The Mineral argus., 1885-08-06
ELL NYe MAKES A MASH.
Uc HAS n HrauttfmI Vision which the
Morning M~si!asrs.

Night before last. after had regis
tered at the hotel and been assigned
1.-THE last room in the house use
the language Of the hotel clerk i
went in,o the dining room To tea.
After ! had reglincd ny confidence
among strangers, and curled myself
up in as abject q manner as possible
IN the presence of the head waiter.
began to look around me for an OPP
poriunity 20 beam on some unpro.
tected 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 real good time, but do not
wish TO inspire in any breast hope
which may be blasted, all. alas too
soon.
1t was not long before discovered
beautiful blonde OF the female sex at
the farther end of the room beneath
the chandelier Her skin seemed to
be Of delicate sca-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 diamond
ring with perfect ease. She knew just
how to work that finger in order to
get the most possible glitter Out Of her
diamond. Every little while 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 re-
proachful manner, which gave me the
idea that did not know whether it
was intended or not
All that evening she was in my mind.
dreamed that night that I swooped
down upon her and carried her away
to the remotest boundaries of the
world in special car. The next
morning awoke hungry. for l 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 break
fast room, and would fill myself up
with the beautiful vision and a cup of
coffee.
Anon, she came. She sailed into
the room with calm disdain and an air
of haHify, and such things as that.
The head waiter waved his hand like |
self acting duke in theatre, and
gave her seat at my table. A thrill
passed up through my graceful and
delicately-molded spinal column, and
| laid down the vulsa sausage which
| was about to feed myself when she
dawned upon me.
ventured then to look across the
table at her in the full glare of the
new born day. (Stereoscopic 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 her the
air OF young man who has over
monkeyed with the flowing bowl.
This showed to the casual spectator a
glimpse of her own moth eaten, sage
brush hair peeping out like the faded
tai! on an old buffalo robe
Then | knew that we could never
be more to each other than friends.
Her nose was red also. and she had
not been properly kalsomined. In the
hurry Of dressing she had missed her
nose with the powder-rag and that
Organ--meaning, of course, the nose,
not the powder-rag-loomed up robust
and purple in the gastly waste of
cheek bones and other osseous forma
tons.
All, what pain it gave me to see
my beautiful vision fade thus before
me eyes. Then thought how had
smiled upon her the evening before,
and how, perhaps, new hope had
sprung up in her heart, and | feared
that when she knew it was all over
between us the shock, at her time Of
life, might Kill her.
| left my hot pancakes, with the
maple syrup all over them, and fled.
Out into the din, the hurry and the
tireless rush of the mad, mad world,
trying to stifle the memory of that
broken heart. Should she see these
lines | hope she will not think bit
terly Of me. still admire her as a
we'll preserved ruin, but love in such a
case would be hollow mockery.