San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-03


made their owner very miserable, and
will you, unless you keep a kind, true
heart"
Uncle Tom did not often moraIize,
and his sermons were always short, but
they had way of reaching the heart
that clergynen might have studied to
gain.
But, not to hnger under the sped Of
Tom Bassett's tender. friendly, search
ing eyes, though all loved to, and owned
their charm and yielded to their power
thus it WAS that the two ladies, mother
and daughter, came alone.
WindwSrd met them at the station
and escorted them to the ho,el. And
then, of course, their first sightseeing,
after just glance IL the glass, was a
visit to that wonderful room and that
wonderful chum.
81 declare, here they are nowe' ex-
claimed Stevens, as his ears caught a
confusion Of happy noises and the I'M
familiar rustic Of skirts on eFtairs, and
popl the manuscript vent into drawer,
and slam Went a closet door, that Like
charity and our hats, covered a multi
tude of sins. All of sudden, and quite
too late foT remedying, it occurred to
Peter that the room might be neater;
but he had scarcely time to blush before
in tumblel Windwsrd, all aesow with
happiness, and close at his heels, tho
ladies'
."Well, here we are, Pete" he cried;
and then, remembering his uan,3crs, be
translated his greeting into the formal
phrases of society: "Mr. Stevens, my
mother and my sister Florence"
Then he, too, seemed all at once to
feel some cOmpunctions, and turning to
his mother, whose kind face wore aB
amused look, he exclaimed: This IS
our den. Not so very pretty, that's
fact, but, like the homely girls, it's 'aw-
full good and real attractive when you
get well acquainted.
"That will never have to be said of
YOU" thought Peter, looking at Flor
ence; wishing he dared to say so, and
not conscious that he had said so very
plainly with his eyes, and that her
bright smile was his reward.
This, then, WAS sister Floy-that little
girl, that Miss, who had sent them
swsetmeats and toy lambrequins for
brackets, AID wrote the demure. precise
letters Windward had often read ex-
tracts from! He perceived that for some
years he had been laboriug under mis-
apprehension, and he now was a compe-
tent witness to the truth of Windward's
once or twice repeated remark that
"Floy did not take good picture" No;
the photographers can how register to
the one-twenty-thOusandth part Of sec
ond, they may take the vibration of the
telephone, but they cannot yet cope with
the subtle, changeful beauty OF face,
It's softening and deepening glow, the
play of the features, the alteration Of
the eyes. No; science may be able to
photograph lightning, but not yet the
soul.
The true Florence Bassett, as Stevens
for the first time now saw her, was per
haps trife above the average height of
American women; if SO, it was only a
trifie, and the impression might have
been due to her perfect though slender
proportions. Slender, to be sure, she
was, but only as becomes maidenhood,
and withal graceful and rounded. Her
head was classic in mold and poas. The
contour Of the face was that of tho Venus
Of Milo, but younger and hOlier. 1t was
the head of the queen of love before she
had loved; Venus at 18-an innocent and
virgin Venus, unconscious of her soveT
eign charms and IMMERSED in their use.
One who met her for the first time
might be struck before all by the change
full beauty of her complexion. Such
rosy cheeks and lips are rarely given to
American women. The expression OK
her features was enchanting. There
radiated from them, even when in re-
pose, sociable pleasure, kindness, and an
innocent delight in life, and when she
smiled it was like d2ybTeai in Eden.
Her figure was girlish and yeE Won
anly. Her neck, shoulders and bust and
the lines Of her waist and body melted
into one another and combined as one
Symmetrical composition. Her hands
and feet were neither small nor large,
but COMEDY, finely formed and in proper
ton to her figure. In short, her form
was logical and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
exaggerated, nothing tiny. She had no
fashionable deforInities. Cold water Yves
her wash and health h9r rouge. She
stood erect, and trod the earth like its
princess.
One item more. 1t is a pretty trick in
drawing to fill sheet with seemingly
random lines, and thon by one quick
stroke to create order and cG1nplete the
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