Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-10-06
Der Celestial 0doTef.

She Was little. prim and pious.
Die was so d'stractingly pretty.
Three Of these qualities are an un.
usual combination. Therefore worthy
o. note.
She came up to New York to study
Bookkeeping and shorthand. Her
name was Alice Pearson, and she had
D mania for converting people.
The house at which she boarded
MAS kept by stout 1rish-American
0oinan-Mrs. Brown. She looked
che essence OF good nature, but she
let the boarders freeze all the winter
BY never having fire in the furnace,
and she fed them with pork and beans
antil life became a burden. She had
. daughter, Matte, tall, rather well.
favored, though running to bone, who
vas much in love with man whom
] may term the ''head boarder."
That Is, o person who, having mag.
0ificent constitution, had been able
% stand the ravages Of Mrs. Browns
pork and beans the longest. He was
. medical student, and his name was
Caldwell. He was very good-looking,
by-the.by.
There were sixteen boarders in Mrs.
Browns establishment the first night
Miss Pearson came down to dinner.
Two weeks afterward there were
twenty-one, and within month Mrs.
Browns limit - thirty been
eeached. The newcomers, 1t was no.
ticed. were all men; and, curiously
enough, men who, in the rush Of New
York business life, had no time to
worry about their souls. The fact
vas that before the lovely Miss Pear.
con had been In the house five weeks
che had nearly ruined the surround.
lng boarding houses, and had turned
Mrs. Browns erstwhile peacefully
wicked establishment into three op.
posing revival meetings rolled into
one and let loose.
Fab Chung, laundryman, late Of
Pekin. subsequently OF San Francis
90, then Of the Bowery. New York,
fell as madly and jealousy in love
with her Us II he had been o Chris.
clan.
Miss Pearson affected demure lit.
Gle gray frocks, with wide Eton
collar and cuffs OF white, and Fab
Chung oh, bliss !-Fah Chung
washed and ironed them for her. 1t
vas noticed that while no fault could
b found with the Chinaman's Or
binary work. there was not In the
whole OF Sixth street linen that could
Be compared for Wilderness and gloss
With Miss Parsons little collars and
cuffs.
1t has been remarked that Miss
Pearson had mania for converting
people. She tried her hand on Mil.
lie. the waitress, first; but Mrs
Brown made strong objections ia
having her servants talked to, so she
turned her attention to Fab Chung.
''H0w do you do, Mr.. Chung?" she
greeted him with one morning wheT
he came for the laundry work.
mi cha" replied the Celestial.
81 guess he means 'Howdy,' Mis-,
Pearson" struck in Mile, who wa,
sweeping the room
oh! Nj cha, Mr.. Sing"
The Chinaman did not change {
facial muscle. He did not want t.
look sad. and he could not grin an!
harder than he was already doing
The left side OF the six padded coat
gave q great beat outward.
That was getting on.
The loved one could now convers
- Auently in his native tongue as h
In hers.
That was getting on.
The next time he came he brough
ono OF those little reeds with bunc
of hair fastened in one end, whic
tho Chinese use for pens, and pre-
scented it, with his immovable grin
That gentle smile OF his was so tixedl
wide that Caldwell declared the to
of his head to be an island surrount
ed plymouth. A somewhat exagge
ated metaphor. Still it was what or
might call generous smile.
The following week he laid on h,
shrine a packet Of Chinese firecracI
ers and had learned to count up to fly
In English. She had eight articl
in the washing, but he began ov'
again at ''one" when he reached ii
place where six" ought to be,
that was all right.
Miss Pearson never got beyor
ssNi cha" in her study Of the Chine
tongue, but Fab Chung applied hir
self with ardor to the mastery
English, and went about his lauId
practicing-"One collie, one COLI
two cuff, two cuff, one collie, ty
cuil." When he got so that he cou
say, "Allee lightee, washee soon, do
SIstteday," Miss Pearson thong
It time to begin her spiritual admi
istrations. Accordingly she to
him down to the boarding hou
drawing room one Saturday, sat b
on Q stin horse hair chair, just whs
he got the dYaughts between the ii
less crate and the door beautiful
and discoursed to him.
The girl was sincerely in earne
and ic was something OF q she
when he turned toward her that
chsngeable smile and ahably
marked;
"Ne likes Mclean GAL"
Ysh Chung slept In tiny box
. room ct the back OF his laund
Presently he took to bunking on
ssos table and let the boz 70 lodg
- Ohung sssmsd 70 desire : lar