The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-07

once upon a time says the New York
sun there lived a serious young man. lie
was serious all the way through. AS IN
some streams his depth revealed itself at
the very top. No light waves played upon
the surface. He seemed to have no sur
face. He was all inner soul.
This young man loved seriously an idle
Young woman. He saw her first as Maui
iok's ST. Cecilia in church tableau. lie
had loved the picture. He now loved the
voung woman more. He saw in her face
nnch that he had not seen in the picture.
She parted her hair in the middle and she
had a St. Cecilia nose, so that the young
man did not observe that there was also
much in the picture that was not in her
face She could not even play the piano
before which she had posed.
The idle young woman loved seriously
nothing whatever. Least of all did she
love the serious young man. If he had no
surface. she was all surface, like brook,
all waves full of light and brightness. The
Young man was attracted by the waves
and imagined a depth beneath them. She
was repealed by the darkness of his depth
and could imagine no waves upon its sur
face. So when he asked her to say Yes
she answered mo" He suffered greatly
and. after time he died, and he went to
Iurgatory
A Some months later she caught pneumo-
MIA al a dance and she went to purgatory
TOO. She found him seated at a glistening
Il dnner table paying compliments and tel
\ ling funny stories to a woman in decol-
lete gown. The woman she recognized as
n the head of the missionary society in her
#former home. "Of all peopleI" she ex-
&caimed. How do they ever come to be
doing that?" she asked the keeper. ''They
are doing penance for having been bores
Ion earth and they are learning small talk
Is as to be agreeable in heaven" was his
#Rnswer. How NIGEL? she thought: Pur-
gatory is quite agreeable after ALL May l
Bit at the end of the table furthest from
hem?" she asked. Your task is differ
*knt" was the reply, and to her were given
seVen books on sociology and seven on
psychology and seven on philosophy, and
she was made to manage seven mission
Dry soceties-''To teach you to think
Enough to be agreeable in heaven"
In time her thoughts made her serious,
Ind it CHANGED that as she sat among her
books the talk of the diners floated to her
bars and after while she grew seriously
10 love the young man at the table, Tor the
tght and dash of his talk attracted her
Rnd she took for granted depth beneath
Them. But he loved her not at all and
X Thought How dull and unresponsive she
has grown. She might take the trouble to
be agreeable even if she does read big
books" This caused her to suffer great
Borrow
At last the time of their preparation was
fnded and it became time for them to en-
xer, perfect, into heaven, and as they stood
Ngether, perfect, upon the threshold, they
owed each the other, at last. Miner he
Hsked. Forever she answered, and they
uttered the gate.
But in heaven they neither marry nor
PC given in marriage.
What sad nonsense is stin often talked
fbout marriage, to be sure! A Judge, who
recently Ventured to discourse of the 'hap-
~ state without once mentioning that
Al-important word money" has provoked
"a anupodean paper to express the opinion
pat domestic bliss is ensured by the pos
#sslon Of good bankers account. This
%Rnromantic opinion is hardly worth con-
Nadlctlng and yet one hardly likes to al
&Rw young folks to read such assertions
Without correction. There is something
ESltlyely appalling in the idea that girls
4ould really believe that nothing but
Assn buys comfort" and that mere com
Pr is invariably synonymous with happi-
1 #ss. And 1t is not true that rich, we'll
Hessed, well-fed people lead the happiest
Ne together, as the annals of the di
Hrce court prove The married couples
nc 40 live together most happily are
zen those who have to struggle along as
~ they can on inadequate incomes, and
"a never so idle as to get into mischief
~ grow disconnected.