The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-26
HER CELESTIAL ADORER.
L. Fereward. in To-Day.

1hree OF these qualities are an unusual
CON oination. Therefore worthy of note.
She came up TO New York 20 study
bookkeeping and shorthand Her name
was Alice Pearson, and she had mania
for converting people.
The house at which she boarded was
. kept by stout Irish-Americau woman
Mrs. Brown. She looked the essence of
good nature, but she let the boarders
freeze ali the. winter by never having a
ire IN the furnace, and she fed them with
pork and beans until life became bur
den. She had a daughter, Matte, tall,
! rather well-fayored. though running TO
bone, who was much in love with a man
( whom l may term the head boarder. -
/ That IS, person who, having a magnif-
/ cent constitution, had been able to stand
/ the ravages Of Mrs. Browns pork and
beans the longest. He was medical stu
dent, 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 in month Mrs. Browns limit
/ thirty-had been reached. The newcom-
J u D IL W as llDllOGQ, WERE jill utn. ana.
/ curloUsly enough, men who, in the rush
| OF New York business life, had time to
/ worry about their souls. The fact was
/ that before the lovely Miss Pearson had
/ been in the house five weeks she had
nearly ruined the surrounding boarding
| houses. and had turned Miss Browns
erstwnile peacefully wicked establish
ment into three opposing revival meet
ings rolled into one and let loose.
tah Chung, laundrymon, late of Pekin,
subsequently Of San Francisco, then of
! the Bowery, New York fell as madlv
and Iealously in love with her as if he
had been a Christian.
Miss Pearson affected demure little
/ gray frocks, with a wide Elton collar and
cuffs of white, and Fab Chung-oh, bliss
Fab Chung washed and ironed them for
/ her. II was noticed that while no fault
could be found with the Chinaman's ordi-
nary work, there was not in the whole of
/ Sixth street linen that could be compared
/ for whlteneSs and gloss with Miss Pear
! sons little collars and cuffs
/ 1t has been remarked that Miss Pear
! son had mania for converting people.
| She tried her hand on Nllllie, the wait
ress, first; but Mrs. Brown made strong
| objections to having her servants talked
to, so she turned her attention to Fab
/ Chung.
How do you do, Mr.. Chung?" she
came for the laundry work.
! mi cha" replied the Celestial.
Miss Pearson stared.
Il guess he means 'Howdy,' Miss Pear
son" struck in Mile, who was sweeping
| the room.
oh! Nj cha, Mr. Sing"
The Chinaman did not change a facial
muscle. He did not want to look sad,
and he could not grin any harder than he
was already doing. The left side of the
SIX padded coats gave a great beat out
ward.
That was getting on.
The loved one could now converse as
fiuenty in his native tongue as he in
hers
That was getting on.
The next time he came he brought one
of those little reeds with buncL of hair
fastened in one end, which the Chinese
use Tor pens, and presented it, with his
lmmovable grin. That gentle smile of
his was so tixedly wide that Caldwell de-
clared the TOP of his mead to be an island
surrounded By mouth. A somewhat ex-
aggerated metaphor. Still it was what
one might call generous smile.
The following week he laid on her
shrine a packet of Chinese firecraclzers.
and mad learned to count up TO five in
English. She had eight articles in the
washing, but he began again at "one"
]
ought to be, so that was all right
Miss Pearson never got beyond mi
cha" in her study of the Chinese tongue,
| but Fab Chung applied himself with
ardOr to the mastery of English, and
went about his laundry practicing-'One
collie, one collie, two cuff, two cuff, one
collie, two Guns" When he got so that
he could say, Alice lightee, washee soon.
done Slatteday," Miss Pearson thought
1t time TO begin ner spiritual ministra-
lions. Accordingly she took him down to
the boarding house drawing room one
Saturday, sat him down on a stiff horse
hair chair Just where he got the draughts
between the treiess CRATE and the door
beautifully, and discoursed to him
The girl was sincerely in earnest, and
1t was something of shock when he
turned toward her that unchangeble
smile and affably remarked:
Me likee Mclean gal"
Fab Chung slept in tiny box of room
at the back of his laundry. Presently he
took TO bunklng on his ironing table and
let the box to a ledger Fab Chung
seemed TO desire a larger income. He
I began wasting his substance on riotous"
green jade boxes and Chinese hairpins,
which he presented TO his spiritual spon-
Sor when he took Der washing home
The recipient thought he was setting up
as an orien al dealer, and gave him half
dollar for one of the pins. When he laid
the money on the table and would none
OF it, she took il that it was below his
price, SO returned the pin, and pocketed
the coin herself. Finally it dawned on
her that he was making her present.
She promptly declined the gift, but the
next week it turned up again. At last
she became so tired OF seeing the much
refused article bob up serenely'' every
Saturday that she took it TO get rid of it,
and Fan Chung grinned harder, worked
later. and ate less. The fever of the New
World had seized him. He longed TO
amass riches.
With all her primness, Miss Pearson
was of a somewhat adventurous nature
The great town, TO her country mind was
full of wonders: and leading. as woman.
even a young and very pretty one can, if
she choose, in New y Ork, as independent
a life as if she were her own brother, she
INDUCED her passion for exploring fire.
quently. Her studies usually occupied
the day, but on those evenings when she
was not engaged in setting the board
house by ears by catechising one or
another fortunate Soung masculine SINNER
! she donned u trig little gray bonnet and
! cloak and wandered out into the bewitch-
ing, brilliant night world
she was not sure just why, but she
found that she felt little uncomfortable
in walking by herself up Broadway, Fifth