Daily Kennebec journal., 1898-12-03

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ing and sarcastic reply.
well, would be if all women were
| as cold and cruel as you"
well, l suppose you expect escal-
loped oysters and champagne"
'Softly, girl; this is not heaven"
| Mrs. Smiths curiosity was aroused
by this time. and going out into the
kitchen, she deserted long haired ex-
actor, with lean and hungry look. ;"
| Hannah, Hannah" she said, give
that man piece of that apple pie left
over from Sunday
Accepting the pastry with a profuse
bow, he held it up to heaven and
apostrophized: And yet they say we
| do not work for our daily bread"
Il don't know why the simple fact of
being in love should deprive people of
the vestige of common sense with
which nature, never over-generous
with that rarest of blessings. has en-
dowed them," remarked a State Off :ial,
yesterday, but all my observa tion
| it does. For example, a man | know is
engaged to Hallowell girl. That is,
he was engaged to her up to quarter
| to 10 o'clock Thursday night. week be-
fore last. He went out to call on her
and-but first l must tell you that she
| belongs to a New Brunswick family
and he is from Boston, and both of
them are exceedingly proud of their
birthplaces and ancestry. After few
preliminaries, she said to him:
".Oh. let's hear how fast you can
say: She sells sea Shells
$50, Of course, he said: She shells,
sea Shells and She shells, she Shells
and She sells. she SELLS and goodness
only knows what till his tongue was
so tangled up that his mouth was full
of knots. And She began to laugh, and
he told her to say it herself. Then they
both went at it, and midway of their
sibilant mouthings somebody's tenn
per began to get frayed at the 'ges.
She said that Boston people speak
abominably anyway, and he retorted
tn quoque, about the Blue Nose, dia-
lect.
From discussion of speech they
came to a discussion of manners. and
things were said which it were painful
to repeat. The engagement was brok-
en-. as l said, at 9.45 O'clock 1t has
stayed broken ever since The rupture
bids fair to be permanent And all this
misery because-well, because two or
dinarily intelligent persons happened
to be made temporarily feeble minded
by mutual Affection:
| There is nothing like society for let
ting you know just how you are rated by
your friends said girl who has been
visiting in the city. By the way it might
be well to state that the young lady has
| not come OUT yet, though she has been
put through the preliminary PAGES prior
to the great event. 1t is also barely pos
sible that the young miss has made n
mistake in society and when she comes
out will find it entirely different in re-
gard to her position.
Its the nearest approach to Seeing
oursels as ithers see us that | know of.
My experience has of course, been lin
tied, but already 1 know just exactly
how my friends regard me as a social
factor. Because l am not deaf mute,
nor have SDpnf m i,
lum for incurable imbeciles, they deem
newell, hardly brigi.., but superior
sort of idiot who may be relied upon to
furnish certain amount of animation TO
the most lugubrious occasion oh. let's
have Miss - l overheard one member
of a clambake committee say to another
the other day Miss being mel: she II
talk But that was an accident.
1T is when | dine out or am invited to
a supper or luncheon or any other small
function that l discover the way nv at
tributes are sized up for me.
THE key to the situation is supplied bv
the otner girl of the party, and to whom
expected to make a foil. I've never vet
known it to vary. She's always one of
the pretty, timid girls, with scarcely a
word to say for herself, and who really
| SOS"h iiCNu ", IOI dII SHE mas TO do Is
to sit there and let folks look at her.
"It isn't that l don't happen to know
any bright girls, for l do, lots of them,
but we're never invited out together.
Like myself, they're always busy main
tanning the social balance with some
sweetly pretty girl on the other end Of
the see-saw.
Il sometimes wonder if these timid
girls have seen through the situation as
we birds of another feature have seen
through it,
Many a time when I've found myself
one of a company where l was expected
to supply the vitality for the whole
crowd have l been tempted to shift my
role and for once play the part of the si-
lent member. But it wouldn't work: not
only would the hostess never forgive me
for destroying her well laid plans, but
whatever little social value l may hap-
pen to possess would be endangered"
7 A. lot of small boys We're coasting down
the sidewalk of a back street one day this
Week just as a reporter was passing
a dirty youngster finished the descent
upon the remains of dust pan and pick