Wichita eagle., 1889-04-21

nbove IN harmonious outlines, and, to finish,
q perfect contradiction in the strongest, most
resolute mouth that nature ever set In tho
mold with features otherwise signiicant of
gentle acquioscerce. There was q pcrplexed
expression on the face Of the handsome girl,
who, taking q bit of unengaged time for
reading, had Just finished paragraph on the
duties of every day life as helps to ideal ex-
i5tence She did not comprehend its pbiloso-
ply. "Ah!" thought she, lit means that If
Spmosa ground glasses for spectacles and
Montesquieu worked in dusty garden beds to
find greater mastery OF thought, there is no
reason why ! may not develop right here
among urnLrellasi"
A smile OF doubt passed over the fair coun-
tenance which had rot the slightest trace of
a handsome wonan's consciousness. She was
of that uncommon type which is beauty ct
its best-beauty which does not know it is be-
ing looked at. Her hair, brown and full of
yellow glintings, was gathered high upon her
head in knot of unruly little curls, end as
she turned the soft decline from the crown to
the back Of the neck revealed that portion of
a wonlan's head which is so rarely handsome
''What can l show youY" asked Laura
Everdalo Of the gentleman before her.
Umbrellas, If You please" he said; 'a
'SapGster,' if you have it."
This was what be said but not at al the
thing be looked or thought, for with ever
ready romance, Shakespeare's Beatrice, and
the tinge Of her pleasantly in Much Ado
About Nothing" which be had seen the night
before, flashed across his mind
Now there is not much poetry about an
umbrella. Given its component parts, and
there seems to be no more of it. What iuge-
nUity could enhance the Importance of the
article until il would take its place in Nor
can STAIRS note book among
Ts for PS
rs for SIS
Is for IS
which headings comprised the kinds of work
he engaged in as struggling, pushing can
djdate for journalistic powerl Is for Ps,
which meant Topics for Poems, would scarce
" suggest IAN Oio to Sill1en Sphere" rs
for IS, which meant Topics for Stories, would
probably be barren of q novelette, based on
either finding, borrowing or purloining an
umbrella, and surely Topics for Paragraphs
would be forever blank if something original
had to be s2id of an article 50 commonplace.
Still, ronances have resulted from smaller
things, and the young representative of The
Daily ArgoSy had his note book with him at
Bartholomew's that morning
1t was rainy week il the latter part OF
September, and torpor seemed to have fallen
upon every kiad Of trade except that of wet
weather accessories Laura Everdale. how
ever, had never known brisker week in the
many that she had passed behind the counter
at Bartholomsw's, and as she stood there on
this particular morning, the brightest picture
or all the eye corld rest on, who would have
believed that she had ever lived in fashions
whirl. or had voluntarily taken situation
IN the place whore Morgan Starr has found
herr Necessity for work came by the death
OF her father and the succeeding care Of two
mothe-less little sisters They were meres.
infants when the exigsncy first arose, and
under the advice OF friends who iocl1ed
around her at the outset, she had succesSively
opened a Kindergarten school, filed position
as visiting goverreSs and written love stories
and poeIns-all fitted excellently well. it
would be supposed, TO supply an income TO
lady brought up in az aristocratic quarter of
New YORK and accustomed TO what is so in
definitely called the best sosietvn Each and
On Of these employments proved delusve.
The very society Of which she had beeu part,