Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-06-27
INCIDENT OF TRAVEL.
Bill Nye Has Vision Which the Morn.
ing Disslpates.


signed "the last room in the house.
| use the language of the clerk-I went
into the dining.room to tea.
After had regained my confidence
among strangers, and curled myself up
in as abject a manner as possible in the
presence of the head waiter, began to
look around me for an opportunity to
beam on some unprotected woman with
my sunny smile, 1t is not my custom
while travelling to smile on one in
whose heart a hope might spring up to
be dashed to earth by my departure. If
| have caused pain in that way did
not intend to do so. | can joke and
carry on and have a real good time,
but do not wish to inspire in any
breast a hope which may be blasted,
ah, alas, too soon.
1t was not long before discovered a
beautiful blonde of the female sex at
the further end of the room beneath the
chandelier. Her skin seemed to be of
the delicate sea.shell color, and her
hair was corn.colored. Her clothes
also were entirely new, | should judge,
and made especially for her. On her
finger she wore a diamond ing with
perfect ease. She knew just how to
work that finger in order to get the
most possible glitter out Of her dia-
mond. Every little while | would
look over there and revel in her beauty,
and | thought she was not entirely in
sensible to my charms. Still, she looked
at me in kind of half reproachful
manner, which gave me the idea that |
did not know whether it was inten>
tonal or not.
All that evening she was in my mind.
| dreamed that night that | swooped
down upon her and carried her away
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 breakfast, waiting and fOOling away
my time, hoping that she would come
while | was in the breakfast-room, and
would fill myself up with the beautiful
visions of a 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
seat at my table. A thrill passed up
through my graceful and delicateiy
nodded spinal column, and LAID down
the vulgar sausage which | 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. (Stereoscopic views of this las
sentence will be forwarded to my adj
dress at 81 per glare.) The first thing
that discovered was that she hadn'
put her yellow wig on straight. 1t wa
little higher on one ear than thu
other, which gave her the air of {
young man who has over.monkeyeC
with the flowing bowl. This showed
to the casual spectator glimpse o
her own moth,eaten sage-brush hal
peeping out like the faded tail on al
old buffalo robe.
Then | knew we could never be NOR
to each other than friends. Her nos
was red also, and she had not been pro
perly calcomined. In the hurry o
dressing she had forgot her nose witt
the powder-rag, and that organ-mean
ing of course, the nose, not the powder
rag--loomed up robust and purple il
the CHASTITY waste of cheek-bones an,
other osseous formations.
All, what pain it gives me to see m
beautiful vision fade before my eyes
Then l thought how | had smiled upo
her the evening before, and how, PEI
haps, n new hope had sprung up in he
heart and feared that when she kne
it was all over between us the shock, {
her time of life, might kill her.
left my hot pancakes, with tt
maple syrup all over them, and flee
Out into the din, hurry and the tirele