The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1895-12-22

think of anything that you really and truly
want interesting person. isn't he? No
wonder you look down on him a little and
yawn drearily when in his company. Ills
mar Is so rumpled and he hides so behind
ms newspaper and his spectacles that /
uon believe you have ever become ac-
quainted with him at all.
away back Nondcr, years before your
marine was even "A threatened intiCtiun
upon The earth, the old Man was, and
your mother looked upon him. and saw
that he was good. He was man and the
war horse would not have said him neigh
elbow 'a aad w o0ld q Ihs world c1i@r ana
stood IN The market place and men heark-
enei unto his words or else turned usiGe
ana placed raw hcefstcak upon their eyes.
There were few flies on him, and not many
chrysant hemums. He heard the chimes at
Midnight; and when he looked upon Il
hhand-saw he said, ''Lo, it is u hand-saw!"
Al the octaVes of the keyboard of LIE have
ielt the touch Of his fingers That little
alleitantish air thai you and Charlie list e.
lessiy strum together and call Love. has
swelied in storm of resonant chords be-
meath those hands of his when they were
not red and big knucked as they are now
seems Impossible. don't 1t? Ask your
sense, child, don't ask silly questionsw But
LOOK at her eyes when she asks the old
Man II MS feet are wet, and will he have
another cup of coffee. Twenty years. and
the same light is shining there that he
saw for the first time that June night un-
der the hooneysuckle arbor;
10y W Niuiill, no you see tnHt
bald-headed, stout old party in blggy
black clothes and carpet slippers, that Sits
over there frowning at his newspaper and
looking so grum?''
She will smile at you pitNingly and Won
der what ails your eyes. What she secs
IS grand, tall, handsome man. noble ana
me AS king and soft and clear through
the 1angling discords of Jenny practising
her scales, comes to her again the sound
of those few words frst spoken twenty
years ago. under the arhor wfen he said
I'RnHlDnn hfr L,
When Charlie calls TO soc you Of an even
ing, tie old Man gets up and goes ont of
The uarlor When he shakes hands with
charlie at the door because he only says
a Sruit word or two and then moves OFT
don't think that he is oVerpow cred nv
that magnificent rcckto and those nev;
odd Man Is a little omharrns used. but that
Is IRON deem contrition caused BY his hav-
wins theory or evolution.
thce Penelope, when you were little
ttinN md thought the old Man almost
as @ooi as Santa, laus, h. sat by the rail
ing of your small he'd while Won were huv-
ny few POUNDS with the scarlet fever.
hold up one of your white hands and
count the lingers,rr;ive; iiye hours he scot
touched your crimson cheeks as lightly ms
rose leaves Your pccvsh cry FOR water
water scarce left your lips tin the cool
others came and went, and slept and
walked, holding your hot little scrap OF a
hand in his.
Whom the doctor came enc day and fe,t
your brow and looked Mt your tongue and
said. We'll, the little girls all right now
the tcvcr's going away" the Old Man got
tice, leaving the others to sing the songs
of rejoicing and take the credit of nursing
you hpck to life.
lie never did wear his heart on his sleeve
But Penelope, You Just get your tiutterinr,
little brain to thinking. and 30 down and
ind the Old Mans heart. and see how
big and true and golden IL Is. and YOU viii
thank me for calling your attention to the
fact.