Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-01-14
DECEITFUL APPEARANCE.
What Seemed Perfection Betrayed by
TeIItaIe Reading Matter,

AeIkdIc thSduiAg hdIters
Most people take an interest in their
fellow travellers when on Journey,
and beguile some Of the tedious time
by speculations concerning them,
although not a word may pass and
they may never come within vision
again, says Pittsburgh Dispatch cor
respondent. A few days ago, IN
Pullman sleeper going east, there were
not more than a dozen passengers.
Among those near Us were gentle
man, his wife, and daughter-a pleas
ant little family. apparently as comes
in the way Of mortals. Plenty Of
money was shown by their dress and
bags and travelling outfit generally.
The gentleman was large, fne-looking
cheerful, and apparently satisfied with
himself, his family, his business, and
the world at large. He strongly re-
seEnbled the picture of Garfield, and
from his large, lofty, and masterful
way of speaking we set him down In
our mind as rich western congress-
man going to Washington. His at
tention to his wife and daughter was
marked. 1t seemed to say that he
thought them the most charming wo-
men in the world, and that they de-
served all he could do for them and
more.
The wife was a fine, handsome, re-
gaI-looking woman. cool, calm, and
pie cid, with everything about her
Just right, and not sign of the neg
lige and disorder Of travel. Her beau
tiful hair smooth and glossy, of richest
brown, without bang, or ''Thomp-
son wave," or natural curl" was
parted upon a fair intellectual fore
head, with just the softest suspicion OF
golden flufiness to relieve it from
severe plainness. Her travelling dress
superb as to fit and quality, was made
with tailor neatness and plainest fin
ish, and with the wrap, was a triumph
of artistic dressmaking. Her bonnet,
of richest materials to correspond,
was plain but eminently becoming to
the beautiful face. Her gloves fitted
to perfection. Her collar and cuffs
were snowy in their extra neatness,
and, altogether. she was apparently
woman of wealth, of superior taste,
and more than ordinary culture. The
daughter was beautiful blonde-not
of the ruddy order, bat fair and per
feet as lily. Her dress while more
youthful than that of her mother, was
yet as richly and severely simple.
Her large gray eyes were lustrous; her
pretty laugh showed beautiful teeth,
set within sweet, tender, rosy mouth.
She wore no jewelry, no ribbons, no
gewgaws; but no fairer, prettier,
brighter, more intelligent-looklng
young lady, to all appearance was ever
seen. They formed a handsome pic
ture; and as they interchanged re-
marks now and then over their papers
and nodded and smiled appreciation
and pleasure, we began 10 grow cur
intellectual looking, beautiful women
were enjoying The Dispatch or The
New York Nation, or The Independ-
ent, or The World, or what, We
put UP our glass as if to gaze on some
far-off view in the landscape. And
took a glimpse of the literature they
were perusing with such rspt atten-
ton and undisguised interest. The
mother with the broad, fair, brow,
showing, as physiognomists tell US, q
wealth of intellect, was reading The
New York Weekly, and the daughter
The Saturday Night, while the suppos-
ed member of congress was taking in
The Police Gazette, with "A Mad Mar
rage" lying on the seat beside hlm.
After all our high notions about them
this gave us what Aunt Maria calls
"a tarn." We had s. revelation, a re-
volution, and a revulsion, all In q
minute. And we felt with more force
than ever before that you can't most
always sometimes generally tell from