The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-08-07


| thinking of this he drops little tear
| that sparkles on the sand and which
| freezes into a hard gem as the south
| ern girl picks it up. Charlie looks at
it and declares there was never one
like it before, and reminds her that the
| moonstone brings luck, and she answers
| him back very saucily that 1t does to gam
blers, and he says yes, and he is going TO
| try his chance for the last time, and he
| whispers something in her ear, and there
is smile that means yes. and he puts his
arms around her and the Nan IN the
| Moon laughs and says, though they don't
| hear him, "Ah, he! Master Charlie, the
moonstone has brought you fuH hand !"
! But it seems to me If he saw her face
well, he'd realize that it was a royal flush,
and that Charlie held something that
! came to very few men, Back they go,
and this time there's a long talk at the
gate, and the precious moonStone is TO be
/ set in diamonds and make a ring for some
J body, and Charlie kisses somebody good
night, and happy. healthy girl goes in
and whispers it ali out to matnma-that
/ is, nearly all. because there always are
some things better left unsaid = and
/ sweetlv sinks to rest The tulle gown is
/ off, the golden hair is brushed. and the
/ little maid is ready for bed; her night
/ dress has come from Paris: il is formed
I
/ of two strips of embroidery and the only
/ seams are at the side; the neck is round,
and the garment slips over her head, the
/ pretty white arms are put through the
places intended Tor them, and there are alb
! s0lutely no sleeves; so she goes to bed and
/ dreams of Charlie and the Nan IA the Noon
! and the mint juleP that had a mOonstone
instead of lump OF sugar put in it, and
| you and l, my friend. shy, God bless her."
I ha ic hos Of
! girl-full of fun and yet not fast. pretty as
/ a picture and yet not oCer vain, and GER
/ tain to be in love with Charlie all the days
Of her life and to be living example that
/ marriage is not failure.
! The fast element? Oh, it's herei 1t Is
oftenest in the form OF a widow whose
/ young child is supposed to be proprietv.
! She is pretty, she is young; but few
years of married life and an intimate &C
quaintance with her husbands rather
larky friends have taught her to care, IS
Ouida did when she Yves younger, mot for
the British public, but for the British
guardsmen." She is absolutely impervi-
Gus to criticism. If she shows more of her
handsome foot and Leg while bathing than
is customary, if the men like til she doesn't
care. She is quite willing to drive on Tom
Nobody's coach if she is given the box
seat, even if he had lot of chorus girls
on it the night before, who made the mid
night hours baieOus with their wells and
bad English. she tells Tom Nobody quite
confdentially that she despises women,
and is much happier when there are none
in the party, unless it be her special chum,
who is quite as advanced in her ideas as
she is. She likes a supper in a private
room; she will drink champagne until she
doesn't see quite straight and listens indig-
nantly to the rather insulting song which
a young Englishman trolls forth, and in
the chorus of which they all join. 1t goes
this way:
want girl 81 flesh, not stone
So do I,
Whose heart Sill beat for me alone;
On, what JOY!
A tender. pu a. impu i've maid
Hard TO hnd!
Brave and kind
a John Bulls daughter, like her dad.
Good and true.
Until find one l shall search England through.
Aud I'll not 10 away to Yankee and
To seek out there lady'S heart and hand!
AnEnglish earl; If win her love you can.
Is good enough for any Englishmanl
She has a little patriotism left, and so
she gets up to make a speech, while Tom
Nobody throws his ar IN about her waist to
give her, IS he says his moral support.
Gan English girl is good enough for
any Englkhman1 He's a great, big.
handsome brute on whom any American
woman is wasted He wants a woman
who is afraid of him and who deceives
him, and he has about as much compre-
hension of anything beyond an ideal
lied COW in the shape of q woman as he
has of-of'-- But here. between indig-
nation and champagne, the speech comes
to an end. Tom takes her home, and she
cries on his shoulder and tells him how
hard the. world is or widows. She is so
sleepy she hits her maid over the head
with hair brush for not getting off her
clothes fast enough, and then-well, she
is a woman after all, and walking not
quite straight-she goes over TO the bed
where her wee girl sleeps and kisses her
and saws: Poor itte Dollyr' And the
Man in he Noon looks down and he
thinks that the good God may forgive
much to a woman who is foolish and
thoughtless when she is mother.
There is no place like this in the world.
Each day is like q leaf IN book, and they
are all short stories; theirs are sweet and
sentimental romances, farces and TRACE
dies. Sumo are paper bound, some are
wholly covered in calf. and some are pure
and delicate in white vellum. The paper
covered book YOU bay at the railroad sta
ton you read and throw aside; the one
bound in vellum you take close to your
heart, for it either incloses love or a life
story. Which DO you want to read