The Delta independent., 1890-06-10
Romance Of a Yiptype.

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Two young ladies were seated on the
porch of the estates" at Saratoga.
Each had tipped her parasol over her
nose at just the right angle to cast a
becoming shadow and neither was at
all interested in the book she held be-
fore her.
Presently one of them, Miss Benton,
closed her book and yawned-not a
man was in sight. Then she got up
and shook out all the little frills and
ribbons on her gown while Miss Mil
Ter watched her with lazy interest.
"I have been wishing for the last ten
minutes" she said, when the ribbons
were adjusted to her liking, "that there
was some way of preserving our good
times. To condense and can them, for
instance, as we do peaches. Now, this
summer has been perfect; but it has
gone almost as completely as if it had
never BEEN"
elbow delightful" she went on
dreamily, ssit would be to reproduce it
some winter evening, as one does the
peaches"
GAS far as l can make out" said
Miss Miller, "you want to eat your
cake and keep it, too"
"Come," she added, sprInglng up
with sudden energy, as Miss Benton
shook her head, "we'll go at once and
have ours taken. I'll give you mine
and you shall give me yours. l
couldn't bear to think, when 1 part
from you tomorrow, that 1 had left
you without the comfort of tintype." 7"
So they sauntered slowly up the
street, stopping to look in the shop
windows, till they came to kind of
tent made of boards and canvas.
On the outside of it hung frame
filed with tintypes of all the people
who, during the summer, had sighed
TO see themselves as others saw them.
Miss Miller stopped to inspect these
with much interest.
"They look like they might be good
likenesses," she said, "only the people
seem to have been very bad subjects.
They are evidently cxcursionists from
the backwoods."
When she entered, after an exhaus-
tive survey of the productions of art
outside, she found that Judith had
already made arrangements with the
young woman in charge to take their
pictures.
The young woman produced young
man with very thin legs and very
large head, which made him strongly
resemble caricature, who in turn
produced camera and seated them in
front of it.
"Look pleasant" persuasively.
"Don't move," threateningly.
Then he pulled offa little lid, walked
leisurely to the door, ran back suddenly
to clap the lid on and say with flour
ish:
"That'll do, ladies; that's ALL"
They go up feeling dazed and wait
ed till the young man returned from
the next room. He came in on run,
as if he had been long distance, and
presented them with four pieces of tin
from which they gazed fixedly back at
themselves.
Miss Benton looked rather pensive,
as if she was still thinking of the un-
preserved Summer, but Judith was
seated with her head on one side and
a defiant, devil-may-care expression
that, for a tintype, was wonderfully
captivating.
They expressed themselves as well
pleased, each bought one and walked out
leaving the other two on the counter.
When they reached the hotel Miss
Miller wrote on the back of hers ITO
Katherine Benton, from Judith Miller
August, 1885," Miss Benton wrote a
similar but reversed inscription on
hers; then they exchanged pictures
and next day parted with many prom
ises to visit each other during the
Winter.
The morning they left, the tintype
man coming into his shop found their
pictures on the counter and rcmarking
that they were good specimens went
outside and abstracted two of the ex-
cursionists from the frame. The void
thus made he filled with Miss Miller
and Miss Benton.
Mr.. Stephen Howard had been spend
ing month canoeing among the Thou
sand Islands. Business called him
back to New York, but he had still n
few days to spare and he determined
to spend them at Saratoga.
He was rather fine looking speci-
men of humanity, witt, a comfortable
income and plenty of brains. Partly
Bohemian in his tastes and partly So
ciety mana combination, his lady
friends declared, which made him ex-
remely interesting.
The proper thing to do at Saratoga
3 to go before breakfast to the spring
you consider the lesat disagreeable or
The most beneficial and imbibe.
If you are constant patron Of this
place of many waters you will have
your favorite spring which you are
willing to maintain with your life IL
superior to all the others. Conversa-
tion never flags at Saratoga for this
reason. Each one is fighting for his
or her favorite.
Mr.. Howard, not being n Latitude,
followed the crowd and then strolled
up the street to look about him.
In due time he came TO the board
tent and the frame of tintypcs. He
stopped to look at them and began
whimsically wondering IL they appear
ed as commonplace in real life - in