Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-01

sionate and obstinate, sensible and stupid
by turns; easily moved to tears, more easily
reused to suspicion. She had a persistent
and all-absorbing fear that her relatives
were plotting to poison her OF account of
her wealth. She even suspected her daugh-
ter, a charming, modest, graceful and beau
ii iul young lady. some 10 years of age, yet
who had the bad taste to dislike the poor,
harmless DR.. Brandt. By nourishing it,
Mrs. Glaye made this suspicion an integral
part o. her nature; her food was specially
prepared or her and served in her own room.
She doubted the people of the hotel as she
doubted everyone else, and she would not
take spoonful OF tea or a morsel of food
without first trying it on her maid. Her
condition-which in certain aspects puzzled
me-was made worse by an unfortunate
family squabble. Her charming daughter
Bertha had engaged herself to a young man
named Cyril Durand who was, if rep port spoke
true, a gay, wild, careless biped, with an
attractive presence, il not a very strong
brain. Mrs. Glaye dismissed the young
man, and forbade the charming Bertha ever
to see him again. The reason she gave was
that Cyril Durand had wasted the little
money he owned in wild dissipation; that
he was a dreamer; that while paving court
to her daughter he was devoting his leisure
hours to another woman, a poor creature
who clung to him with desperation, and
whom he had promised to make his vile.
The reason was good. but was il the true
cause of the dismissal? doubt it. When
a woman reaches a certain age, self becomes
a very important element OF her life; she
includes the entire world in her subjective
feelings and conversely considers her sub
jective feelings as being the entire world.
She has her dreams and ambitions; but,
whereas in youth she dlssipstes them in
tears, at the certain age she is desirous OF
converting them into reality. Mrs Glays's
husband had died long years ago; at
least, that was the report, and, despite
her oddities, the good lady had very
afectlonate heart Had she herself fallen
in love with Cyril Durand? On my faith,
1 believe so. After she had forbidden him
10 the charming Bertha, I know she fire.
quently saw him herself, and as she pos
sessed a very strong will and determination,
and he was weak uilled and suddenly be-
came very much depressed, had the fancy
that the worthy elder lady had taken pos
session of him. When a strong willed woman
makes up her mind, obstacles fall be ore her
like chaff before the wind. Her impetuosity
makes up Tor her lack of strength, and what
she cannot conquer through .orce she wins
through rapidity, so the grain-eating bird
dashes himself to pieces against the light
mouse window. Did the charming Bertha
still love the bauished lover? It pleased me
to think otherwise, for the young girls sake.
With youth love is frequently nothing more
than Incidence stimulated by opportunity.
Pie crust has destroyed as many romances
as 1t has stomachs; and, in the absence of
what might have been unwise
love is converted into painted plates or en-
broidered bulrush. If youthful Imagination
were more frequently tempered by tie use
of the scrubbing brush, the passion that de-
YOURS would become the seli-denial that
exalts.
One of my favorite amusements is the
study OF entomology, and it was my ambi-
ton to make complete collection OF the in
sect life OF Byzantine Hill. On q certain
night in mid September 1 set out on my Gus
tomary expedition. 1t was q cold, wonder |
fully beautiful night. The sun had set, but |
here was q dark russet glow on the restless |
waters, deepening in the distance to a dull |
black, and touched shoreward toward the |
EAST with the silvery glory of the quiet |
moon. Overhead the sky was deep serene |
blue, with a gamut Of blues running down
.oward the horizon-whsre there was q iaint |
Itreak of red a. Of diluted blood. I had |
stumbled through the hollow, and when