Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-04-24
"MR. GEORGE CLIPSHAM, INTRODUCED
BY DIR. JONES"


| a very charming lady came forward to meet
him. Clipsham bowed, and said she was very
but he was a traveller, and had but one night in
Chicago and then he was presented to Elinor,
and think the whole thing was pretty much
| SO would you, if you knew ElinOr Clipsham as
we'll as do. Then there was little inquiry
| about DIR. Jones. But that did not come out
very well. In the first place, CIipsham did not
| hear very we'll. In the second place, he was a
| good deal preOccupied with ElinOr. In the third
| place, the DIR. Jones he was talking about was
the leading physician of TamwOrth, and the
Dr. Jones the lady was asking about was the
Rev. DIR. Jones, President of the theological
| seminary in New Berea. But she was well bred;
she saw there was some mistake and she let IT
pass.
A very pleasant evening Clipsham had 1t
proved that he heard Miss Elinor much better
than he had heard any body for a fortnight. The
Journey had been of use already. Then they
Tell to singing DUETS, even on this slight ac-
qualntance She plays charming accOInpani-
ment, and he sings admirably, when he has no
his voice was all wrong. Then, when her father
came, 1t proved that they were all going to Colo
RADIO Springs on the next day but one, and so it
mind that he had business which would keep
him over a day in Chicago. Although he did
not tell them so, he made his resolution to stay
before he left the house.
When he had gone away Elinor's mother said
that she pltied him because he had such a
you ever know a cold make man say Day in
stead OF May. He kept calling you Mrs. Day"
Mrs. May had not observed this. But it was
even so. AS tor CllpSham, when he met them
at the train, and took his seat with them in the
same Pullman, he was no such fool but he
could see that all their seats IN the car were
taken for Mrs. May, Mr.. May and Miss May
But then he supposed the Z. p. c. man had
written this wrong. When, however, the names
which they had themselves put on the books
with which they travelled, proved to be "May,"
CHpSham gave up his conviction that he knew
their ind names better than they did. AS he went
he could not persuade Miss Elinor to change
hers he was very soon on that plane of con-
Versation when he called her "Miss Elinor."
Yes, a Pullman is a very nice place when the
company is good. They sang in the twilight
for Clipsham's voice improved very fast, and
MS nearing gained SO that he could hear Miss
Ellnor, even when she spoke in very low tones,
OF experiences OF hers which she would not care
to have that Russian merchant hear, who was
ON his way to Alaska. The Pullman people had
not then advanced so tar to have a grand
piano In the car between the saloon and the
that they could sing without any accompani-
ment. At the stations CIipsham ALWAYS man
aged to bring in somethng-it there were no
were no crullers there were fossils. Sometimes
there was half an hours detention and then he
and Miss May would have good, brisk consti-
tutlOnal walk together.
Now Clipsham mad mining interests in Colo
RADIO, and Mr. May had smelling interests.
And, while Mr.. May attended to the smelling.
Mr. Clipsham would wait with them And
while Chpsham inquired about the mining, the
Mays were not far away. And the Garden Of
they dismissed the carriage one evening and
under the moonlight, walked home together
Win nnose strange old divinities looking down,
In sun approval OF what these younger people
said or did. Altogether the journey out, and
the journey there, and the journey home were
Charming. Clipsham never received one news
paper all the time, and he did not dream that
ne was growing famous. As for the Mays, they
never asked nor cared whether he were q pub
llc man or a private man. 1t was enough for
them that Rev. DR.. Jones had recommended
him. Nay, they did not think of that For
give MIN chance, George Clipsham is any
where his own best recommendation. he Is a
modest man, but you cannot be with him a
day, without saying that he is a brave, quiet,
True CHRISTIAN gentleman. He thinks very
little OF himself, but Is glad, nay eager, If he
can, To make other people happy and good, and
To serve the world where he has a chance to
serve il.
Nothing, indeed. could have been better. or
brighter or more happy in its results than this
entirely, and before the journey was over he
mad undertaken TO take care OF Elinor to the
END OF her days, if she would let him. She, on
Der part, has taken such good care OF him from
That day TO this, ne has never made the wrong
speech In the wrong place-and he has never
had that horrId influenza again.
w men he came back to TamwOrth, in all the
eXuberance OF his new lite, he did manage 10
ask Dr. Jones how he ever wrote DAY" instead
Oh May. For the calendar still hung there
and there was the 3D. perfectly plain, in the
Doctors writing.
Then it was that a thorough examination and
explanation ensued, and then Gertrude, in
tears, confessed To her mother for she poor
enlia, mad never forgotten her sim. But she
had perfect absolutiOn. A beautiful doll, OPEN
eSes-snut-eyes, was given her, and she has
never been scolded from that day to this.
lou would say that Clipsham would have
called on Mrs Day in st. Louis on his first visit
there. But he has never done So His wife say 4
she Is afraid To have him. He says he
has found out that there are no nice daug hters
there.
Both he and EIinor bless Gertrude every day
OF their lives for her little experiment on his
calendar.
The End.l