The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1888-09-06
r"E BEAUTY or WHITE LINES.
BY BOB. BCRDETTE-
PhiiadeIuhia Times

lnlllue lHnla lliueH-
have'learned, to my great NOR
tification, women are not clean
Z by principle or by liking but be-
cause they hardly know what else to
be. One always has To furnish the
proof Of the pudding aud here IL j.:
| was enjoying, Ia the keenest de-
gree a hot salt water bath, when
heard a conversation carried ON from
one bathroom 10 another. One
voice said: well, Rose, how often
do you take a bath?" The answer
was: "Ouce q week" THE other
voice said: "Oh do you2 Well. !
only come when il ~ absolutely
necessary" And this in a country
where soap il cheap aud women are
thought 20 have fair sFinsi BY the
by, the wader has quite given up the
black stockings that diseulOr her
skin; for, above everything else, sine
must be suns DeHr Il sans reJir0chc.
Instead, she ASSUMES tam-colored
silk hose that match her slippers:
and she is certain that when her
maid removes the slippers and
stockings a. she sits on the sand,
she will be absolutely ivory white
There is a pretty old historical stO-
~ about white legs that always
comes up 10 me whenever ! hear OF
them. They tell il with great pride
I'm an old English house where /
once visited. When King Charles
I was fighting Cromwell, aud learn
ing tO his sorrow that gentlemen
could be beaten by buliies, the old
est daughter Of this very loyal house
was engaged tO be married To-
Puritan neighbOr. Love triumphed
over everything and they were Sc
cretly welded. Often of night the
fair maid would wrap herself up
aud, attended 10y trusted servant,
would steal TO the place where her
husband was garrisOued and spend
the night there. At last an over
Jealous soldier reported that this
gentleman was being visited by
ciuaked figure and that he believ-
ed, because his captain was "A we'll
bred man, that he might have "A
faint of allegiance 10 the royal family
still left in him. Cromwell sent
down soldiers TO wEtcn. One night
the enshrOuded figures entered. An
hour after, the soldiers were at the
captains door demanding add
mission. He refused IL. They
threatened TO break the door down.
After minute or two lac called out:
"IOu know that there l. no wa y by
which any human being can get
out of this room. ] promise to let
YOU i'm provided you are perfectly
quiet, march around the room and
leave it," The soldiers scarcely UNI
derstOOd this, but agreed TO il. The
a ri
one who entered marched up To the
bed and started to pull coverlid
from ofia figure that rested under
said: "GOu promised to touch
nothing" The soldiers insisted
that perhaps one OF the StuaTts
il was not. At last, as they still |
remained dissatisfied, he said:
"Geutlemen, / will prove to you
that under that cover there rests
one who is not only not a Stuart, |
but not a man." There was a room !
full Of soldiers. There was silence |
like death, and il almost seemed as /
IL the heart under the satin sheet |
could Ice heard beating. Going To /
the foot of the bed the captain |
raised this sheet and slowly, care /
fully and exactly rolled il up, dis |
playing to this company Of soldiers /
pair Of the handsOmest white legs, !
the smallest feet and the finest an
kles that their eyes had ever rested /
on. With one accord every man /
raised his hat aud quietly filed out.
Long after the story was told, and /
when the tough old captain was an |
old man and his grandchildren were |
around him, when the Stuarts had |
their own and the Guelphs didn't |
rule England, the greatest toast used |
Ia be, ITO grandmamma's beauti-
ful legs