The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-01-09
CUPID AND PSYCHE.

tween Tilbury and Sydney harbor he /
was better known as Cupid. His mother /
was a widow, with four more olive /
branches, absolutely dependent on he
own and Teddy-s exortions.
1t the best Of times kindergartens
for the children OF respectable trades
pcople are rgt particularly remunera-
tive. and the semidetachsd villa in Sy-
denham v;.s often sorely tried for petty
cash.
But when Teddy was appointed fourth
officer Of the Y Y. z. conpany's steam
ship Cambrisn Prince endless possibiii-
ties were opened Up.
IF you viii remember that every
thing in this world Is ordained 20 .
certain end. you VIII see that Ted6y's
future entirely depended on his falling
in love-first loye Of course, and not the
matter OF fact businesslike affair that
follows later.
After his second voyage lie obtained
\ fortnight's leave and hastened home.
Being fond OF tennis and such like
amusements, he was naturally brought
into contact with many charming girls,
who, because he was a strange man and
a sailor, were effusively polite.
Then he fell hopelessly in love with
4 horribly impossible girl, and in the
excitement Of the latest waltz proposed
and was accepted on the strength Of .
fourth officers pay, IN incipient mus
tache and dozen or so brass buttons.
During the next voyage his behavior
toward unmarried women was marked
bv that circumspection which should
always characterize an engaged man.
He never allowed himself 10 forget
this for an instant, and his cabin had
for its chief ornament a plush framed
likeness q a young lady gazing with
wistfGl expression over palpably pho
toGraphic sea-
Now, ii was necessary for his ultimate
happiness that Teddy Colchester should
learn that, like his own brass buttons,
without constant furnishing a young
lady's affection Is apt TO lose much Of
Its pristine brightness, and that too
much sea air is good for neither. He
licked off the days Of absence, and as
his calendar lessened his affection in
creased
At Plymouth a letter met him, q
jerlzy, inky schoolgirl epistle, evidently
written by a writer very cold and mis-
erable, and the first reading stunned
him
Had he seen q little more of the real
world be would have been able to read
between the lines something to this ef
feet: You're Teddy, three months
away, and I'm madly III love with =
soldier -
Then he would have noted that the
writer was staying IL Salisbury, after
which he would have hunted up his
home papers and discovered that the
Royal Wiltshire yeonlanry cavalry were
encamped ct Huntingdon Down.
But as he had only seen life through
= telescope ne could not DO this Conse-
qIienfiy his pain was trifle acute.
His mother wrote him four pages OF
sympathy.
But though ho wondered at any girl
jiltiEg hoF boy she could not help
feeling Of satisfaction at its being still
in her power TO trGnsmute three-quar-
ters Of his pay into food and raiment
for her brood.
Next voyage the Cambrian Prince
had her fall complement of passengers,
and the Kangaroo Girl, whom perhaps
you may remember, was of the number.
At Plymouth a little reserved girl
Joined, and as she Is considerably mixed
mp IL this story you must know that
she rejoiced IN the unpretentious name
Of Kinks
Fer the first week or so Teddy held |
very much alOof from the passengers. en- |
gagins himself entirely with recollec-
lions Of the girl for whose sake he was
going 10 live only in memory.
Being an honest, straightforward |
young fellow, he Of course followed the |
prescribed programme Of all blighted |
love affairs. He began by pitying him |
sell for the sorrow he was undergoing, |
then went on to picture the future that /
might have been theirs had she married /
him, but before they were clear of the /
bay he had arrived AT the invariabie /
conclusion and was pitying himself for
piying tie girl who was foolish enough |
10 lilt such an entirely esiimable young /
man rs Edward Braithwaite Colchester.
One moonlight night, after leaving /
9Th " he was leaning over the rails of 1
the promenade deck feeling syInpathct-
ically inclined 70 the world IN general
when somebody stepped ap behind him.
Il was Kiss links. She prefaced her /
conversation with two CT three questions
about the sea, andhe made the astounG-
Ing discovery that her voice possessed
inst the note Of sympathy he required
for his complaint
He had felt sorry for her because
other people snubbed her, and she foi
him because she had been told exagger-
ated stories about his love affair To /
gether they made rather curious
couple.
When, under the supervision Of the
Kangaroo Girl, the shore party for Ma
pies was being organized, Miss Kinks
was taCiily left out Somehow the i'm
preston got about that she WAS poor,
and 10 one cared about paying her ex
penses.
But eventually she did 90. and it wa. !
in the charge of the fourth officer
When she thanked him for his kindness,
he forgot for the moment his pledge ''tC
1AfC ncANtAoIiA Nll1e II Il 4GMuIE-
The Kangaroo Girl, ON discovering
that Miss links had been on shore undel
the escort Of that "dear little pink off
Ger, " was vastly amused and christeneo
them Cupid and Psyche
Now, the end of it all was that Teddy
beran TO find himself caring less ano
less for the thethumb stained photograph
IN his locker and more and more for the
privilege OF pumping his sorrows into
sympathetic ear.
BY the sine they reached Alden be
had convinced himself that his first love
affair had been the result Of a too gen
erons nature, and that his second was
the one and only real passion of his life
At Colombo Miss Kinks went ashore
with the doctors party, tiffined ai
Mount Lavinia. dined at the Grand
Oriental and started back Tor the shiI
about 8 O'Clock.
Teddy, begrimed with coal dust,
watched each b0atload arrive, and q
he did his love increased
On account Of the coal barges is was
impossible for boats to come alongside.
Consequently their freight had tC
Chamber from hulk tobulk Miss Hinlz
was the last of her party TO venture,
sna iust as the doctor. hoIdin= o.. his