Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-01-17
HEROlNES OF FICTION.
A Charming Young Woman We Meet In
Fashionable Novels.


Fashionable Novels.
A very pretty girl, with soft dark hair
and a graceful figure, was sitting on the
gate Immediately before me, with
book in her hands. / knew her at once.
| knew that her ear resembled deli
cate pink sea-shell. | knew that hei
evelashes must inevitably be long, She
was the charming innocent type. The
hero finds her thus in her guileless vii
lage simplicity, reading some harmless
story, in her inexpensive white dress.
with the knot of common or garden
geranium at the neck. He starts her as
he passes. and she drops her book and
he picks it up 1t is thus that the init
macy begins. She is the daughter o.
the poor vicar, and he is the scion Of
noble house. He has come to the vii
lage for the sake of rest, or fishing, or
sketching. Whichever it is, he does it
rather better than anyone else. 1t is a
way these heroes have.
The poor, old, grey-headed vicar goes
pottering about his garden, and never
sees thata train fer a three-volume novel
is being laid under his very nose. He is
devoted, of course, to his only daughter,
and his blindness proceeds partly from
| the childlike simplicity which is natural
to these sylvan haunts, but also because
he must be aware by this time that the
story could not possibly get on without
it. So the hero makes love to her, be-
cause he is not j 4 the least in love Wit
her; and she does not make love to him
because she is very much in love with
him. In this sinful world the heroes
| get most of the undercut. AS a rule he
kisses her on the eyes and mouth alone
| but the nose and back-hair are the only
part of girls head which the hero
never kisses. He leaves the village and
marries some one else. Then comes the
| breakfast-table scene, which we all
know and hate so well. She takes ur
the newspaper with a merry laugh, and
suddenly sees the advertisement of the
| heros marriage. She turns deadly pale
grasps the table to save herself from
falling, and, murmuring that the heat
Is too much for her and that she will be
better presently, staggers from the room
The complacency and blandness witt
which this excuse is always received i.
simply maddening. Poor child" the
vicar murmurs pensively, as he sips hi!
last cup of tea, and then goes out to pla,
the fool among the azaleas without Civ
ing the matter another thought
If the book is to be sad, she is to pin,
and die; if it is to be cheerful, the cur
ate, who has all the time adored her il
secret, now comes to the fore, kisse
over the same old ground, and finall,
marries her, AS looked at her, fel
sorry for her. determined to give he
little variety in her monotonous ex
lstence. So stepped softly up to her
TOOK her by the hair, and kissed the til
OF her nose. There was a whirr and
click as of machinery set in motion
Then she gave little frightened CT,
ana huttered like bird. | might hay
known lt-a kiss is as certain to produc
TINS effect on the innocent and auto
matte doll of fiction as the placing of
penny In the slot is to procure fusee
when you want wax vestas.-Cornhil
Magazine
-Hever hold any one by the brsttor
or hand, in order to be heard out; for
people are unwilling to hear you, yo
mad better hold your tongue than then
AS you must inevitably keep con
pany with yourself as long as you liv,
IL Is OF consequence to you to make {
yourselta pleasant, agreeable compa1
ion.
; despair makes despicable figur,
ana descends from mean original. IT
the offspring of fear, of laziness, and in
paCiehce; 1t argues defect of spirit an
3 resolution, and oftentimes of honest
Z too -Cnlliar