The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-11-02
CONFUSION OF TITLES.
In Love With a Professional but
Not a Prize-Fighter.


Not a Prize-Fighter.
"And so Fields had a wife and six
children" Mr.. Scott smiled gently to
himself as he thought of it. ''And not
only a wife and six children, but he
had been married twice--he had had
two wives" There was nothing absurd
or remarkable about these facts, ex-
cept as Mr. Scott chose to make them
so. He had known Thomas Fields for
ten or fifteen years on Wall Street, and
he had always fancied him an old
bachelor, while in truth he was mourn
ing one wife and counting another.
II wonder if he made lover said
Mr.. Scott to himself, and again he
smiled Then he wondered if the six
boys looked like their father. And
there was no reason why they should
not have been willing to look like him,
for he was by no means ilEfavored,
although he was tall and spare, and
had the anxious, worried look of q man
whose anxieties and possibilities
outrun his resources. But as far as
money goes this was not true of Mr.
Fields, who was a very rich man
indeed.
Perhaps it pleased Mr.. Scott to be
facetious, and to take a lively ana
contrary view of life. 1t was late
afternoon and near train time, and all
the young people and wives whose
husbands went to the city every day
had gone to the station, so that the
two men were almost alone under the
tree on the lawn where they had placed
their chairs. They were smoking, aud
Mr.. Scott was toying with a tennis
racquet left in his care.
After while Mr.. Scott spoke, not
the substance but the shadow Of his
thoughts: Your boys ought to be a
great comfort to you, Fields. Six sons!
They ought to carry on your business
and perpetuate your name"
"I'hey will not carry on my business
not one of them. When Dick made up
his mind that he wanted to go to West
Point, and Bob determined to study
medicine, didn't care, because there
were the four left; but Logan has TAX
en- TO farming, Fred has gone into law,
and Harry has a perfect craze about
becoming a minister; so you see the
business will go into other hands. 1t
is not right-not at all right"
But there are six of them? How
about the siXthP'
"PhilP He is the greatest disap-
pointment of all. The brightest boy
have, Mr.. Scott"
"WeuPn
"Phil has very reprehensible ideas.
He writes verses, and viii not go into
business nor into a profession. He
says he can live on his allowance. And
he does; I'll say that for him-and on
his salary"
His salaryP Why, thenS,~he is in
businessPn
Just now he is. In a brewery. He
is "A clerk in a brewery, and gets six
hundred and fifty dollars. That is like
Phil. Obstinate perfect pig-headed
follow for obstinacy."
but l don't understand said Mr..
Scott. Don't you want him to be in
a brewery, or does he do it to spite
youP"
Not to spite me, but he is very ir-
ritating. have talked to him good
deal, and | have said some plain truths
to him. One day he told me that he
would prove that he was not lazy, and
that he could earn his living at a tread
mill if he chose, and so he found this
situation and took it. He says he
means to stay year"
"Why, like that" cried Mr.. Scott.
1.-The boy has grit. =
IT don't like grit" replied Mr,
Fields. when it gets between my
teeth"
''Weu,n said Mr.. Scott, Five often
wished we had a son, but six Of them
can make life lively: My daughter is
as good girl as anyone need desire,
but she has her vagaries." -fEE
Your daughter is a very nice girl,''
Mr.. Fields warmly responded, land a
very pretty one, too. have noticed
her a good deal. IL l had daughter
] should be perfectly satisfied to have
her exactly like your Regina"
.She is very good girl" repeated
the father, with modest pride, "but it
is IA great responsibility to have "a mar
riageable daughter
Mr.. Fields grimly smiled. she
sccms to have her choice. All tho
young men here have eyes for her
only"
1T is the poor quality of the young
mon, Mr.. Fields-tho men of to-day.
Why. there is not a man at Oak IGnl
TO whom l would give Regina No.
nor in New York, as far as l know 1t
is a serious matter, and one to be
looked at from every point of view,
this choosing of a husband for a girl
She gives up every thing when she
marries-name, home, every thing into
which she has grown. To choose for
a girl means to blindly take for her
either misery or happiness
You are fortunate # you are al
lowed TO choose" Mr.. Fields dryly an
swcred. Logan married we'll, and
Bob is engaged to very nice girl, one
Of the Hookers-Hooker, Hood d Co.
but here comes another of Phirs per
versities He wants to marry pro-
fessional.n
"A professionals Is the lady on the
stageP"
Worse than that-she-she is an
athlete. sort OF female prize fighter. -
why, that is horritlel I'd send
him away. 1 never heard Of such a
thingl suppose she IS prettyg"