The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-15
4 ROSE BIZ ANY OTHER NAME.

Harperss Bazaar.
Margaret Beverly's dinners TO her girl friends
| might have tempted Lucnllus. Such triumphs
| of culinary art. such devices OF ornamen tafion
| such band OF brightfaced maidens around the
| board, enough 90 I'LL any ancient heathen
| with respect They were occasions when Mar
garat presided with quaint dignity 81 the head
| Of the table Men we're entirely excluded from
her most select gastronomic reunions, for the
| young hostess was. won't TO observel grave mat
| tiers were discussed, and men were too friYol-
| ous.8 She tempered this unjust declaration BY
! inviting half dozen OF these light creatures TO
which the spiritless male beings accepted with
/ forgiving alacrity.
It was on a late March night that one OF these
| dinners WAS in the full, tide Of success. The
/ dining-room glowed with soft lights. The table
/ shone bravely with crystal and plate, and. ex-
haied odors OF wildwood and hot house from its
center bed of roses and ferns. Clusters of
| white lilacs bloomed beaide each cover. But the
/ charm OF the scene lay in the fresh young faces.
| radiant with beauty and the genial pleasures of
| conviviality All that could gently sitillate the
/ feminine palate had been remembered. The
| sorbet dream. the desserts and fruits.
| poems and pictures in their way At least so
| said the girls.
| After dinner the bevy of maidsns enjoyed
post-p randal gossip, the serious topics of matri
mony, dancing, rovel-reading. the etage having
bean digested with the repast. Margaret played
a little on the piano, AID Marion Gurnee eiacu-
lated. after studying her loveliness awhile:
"Oh Margaret what an example You set us!
How valuable are."
This hattering outburst is apropos of Just
what. Marianl' laughed her friend.
oh apropos of your success. amiability and
general perfection was the affectionate return.
I'm dreadful.y afraid you'll marry and be lost
to us. know half . dozen men who want you
badly
..They manage TO be calm and comfortable
over it, said Margaret.
II suppose your indifference constitutes your
great charm, chimed in little Nettie Leslie,
vously.
Margaret suddenly called Jsnnis Van
Wart, from the end of the room, what became
of that interesting devotee of yours whom you
met Soutna-the one You talked to me about SO
much, who wished to transplant himself from
prairie to the comparatively narrow limits of an
orange grove for your pleasuregp
Margaret flushed, and her brows contracted
slightly at the tons of raillery, but she
swered: blandly, Il think You must mean Mr..
Bump
Indeed do--pre-cisely-Mr Bumpr echoed
Jennie. emphatically. as. in spite of themselves,
the girls all smiled
ssWhat asrocious namei Was he nicer
queried Dolly Dart, specifically
Charming laconicaily stated Margaret,
hoping to end the matter. But she was not
mistaken In the light OF Jennles eye. for Jennie
was madcsp mischief, who dearly loved to
tease. Therefore she prepared for an attack, as
Jennie's clear voice resumed.
"Oh, dear, girls, charming does not begin to
express it; be is fascinating. original He rolls
in money; he has been all the world. and
owns shares in the Caves of Elephants-or a
soap factory out West have forgotten which
perhaps q beef-canning establishment in St
Louis or Chicago. I know he is of those in
fated monopolists; but, the other hand he
is said TO be of the few genuine, calm i'm
personal. Buddhistic specimens now sxtant who
can sail about without effort in aerial waves of
celestial serenity"
Jennie, you are unkind. You do not even
know him. Mr.. Bump is one of the most
fined. sensitive, high minded gentlemen l have
ever met Maggie cried, Indignantly.
Jennie approached her with exaggerated
gravity.
In the present tense. From the gloom of your
expression feared that the bee.-canning pro-
fsssion bad been called upon Co sustain loss
covering her eyes The girls laughed and
from him. Ia he quite wellf'
Thanks. quite. He is at present in Havana"
"What does he sign himssifa What name did
parental love bestow offset to Bump2n
Thomas r y CURLY said Margaret. who had
had her own qualms about ths absurd patrony-
mic.
And continued her tormenter, sweetly, s'in
golden confidence you have told me that he
once evolved musical little sobriquet for him
IN VIVA. waa thar s9
Jennie, cried her victim, sprlnging up. ''you
are too bad
ings were really involvsd-indeed indeedee.
Don't tell us-don't.p
Forced by this new move to comply, Maggie
gave way to laughter with the others, as she
said. 1T Toot.'"
Jennie did not smile. t.Toot," she murmured
tendes.y-s.Toot BUMP; perhaps even Tootis
Bump. Life might he worth living with the
prospect in view of Doc oming Mrs. Tootie Bump.
We are hidden not to cevet, yet, Margaret /
envy YOU In fact. sense the approach of one
You cannot. MISUNDERSTANDING at her delight
ed listeners, who accepted her nonsense for what
it was worth-''you cannot understand what it
So let me explain And her voice sank to
depths worthy of
Most potent. grave and reverend signors."
Here is Margaret-iovely. YET the product of
an artificial civilization, the pick result OF
over-culfure, dependent upon certain environ
ment. She requires picturesque aekgrouEd.
A Claude. Raoul. Romeo-such must be her
mate: while feel within me longngs for the
primitive. the elem entary conditions-an appe-
tite for raw buffalo and gred prairiedog, as it
were And hero from Wyoming deeps,
opalescent with soapsbubbles, Rlittering with
the after light of brand-new beef cans as with a
silver armor. might say, Enter loot, tout-a-
coup. Think of wedding an ancestry of Bumps;
of living ont perpetual dumb charadel Mag
gie the role suits L. implore you not
to become Bump block in my path Your
answer must be, Pas du tout Tootie. for
resolved. tout fait, to win this modern trouba-
dour. the knight of this day--nind the <,
giris And-ver6 sap, young ladies-outside
fascinating Bump, accept this bumper and my
pledge:
sOh, buboing Bump,
You a triumph
May Cupid's shoot
Bring my loot.
''Henceforth shall my motto be- Tout-de-bon
loot; and my sole chant. Tootie-too- tie too
oo- too-oo-oo!n And raising her slender hands.
trumpetwise. she sent forth ringing peal
while the room resounded with merry shouts.
These still echoed as the butler presented
card co Miss Beverly, who took it, and rose
chemically. Advancing toward the door, she
glanced at the Bit of pasteboard expecting to see
the name of some invited guest What WAS her
surprise and CONSERVATION find instead, in
distinct lettering of the latest mode, the appall-
ing name of Thomas r. Bump!