The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-06-25

"ahhA KhaA ~
| courage your muscle"
Here we did laugh
Think OF Jack the exquisite. Jack the
elegant. Jack the pride OF the most
fashionable clubs. finding delight in
boiled eggs and n soup that he describ-
! ed as ~"thickish!" on, an! After a mt
tie more laugh and a little more cordial
Molly read on:
you ask me what we do. Every
day we are hoping to sail. but pending
that time and after the FORK Of the day
is lone and everything is cleaned up
land. by the bye. I might tell you as a
tip to your maid hat there Is nothing
| quite SO good for leather as yellow vas
cline: when ] can get Il. I use IL on
the harness. and. applied with a con-
siderable mount OF elbow grease. II
makes IL as soft as your white hand and
as brilliant as your dark eyes) we Just
loaf around and talk and talk. Women
have not the monopoly OF talking In
this world. though probably that's the
future they are hoping for. We tell
stories, discuss important questions n
then come down to riddles. BY the bye.
nave you heard the last? How can you
make one good American out OF two
bad Spaniards? In this way. Of course;
LIE LOmcs
WEY Ter.
"Is that a chestnut? II II is. fine ms
for any poor box you are running now.
1 suppose you girls are getting up things
to send to us fellows. but I beg OF you
do spend your money on sensible things.
Billy Montmorenci got a box from home
the other day, and In II were q large
silver mounted desk pad. with every
Il tAf-a halrnDfp~ N q Aook frntrnfad In
silver: three pounds Of candy that had
melted to about the thickness Of ink, q
box of cream for his complexion n
two bottles OF the finest perfume. My
dear, IL Is a dreadful thing, but I as
sure you tina William OF the Montmo-
rencis INDUCED in strong language and
fired things around in q way that was
decidedly childlike. but not a bit bland.
What we really want are those COM
mon, cheap writing pads, some kind OF
a fountain pen and one OF those tiny
little medicine cases that hold q few
bottles Of arnica. witch hazel. ETC.. an
installment of quinine pills and some
thing to read. Billy got one OF the last
new novels among his gifts, but II was
bound in gloss OF satin and for that
reason entirely useless. We want . lot
of ape books and magazines that can
be handed arouud among our friends
and II necessary left behind for the me-
my without there being . single regret
at the loss.
st have taken rather q fancy to one
fellow here. He is an elderly chap-that
is, he seems elderly to me-but az he
was only II years old when he fought In
the Confederate army he cannot be
what you call aged. He told us a good
story the other night while we were all
chattering like a lot Of women or birds
or anything that is sweet. He said that
while the men Of his family were all
away INT It was. announced that
the women must leave their home
and come into the city they tried to
hide their family silver. OF this they
had a great quantity. Some OF 1t had
been given TO the brides in the Carey
family CHS name is Charley Carey) be-
fore the Revolution by some Of the
Lees and Careys on the other side of the
water, while many came from friends
In the colonies. The women had nobody
but a little moks to help them. and he
could not dig o very deep. hole. They
were In a hurry to get away and did the
best they could In h way Of hiding
their treasures. When peace was de-
clared. they came back and looked fol
the silver; but, alas and alack, Ii had
disappeared! A few years after Mime.
Carey was sitting on the veranda one
afternoon when up drove an express
wagon In which was o big box. The o.
pressman asked, DO you belong to the
Carey family that lived In this house
on the Jackson road during the war?
She said she did: that she was Mrs
Carey. He handed her not only his
book to sign. but a receipt that de-
manded her signature 30 that a well
known jeweler might know II had
reached its destination. 1t took three
men TO carry that box into the house
and when 1t was opened there stood q
magnificent chest in which was every
piece of the lost silver FURNISHED and
made to look as IL it were perfectly
new. With II was a letter which said
that this silver had been taken by a
young man in the Union army who al
the time regarded II as the spoils OF
war. 1t never entered his head that
somebody OF finer feeling would think
that this taking was something a little
stronger until he net q maiden fair
laid his heart at her feet, and she con-
descended to pick II up. Her great fad
was old silver. So he said to her when
the wedding day was very near: Now
my dearest, I have a present for you
that am sure you will lo~ve-beautiful
bits OF colonial silver, fine pieces Of
modern silver. indeed such silver rs
you never saw. ! must tell you how
got 1t. and tomorrow you can go to tho
store with me. look at II and decide
whether the old initials shall be taken
OF n the new ones put on.'
After she heard the story her lady
ship displayed a temper that her sweet
heart had never dreamed she possessed,
and there and then she called him a
thief, and thcn n there she announced
that until that silver was returned to
the people TO whom 10 belonged she
would marry him. The conse-
quence was that he begged the lady
would write her a note. announcing the
arrival or the silver. saying that every
piece was there. and. funniiy enough. he
had the honesty To tell her that II would
not have been fixed up so finely II he
had not expected to give II 20 a sweet
heart. :
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