Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-07-02


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nAo' nc an impair
tiai traveller, too, taking this boat now and then
that. In fact, one is led to believe that each
evening he tries them ALI before making n final
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presence Ii saao 70 cast are 70 De seen on every
steamer.
Or at least the effect that a discerning eve
perceives on such occasions is presumably due
to love- as il would be both sad and unreason-
able to think that the drpoping attitudes on the
part of some of the Young women. which the
light Of passing steamers now and then reveals,
was due 70 the only other alternative OF failing
health, and it would as well be rash 70 conclude
in the present imperfect state Of the world that
the millennium was at hand and that that in
'eIe..eo ar OF tne young womans escort was
;n;tini an,a.r..na 20 M.
talked-of condition. the brotherhood of man.
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M. n rrust he low. hut wbo c.r b,or,. ,h.r,,
-, A,
rof' inaeeu' .ne environments are romantic
enough 70 make the cold prose OF law book
melt into liquid poetry. and love il is well
known invariably follows upon romance.
1t is better than all the lovers walks in
Christendom, this lovers glide. One has but to
sit still and, accompanied by a delicious undu-
lating movement, parks or what readily pass
for parks-the Virginia and MARYLAND river
banks-drift by in Kaleidoscope succession. not
even requiring the slight effort Of walking to
see them. while in the rear the capital city
stretches delicate and dim. like some air-hung
transparent photograph. it's memorial shaft
growing fainter and fainter, till from dwindling
it is mistaken for the mast of a boat il
finally fades into invisibility. And that bubble
made of the distance-diminished Capitol dome
In, sam ~. nioiena asp hius' no" nave
An tbis il beginning 10 have ia effect on tho
lovers, and by the time darkness. which has
been lowering like great dusk birds in the
deeper branches OF the trees, finally broods
over the entire woods these enamored pairs
nave usually become obvious 70 everything
out themselves.
SOME STOP OFF.
II the enchautment ia not upon them too
deen so,oe of thar cor,a to ,hs;r sorsas o,o,,b
- -. :, >,
ut Tue eisnt oi nfer view anu Marsnah nan,
whose lights sparkle like jewels against the
night, to get off and Join the throng that is
always ready to land at those resorts, but there
is invariably one couple, if no more. aboard
for whom il is bliss enough to sit quietly in the
stern of the boat and indulge in feast of rea-
son ana now OF soul, at ieast that Is presum-
thay CIV, aen,I,, onnT,,;.S' Thor -. ;s
the stern-this interesting nair-witb their
backs to the audience, and as they gaze out in
the lonely expanse OF river they, like pair
Vi nuia. os'ricnes, ieei 'na' oee,use .ney see
o ne -,,i ar H, Inc ueoA
III ,,, I'm, ,;;. .s~at, W ue sur, Dus a. Vel
az my oo W. sooiy soou oms ~ -. al
euans man ous .ie si.ua, epeoAu! - .ne
lung "o .I;nht s.ss 49, I'M. "nS
.,se Io nsnn u i;., ii'ni q esiio'i ..
piio :s my ne ~. S ee'e~i foo'
away ~ 'nefe 40 io nsn' "nA''-
NOT ALL IN LOVE AS MUCH AS THEY BELIEVE.
Not all of these Young people. il would be
s,,e 20 a,.e-t arc .s mrcb :, ,ora &c ,,a,
IN. -.
iohoiy pene'e, Ior nature is tne greatest OF
match makers and uses the witchery of her sum-
mer nights as q love phiiter with signal success,
the excess OF winter weddings over those occur
ring IN the summer amply proving its efficacy
as love charm. For naturally more engage
ments would be made under the mild summer
stars to the accompaniment of softly futtering
leaves than in a sleigh TO the accompaniment of
the Naturalization OF the bells, where the
occupants are vainly trying to delude them
selves into believing that the temperature is all
that could be desired; or, as the other alterna-'
ra,,,,n ~ ;rhose,;,.i;s,. % ,a Will Will
drives lovers like ordinary mortals
,x,ovx u,-y ruv ~,our
Tbor doub.l.ss h.,i.r. ,bor,.s,ros a. h =,
love With each other but the actp.l Coz, 20
mains that thew are in love with the n;cbt-ths
r;ob, which ur.rs ,hs r,o;nas, .na e.. w.,
-, 'No.'
pracucai IN its aiiurihg ven tiii the Illusion Is
nlisMAeh Ior ,ne rean,y ana tne TWO 1or one:
IN SOME iater years, "neh tney no longer noat
uoS S =, .ne ro.onac IN slarhght ana moonhght,
anu the screening innuehce OF the night Is con-
seqnently Withdrawn, they VIII perhaps be dis
encnanted; put even then they VIII not direct
the piame toward the right quarter, put Will,