The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-06-16
SHE LOST HER FAITH.
T MAS AN "UNCONNONLY QUlET
AND ORDERLY NICAT."

ihe hSbs oil "A Lover Whose iiahit> were
Not such - Maiden Wants ia a
7 Man she I, to Tie Up to for life. H"~
She Made the Discovery.
have young frieni uLo has los
niset Al. OF her faith III mas ullne human
nat4Ie. She probably still telleSes in her
father and brother, and, Of cours', hcr con-
ildence IN her favorite clergyman i, unItu-
paired, hut as for the rtst of III. stern say
sA. thICks If IL as shoulI ,lrea. i.u.ly hsIs
10 ha, 4 any one tLinS OF me lux must
hurry 10 trll you Just how it all happen H.
Ny .rleli Miss Flora never mind htr other
hams want 10 Europe about AVE year, ago
10 complete "a musical and generally artistic
cOurs' Ia Italy. rs school .irl Uf r, sh'
f1Inle fond attaelm ut for "A
youi- hnlrAerbOcker. They exchanged
ring and, ~ they both thought
their alleged hearts IN tho bargain
WAila Sue vas Away she wa, great deal
more s'eadtaSt TO her troth, rs girls u>Il- ally
axe, than he was, | thuuk. Vt any rat"
She got good many hints from friends at
home. just before she returned, that malH
her Doubt whether his habits were Irlst such
-
tor lite The conse luences WAS that Whom
sho heard that she heard that her Charley
was going wrong she did something differ
eit from sitting down, as most giils woulI,
and having COOL weep First she wrote
to him all sAe hal hcarti, and h., Ireferrins
to lilo rathr than lose her ami her half mil
lion, wrute back that ho was saint, AMI
whoever said he wasn't was IA liar, So To
speak
pAEINti SCHEME
Sh' didn't believe him. aud she wrote To-
M Il am coming home she sand with
the most daring schema that over had, AMI
you and your cousin Bob are in it. - knew
1t would he something hreathle,s, but was
hardly prepared for what it turned ont "
ho She wanted To- get male tosgcry for her
self AMI me, AMI then have Cousin Bob TO
Introduce Us rs young foreigners 10 her
charley, rs she always called him was
like Artemus Ward during the war, per.
fectly willing 10 sacrifice all my wife'S rela
tions, but | would not 20 myself. My
figure Is not exactly tho sort for male attir",
my dear, said |, but you'll do, with your
hair clipped, end you can have Cousin hoh'
Shs wanted to put in night around
him very we'll, it was as easy - an old
stocking. Bob wouldn't hear of it at first.
II kick, be said "All right said "kick II
you want to, but you Il either do what
want or you don't 20 anywhere with mo or
my friends nrNt summer We'll, ho did il,
tut he sail Ill regret it the longest day |
lived
Flor, got herself up in tho stylo of law
student one of those huttoncd up things in
black, with mouth aud the handle Of u
cane always in it, and Eyeglasses, and tho
stare OF IA baty trying to look like an OH
bachelor. She's born actress, and sho
looked true to life. Sho went with bob AMI
her Charlie and half u dozen others, mostly
eoll-platcl young snobs to sec n lurleS tur.
Flora pretended TO la Just from France ani
unable to 'peak English, so that ~ nobody
triel to talk to her except Bob
An HOUR uF okEnNE-s
Her plan worked to dot Sho saw AMI
heard enough to satisfy her To use her
own words If went to a nunncry IT,.
morrow I'd have hal more than my share
of wickrdness just from that nj hit Every
ono of tho young men, except lob know
some OF the girls on the STAGE, and they
talked about them, she says, ut as jockey
might he supposed 20 talk al out horses.
one Of the young men tlirted with woman
in the audience, met her after the play ami
went away to supper with her, while tn.
rest strolel to an all night chop house on
Sixth avenue Flora stood il there inst ono
hour She drank lthino wine, TO which she
l. accustomed, but tho conversation of the
young men, the stories they told AMI the
way they behaved with tho mattresses who
attended them caused her TO beg Bob to
take her home lle told mo that he hal
becn wanting to do that from the first
1t was nothing extraordinary said he
I'm fact, IL was an uncommonly quiet anl
orderly NIGHT the boys wore having but
they talked freely, and although ! should
hnye thought nothing of 1t ordinarily, ,tll
when knew that a sweet AMI innocent girl
was listener and locker On there ! suffered
snch rture as never dill before IN MY
life II gave me a new view of llfr. AMI
ever since then have been half ASHAMED 81
myself in feminine company
As for Flora, | cant tell ys whit .lp,
sail Shu came and flung herself On my
bed and cried, tho next day til thought
she would weep herself crazy. Beats
and 'brutcs' were tho only words she could
fin TO apply to her companions of tho nigh,
before, and she assured ms that in all the
French novels all tho criminal reports and
all the start ing talk she Ia ever read or
beard she hal never conceived n tenth of
tho perfectly awful horribloncs5 of these
young men
To cap rHr GILMAN.
Well, that Is not all There Is xore b.
Flora case, and in fact, | come in here my.
self Flora wrote 10 her Charley, telling
him that she wa, the French student who
spent that evening with him lie tried 10
seo her, but she said she would rather touch
n toat Then he wrote to her that he wa.
lar better than ali average youn., man in
Ia t, that he was rather a model sober,
honest, industrious, and without bang al
dirted To any vice except smoking. r. cap
the climax, her own people took his si,l"
ami sh" ii' id assurances that he L. an IN. .
commonly nice young man from WHOM DO /
you think Why. from two cl"r.ymen, /
fro Il cousin Bob, from great retoruur. /.
from "A college prof ssJr, from laulpr and Z
from male relatives score in nunher I
Fiora l. disleaftenei and iisgu,ted ~. .
has not Civ II up the sex. She mean, to
find some decent, clean, manly, self respect. (
ing ambitious fellow, who lead, one lfe a, .
open as a book, and She means to Iulnt To .
him, and t.ll all WHO hava assured her to I
the contrary that it is not inpus,ihIr to BE-
decent mi tt4 a man ut tI,,. .,tt,. t,,,, It,t