The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-22


MM " her mother, in neg
I'M NHX ligee attire and ex-
III N1,1 preston, were dis
~ cussing the unbid-
den guest of the evening before.
''But he was SO country-so dreadful COM
mon," protested Mrs. Tramlay, with her Gus
tomary helpless air.
''Nonsense!" said her husband ''There
was nothing country or common about his
face and manners. There hasn't been so
bright eyed, manly looking fellow in our
house before since I don't know when Eli,
LuciaF"
"Agnes Dinon said he was real fine look
ing" the girl answered.
"Agnes Dinon is thirty-six if she's day"
answered Mrs. Tramlay, in a petulant tone
$50 much the better fitted to pass opinions
on young men," said Tramlay. Shows
more sense in one girl of her age than hum
dred like-like'-
"Like me, papa" said Lucia You may
rs well say it,
Like you, then. Bless your dear, igno-
rant heart, id give my head if you could see
IS clearly as she without waiting so long to
learn"
''You may be very sure, though, that Miss
Agnes will never invite him to her own re-
ceptions," declared Mrs. Tramlay
"Wrong again, mamma; she's invited him
for next Tuesday night, and / do believe she
devised the reception just for the purpose.
None of us had heard of it before
Mrs Tramlay gathered all her strength,
stimulated it with an entire cup of tea, and
exclaimed:
well, l should like to know what society
| i. IN If n common farp,ar,S how nf
no family, can stumble into town and be in
vited about to good houses"
Coming to? Why, my dear wife, it is
coming to its senses I'm glad, in this par
ticular case, the movement began at our
house,
Nobody would have paid any attention to
him, if you hadn't talked so much about him."
said Mrs Tramlay. lone would have thought
him a dear old friend, to hear you go on
about him as you did. "
81 said nothing but what was true I
merely 2aid he was one of the fnes5 young
men I had ever known; that he was of the
highest character, and very intelligent be-
sides"
''Such qualities don't make a man fit for
society,"" said the lady of the house.
no suppose not; if they did we'd see
more of them at our receptions and parties"
"Edgarl"
well, we'll" said Tramlay, leaving the
table, kissing his wife, and preparing to hurry
to his office, lit isn't your fault; we can't
expect what can't be had, suppose"
Lucia" said Mrs Tramlay, after the
children had been dispatched to school, Il
hope your fathers peculiar notions won't
affect you"
About Phil. Nonsense, you dear old
worry But really, mother, he made quite
an impression. A lot of the girls admired
him ever SO much. began to apologize and
explain, as soon as l could get rid OF him;
but found it wasn't at all necessary"
Girls will admire anything that's new
anything, from Zulu to a monkey"
Mammal
Young nsen like Hayn can't ever marry
out of their own circle; you should be able to
see that How can they buy houses for their
wives, and furnish them properly, and set
up horses and carriages, and keep in society"
Mamma, you're too dreadfully funny: in
deed yeu are. Suppose young men aren't
rich enough to marry; can't girls like them!
Aren't young people good for anything but
to get marriedF'
I'm very sorry" said the mother. abrupt
ly leaving the room, that you have such
trifling views of life
When Philip Hayn left the family mansion
little after midnight he had but two dis
tinct ideas-one was that he had better find
his way back to Sol Mantring's sloop to sleep,
and the other was that he didn't believe he
could fall asleep again in less than week.
All that he had seen, the people not excepted
was utterly unlike Haypton. The converse
tion, also, was new, although he could not
remember much of it; and the ladies-well
he always had admired whatever was admir-
able in the young women in the village, but
there certainly were no such handsome and
brilliant girls at Haynton as some he had
met that night.
He could not explain to himself the differ
ence,- except that, compared with Lucia's
friends, hisold acquaintance appeared-well,
rather unfinished and ignorant. And as far
as these new acquaintance appeared above
his older ones, so far did Lucia appear above
her friends. He had studied her face scores
of times before and told himself where it was
faulty; now ne mentally withdrew every
criticism he had ever made and declared her
perfection itself Would he ever forget how
she looked as she offered to help him from
that easy chair in the hbrary2 He wished
his mother might have seen her at that in
slant; then he was glad she did not He re-
membered that his mother did not entirely
approve of some Of Lucia's bathing dresses;
what would the good woman think of fash
ionable evening attire' And yet perhaps it
was not as dreadful rs it seemed Evidently
Lucia's mother approved of it, and was not
she a member of a church-not, he regretted,
of the faith in which all Haynton worshiped,
yet still a church, And did not many of
Lucia's guests dress in similar stylel
He mentally laid the subject away for
future consideration, and gave his mind to
his own attire Until that evening his faith
in the perfection of his Sunday suit was as
unquestioning as his faith in HayntonS
preacher, but now it was hopelessly shat
tered. He did not admire the attire of the
gentlemen he had met, but the evidence was
overwhelming that it was the correct thing,
and that he must prepare himself to dress in
like fashion if he went to Miss Dinon's party.
And, by the way, what a queenly woman
that Miss Dinon wasi
He would like to meet her again; he GER
tainly must attend that party. But if he
bought evening dress, what should he do
with it when he left the citya No young
man felt more freedom than he to do as he
liked in Haynton, but to appear in 'swal-
low tail" at church or anywhere else in the
village would be simply impossible; the mere
thought of it made him tremble and then
laugh. A suit of clothes merely to wear two
or three evenings perhaps only one-would
he n SHOCKING axtravapanca. thew DrOhably