The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-07-13

dowdyness is compatible. | do wish that occa-
sionally she would see, at her best, the Ameri-
can girl who can write novel, dress well, man
age Il canoe, love her husband, adore her babies,
and know little something about protoplasms.
THE STORY OF A LONDON WOMAN.
The delightful bigness of London is always
new. You can live here forever, go to the libra
ries and the picture galleries, disappear some
day. and nobody will miss you, and there is
curious fascination about that. You can live in
any way you want, and the world is too big to
concern itself about you unless you are espe
cially before it in public capacity. You don't
think that's so? Well, here's little story, a
true one. Years ago a beautiful woman, the
wife of a very rich man, was brutally treated by
him; life made miserable, and nothing
seemed of worth in the whole wide world. One
day she bolted. With the intimate friend, of
course, but in this case he turned out to be more
worthy of the love that was given him than he
usually is. Out of the Row, awayfrom the the
atres, from every place where she had been seen,
the little lady disappeared; the intimate friend
still visible at his clubs, and he was credited
at having soon grown weary of her. Did he? :?
Why, she never left London for an hour. From
the wretched home in which she lived-and it
was wretched for all its beauty-she went to a
little house in another part of this great city, and
there she has lived, happyin the love of the man
! who loves her. dainty little brOugham takes
her out to drive, and she never makes an effort
to see or speak to any of her old friends. To
make blessed retreat for this one man and to
be good and kind to the poor is her life, and who
shall say whether she is right or wrong? didn't
tell this to comment upon what she had done,
but only as an evidence of how, in the big world,
one may be swallowed up and forgotten This
would be possible in no other place. And some
times it is a great blessing that there is well
big enough to swallow up sorrows and sins,
faults and miseries so that no judgment shall
come upon them until that one when all men
shall stand before Him who is the only Judge.
SHOPPING IN LONDON Is A JOY.
| have heard people object to the seryility of
the London shopkeeper. For my own part,
delight in it, After the door-mat principle
which obtains in New York like to feel that
am doing great honor to the place where buy
shilling handkerchief, and | like to be bowed
in and bowed out as if were Empress of India,
And little money does go such great way
And if you want to have your soul filed with
delight 90 to a bootmakers. You can get the
most exquisite French slippers, with the Louis
Quinze heels, at price that will make you open
9OuI yes anu "ncH Ihc sI-OPhcoPol ''09 On'A
on he will say in an utterly blissful tone, "Mad'
anne Is an American; isn't ?" Then you feel
as if you would like to buy out all the shop
lie knew you, not by the strawberry mark on
your left arm, but by the size of your foot and
you feel so light after this that you believe you
could walk on clouds.
Some very clever body said that the thanks
giving continually rendered by people here
whom one had tipped was not sincere. Now, il
you give aha'penny to boy do you care whether
-Heurich's Extra Pale Lager. Ask for it.