River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-03-02

4 No.
You don't mean TO say de Loenay
mas come back
NO"
The father became solemn and pushed
the paper away. rs there some BODY
else?''
Must be"
Why
different expressions to her eve.
/ Sings in her own room. Keeps her
I bureau drawers locked. Never did il
/ before Listens over the stair rail
when the pOstman whistles. Some
! thing / never saw her do in all her life.
I Hasn't Ae chuclSed you under the chin
yet?"
''Chuckcd me under the chin? No.
I What does that mean?'
Means that she knows some thing
that you don't and feels sorry for yod- .
Does she chuck YOU under the chinr''
'-She did, but il didn't work. She's
In love; I've noticed it in her hair
Good graciousi Is love like tobacco
smoker
NO. its like butter-mold. Some
body has told her he didn't like her
I hair frizzled
"He must be young and impudent
Why. Snoggleson never presumed to do
such thing as that, and she thinks a
great deal of SnogglesOn.
Yes. she's taken to thinking a good
deal of Mr.. SnoggiesOn within week.
Wouldn't You like a cup of chocolate,
| Mr. SuogglesOn? and wouldn't you like
the big easy chair, Mr.. Snoggleson2
and can't / stay and hear about tin
plate. Mr. SnOggleson? Bah, When a
girl begins 10 store up lot of happi-
ness Of her own she can afford to
/ sprinkle Mr.. Snoggleson with some of
l it,"
! As this excellent woman of discern
ment had suspected, the crisis had
/ arrived.
The beauty who was armor-clad
! against wealth and fire-prOof against
personal charms had weakened with
| out reason and without protest and
begun to sing small hallelujahs in her
I heart on account of a socially unrecog-
Z nizcd. morally unaccredited, physically
unrecommended and financially I'M
backed young man who had large emo
tions. a fine quality of voice aud a
salary of twenty dollars a week.
/ So, You see, | was right in calling it
''the same old thing" IL was abso-
/ lutely the traditional business by tape
measurement They purred in the
back pariOr; they whispered in the bay
" indow: they te-he'd on the lounge;
they soto voced over the piano; they
had grips and passwords in the hall
way after looking up the stairs. TWAS
sheer nonsense to attempt to hOOdwink
a mother. Now. a father never sus-
poets until il Is too late. But a mother
follows the development inch by inch.
She notices that this fellow always
1 shuts the door at night very softly. All
the other fellows slam il with frank
avOwal that there isn't any collision
She notices that Lucille doesn't like
the glaring light any more. She notices
that when the other visitors arc in the
parior She can hear the tones of the
I conversation in her room overhead.
But with this one not even the register
helps her She has come down the
stairs softly and listened at the door
this is a sacred privilege of mothers
aud she hasn't heard a word. Could it
he possible that there were great gaps
in the conversation. and that these
young people found some kind of
esoteric delight in staring mutely at
each other? Inductively no.
A mother not only uses the Baconian
/ method-she remembers. They are
whispering. Why should they whis-
per!
There are some privileges reserved
l,ar
ereise. We can look on. Enter, dear
deadhead. into the temple of tradition
and sit down on the shrine of 1.-The old,
old story"
Lucille is dangerously lolling in the
rocker.
In front of her and very close to her
upon low chair is the impudent tradi-
tiOnalist. who is working the strings of
the old lutte.
Think of it. twenty dollars a week.
His very sleeve buttons are plated
But that right royal beauty, who can
marry a section of Wall street. who
has influence. power, social prestige.
talent in a queue behind her vainly
trying to interest her, is listening with
delight 30 this fellow who hasn't any
thing.
And this Is what he is saying in the
most dove-liize tones:
MY dear. fathers don't count. II
YOU love me, that settles it. We make
our fight without another soul on earth
to help us. IL has always been so. DO
YOU remember that night on the lawn
at Lenox. when we sat under the trees
and we heard the music from the house
and the moonlight made the pine trees
look as if they were snow spriukled9''
"Oh. wasn't it lovely" exclaims
Susceptibility. And the Madigan
girls looked just like nymphs when
they came out and fitted through tho
shrubbcry."
''Ycs. and you ran away from DIR.
/ Yellowstone, and told Dartover you had
headache that was the best part of
it"
Yes cried Caudor, clapping her
hands together. just because / wanted
to listen to you-"
'And you did listen. too. Do you re-
member what | said?'
NO; say il again"
II told You that loved you. That I
was poor, but preferred to start poor
ana achieve something if had some
body to achieve it for; that when / saw
you felt like a conqueror; that you
had hung your amulet on my better
nature; that wouldn't have YOU I'M
! less I could win you. and ! wouldn't
win YOU unless ! could deserve you.
Z DO YOU know what You said?'
NO, I didn't say anything"
YES. you did. You said you'd les
me try-it was such an interesting
\ experiment. / told Won I'd stand afar
off and worship you till l proved it
all"
/ ''Oh, but You haven't. You have NOT
/ kept your word. DO you call it far off
now? Why, I can hear your heart
I beat"
Are you sure its mine?'
\ Silence. They are listening.
(Which Is it,
DO you know il sounds like both OF
I EN-"
That's what call 1.-The regular
thing"
! Enter somcwhere the hard hearted
father. when this has been going on
I for month. lie takes Beauty over
his knee. and he too. does the regular
/ thing.
He objects. lie says: My dear,
don't do it. I've investigated IT. 10