The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-03-18
SUNDAY IN THE HONE.
READTNG NATTER or INTEeEsr 10
WONEN.
IN D0EOTHI's DIN.
a Dear old Room with No square Cor

the like place to the bachelor heart.
II isn't large. although. being a girl. I
couldn't for the life Of me tell how many
feet long and wide it IS. It's a dear Old
room. in that there isn't a square corner
in il. except at the southeast. and that
I've spoiled by drawing my big couch
diagonaly across IL. And such a couch
sent TO the garnet long ago because its
ten years OF active most decidedly ac-
tive-service IN the nursery had sent every
one OF its lusty spiral springs twisting
through its faded green cloth covering at
as many different angles as there are
coils. II wasn't hard. though. % pad Dr.
out and stretch a Turkish rus OYER 90.
besides. with all the pillows. big pillows
and httle pillows. pretty pillows and hide
Gus pillows. gay pillows and duii. gloomy
pillows ht only TO cry ont an attrk OF
blues on. il is absolutely buried. Mol -ovcf
there is generally a. few magazines 81
newspaper. the latest novel. box of
candy, an old handkerchief. the ea-fesl
pair Of slippers and the rose Ted gave
last night concealed sonc~he in It's
capacious bosom.
That old couch is the finest place i'm
the world 10 duck ones head Co sob out
the aforesaid int OF melancholy. to- throw
ones self when Toms letter g. particularly
dear. or that old wisdom tooth throhs
especially or when just as tho first gray
OF the morning begins TO peep I'm at the
halfdrawn curtain. one finally gets out
OF that tight ball gown and can kick the
hich-hecled slippers TO the farther corner
OF the room. or course. they viii hy
under the heaviest bookcase or even into
the CRATE. as my pink satin one did last
Wiutcr-and I didn't know 10 NN ana ~
once the room became fun 81 tho awfulcst
odor of burned leather and d -at here
Just i'm time TO see the sole carl mock
iugly back around the heel. with my
best Rhinestone buckle half buried I'm
melted metal.
q The grate in itself is "a treasure. To
begin with. IL is riiiculousiy large in
comparison with the rest Of the room
In it's glowing Goals how many notes I've
consigned TO nothingness-sorne silly. some
mean from the girls, those and not
few that I've kissed before 1 dropped
them into the flames. It's remarkable
how many things a girl will kiss in
year. YES. and each with real feeling, too.
because one wears Toms ring why
shouldn't one be just little fond OF
Charles dainty love-poems. especially as
they're burned right away ana Tom can't
knoW2
Because I'm to be bride next month
must ] tramp underfoot all the passionate
bnlet-douN that dear Mr.. CaNton Of How
ard wrote me- Dear Mr.. CaNtOn indeed.
How handsome he looked i'm his cap and
gown. 1 still wear his cOlOrs sometimes
when I've had quarrel with Tom on
the mantel. too, are ever ana ever so
many things. 5 hat-band for that boy
wouldn't let me give ~ 10 him. cigarette
and breathe il softlyo a cigarette picture.
"A scarf-pin left by Dick one day and
Harrys glove that we dropped in the
water the time the yacht nearly upset and
ne had to hold me SO tightly 10 keep me
from falling out; the head of SIR Smiths
cane and the SCRAP Of Mr.. Jones hand
kerchief he tied about my wrist when
] tripped on the tennis court And. YES.
above. halfhid in the peacock feathers.
is my poor old racket. stii holding IN
its tiny meshes the red-ciover heads that
I wove In that morning last spring when
Nell Hollis thought she make me angry
by flirting with Tom. Well she didn't
succeed. for l didn't care bit-that is.
not very big bit.
The bookcase, too. is all mine, with the
back row of French books, which bought
when we left school and which / haven't
looked into since: then The Duchess
FOR rainy davs and Emerson when Cousin
AUGUSTUS writes that he'll come from
Rostou: and Joshua Reynolds when D Au-
her is here and Familiar Quotations
for display at Miss SIMPSONS poet-broth-
er's arrival. C'The Duchess looks the
most used though il hasn't rained much
OF late. after alb
Here is the tea-table, with a specimen
OF each lot Of my engagement cups. and
with no end Of spoons TO match, gathered
from Dan 10 Beersheba- The old-maid
instinct must be innate in all girls. Tor
they begin to love tea cups when the set
has mere china JhimbieS and the tea is
only sweetened water, placed before the
row Of simpering dolls. Just take a group
Of Girls. say about in the afternoon.
with the hostess in a becoming tea--own
and her visitors in swaeger street cos
tunes. let them have "a hall Of the nicht
before 20 talk about; whisper a ruTnOr
If "a new engagement, hint Of Belle
FIenchs scanlalous FITTINGS with that
Young officer from Fort Gunpowder and
;nc picture - complete. NO wonder men
long and pray 10 get into the mystic
chamber. No wonder they guaW their
pretty mustaches with veNation that there
- no open sesame TO the charmed den"
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