The Nevada picayune., 1885-03-12
A HAPPY MiSTATE.
A DeliciopS Kiss, and What It Did for
 Me.

"Becau3e we arc overcrowdcd
 to-day, The hot weather coming
 so une xpec.oaly has sent the peo-
 pie down In swarms.'
 Well, then, ,"I and, "I suppose l
 must share it with some one elcse.'
 "I don't think you will rvgrct,
 sir. He seems nice enough young
 gentleman and not unlike yourself
 in appearance. There he stands,
 sir
 ] looked Vn the direction indica ted by the one te whom l had been -sspenting, ard there sure enough
 was cne W bo did resemble me Sofnew ha,, ,d to whom tho term nice ,eSou, gh' did not seem inappi- cable. ic az peared to be about . my ,ows age. h?d n similarly grow iug mas tach. C f the same color, light brown. as bis hair, and was abent ply ow I leight-fye feet, p aiinc inches lie also wore llRnt gray suit not u like my owl Ill general afses ara T %, and cut to a } particular shape which my tailor . inform ed ,pe was he latest thing out. There was one difference, however. and tha : was in the but tons. which jr his G lse were of pc culiar patterns as I thought rath CT 'louI so when ordering my clothes had given instructions to have mine ofa more modest pat 1tern.
 There was, hcweye ', a restless look about the eves W Inch seemed to indicate that the owner had been overjoyingrle f. 'stvit'es ot commencement at once II our col tcges, and that, lake myself he had come down to the easlde 10 cool off from the excite. neht ot a weeks continuous aayety. winding mp the equally eXcitemen cNaili' nations that had led up to it,
 ~,rae thino. however I should ,nau.;on with reoard ta his dress, and ,,,at is that Lo wore in his Hecktie peculiar scarf pin, con .ro,c,oos r,,4 az o, aonaant the ! pattern, heart pierced with an ar CIV. ~ was not of much inn lh'ic value. but 'u.l,yv:ad that he was expcricnciug the deligts oi I "S' love. q sensation which l had "N vet to experience, the quiet of my home life with q widowed host ''' overse to social intercourse s1t zee the loss Of my father, having kt P' me somewha. insolated from tho SC of my own age, and developed retiring disposition that, even '. New Haven, and kept me a10e from my fellow studeutS.
 And now, having passed my '@k am.' with some degree of cre'sii, and enyied my fellow students whose sisters aad friends had come like butterflies, to tnner their wings at the winding Ip ball. I had rua down to Long hraach fora dip before returning to my bona and on asking for bathing room found that for reaSofTS al- T ready mentioned should have to share it with stranger. ho"eF, !" ever. there was no help tor 1t, ana u so with easy grace prepared to : 20 to it, having previously return | ed the nod 10 him who was to pe U my companion.
 1 was soon prepared, and issesd from my box clad in the usual dark blue bathing suit, which Is so comfortable after discardng the harness of clothing required "F our so called civilization.
 With the first plunge l was an other man. The cares and worn, meut ofstudy-fearS that l s''"'" be piueked aud go ho Ne !" us grace. for such l should haNS 'e'' it had not been succesSt, u-"eie all forgotten. Even the pr uchce that prompted that my first pa'l should not be too loug contlnCeo was discarded, aud again and aga
 Iswam upon the breakers or dived beneath the crests.
 At last, however, feeling that had been in long enough; II not too long. l reluctantly withdrew and
 went to the keeper of the bathing
 louses for the key, who, looking
 at me somewhat critically, said:
 "Yol have been in pretty long,
 sir, and look little blue ahont the
 eyes. Your roommate came out
 nearly half an hour ago, and he
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