Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-02-02

iAesnters eyes the things tl,at issned
rom has PEN took greater care 10 giye y.
az thosBlltEa pure and chaste dire,.tion
&c ala not. indeed. always picture rs
y ti'asfsip ilues. but no took no pleasure
~ representing human brutality. ana
when. III faifhfuiness to his art he co,ld
uoL ehtirely conceal it, he did his best to
piclrIe II N such way as would least
offend the sensibilities Of his first reader
Little by little there grew up another
oond of union between father and dangh.
YET. he was u very bad penman and n.
writing was tile despair Of printers: but
she wrote plain hand which could he
read at first sight by child.
The father, selhshly, perhaps. pradn-
any came to take advantage of this fact
He had her write under his dictat;on
lifst little, then more and more until
she finaliy became his secretary alto
gether
In the meantime the years were pass-
ins ny and the little girl became a youu9
Wo1aan, and the young woman was y
beautiful as one could desire.
"Oh, papa,"
"Silence.r
80 that even the street people turned
to look at her. She still declared that
sne would always stay with her babbo
| OUT she did not say it with the same en-
phasis as before, and when he replied
that she must submit to the common
law she sighed and shook her head. but
| did not fly into rage.
There was very little company ever in
the house, but once in while some ona
would drop In OF an evening, or come to
dine, and the young girl always per
formed with much grace these occasional
duties of hospitality. Now it happened
that among these few guests was a young
man, an assistant to a professor of mathe-
matics, who whether it was on account
o. the cooking or of the young mistress,
showed SO much pleasure at having been
invited to dinner one day that he was
Hospitality urged to come again, and SO
on, ad iniintum.
Between the dinners and the following
visits, which were called visits of diges-
ton, the fellow was always under foot.
The author, short sighted and stupid. as
are all Others of his kind, never noticed
anything going on; but the young girl
began to be absent minded, to answer at
random, and to make the most dreadful
mistakes in writing-in fact, one morn.
: ing she actually wrote caro- with an h."
"Oh! how you remember everythingy
said Emilia, laughing.
Finally the simple minded man of q
father suspected something and ques
toned his daughter on the subject.
} '.She, after dodging the point for
while, broke out into torrent of tear
and confessed that she did not seem tn.
, same any longer, and that for some tim,
! she had been possessed of vague I'm
: rest which she did not understand.
t "Ahime! After careful inquiry it wa
a found out that the beginning of her un
easiness dated from the Wednesda'
when the young assistant of sAthemat
4 les was invited to dine with them
4 The innocent child feigned great SUI
prise at this discovery, declared tina
. the assistant of mathematics was u1
endurable to her; that she did nc
/ want to see him again, and in conclr
|. sion she threw herself weeping upo
:. her fathers neck and begged him to tax
= her far. far away to some place wher
there could not possibly be any assistar
d mathematician.
''Signor Puntini, as we have alread
). said. was not very sharp about som
things. but the facts were so plain as nc
d to be misunderstood by a man of eve
ANAL intelligence.
IS 1.-The time SO much dreaded had CON
!" at last, when the girl, forgetIul of he
solemn promises, was preparing to tai
her fight from the home nest.
while the good man was still agitate
by these thoughts he received mos
D. respectful letter from the young assis
10 ant. in which the latter declared himse
le violently in love with the young lad,
N vowed that he could not live withol
f. her, and was anxious to marry he
to What was to be done? The young ma
IS was of good family, had fine qualities
e mind and heart
le "Yes, indeedt'
IN mo remarks, if you please"
ID "Was not without money. and b
IN sides. if lie was in love with the girl s.
of was also in love with him.
:" "When the father asked the daught
n. what answer she would make if Il
d. Young man asked her hand in marria
nj she turned all colors and replied that
ed was not possible, and that it was usele
ed to talk about anything so unlikely
d. happen; but if it were so-ah, if 1t we
in sol and then by force of that bless
" habit which women have of meltll
he into tears she began to sob and CT
SO Things having come to this point, 1t
no easy to understand how, in short tin
IA the authors daughter and the you
a. assistant of mathematics became pi
ley messi sposi.
at would certainly be doing vlolen
IN TO the truth not to say that IN glv1
lot his consent Signor Puntini felt spas
M of the heart. He was then to be alol
,m without the dear and faithful compa
ne ionship of her who, for nearly TWEEN
years, had scarcely left him for an
Ike slant. What silence, what sadness the
er would be in the house after her depa
Ter ure! And perhaps his sorrow too pialt
ia seen in his face, had cast shadow on
me his daughters happiness. He knew
he deed that it was useless to rebel agar
nd the law of nature, and that he must
1is SIGN himself to what he could not p
nd vent, He, therefore, tried to put or
Ter cheerful face in the presence OF
10 lovers, and to discuss pleasantly the