The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-12-23

wUuII ne softer Tor the eyes, Then after
they had worked some time, ascending
and descending the movable bridges of
the scaffolding, they outlined with chalk
something very difficult to distinguish at
such q distance.
At last, however, a painter came with
his pots of colors, and Antoine, interested
and curious, saw him little by little de-
sign O gigantic head; this head became
blonde, with smiling mouth and pearly
teeth, and above it in golden letters the
name of Robinson, Jr., shone forth TO oil
observers. 1t was Jeanne again-always
Jeanne! Antoine renowned the struggle
and returned to Paris resigned and sub
jugated. There, surrounded by these pict-
urcS, that sometimes stretched in dozens
along the walls, he began to ask himself
if it would not be better to marry-even if
it had not been better to marry Jeanne
than to have let her go SO far away.
But could he find her now? And if SO
was she still free?
This idea taking possession of him, he
wrote to Robinson, Jr., and asked him for
the address of the young girl who had
been the model for his advertisements.
Twenty days after he received ain answer,
and at the top of the paper the inevitable
head, finely engraved. We will translate
the letter for you:
''DEhR SIR thank you for your let
ter, which added much to the interest of
my publicity. 1t will be printed in thirty
eight of the papers of the new world. If
you will send me your card photograph
and the authority to reproduce it will
gladly forward to you 500. AS to the
Obliging child whose smiling head is from
this time forth inscparably connected with
my business, do not know what has be-
come Of her. One day bought her photo
graph, which appeared to me altogether
suitable for the end for which desired it,
and reproduced it with the consent of the
model, to whom paid $500 but whom 1
never saw. With much respect, ETC.,
"RoBINsoN, JR."
Antoine was forged to give it mp, though
he hoped that the publicity given to his
letter in the American papers would at
tract the attention of Jeanne, and she
would write to him; but nothing came.
Months passed by in anxiety and fever
ish excitement. At last one day he saw
again in the Rue Bati9nollcs the head of
Jeanne, living, smiliny, speaking in the
same well remembered voice, and she was
holding out a hand to greet him. Was
he crazy? No, it was no Authorization, it
was Jeanne, Jeanne herself, returned to
France and WHO was there before him.
Forgetting that they were in the street,
h embraced her then and there and, put
ting her in IL carriage, anxious and ex-
cited, he made her relate her story and
then he told his.
She had lost her brother in America;
he had left her little legacy and she had
returned to Paris.
1t was she--really and truly hfrselfi
only after the first emotion had passed it
seemed to Antoine that her smile was not
quite the same; and, looking still closer,
it seemed to him that her beautiful teeth
had not the brillancy of other days. He
spoke of it to her.
sab, yes" she replied, ''you doubtless
have heard them speak of Robinson, Jr."
'Robinson, DR.! l was in correspond
cnce with him; he paid you $500 for your
photograph"
"Indeed! You know that? We'll, it is
true, and he also made inc Il present of
great box of his powder. I was wrong to
use it, for see how it has served men
All the same, Antoine marricd Jeanne,
who no longer recommended tho inGofil=
parable powder.
Little by little the bills of Robinson,
Jr., have been replaced by others, but our
lovers are no less happy, Jeanne's smile
no less enchanting and her teeth almost
as brilliant as in other days, but she no
longer uses the "Best Deutifricc in the
WOrld-the Powder of Robinson, Jr." -
Translated for The Cincinnati Enquirer
from the French Of Charles Nuttcr by i:
g. Waaepar