The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-30
AM RIVES.
AUNT ORA

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The recent marriage of Mrs. Chanler
to Prince Troubetzkoy has by no means
taken her from the field Of current lit
erature, for in the present issue of the
Philadelphia Penny Magazine she bios
SONS forth in a bewildering eff 4ir en-
titled, "Zenobia," in which she gives
full scope to her imagination, and stirs
up eccentric SMILES aud marvellous me
taphors in a very gorgeous punch
bowl.
The story is the love affair of a loco
motive engineer whose sweetheart
grows intensely jealous of his engine.
This is q reasonable plot, to be sure,
for any sensible girl would be jealous
of a locomotive, How could she resist
the pangs she must feel at the thought
Of her lover taking the dainty, piquant,
dashing little creature in his arms9
How her blood m list necessarily boil at
the fancy Of the passionate, tender
chances he would cast at her headlight
or the honeyed words he would pour
into her willing smOkestack.
The delicate attentions he pays with
his oil can and greasy rag, and the
choice tidbits Of waste and tar that he
affectionately feeds the axle boxes, are
enough in truth to stir to the depths
the heart of any girl even half way in
clined to be aalous.
Her description of the hero is suh
GENTLY clear to stamp him as a man of
whom any girl might be watchtu! on
an engine. His nose," she says, had
been broken which gave him a Roman
profile"
That is to show what a soul he had.
Most engineers now who have their
noses broken are not content with just
getting a Roman profile" They want
pensions or great cash payments, and
it is only on rare occasions that you
can find one who will accept only a
Roman profile" and pose as a hero.
OF her heroine, we get a more claeei
cal description, and n more compor-
table with the theory of jealousy Of the
the ~coquettish engine. She has a rope
OF hair that giistens like spun sugar in
the frosty glare" and her thin gown
hammered into fine folds by the furious
blast of air throbbed back from her
splendid supple limbs, and the gray
cloak, held only by a clasp about her
throat, ross high above her head like
gigantic wings"
This is vivid and ornate, but, of
course, the heroine was in no real dan
ger, for if that St. Louis like "blast of
air" had left off hammering her gown
and threatened any bodily harm, she
would have made fast with the rope
of hair" until the gown had "thCob5ed
back" to it's accustomed place and re-
lieved the anxious girl of any distress
sing expo res.
Now we find out what made that girl
jealous, for in speaking of the danger
Gus rival she says: "Her brass trim
mings shone like gold and emitted an
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the blue Of onyx and the CLEAN of ice"
There is no doubt about the fact that
it is time for girls to get AaIous when
the opposition sets itself up in ''brass
trimmings" and especially those that
have an ''iridescent DAZZLE" The av
erage man can stand a dazzle or even a
razzle dazzle, but when suddenly con-
fronted with an '~'iredescent dazzle" he
is mighty apt to be forgetful of home
folks.
1t is a great story. Ganius by any
other name is just as great and we lose
none of it in Mrs. Troubetzkoy.-Rich-
mOnd Times.