The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1886-05-21
From the Boston Record.
HOW JOEL PARKS MANAGED
HIS DAUGHTER.
Bl I. T.. c. ROBBINS.

Office. stranger noting the age and rathe
prosaic appearance of the two men, woulc
hardly have guessed the toric of conversation
They were discussing works OF fiction
81 must have been going OH fifty years ole
when l read my first novel; Mr. Parks wa.
saying. ''You sec man that starts on life,
journey as did, barefcoted, SO to speak, has
got to attend to business and nothing else for a
coed many years, if he expects to get any ywhere
in particular at last. lie does not get much time
for light reading, Doctor. But in the last few
years I've read good many, ard enjoy them
especially when they seem true to life, and
think can generally tell when they are. |
like Trollopc on that account. | never saw an
archbishop or duke, but know as we'll AS [
want to that he just hits them off to L. And
like that lIowells, if he does hold men such
as be up 10 ridicule. Aud let me tell YOU
Doctor, there is instruction in novels Those
writers have to study human nature I've got
many a hiut about managing men from reading
those books
EYES, said the doctor, '.lve read them all
my life, and like them yet--love passages and
nil. Funny, isn't p he continued. chow two
old gray heads like you and me will follow the
love story of silly boy and girl who won't lis.
ten to their natural guardians, and sympathize
with them every time. We never have any
feeling for the sensible fathers and mothers of
our own age who are plotted against"
81 don t know about that was the reply.
81 do sometimes sympathize with the old folks.
and think that if had been it their places I
would have been more successful in ha wing nv
own way.
"Wc, JOEL said the other, with n laurh.
81 guess that is one point on which YOU never
get much instruction from story-telers Papa
and mamma always have their IDEAS Of their
daughters future. The wrong young man
happens along, and she develops her ideas quite
opposite from theirs. And she always comes
out ahead. If you want to carry your point
with your offspring, you will have to learn how
outside of storybook.''
"a that; qsgaeps Chs instTWycti2;;; W 2; :; all
there, only its instruction how ...v 70 uo a.
don't suppose that l shall ever want to interfere
with my daughter about husband or lover
but if | should. am that | could learn
something from the novclists.
If there were no Condolences, there would be
n, stories 1t was coincidence that, later or
tbot san, cycning Mrs loo, porEs q, ou;c.
lolv whose mind was in her husb,nas ke, ,n,c
said 90 him:
"Jocl. have vou ever noticed that Lee Til
ton and Annie seem to be taking n notion for
each othcr?"
Joel was engaged with his newspaper at the
time and he did not take his ewes fro IN the list
ofuewly appointed postmasters which he had
bccn rco,,inr. But il cost him an eGort fur his
wiE.'s oucstion was u shock indeed Sucb nm
idea had never occurred 10 him: and as he sat
there. physically mt case, he found his thoughts
sadly crowdinr each other
Lee Tiltoa One of his own clerks. 4
likely fellow enough pleasant and honest Eut
he didn't like Leo Tilton. lie didn't know lust
WHY. and he had never thought Of il before.
bat now he was sure of so much Lee was
nothing but Il Redicld boy anyway; and uuambi-
,ious-stavnr in n little place like that and
living with his mother and sister And then
his daughter Annie. What future was rossi-
bic for that girl Beautiful rs any heroine of
fiction No. his daughter should never be
given to Lee Tllton
That was one decision, absolute and final
4 subordinate question was also discussed and
settled in the mental council of war. 1t would
perhaps be as well that Mrs. Parks should not
for the present know her husbands feelings in
the matter SO much having been arranged
he slowly raised eyes from the paper, looked
at his wife ahscr y, and said;
''Oom--ch:'