The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-01
In A HOLIDAY HUMOR.
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morning BOAT. up the Hudson on the
Fourth of July, fully determined 10 offer
his heart and hand to the vivacious Miss
Louise kimbau, il is possible he expected
that, like Rosalind. she would be in a
holiday humor and like enough to con
sent" If he did he miscalculated woe
/ fully. He certainly found her in a Holt
( day humor, but it was independence Day
she was celebrating, and that made q
world of difference. The holidays they
| had in Arden were probably of a less
boisterous and more amatory character.
| Her greeting on his arrival at her
! home in Hartskill was disconcerting to
! begin with
Il don't know whether I should say I
am glad 10 see you or not. l am celebrat-
ing the glorious Fourth in the proper
/ spirit, by being INDEPENDENT of every body
and everything. l haven't asked for
favor to-day"
Didn't you Sven ask any one if your
hat was on straight"
No, sir! ! am wearing a Yachting cap
to-day and you know it looks much more
! fetching when a trif1e away"
he did not realize at first how much
she was in earnest in her independent
mood; but when she walked nearly half
mile to look at the hail clock rather
than ask him the time by his watch, it
/ began to dawn on him that he was in for
a day OF it. Try as he might he could not
get chance TO unburden his heart
/ When ne wished to sit down and talk
nothing would do her but to 20 to the
village TO see the games, and when they
went out cahOeing she absolutely refused
to rest in the shady hooks. What made
the canoeing trip particularly eXasper-
ating was the fact that she insisted on
doing all the padding.
Il am too independent to-day" she
said, "to let any one paddle me about.
Besides you have come from your ONCE
for a rest
So he had to kueel in the canoe, watch
ing her as she skillfully propelled it about
and all the while he was longing to be
kneeling before her on the parlor carpet
or anywhere else where he could plead
! his case. The eXertion of padding, more
over, made her more bewitchingly beauti-
full than ever, and her tantalizing re-
marks and actions increased proportion
ately.
Now, there are few things more ex-
hausting than carrying around a nicely
worded proposal without getting a chance
to utter IT, 1t is even worse than going
to a banquet with a carefully prepared
! spontaneous speech concealed a bout your
memory and not being called upon to
utter it: for at the banquet you get
comes and have plenty of wine to cheer
you afterward. But it is impossible for a
man with a proposal on the tip of his
tongue to get any nourishment past it,
| however much he may need it, So as the
day wore on Frank became rather de-
pressed. He had been looking forward
To this holiday for weeks past as day
when he could get away from business,
and, on account of the celebration at her
home, having good excuse for taking a
trip up the river to see her. But Of course
she didn't know this, and hadn't the
| falntest idea that he wished to propose.
When it comes to blindness in matters of
the heart, Cupid's sightless eyes are twin
Lick telescopes compared with the laugh
ing eyes of a charming girl. She never
knows that man Is in love with her,
even though every time he looks at her
his signs strain the buttons of his vest
And her surprise when the fated mo-
ment arrives and he. forgetting his
nice little speech, stammers out his
confession Well, after all is said
and done the foble is so delightful it al
most raises hypocracy to the rank of a
virtue.
There had never been any talk of love
between this pair, though they had been
friends for years. He had danced with
her at her winter home on the avenue,
chatted with her in the family box al the
opera and had even taken her for drives
in the park but they had never talked of
love In fact, he did not realize
that he cared so much for
her till she had left the city TO spend the
summer in the family residence in Harts-
kill If she made any discovery at the
same time she did not allow herself to
cease being merry long enough to let any
one suspect what was in her heart. 1t is
true they corresponded, but their letters
were slightly formal and Of the chatty,
frothy sort young people write to each
other before their love-maklng has be-
come really serious Humble self-analysis
never had appeared in them and the coin
ing of epithetS of endearment had not be-
come an end in life When she noticed
that Frank was beginning to look dis
spirited she did not ask the nature of his
complaint, circumstance which makes
the observant but very respectful chroni-
cler doubt the reality of her blindness.
Instead, she began to rally him.
You, citizen of this unparalleled
republic" she exclaimed, striking an
oratorcal pose, land yet daring TO look
glum on such day as this. Do you not
realize that our nation is now celebrating
the-the-Pshaw. l never could remem-
Der nun anniversary of that ever to
be remembered day when our fore
the foreign tyrant and like the
imperial eagle rising to greet
the morning sun of liberty, we scared on
ward and upward on that path OF en-
lightenmont and progress that may yet
eliminate in the parliament of man, the
fedora ton of the world. From this in
spring event wave after wave OF resist
less progress has surged westward with
the star of empire till from the turbulent
sides of the bay of Eundy to the golden
sands of the blue Pacific, from the mighty
and legend haunted waters of Superior to
that great gulf whose beneticent stream
bears proudly across the bosom of the
broad Atlantic the fleets of the mightiest
commerce the world has ever known
To-day almost 20 600 600 o people are shell
tered under the tapping folds of the
star-spangled banner whose enfranchis-
ing shade makes the hum 5lest toiler the
equal of the proudest monarch of decay
ing Europen'
What are you laughing at, SIR Don't
you know that is part of the GRAFTON papa
delivered amid thunders of applause this
morning. ., ! assure you | didn't act as
his secretary for nothing"
Were you really only his secretary"
asked Frank, still laughing and longing
madly to Kiss the flushed cheek Of the an
mated orator. suspect that you really
wrote the GRAFTON for him in its entirety.
The formation Of the sentences and the
clearness of the metaphors show a really