Evening journal., 1889-09-26
TIE SUMMER PARTY.

We used to 20 to Mrs Goodfsllow1s every
summer when | was a child That is bow ]
happened 10 be there when the summer party
came up
You may know or you may not know that
school teachers are the widest OF all summer
boarders
You'd think them sage maiden ladies in
blue spectacles and brown wells, wouldn't
yout Indeed, they are not
This summer party came from New York
and they all taught school
Mrs. Goodtelow was enough in herself for
propriety, but there were plenty of other
folk there, especially an English lady-who
thought it all shocking"
Mrs Goodfellow said that, according to
American ideas it was all right
Il feel as if they were all my children
said she. my own are all married and
away, and It most broke my heart 10 hey
EN- go" she said. And heving young folks
makes 1t seem like old times. | like to see
EN- kiting round and playing bali with fish
net-good exercise, poor dears-and dunno
as don't like EN- best Of all my boarders,
they've got such nice appetites fer ginger
bread and apple sarse and milk and sweet
meats, and it's f1n to see 'em sneak away to
court, like my Liddy Jane and Ann Eliza
used to. / hope III never get to feelini as II
| didn't sympethize with young folks, and
want to see 'em serious and hate to hear EN-
laugh, and not want 'em to sing and play
onto the nicholson, and carry on Seems to
me shill hope it's my time to 20 when it
comes to that"
No wonder Mrs Goodfellow, who acted up
to her principles was general favoritA No
wonder that when those young people asked
each other "Where shall we go7' the unani.
nous answer was, ITO Mrs Goodfellow'sn
There they all were-Eveline Brown and
Fannie Green, Kate Grey and Rose White,
1 Alice Black and Gladys Jaune-not an agly
girl among them. And there was Tom Hope
and Dick Breeze and Harry Ashe and Rob
Bunting and Will Roth and Charlie Garden.
aud 1t was jolly party, as one might ex
| pect when every one Of those young men
had vowed to offer his hand, heart and-no--
can't say fortune-his hand, heart and sal
airy to one Of those young ladies before vaca
/ ton was over.
Tom Hope, who was a bright eyed, black
haired, jolly young fellow, who had no idea
Of waiting for what be wanted, contriyed to
get Eveline Brown into a forward car-they
had all vowed to sit together-and he should
have been ashamed Of himself, but he was
not, and proposed going down.
There was no one to hear him except an
old German, whom he felt sure could not IN
derstand English, so he told her that he loved
her and that he thought it would be twice
as jolly if they could begin that vacation as
engaged folk, and he said there was no girl
ON earth as pretty as she was or as good, and
when she said it was sudden hesaid, "Iife
is short"
Then he asked her if he might put the ring
he wore on his little finger on her first finger,
, and began 70 take off her glove, and when be
had pulled it entirely of he put the ring on
aud kissed It, because it was, as he declared,
necessary to chat in order that it might stay
on. Then he said:
oh Evviel' and she said, "Oh, TomIn
And on that the old German who "could
not speak English" held out his hand and said:
"Shakei l gingratulates you, young PEG
Piles. Dot vos right Dot vos vot did my
self Ven you vos young dot vos do goot
times, and hope you get so many blessings
as got myself. Dot over dere vos mine wife
and my nine children and dink dot vos goot
for man in sixteen years-nine boys unit
girls"
And after all he meant so well that, though
Evvie blushed, she could not feel angry.
That is how Tom did il. As for Dick
Breeze, he waited until they had had tea, and
then took Fannie Green out rowing.
tom and Evvie are engaged +" said be.
1T looks like il, !" said Fannie.
"Let US be, said Dick.
"You ought to ask ma and pa first said
Fannie
Never heard Of such thiugi" said Dick.
"a pretty mess I'd be in if they accepted me
and you did notw
Perhaps they might forbid it," said Fan.
ME
"s'pose I'd care II they did il you said yesln
said Young America.
We'll, ma and pa do generally do az / tell
them,n said Fannie.
And that was the way he did IL.
Harry Ashe and Kate Grey lost their way
in the woods, and were found very hungry
but happy
She told US that since they thought they
might be going TO starve together they felt
they could bear it If they were engaged
When the mad bull chased Rose White and
Rob Bunting saved her, calling the bulls at
tention to himself by waving red handker-
chief, and really was a good deal hurt, that
affair was settled; and Win Roth wrote
letter and carried it 20 the postoffice, and it
was three days coming, and Alice Blacks
answer was a whole week getting To him.
Still when II did come it was an acceptance
and everything would have been perfect for
everybody at last If it had Dot been for
Gladys jaime
Gladys was a fiirt and we all said that the
way she behaved 70 Charlie Garden was sim.
ply shameful.
She told me one day that she felt that in
getting up this summer party the boys had
laid a trap for US and that she, for one.
would not fall into it She would not return
home engaged She was not sure, She said.
chat she liked Charlie enough-at all events.
she wanted her freedon-and she got me TO
be with her al the time.
was only IA, but felt for Charlie Car
den. Indeed did. though he once said
ueard him:
What do you see in that gawky little Bar.
bara Prothero that you should always be go
ing about arm IN arm. or sitting somewhere
embracing each Others I'm sure the child
bad rather be playing tag somewhere
oh, we'll, ! had my time afterward; but
that isn't in my story.
was in the way Of hearing all the girls OF
the summer party said, for a good many Of
US had beds in the big garrett and they all
i declared II was a shame Charles Garden
was more In lovo than any one ever was be
fore, and something ought 70 be done.
One afternoon-it had got pretty near
-'hn.al time aaain--I came out Of the woods