The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-18

ALtAlilAd anu less, startled me INTO new
and limitless fields of thought and conjec-
| ture.
/ Romany true in their keen and almos.
| savage affection for any condition THAI
! would bring them and hold them close to
! the throbbtngs of natures tender heart,
/ they We're still unconsci0usIy nodded in the
/ most winsoms graces of-chaste refinement
I Marvellous in their knowledge of myriad
/ passages from Bature's open book mas
/ tiers of her most -steslthHy whispered and
I uncouth and gentle secrets, they also bore
/ the added charm sprfHging from quick
/ ened human activities, from the uplifting
ana mellowing influences of music art and
/ books
These things came to me in countless lit
! tie surprises. They awakened pride in me
I mat my friends, the aepised gipses, had
/ precisely the same capabilities of improve
! ment and evolution as all humble. aspir-
! ing, heart-open folk of any other race
.lhey hlled me with pain and foreboding
| TOT the future 3rof any three souls like
/ lhem' IN that time which must inevitably
come when three wonderful characters like
these' when three beautiful women like
these, must fix or by circumstances be al
lotted, their separate life horizons
Would the environment be like ours who
ever seek if we fail in finding, higher
lands of brightness and upgrowing? Or
would they sink back to the lowly life of
the house-poat the tent the van and the
road?
Day by day as ! looked in their hand
some faces, watched their graceful move
ments and pondered over the possible fates
OF such strangely environed natures, a Gu
nous strains OF reflection crowded in upon
me.
L found myself longing to prevent their
gradual fading out of the new world their
intellectual gainings had dawned upon
them. l became at least deeply mentally
concerned in adjusting their future lives
on the plane of my own and that of nv
fellows. / even opened the door through
these keen and persistent human compass
sions, to the soft and stealthy tread of
| thoughts and fancies which, back with
Aunt Prue at Three Bachelors Court in
London, would have tingled my cheeks
with the flush of conscious weakness or set
me roaring with derisive laughter at nv
own objectionable and inexplicable knight
errantry.
Which of us have you chosen?" archIy
| inquired Fashion, looking up from her
work one day, and instantly reading my
thoughts with that marvellous intuition
of the female gypsy
The abruptness and incisiveness of the
girls divination confused me for a mo-
ment, as the laughter of the three gipsy
maidens rang tauntingly out over the
silent waters of the Broad
But l had an answer ready; one that
silenced them amid bushes and deeper
confusion than my own for a little: one
which had for days been ready for some
opportune moment like this; an answer
in verse
TO THREE Gypsy MAIDENs.
o Fashion, Melinda and Bess!
Not in all the far lands where, pilgrim
ing free
Meath the tents and the stars. thy
,tawny race be-
Have lustreful face and the tress
of the raven sn ham cd NV r-alrivo ora
sleep,
So thrilled all my heart to its uttermost
deep
AS Fashion, Melinda and Bess!
o Fashion, Melinda and Bess,
With dainty step light as the fall of the
leaves
With graceful forms 1.-THE as the mar
ginal sheaves
OF willows in wild winds caress!
Your eyes are like sloes in dark copse-
wood hooks;
Your voices We're stolen from songs of
the brooks,
| o Fashion, Melinda and Bess!
| o Fashion, Melinda and Bess!-
Brave hearts as the lions in. Afrca's
caves!
But coy as the tribes beneath ripping
waves
In the tremulous hill-pools' duress!
Oh, could 1 have choice from these
sweet
Graces three
| Bewildered, my choosing would unfau-
! ing be
| Tween Fashion, Melinda and Bess!
! They read the stanzas separately with
a pretty colorlng in their faces, as though
each saw tender signal hutterng toward
! her own inner consciousness; but Bess
| the youngest, and / have many times since
| thought the fairest, deftly slipped the
scrap of paper in her bosom. while scarce
| ly missing plat I'm the creel her nimble
! fingers We're weaving.
That's precisely what the professor al
ways says"' gurgled Bess, with a taunt-
ing, sidewise glance into Fashions down
cast eyes.
only the professor don't put il so pref
tily, does he Bess?" urged Melinda, break
ing into a ripple of laughter. He saws:
I'm, h'm!-I5less mel bless me! tn finest
three specimens in England, pom my souIr
But we know who he means. don't We
! Bess?"
Fashion was all confusion; but l was all
afiame. How the blood tingles when one
suddenly discovers another missionary in
ones field
The professor 1 innocently exclaimed.
| with a quiZzical smile at Fashion.
! Yes, indeed" answered Melinda gaiIy
Lives with his little old sister in one of
/ papa \ houses, IN London. lie was one of
the faculty at our school; the mildest
kindest, dearest teacher in all the world.
! So Fashion thinks. We had a lovely visit
| with him a few DAYS ago, in his camp;
! didn't we, Fashion
Bess and Melinda again laughed mer-
rily at their sisters discontinue.
In his camp I abjectly asked
! ''Yes, Of course chimed in Bess "Over
! by the entrance to Horsey Mere channel
He's got orlds OF reptiles and insects in
his collection this vacation. Melinda and
don't like them a bit. Ugh, But Fashion
| does"
/ l could not precisely analyze my feelings
| at his point but / remained silent for I
saw that Fashion was being piqued into
| retort Perhaps here was still another
/ naturalist on his vacation i'm the Breads
We'll sisters" she began with little
! CLEAN of triumph in her Hastings eyes
/ which were turned on Melinda. 81 think /
I remember something about certain art
list wishing to paint Romany house
/ boat
That's SO" responded Bess I'm the
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