The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-04-07


with the brow above in harmonious out
lines, and, to finish, perfect contradiction
IN the strongest, most resolute mouth that
| nature ever set in the mold, with features
otherwise significant Of gentle acques-
cence. There was perpleXed expression
on the face of the handsome girl, who, tax
ing bit OF unengaged time for reading,
had just finished paragraph on the duties
OF everyday life as help to ideal existence.
She did not comprehend its philosophy
Abr! thought she. sit means that if
Spinosa ground glasses for spectacles and
MOntesquieu worked in dusty garden beds
to find greater mastery of thought, there is
no reason why may not develop right here
among umbrellasP'
A smile of doubt passed over the fair
countenance which had not the slightest
trace of handsome woman's consciousness.
She was OF that uncommon type which is
beauty at its best-beauty which does not
know it is being looked at. Her hair, brown
and full of yellow glintings, was gathered
high upon her head in knot of unruly little
curls, and as she turned the soft decline
from the crown to the back of the neck re-
vealed that portion of woman's head
which is so rarely handsome.
What can L show you?" asked Laura
Ever1ale of the gentleman before her
-" Umbrellas, if you please" he said; ga
'Sangster,' if you have it,"
This was what he said, but not at all the
thing he looked or thought, for with ever
ready romance, Shakespeare Beatrice, and
the tinge of her pleasantly in much Ado
About Nothing" which he had seen the
night before, flashed across his mind.
Now there is not much poetry about an
umbrella. Given its component parts, and
there seems to be no more of it. What inge-
nulty could enhance the Importance of the
article until it would take its place in Nor
gan STAIRS notebook among
rs Tor Ps
rs for SIS
rs for IS
which headings comprised the kind of work
he engaged in as struggling, pushing can
dldate for journalistic power? Is and Ps,
scarcely suggest An Ode to Silken
Sphere" rs and SIS, which meant Topics
for Stories, would probably be barren Of a
novelette, based on either finding, borrow
ing or purloining an umbrella, and surely
Topics for Paragraphs would be forever
blank IL something original had to be said
OF an article SO commonplace. Still, ro-
mances have resulted from smaller things,
and the young representative of the Daily
ArgOsy had his notebook with him at Bar
tholomew's that morning.
IL was rainy week in the latter part of
september, and torpOr seemed to have fallen
upon every kind of trade except that of wet
weather accessories. Laura Everdale, how
ever, had never known briSker week in the
many that she has passed behind the counter
at Bartholomew and as she stood there on
this particular morning, the brightest
picture of all the eye could rest on, who
would have believed that she had ever lived
in fashions world, or had voluntarily taken
situation" in the place where Morgan
Starr has found her? Necessity for work
came by the death of her father and the
succeeding care of two motherless little
sisters. They were merest infants when
the exigency first arose, and under the ad-
vice of friends who fiOcked around her at
the outset she had successfully opened a
kindergarten school, filled position as Wis
iting governess and written love stories and
poems-all fitted excellently well, it would
be supposed, to supply an income to lady
brought up in an aristocratic quarter of
New ork and accustomed to what is so in
definitely called 'the best society,"" Each and