Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-06-15
AN INCIDENT OF TRAVEL
wye Has a Vision Which tn
MORNING Dissipates.

had G gana before last, says Bill Nye, after
sicno 15S sIH at the hotel, and been as.
T ,Isd Ihe last room in the house,
49, U1H 'ae language of the hotel clerk
Va. IntO tne dining room to tea.
AIoer L had regained my confidence
,annohg strangers, and curled myself up in
''o aoJect manner as possible in the
presence OF the head waiter, began 70
TOOK around me for an opportunity 70
oean on some unprotected woman wifi
my sunny smile. 1t is not nv custom
while travelling to smile on one in whose
neart a nope might spring up to be dashed
70 earth by my departure. If | have
caused PAIN in that way 1 did not intend
10 DO SO. can joke and carry on and
nave real good time, but do not wish
10 inspire In any breast hope which
may be blasted, ah, alas too soon.
IL was not long before discovered q
beautiful blonde of the female sex at tbe
further end of the room beneath tho
Chandelier. Her skin seemed to be Of a
uehcate sea-shell color, and her hair was
corn-coiored. Her clothes also were en-.
tirely new, l should Judge, and made
especially for her. On her finger she
wore diamond ring with perfect ease,
one knew Just how to work that finger
IN order to get the most possible glitter
out OF her diamond. Every little while
l would look over there and revel in her
beauty, and / thought that she was not
entirely insensible to my charms. Still.
she looked at me in a kind of half
reproachful manner, which gave me the
Idea that did not know whether it was
intentional or not.
All that evening she was in my mind.
/ dreamed that night that | swooped
down upon her and carried her awav to
the remotest boundaries of the world in
a special car. The next morning | awoke
hungry, for didn't eat much supper the
evening before. | went down to break !
last, waiting and fooling away my time,
hoping that she would come while was
IN the dining-room, and would fill my
self up with the beautiful vision and |
cup of coffee.
Anon she came. She sailed into the |
room with calm disdain, and an air of |
hauteur, and such things as that. The |
head waiter waved his hand like a self
acting duke in theatre, and gave her a
seat at my table. A thrill passed up
through my graceful and delicatelv |
the vulgar sausage which l was about to |
feed myself when she dawned upon me.
ventured to look across the table at
her, in the full glare of the newborn day. |
views OF this last sentence |
will be forwarded to any address at 81 per
glare.) The first thing that discovered
was that she hadn't put her yellow wig
on straight. 1t was little higher on one
ear than the other, which gave the air of
a young man who has over-monkeyed
with the flowing bowl. This showed to
the casual spectator a glimpse of her
moth-eaten sage-brush hair peeping out
like the faded tail on an old buffalo robe.
Then l knew we could never be more
to each other than friends. Her nose
was red also, and she had not been prop
9rly calcimined. In the hurry of dress
ing she had missed her nose with the
powder rag, and that organ-meaning, of
course, the nose, not the powder-rag,-
doomed up robust and purple in the
chastity waste of cheek-boneS and other
1sseous formations.
"Ah, what a pain it gave me to see my
beautiful vision fade thus before my eyes
Then l thought how l had smiled upon
her the evening before, and how, per-
maps, new hope had sprung up in her
heart, and feared that when she knew
t was all over between us the shock, at
her time of life, might kill her.
l left my hot pancakes, with the maple
syrup all over them, and fled. Out into
the din, the hurry and the restless rush of
the mad, mad world, trying to stif1e the
of that broken heart. Should
she see these lines l hope she will not
think bitterly of me. l still admire her
IS a well-preserved ruin, but love in such
l case would be hollow mockery