Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-08-05
Five and a Half atched.
H s M


clever, lovable girls-call me. I OCCUPY,
and have occupied for the past year, q
suite Of remarkably pleasant rooms the
front windows looking on city park,
and the back on garden made delight
full by two fine old peach tree, a heavy
grapevine, and a sweet-smelling wis
terra.
These cheerful rooms are part and
parcel of Mrs. Midget's boarding house.
No, 1 am wrong. Mrs. Midget-Mr.
Midget was lost at sea five years ago
does not keep boarding-house, but
takes a few select boarders, Of whom
she is pleased to intimate she considers
me the selectest. . ." Y.
Wonderfully comfortable the "few
select" and 1t in Mrs. Midget's shady,
old-fashioned, neatly kept, three-story
house. q q E
"Everything the wax" my oldest
sister says when she comes to visit me,
which is about once in four weeks-a
day or two after my magazines have
arrived.
Sand the landlady," Invariably re-
ply, isn't she awful cunning?-so de-
mure in her ways and speech for such a
wee thing and so pretty, with her bright
blue eyes and yellow hair!"
But Maria, can't divine why, pre-
tends not tothear me, or else repeats,
with scornful emphasis, lawful cum
ningp' +H
The fact Is, Pm so much among my
kinswomen that ] often find myself,
when I wish to be particularly emphat-
ic, borrowing their queer adjectives and
peculiar forms Of expression.
"Indeed, uncle," said Charley to me
the! other day--named for me. Char
lotte Charles, as near as they could get
atit)-"you're beginning to talk like a
girl-and at your time of life tool"
And didn't feel at all insulted; for if
all girls talk as we'll as my nieces, con-
slider Charley's remark rather a compli-
ment than otherwise.
AS for Mrs. Midget herself, she's such
q tot Of d woman that Ifeel like laugh
ing outright every time I look al her,
perched on pile of fmusic-books placed
ON chair-the chair itself taller than
any of the "few selects' lat the head
of the dinning table. Indeed, only the
other day, when she asked in solemn
manner, fixing her blue eyes on my
face, and lifting o large soup ladle in
her mite of hand, If would have
some soup, did burst out laughing,
she looked so very like q little girl play
ing dinner with her mothers dinner
set ~-' 's~@ ~ A-]-A ~ "
The miniature woman laid down the
ladle and gazed at me in surprise.
'Mrs. Midget, beg your, pardon" "
saidI. ~ suddenly thought of man
saw at the circus"
"Oh" said Mrs. Midget, and re-
turned to the soup.
Tina romantic fellow there, yousee
how naturally fall in my niece's way
love poetry, music, flowers Mrs.
Fildget always has posy ready for me
in summer time, which she pins into
my button hole with her own fair hands;
and assure you it's notat all unpleas-
ant to have her standing on the tips Of
her toes to reach it, with her small
rouRd head just touching my. chin,
and. the fair sex. 80 5s1A4AAA b..
Yes, old bachelor as am, love, and
always have loved, the fair sex; and
reallythink it is because I love them
so wen T still remain unmarried.
never could make up my mind that
one of all those / admired was prettier
brighter, and sweeter than the other
and as wanted the sweetest, prettiest
and brightest, 1 have been In D dilemma
all my life. But I've always meant to
and my intention isstronger than evel
since the day I picked up the little
patched glove on Broadway in front o
Stewards.
feel convinced that the owner o
that glove is the wife for me. ! weal
1t next my heart. Silly? Not bit o
it. No single man could help wearing
glove like that near his heart. rn d.
Five and a half, pretty mouse color
every finger we'll filled out, scarcely ,
crease in them--she must be plump; s
faint smell of rose (as a general thing
with the exception of honest cologne
Idetest perfumes, but if 1 can endure
any it is rose, calling to mind, as i
does, bees, butterflies, flowers and al
that sort of thing and the cunninges
patch in the palm of the hand.
Now I'd never seen patch in aglov'
before, so it struck me as somethin,
odd, and ] examined it critically. Th'
manner in which that patch was seweC
in told me the wearer of the glove wa
neat and methodlcal; the fine silkel
stitches used in sewing the patch in
that she was dainty, the, fact that tn
color of the patch exactly matched tina
ofthe glove, that she was constant, ttu
to one shade, @%@ 3aat