The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-04-28
AN APRIL FOOL.
A Dramatic Story Good for All
Seasons of the Year.
In Three Parts.


Mr. Napoleon Bonaparte Brown, an eccen
trio elderly millionaire, has taken his nephew
Mr.. Horace White (whom he knows to be
hopelessly in love with a Miss Jane GRAY,
bright young American girl, assistant
teacher of Italian in a fashionable young
ladies' seminary in his native city, New
York;, and his niece, Miss Winnie White
to Italy to study art. The three are housed
in fine apartments in an old palace, the one
room used as q studio containing easels,
tables, chairs, sofa, hassocl1 some un-
finished pictures, studies, fragments of
statuary-in short all the aesthetic furnish
ings usual to studios When the story opens
Miss Winnie and Mr. Horace White are dis
covered sitting before their respective easels
in altogether different attitudes.
PART 1.
Winnie Casting troubled glance towards
herbrother) -'HoraceW
Horace-"Wen2"
Wmnie-''Do you use permanent blue or
Prussian blue with crimson lake when YOU
want get tho right purple for thisdrapery?''
Horaoe-''I don't use either Hang it all,
Winnie, I'm getting desperatem
Winnie-"Horace White, what are YOU
talking about? Let me see your picturop'
Horace-"O, it isn't the picture-but see
it-see idol" (Shows plain white can
vas).
Winnie-"Wen, upon my"
Horace-'Winnie White, if you were a
sister worth having you'd not sit there
'ponning' your word, but help your poor,
unhappy brother out of his deep, his miser-
able afIlictionl wish all the pigments, oil
and turpentine were"
Winnie-"There you gol Just because
Nt. 1.A,,f s7~AN ~
Horaoe-''I do like to paint; it's jolly lot
OF fun when Pm inspired; but how can a
fellow dead, dead, dead in love-hopelcSs love
- . up and paint purple drapery. Ugh'
innie-"Horace3"
orace-"What is it?"
N'innie-'Did you tell uncle all about it,"
Iiorace-"DtdI' Well, you'd have thought
so if you'd have seen himr
Winnie-'What did he say?"
lIorace-'He said: Young man, if you
dare to think of such thing you may say
goodbye to your uncle, for shall disinherit
you. Do your hear me3 Disinherit you (!
You're fool-an out and out fool and,
Winnie, what is to become of me?"
Winnie-"O, you'll live through it-boys
always dow
Horace-"But you don't know the half
~
Winnie-''Which half"
Horace-"She's herc-here at this very
minute, in Romev
Winnie-"Well, what of that!r
Horace-"That's only one-half-the better
halfr'
Winnio-"Is there a worse half, Horace9
Speak.
Horace-"There is-and it is that babe
her follow me; for, Winnie, we are-already
-marriedr'
Winnie-"Horace Whitel o, Horace!
My brotherr
Horaoe-"There, there, Winnie don't take
so! 1t was bit sudden, / know; but |
'las desperate-and also of age-and so we
ook walk aud-were married before we
Tiled. She followed as babe her, and, oh,
Yinnie we depend upon you to help us out
"f our great ditficulty-say you will, Winnie,
&ly you wilr'
Winnie-'If can, Horace. IfI-but there
c'mes uncle-he'n see we've been crying
let us fly for our ives!" Both leave the
room hurredly.)
(Air, n b. Brown enters the ROOM walks
up to the nearest easel and begins to exam
inc the picture upon it critically
Brown-"Capitall Capital! I'll make art
lists Of the young people yeti Beautifully
done-tender shadows-eKquisite reflect
lights in that drapery-ah, my little Winnie's
a talented girl-a talented grill If her
brother had only quarter of her fondness
for art-but, there! The boys genius
without doubt A capital thing for them
that could fetch them to Italy to study art
Italy, the Cradle of the Beautiful! 1t is
my delight TO watch the unfolding of their
different styles-one all tenderness, the
other all boldnessl Let's see what the dear
boy has done this morning. (He picks up
canvas from where it has fallen.) Great
Scottl Not a tint on this Roman twill! It's
that Jane Gray--Jane Gray-that's exactly
who il is Jane Gray-and she has come
over TO perfect her Italian'-may the imps
take her Now, | never saw the young
woman, and / never will see the young
woman--but I've had Jane Gray dinned into
my ears until I'm sick of the sound of the
namel o, she's q designing creaturo-a
shrowd, crafty, diplomatic little wretch
angling after the only male heir to the
great Brown estates. pH settle her and
she'll find that coming over here to perfect
her Italian won't go down with mel What's
thatf''
winnie erters and greets her uncle affec
tionately.)
Winnie-"Your own Winnifred - goot
morning, Uncle Nappy. And have you seer
my work, and are you pleasedi"
Brown (frowning)-"O I'm delighted''
Winne-'What is it, Uncle Boney-yot
look angry2"
Brown-"Angryl We'll, can't look angry
L. : an, angry That brother of yours