Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-10-28
VIRTUES REV ARD.


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 q
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.
81 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"
''How delightful" she went on
dreamily, cit would be to reproduce it
some winter evening, as one does the
peaches"
LAS far as | 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 l part
from you tomorrow, that L had left
you without the comfort of a tintype."
So tlly sauntered slowly up the
street, stopping to look in the shop
windows, till they came to a kind of
tent made of boards and canvas.
On the outside of it hung a 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
nkenesses," 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 a very
large head, which made him strongly
resemble a caricature, who in turn
produced camera and seated them in
front of 1t.
"Look pleasant" persuasively.
"Don't move" threateningly.
Then he pulled off little lid, walked
leisurely to the door, ran back suddenly
to clap the lid on and say with -four
tsh:
"That'n 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,
Is if he had been long distance, and
presented them with four pieces of tin
fom which they gazed fixedly back at
themselves.
Miss Benton looked rather pensive,
IS if she was still thinking of the un-
Preserved Summer, but Judith was
seated with her head on one side and
4 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, 1888" Miss Benton wrote a
similar but reversed inscription on
hers; then they exchanged pictures
and next day parted with many prom
lses to visit each other during the
Winter.
The morning they left, the tintype
man coming into bis shop found their
PICTURES on the counter and remarking
mat they were good specimens went
outside and abstracted two of the ex-
eurslonists from the frame. The void
thus made he filed with Miss Miller
and Miss Benton.
MIR. Stephen Howard had been spend
ing month canoeing among the Thou
sand Islands. Business called him
pack to New York, but he had still a
rev days to spare and he determined
" spend them at Saratoga.
he was rather fine looking speci-
men of humanity, with comfortable
income and plenty of brains. Partly
bohemian in his tastes and partly So
aety mana combination, his lady
friends declared, which made him ex-
uemely interesting.
Inc proper thing to do at Saratoga
"Vo go before breakfast to the spring
lou consider the lesat disagreeable or
~e most beneficial and imbiSe.
II you are constant patron of this
piace OF many waters you will have
!our favorite spring which you are
wiling to maintain with your life is
superior to all the others. Converse
,0 soh never flags at Saratoga for this
osn. 'sason. Each one is fighting for his
VI her favorite.
,onl mr. Howard, not being Latitude,
owed the crowd and then strolled
" the street to look about him.
N due time he came to the board
ra a' and the frame of tintypes. He
~pped to look at them and began
AZ sdminsically wondering if they appear
commonplace in real life as in