Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-12-25

HdN6 Hign art tuUIc, cONeTtu Will
plaques, tiles, statueties. aud old-fash
ioned bric-a-brac. was to tax,
charge of it, in an aesthetic dress. w,
are not quite educated up to high ar
in Downingvillc yet. but Tom and
went up to Aunt Mary's in New Yorl
and ''studied up"
/ wish YOU could see my dress! Pale
blue. with Il broad border of needle.
work fowers-like those tn, twenty
maidens" wear in Patience" They
/. may laugh ut it rs much rs they please,
(. but those dresses were simply lovely.
Mine was a success. never. dreamed
was half so good-looking. You know
my hair is very long aud thick. and
let it fall loosely waved, with gold
bands on the head. My shoulders and
arms were bare. and the dress fell
from Il band across the shoulders. un-
confined at the waist.
But Toms idea was not solely GEN.
4 tered upon me or the table. You have
4 heard often enough of his great chun
and friend, Dick Stokes, who considers
himself Il poet-painter, aud, Tom says,
has gone to soul" for lack of brains.
! Tom. between ourselves is half Jealous
of him, for he is very handsome, aud
| the girls rave about him. had never
! seen him, and Tom brought me lot
of newspapers with his poems in them
| and took me to see the picture no had
| painted. exhibited in a store on Broad
way. Tom says the Academy would
1 not have it.
| was pledged to captivate Mr..
Stokes. and . Sue! Didn't / roll up
my eyes? didn't | 'attune" my voice
to its most melodinuS acceutsP Didn't
] quote the horrible trash | had COM
mitted to memory for the purpose with
such emphasis that | fairly bounced
] upon the telling words? Didn't | make
au idiot of myself all around. as Tom
SAYS?
1t was great fun, but the best of it
! WAS that | actually made Tom believe
that in playing with edged tools had
been wounded. All the way homo
from the fair raved about Algnrnon's
beautiful eyes-truc poets eyes!
| quoted his remarks. ! expressed Il de-
sire to see the last exquisite produc-
ton of his gifted pencil.
Sue. Tom was not green with jeal-
ouSy. but purple. | thought he would
have fit on the porch! Aud so-wcll,
no matter about that! IL was all right
when he left me.
But tu-day's mail brought me proof
OF my conqucst-po"m-not. one hu'
nall dozen-to my eyes, to my hair.
10 my smile! Never, never would l
have believed such fearful stun could
have been written with such rapidly
Dut LOT the PROOF before me. fahcy
some twenty emissions such as this:
" SOU doIeful, mystic maiden.
Maid of ba"utv y'1 maid F1 of song IT'"'
Leave the unconReniaI throug;
God fisssS of o. ,n p sp.I.s sH Srar
Bend to listen to my Tyre.
Dc,gn my pc Gu to inspire;
! DoSfui. souifni Nnri"rIcm
wos ..N,r;,r;o,, for ,,o, oro,;,, AVID
I can pot dsnv that 7 wns dnIefni Rut
lid vnu ovrro
| Tbo f,ir w,. , ors,t oucc.ss aud I
have c,rpfuIIv r,cEnd M. IovoIy Inro-
lv dress for SOM, futnrn nccosion NJ
! Stokes has asked nnrmi.sion m cnIi
! Come md m,l;n ma , ionT visit Snn
and vou may yp.,r my hlna c,sbmnrs
| and irv TO coutivate him. mi. nncle
left him handsome fortune and Tom
s,rs no il a iir.tr ,t, faIInw L,t La
does ,ct like an iLiot inst now Al
any ratc. you cam have g, hushal mr. t,yo
of sonuetS written to vCAr eyebrows.
for YOU are fifty times prettier than
am. and in that blue cashmere YOU
would caplivatr Il heart of stone.
know it all! Come and try! Lovingly.
Mag.
TOMS SIDE.
| Mag wants me to tell my side of that
swindic we PLAYED on poor Stokes.
| Dicks Il rood fellow. with too much
! money. IfDick had to work he'd not
run off into fal-lals.
MAG and wanted 10 tease him so
MAJ made herself bcwitchin"-ando oh!
how betwitchinr she VAST I intro
duced Dick, and Dick fell in love on
the spot. head over heels heels over
! head. But didn't calculate upon be-
| Ing pestered to take Dick to call on
| Maggie. and well. | didn't want
| him hanging around her. Dicks a
superbly handsome fellow. and some
how, though any other man would
Il
he wears, he looks like IA poet aud all
artist.
Mar said | was very rude not to
bring him. and declared he filled her
IDEAL ot manly he,utv IN dot. ne.
| tween tber ibcr i,,dy.red ma an th,t
ut Let s,, a, ,.,.snirs, and NJ RON.
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Dick whom I vent tn his room to ne
comn,ny hi, ~ mn, aunt's hom.n Snch
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