The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-12
by W. E BALL0U. Illustrated by FER
NAND0 MIRANDA.
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that thy life has been happily ended"
Thus soliloquized young Mr. Henry
Henshall as he reclined, day dreaming,
against the cushions of his seat in thefor-
ward section of Wagner car.
The New York Central train was,speed-
ing him on and on, to which fact he was
utterly oblivious
He had secured the forward. section to
to the passengers. Himself was compan-
ionship enough. He desired only to think
and to dream.
bia college, SO to speak, among his stock
of "reminiscences, with her highest honors
in his trunk.
He had mentally given over his fathers
great manufacturing interests, which in
vited him to take immediate possession
and give the aged sire his desired retire
ment, to the devil and the deep blue sea.
He loved his ideal best, his art next, the
devil take what was hindmost. The ideal
was now his quest; art he could achieve
between times. 1t was of her he dreamed
his ideal
As he sat there gazing at the end of the
car, deep in the contemplation of this yet
unseen but ever clearly outlined celestial
ideal girl, with all the glamour of youth,
the words of the great Scion to envious
Croesus would thrust themselves between
his thoughts and seize him like some grim
specter, Happy may not call thee until
! learn that thy life has been happily
ended"
"Why need what old Scion or any one
else ever said concern me?" he unused.
what difference does it make what peo-
pie say or who says it? A fact is fact,
and a theory theory. One mans theory
is as good for his own purposes as another's
theory. The fact in my case is that am
satisfied to paint, notwithstanding dads
wrath and the business he would thrust on
me. Let dad earn the money, or who will
Il desire only to spend it.
$50 much for the fact. My theory is
and prefer it to Solon's, that to marry my
ideal viii be the acme of happiness and
will insure happy ending to my life. II
never find her more'or less of my life will
be miserable and will end unhappily"
The young man failed to see that he had
exactly conformed his theory to Solon's
that he had expressed the same theory pre-
cisely with variations in form only. Youth
is deluded and ignores resemblances, those
triaes which made Darwin immortal Ht
continued to muse:
As an artist my preferences run tx
browns. They are my favorite colors, be
cause to me they are most beautiful, mos
quiet, most sincere and the least suggestive
of either gaudiness or gloom. My ideal
unseen, unknown love is a symphony il
browns-brown hair. brown eyes and &
complexion tinted brown rather than white
or red.
'She is very small in stature, hence SURF
10 be superbly perfect in form. Her Ettlt
head is beautifully rounded and symmetri
cal, likewise her dimpled arm and hel
sweet little hands. Her little feet are in
cased in child's boots, not larger than {
child's No. II. She isl
He paused abruptly, startled, for he saw
her. His eye had been wandering among
the gorgeous tapestries of the car, The
beautifully wrought woodwork, the superb
French plate glass panes in the windows
the oil painted ceilings and the blue and
gold woven velvets of the cushions.
At last it rested on a mirror in front ant
above his head that slightly inclined from
the top toward him sufficiently to expose
the entire car and all its occupants in din
image, dim because his curtain was drawn
darkening the light from the window al
his side.
He thought several times to change ais
position to obviate the annoyance, but BIZ
unconsciously seemed deferred from SO do
ing. He was being slowly fascinated by
shadow as yet underlined, but momentaril,
growing more startling. He stared through
the dim light at the mirror until his eye.
became accustomed to the shadows above
and the picture among the other image.
gradually defined itself