Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-10-18


ali AZ onee. when I would have given
twenty dollars for the sight Of = familiar
face, 10 matter whose. saw nay dinner
sccuaia t<lce coming.
| need not say that I was glad
hailed him with q welcome that was no
doubt = little too boisseroas for New
York II Was TOO unstudlsd and glad
Bat Won musr remember that = Eleezy
lzndIady who was constantly borrowing
money of me ami weeping on my vest
w&s tl4s only one IN the city wtOm l
knew, and wanted 10 meet some one
who was healthy and normal and who
could talk with me.
lie drew himself up 70 his fun height,
which inads his little tan eolored box
coat LOOK hike Garioalii waist on him,
and said IL deep chest notes-ice chest
notes: II beg your pardon, SIP, bat you
are mistaken do not know you. sar.
l can still remember how nice and
white has teeth were as be said it, and
how he looked hike a man who is having
three-quarter picture taken to send to
one be loves He was . good looking
man. and as I stood there | fell uncon-
sciorsly into comparing his snuff colored
derby OF the newest block with my hat,
which was of course clean and decent,
but it was soft and shapeless little
thing with no self assertion about il.
knew that, bat still l did not think he
would freeze me for that.
IL got colder and colder though.
told him who / was as rubbed my chill
blains and felt bis icy manner calling
forth the goose eruptions on my peachy
surface. He said he had never seen me
never ! finally asked him il his name
were not Mr.. -.
He said it was not
He lied.
Invent to his hotel. 1t gave me some
thing to do. was glad Of il. dis
covered that l was right. There was
only one way to account for it. lie
thought very likely that l wanted to
borrow money or / would not have
given him . western welcome in city
where it Is not the custom. was toe
glad to see him. That was all. Since
then, in the light Of ripper experience
guess he was right. The indications
were ''agin" me.
But we ought no. to judge people by
their clothes. We do it, Of course, un
consciously. Clothes do not make the
man. but they finish him up somehow.
There was o western judge once who
al hA 1afa in f<>v
wearing such a ragged and reprehen
sible pair Of trousers.
"Judge," said the prisoner, lyon must
not judge me by these poor old worr
trousers. 1t is unjust to me, judge. II
is not fair or generous. Ny pantaloon.
may be poor. Judge, but they cover 6
warm heart"
This is often the case.
Yesterday visited the wonders Of thu
museums They are delightful. AL
dime museums resemble one another in
one respectfully smell the same. Why
should art suffer so? l am greatly inter
ested in every little je,O de spirit Of ma
ture, such as the two headed girl, thu
boy with various limbs and only one
head, ETC.. Nature, when she tries to bt
humorous, will always find an apprecia
tive audience in me.
As boy walked twelve miles to see
the Siamese twins. l remember it be
cause it was the first time ever ordered
a dinner from printed m.nu at a high
price rcsteraic, as we called it. Ilool
back on that dinner with horror. Pre-
serves and terrapin, think, constituted
one course. The waiter early began tc
read me, as did the young man who
waited on David Copperfield when he
was on his way to school.
He helped me order things. People
came from distance to see the goods
had ordered. The order was kept fol
years, till tho restaurant burned down
II it had rot been destroyed would moi
have had the courage to rise and win 9
deathless name.