Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-10-22
TWO AMBITIONS.

To love all new slITlNals- ne sSCOnu anu lasting one is to pick them to pieces and to backbite them.
 We loved Miss Rohan with true Christian spirit when she first came to the fort. It being the headquarters of the regiment and We having a band at our disposal, we gave her a serenade upon the night of her entrance upon military soil. The style of the serenade was largely in what our colonel called 70 minor being his way of express ing ultra classic. The programme had been arranged before we had had the pleasure of seeing Miss ROhan, and when We realized how entirely it was unSuitcd to her style there was no time to change.
 We called on her in body the night of the day that she came, which Is the delightfully."- barbarOus custom at mili- tary posts, like lot of savages crowd ing about newly arrived runner who brings news of the outside world. It is meant well. Most of the inane and an- moving things that we do ill the social body are meant well, which is their only excuse. Nobody stops to think that the travel stained wanderer would like
 
 soot and the alkali powder of the plains; that she would like the first impression | to be a favorable one.
 We sat within the tawdry little par Tor while the band played symphonies | and andantes under the window, and | We watched the drop of new blood ill our stagnant veins. It was not blue | blood ill the least. It was hearty and red and strong. but it was the better ap- preciated on that account.
 We were four. the bachelor officers I mean ill the rOOm-and one of us was undoubtedly doomed to become tho prey of this young person. Which of us heaven had set it's mark upon was not then to | c guessed. Miss Rohan smiled on all alike. IL was a generous smile, which showed two rows of teeth rather heavily uphol>t, rcd i'll gold They sug- gc<tCd that she had eaten a good deal of tafTv and picklcd Times in her very | youthful days. As I see it now, ill the light of cool reason, she would have made III ideal milkmaid, for she was plump and fair. her nose was crimson | from exposure tn the Arizona sun, her | hair WIS an undecided blond, and her ey,s w,r1 bluc-rcal Irish blue; also, <eyn in the cool light of reason, her | gown was more intricate than graceful. | She had on a skirt rufflcd quite to the | waist, q fashion, it seems. among stout | women, a vyIy large fiuUnCc, if that Is the name fnr il, falling from the shoul- | der and sleeves, which Were simply huge. She WAS very much laced, too which may have had something to du !, To notice n woman's feet Hers were short and broad and caSed i'll red slip pCrS. As for her hands, they were dumny, and th" tips of her fingers Were ! square. I learned aftvrward that her hands Were Her pride. She would sit "n | tho front porch every morning at guard mounting and manicure them. There was no hesitation i'll her manner nor ill | her voic,'-in fact, she spoke loudly and | not always quite grammatically. Then l looked at my three compan- | ions. There was Blake. who Was tall, | fair and handsOme-the kind of man that women fall head over ears ill love with, who stood and looked deep into their eyes as if he read therein tho story of his life He was the son of New England farmer of the kind called "gooi. plain people" and he was about as manly and whole soulcd . fellow .. the cavalry held.
 Then there was Thomas who Wa. small and trim. He had enough concei for much bigger man, but then con ccit is usually in inverse ratio to q man. ! proportions. He was of the cavalry ton and he rode the largest horsc in tht garrison. As to his ancestors, they wer PhiladelphianS, and, he led one to be lieve, of good old Quaker stock
 Also there was Bavard. Now, he wa what any man with his name should b We all know the old motto. And h was 90 blue bloOdcd! His people wer the very best that the United States af forlS. His mOthtr-stcrn, refined, higl soulcd old lady-was dead and had lief to him her diamonds for his futur wife. l. did not even occur to her tha
 he could marry beneath him, so sh gave him no dcathbcd warnings. Hi
 father. tall and stately old general
 with huge white mustache and fond ness for good wines, still lived ill Wasl
 ington. where he sat i'll the war depart
 ment all day and at the Army and Nav
 club all night.
 Now Bayard had not much beauty C feature, but he was well built and rC
 fined to the last degree. His ambitio
 was something unbOunded. He was reg mental adjutant now and could hay
 had almost any detail or appointmeI
 he chose to ask for. There was for hiI
 one aim-to rise as high as an office , may. He would have graced any ranI
 too, better than a good many others.
 For myself I need no description, fc = was out of the race from the first
 We had a Welsh rarebit and som
 beer before we left. Miss Rohan like
 beer, but think she was disappointe n i'll the rarebit.
 e She came upon the porch the mex d morning to see guard mounting, an Y she brought her manicure set with hel h If you can get used to it, a woman req
 ly looks fascinating when she sits befo1
 the world ill broad daylight and docs
 her nails, more especially if you happe
 have not looked on the face of a youn
 woman for six months.
 "A After guard mounting she went for it ride with Blake and Bayard. She $
 her horse splendidly, although shc di
 hold the reins in both hands, but thi
 was a habit sine had picked up from riC
 ing hard mouthed cart horses, she swee
 ly explained. Blake and Bayard toe
 luncheon with her. We sat by an ], bet on the outcome.
 In honor of the young lady's arriv; we had hop that night It was qui
 an affair-2O couples in all, some of u
 best people from the neighboring raj
 road town having driven over. W
 promptly discovered that Miss Roha B. could not dance-at least her way W;