The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1889-04-20
Selett Story.
THEIR EASTER EVE.
81 rlSSr N. HOW'LL

What a face Il szs that looked up from
behind the eoaaisf a. Joha Barsholome~'s
on Uuion s.taars Greai brown eyes, soften
"a by loug lashcs and faint shsdingS Of the
saee aroasd then, Patrieian nose, With the
brow abSye 10 harmonious oa,lines, aud, 10
huish. perfect contradiction ia the strongest.
most rvsaluie mouth that HAiaFe ever Sc, ia
the mold with features otherwise significant Of
gsaslr acqaicscenee. There was peFplexed
expression on the face Of The handsome g'Fi.
uho, taking bit Of anensAged time for read.
iDx. bad juss kaished a paragraph on the
duties Of every dag life as helps to ideal sx-
is,eaec. She did not comprehend its philoso-
ply. "Ahn thoaght she, III meaEs that If
Spinosa sroaad glasses Tor speetAeles and
Moatesauicu worked ia dusty gardea beds 10
hnd grrAser mastery oi ihOaghs, there j. no
rea.oa Shy may aos develop right hsre
among ambreliAs
A smile Of doabs passed over the lair eouH'
,enanee which had net the slightest trace Of
handsome womAn's consciousness. She
vas Of that uncommon type which Is beauty
al its bcs,-b beanty which does not knew It is
being looked at Her hair, brown and fall Of
yellow siiniings, was gathered high upon her
head in kno, Of unralY fule euria, and a.
she taraed the son decline from the crown to
the back og the neck revealed that portion Of
a woman $ head which is 50 rarely handsome.
What can ! show yoa asked Laura
EyerdAls OF she gentleman before her.
Umbrellas, il you please, he sAid "a
.SAngs,er, II you have II.
This vas what he said. bat not at all the
thing he looked or thought, for with ever
ready romance, Shakespeare Beatrice, aod
the Hnse 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 It's component parts and
there seems to be no more Of 1t. What inge'
nuity eould enhance the importance of the
article until it would take its place in Morgan
+ STAIRS note book among
rs for Ps
4 rs for IA
Is for IS
: which headings comprised the kinds of work
be engaged in as struggling, pushing can
didate for journalistic power? Is for Ps'
/ which meant Topics for Poems, would scarce
ly suggest IAN Ode to a Silken Sphere.
rs for SIS, which meant Topics for Stories
would probably be barren of a novelette, based
on either finding, borrowing or purlolnlng 81
umbrella, and surely Topics for Paragraphs
would be forever blank if something origina
had to be said of an article so commonplace
Still, romanees have resulted from smaller
things, and the young representative ot Ih'
Daily Argosy had his note book with him a
Bartholomew s that morning
1t was rainy week in the latter part o
September, and torpor seemed TO have talleI
upon every kind of trade except that OF we
weather accessories. Laura Everdale, how
ever. had never known brisker week in tn
many that she had passed behind the counte
at Bartholomew and as she stood there o.
this particular mnrnng, the brightest pietur
of all the eye could rest on, who would hav
believed that she had ever lived in fashion
whirl, or had voluntarily taken situation
in the place where Morgan Starr has foun
her? Necessity for work came by the deaf
of her father and the succeeding care Of tw
motherless little sisters. They we're mere:
, infants when the eKigeney first arose, an
under the advice of friends who flocke
around her at the outset, she had successivel
opened kindergarten school, filed a pasitio
as visiting gOyerness aud written love storie
and poems-all fitted exeelleptly well,
; would he supposed, to supply an income to
Z lady brought up in an aristoeratic quarter
New York and accustomed to what is so in
definitely called ''the best society" Fac
and all of these employments proved delusive
The very society of which she had been part