Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-06-09
A STORY WITH A MORAL.
How Keeping Late Hours Estranged Two
Young People Of st. Louis.

How Keeping Late Hours Estrsnged Two
Young People Of st. Louis
A curious and withal instructive acct
dent happened in ''our best society some
time ago. A certain young gentleman
had an engagement to escort a certain
Young lady to Il certain very fashionable
party. The young lady was quite As
fashiol able as the party. So when the
Young gentleman called about 10 o'clock
she was not quite ready, but would be
down in moment" The young gentle
man waited several moments, even 20 or
20, and still she came not. He was very
weary, for, being "a swell society man
and the season unusually gay, his social
duties had taken him out every night
for week and kept him out until 2 or
in the morning.
Naturally he was somewhat sleepy,
and the longer he waited the sleeper he
grew. There was q large alcove in the
parlor draped with heavy curtains, and
in the alcove a comfortable sofa. He
thought he would take $40 winks" while
the leisurely lady fingered in her bou-
doir. He stretched himself upon the sofa
and proceeded to take the much needed
winks, but unluckily could not stop
with 40. When at last the lady descend
ed, radiant in loneliness and respondent
| in costume, the gentleman was literally
''out of sight
She never thought of looking behind
the curtains, but supposing he had
stepped out to see friend she wait
ed and waited and waited in vain. At
midnight she gave up the wait and re-
tired to her room in mood the reverse
| of angelic. Next morning, when the
maid was arranging the parlor, she drew
| aside the curtains and screamed. There
was Mr.. Bulliboy sleeping as soundly
and sweetly as an infant. The scream
awakened him. He opened his eyes,
rubbed them, took in the situation and
fled without leaving his card. Whether
or not he ever made it all right" with
! Miss Creme de la Creme the deponent
saith not.
The moral to this story is: Have
earlier party hours. Late party hours
kept Miss de la Creme up stairs when she
should have been down, made Mr.. Bull
boy tired and drowsy, and SO tempted
him to the fatal $40 winks," with the
disastrous results above mentioned.
When will some leading lady of fashion
be sensible enough and brave enough to
set the fashion of parties from s to IL,
sharp at both ends:-St. Louis Post-Dis-
patch.
The Glory of Rome's Prime.
| Wemay still stand on the tower Of the
capitol and survey that glorious piano.
rama bounded by Tuscan, Sabine and
Alban hills and dream what that scene
was some 100 or l.s00 years ago. The
Forum below was one radiant avenue OF
temples, triumphal arches, triulnphal
columns, colossal statues, monuments
and votive shrines-the senate house, the
rostra, the sacred way on the one side;
the circular temple of Vesta. the temple
of Castor. and the basilica of Julius on
the other; above on the right the temple
of ,Iove; on the left that Of Juno, and the
towering palaces of the falatine and the
Circus Maxjmus beyond the valley. Far
as the eye can reach would be vast thea
ters, enormous baths, colossal sepulchers,
obelisks, columns. fountains, equestrian
statues in marble or in bronze.
The walls of these sumptuous edifices
are all Of dazzling brilliance in oriental
marbles, bright with mosaic and with
frescoes, and their roofs are covered with
plates Of hammered gold. In the fax
distance, across terraces and gardens
shady with the dark foliage Of cypress
and stone pine, might be seen the aque,
ducts which bring from the mountains
whole rivers into the city to fill its thou.
sand baths and its hundred fountains.
And between the aqueducts and the
porticoes, far as the eye can reach to the
hills beyond, villas CLEAN in the sun
with their terraces, gardens, statues and
shrines, each little city in itself. This
earth has never seen before or since SC
prodigious an accumulation of all that il
beautiful and rare-Frederic Harrison
in Nineteenth Century.