, -
| said; and 50 it went on from bad to
worse, until he just got up and re-
marked, with the most dreadful digni-
ty:
- You seem to be accusing me of
something; but rs you will not do me
the justice to explain yourself, | will
| BID you good morning and goodbye,
Miss Cass dy.n
OF course I never meant him to get
on his dignity, and when | saw him
! going l had half a mind TO run after
/ hi m, only / was too proud.
Two or three days passed, but still no
! sign nor symptom of Fred. Mommer
was getting ready to 90 to Chautauqua,
/ and the house was turned upside down,
/ and | was fairly distracted. At last l
| Just wrote him few lines, telling him
! | wished TO explain something. l
waited all that day, and all the next,
| but no answer came.
Then | got desperate. Just decided
| life WASH 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
| Chautauj qua with her, and she said She
was glad had awakened at length to a
/ sense of my own deficiencies; and we
started of.
1t amt any fun to travel with NOM
mer. She always declares she's sulfo-
eating in the pullman, and she thinks
the train $ running off the track every
few minutes, and drives the conductors
half era " asking questions. Then she's
always dropping her eyeglasses and
hand bag and haudkerchiei-pa rticu
larly her handkerchief. L tell her its
IKE the French exercises. q on est z,
W1UchOir dc ma WcrcI' But that make:
her hopping mad.
ChaUtaugua's an awful bore, dom
YOU know-a lot OF old drones and mum
mics going about, and pretending they
enjoy it 50 much. believe they really
hate it, only they think it looks nice t
be profound.
And then Palestine Park! Oh, my
how those Eastern people can make
such guys Of themselves, and dress il
bags that haven't any hang, or tit, OF
anything, ! can't imagine. Mommel
would drag me about every where. t
improve my mind, she said. She has
mania for measurements and calcula
tions, and one day she was calculating
the dimensions of the Great Pyramid
and / said: ''Mercy, mommerl yoI
must have been evolved from measur
inc worm.n She didn't like it one bit
but l think she ought to have been glaC
/ knew how to apply my knowledge.
l was so brOken-hearted / took III
Hebrew, and it most blinded me. How
people could ever have talked in such
language.
, Well, one day l was in the steamboa
on the lake, and | was looking over m,
account book. Pepper always make
, such point of my keeping accounts
because he says ii teaches me the valu
of money, but no one ever knew tn
value OF money better than l do. / ha,
{ Gigi with me, and it's awfully expens
i've boarding with a dog; and then tn
servants are always SO grasping. ! de
, clare they're Just like those hOrri,
daughters of the horse-leech that said
Give! giver though why the daugh
tiers were bit worse than the sons
never could see only people are Away
slandoring women.
Somehow or other [ never can ge
my accounts exactly right. There wer
four dollars | couldn't account tor, so
5 just put them down to charity be
cause ''sundries' has such an unbusi
/ neSs-like look, though, to tell the truth
/ I'd only given ten cents to an organ
. grinder.
; ] was so hard at work that | neve
: noticed I'd been taken ever so far pas
where / ought to have got out. so l jus
5 stepped out at the next stopping place
and waited for another boat to take IN
Z back. 1t was quite pretty spot, wit
p trees and things, and a sort Of cave nc
far of; and sat and sat, and gazed a
? the beauties of nature till Twas mos
: starved. All at once 1 heard a noise be-
, hind me, and looked around, and ther
: was Fred com nc ont of the cave,
S l thought for a moment maybe Re
{ morse had driven him to retire from tn
world and be hermit Wouldn't thu
have been romantic?
/ l glanced at him very haughtily, bI
4 he began right away: Miss Cassidy
] oh, Mariel don't let us make ourselvt
y miserable by keeping this upl'
T who's mjserable?' / inquired
$ Speak for yourself, Fred-I mean. Nj
Delbert.'
v horrid, unfeeling twinkle came int
his eye, and he sa d: ''Do you remcn
b Der Miss Stonehenge?'