The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-12-04


man and just than II naughty man who
has used tobacco to excess all his life,
was once mistaken and almost killed by
q gorilla for his rival, and who had also
sought i'll marriage the hand of a chest
nut gorillaess with two rows of teeth.
So we must not be too critical regarding
peoples looks, especially if ones face
changes with every emotion.
We would be glad, however, to see
these young hearts at our place should
they seem to be drawn toward each
other. Our latchstring is always hang
ing outward and waving i'll the breeze.
especially for the young. Loves young
dream isnot interfered with at our house.
We also try to adjust ourselves to the
mental caliber of those who are our
guests. We talk brightly of art. science,
literature, politics, religion or crime,
and readily strike the gait of those who
are under our roof. We aim to please
i'll every way, and though we can be as
simple as Simple Simpson the Sockless
we often give our guests of an evening
such strong. rich mental food that they
suffer all night with intellectual heart
burn.
But, alasl 1 fear that both the letter
from Oregon and that from Baltimore
are merely idle attempts to enlist me in
a cause in which there is no real earnest
ness. Somehow at night, as l look up
into the quiet sky and try to count the
stars through the roof and endeavor to
believe that all men are good, even
architects, and l ask for strength so that
l may do ever what is right, no matter
how disagreeable it is, and that l may
never break over the rule established
years ago rot to do anything whatever
that my mother would disapprove of,
sometimes even going so far as to tele-
graph her before taking glass of wine,
unless l am very, very thirsty indeed-I
sometimes while lie thus Chat is while
l thus lie) in the nighttime, with my hot
temples bathed i'll the cool moonlight
like the temples of Jerusalem, it comes
over me that possibly these people are
conversing with me through their hats!
Oh, can it be that 1, who while other
men are putting their arms lovingly
about the taper waist of the beloved
voter, go about myself from house to
house comforting the DISTINGUISHED wife
and sister and daughter, sometimes for
days and days-I who would protect even
Il poor cur from its prosecutors Che who
has never had u dog instinct, or been
tainted with the blood of the dog family
i'll any way, let him cast the first stoneN-
that l, l say, should be thus monkeyed
with by distant strangers who propose to
elevate society and scandalize the stage
gives me dull neck pain which it is
! hard to describe
Perhaps this prune grower is widow
er. If so he may be in earnest, for it
has been truly said that the life of a
widower is like that of baby-the first
six months he does nothing but weep;
the second he begins to sit up, look
around and take notice, and it is mighty
hard to get him through the second year.
But let us pass on.
was in New York for n week not
long ago on metropolitan business-col-
Letting some of my unearned increment
and took occasion to visit the chiropo-
dist. He was very busy man, and has
outside the door OH the street one of
those large, CHASTITY marble feet as a
sign, and clambering over it are rank
growths of hardy Indian corns, with
here and there the bulb of bunion.
| Closing my eyes till got past it, l went
Wy ct"iio W VIC iilSiOWlIlS Hall DdTlOTS,
and was waited on by one of those polite,
highly refined people who lead the con-
versation away SO that one almost for
gets that he hasa hole in his sock which,
he had forgotten.
The day was rainy, and hastily paying
my bill L put on my new gray mackin-
tosh in the hall and Went down the street
to where l was going to have two hun
dred dollar battle scene painted while
waited. All the way down met people
who seemed to recognize me by my we'll
known features, and it is indeed com
fort to know that one is known. can
see now why it is that people commit the
most hideous and sickening crimes so
that they may be noted and recognized.
AT the art works it was SO too. People
got through their business and still
seemed reluctant about going away.
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