The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-11-21
A KISS I'm A LEAFY Nook.
Billing and Cooling OF Preacher aud q
Woman In y Public Park.

Clara Bellies New York Letter.
What queer things there are in life, TO be
sure. III you keep lockout for th6m, /
don't think you are apt to come across
many, for the saa.e reason that q watched
pot never boils, perhaps, but. to employ
that terse and paradoxical expression which
Tacitus made popular. il you don't you do.
was out for q fiye-mile walk in the park
the other day--not one day in the series
which went 10 make up the recent Indian
summer that missed that celebrating and
fascinating observance-whenI saw some
thing that seemed to me very queer. Per-
haps il was no, in the least queer in reality.
Indeed, now that come 10 anal r. il.
cannot gu: admit that Il was in truth quite
In the natural aud expected. order OF thingS
throughout, and set il astonished me, and
anyway il was Accordingly interesting be-
cause IL was concerned with kissing. and
the kissing was done snrrepi lioasy, In .
leafy nook IN Q public pleasure ground.
The principals were young minister OF
the gospel and perfectly well rotsed
young ,soman with The stamp OF Smith col
lege upon her. and with speetscles.
Now, as say, / don't know that there
was anything in the least surprising about
it, and yet II did surprise me. had been
walking up the east side. keeping TO the
small paths and watching the squirrels and
the robins, and my blood Was stirring and
my heart blythe. l thought that when
rot to The restaurant OF Mount Sc. Vincent
/ wouIsi hare some breakfast. for always
take the air before eat. and Ii was only IL
O'Clock In the morning. | had got Up be-
yond tile upper rcservoir-the one which Is
disting aished BY having water In it-and
beyond the lovely meadows where the goE-
ceous lawn tennis PLAYERS straddIe about
40 diyii,ely, and where they want 20 Put M
soma exposition buildings for . worlds
snow il, 1859, believe / was on my way
mn a gentle slope at the beginning Of the
woode<. tanrie which ovarruns the north
vest area, when | came upon the pair.
They we're sitting on bench together look
inr yacantly down the p III at me, attitude,
expression and 81 suggesting nothing in
the world bat grave. decorus. restiul en-
ioymeiti OF external nature. mild. Iilacid
hoIy IAankfulnsss for the bAlIny air, the
.uushiae. the Ieafy rustic anu the singing
ef The birds. she was stout young wo-
man. 80. I should think, smooth and fair
Her suecsaeles we're gold-boaed, and the
lenses shown with the polish insisted upon
bv women who really care for their spec
tscles. He Vas about her age. brown
BEARDED, tlemure. with straight waiStcoai.
\ checker and respectable Eyeglasses.
thought vaguely that they were brother
ana SISTER, or 3 married pair Of seven years
standing. That was al. as long ri they
haa as.s in sight. But just beyond them
the path tcok saadsn turn and assembled
.harpas. IL took my breath sonswhat
10 rpoEnt the little activity. and when /
cot 10 the Top stopped moment 10 get q
fresh supply. / was On the summit u q
hiun. arouzd whsch the path had vfound.
lt was 8 place os advantageous view. and /
stood Tor some little time, taxing iE Ia. The
connie had passed had gone completely
ont az sny mind. am sure should never
have Thought Of them again bns Tor one OF
thcse <urious little cokneidences Of which
ts.e world Is fall AZ stood hooking and
filing my anng= pretty red oak Leaf wsas
DANCING anross the path under The gentle
u9eeney OF The wind Ny eyes foalowed il
laly a ii srnvsaed untia il slapped At he
hase 81 sncwb.a bush, suxs as the edge u
the hlalf. II occurred 10 me thas il VAS
worth preserving. and left tlse path and
went aser ard picked il mp As Dis 50 1
became conscious again az to Clergyman