The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-09-17

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and the glory of 1t! Delve down into
your dusty chests Of memory, ye old
bachelor or benedict, and brush away
the mists of added years, that ye may
smile at the recollection of the time
your heart went pit-a-pat, when doting
on the girl, several years your senior
for a boys first love is always showered
on the girl who wore long dresses while
he was being measured for his first pair
| of long pants, What rocked you II she
scarcely deigned to notice you; you rev.
eled in the pleasures Of your own
dreams. Probably YOU were emotional
enough to shed litter tears when she
moved away and the BAH game lost It's
charms for several days afterward.
But a day came when your voice grew
deeper. a razor became part OF your
personally. You smOthered your BASH
] fuIness into a consent TO attend the pic
mic out the run, picnic made up OF boys
and girls you knew at school. The
pleasure the budding belle found at her
first ball wasn't greater than yours at
! the close OF that picnic. How they
paired you on you never knew or
cared, but the woods rang with song,
even the birds twittered in delight over
the heads OF you and her. Your hrst
girl!
first. But It was heaven to hear her
voice. and you listened, only gazing ut
her peaoh-blown cheeks when you
thought she wasn't looking. II her
ewes caught yours full your face
didn't grow redder than 1t did when
your own, sizing up your hands
and feet, seemed to peer through mag
nffying glasses. For the life Of you, next
day, you couldn't remember of having
said anything but bunch OF random
emo. ma'ams," and ''yes'm's." But
another picnic followed, and you were
together again. Soon you were known
as her STEADY company" Soon your
| wardrobe wuxed fat with the latest hats
md shoes. Soon the old crowd at the
| corner lost Its charm, and your chums
/ leased you for Having II so bad" They
couldn't depend on your being with
! them two evenings out OF the week any
more, for q new chapter in your lie
had begun.
But with the death OF summer and
the dawn OF cooler season, the OPEN
Ing paragraph OF the new llfe-chapter
stood forth in glnring type. outdoor
| courtship was to give way to paror en-
vironments. And the old man had to
| he bearded in his den. You faced. him,
and with victory came another battle
| Snr his daughters hand. The which
woulu form an interesting climax
Hillside farming should be productive
Of enormous leg development. The ag-
rIculturlst who this farm, which
seems to run to att Up and down, by
reason OF his pedestrian movements
behind the plow aud hoe, as he slowly
lnbors up his hillside, only TO retracc
his footsteps down again In daily profu-
sion, ought TO have an expansion OF his
| lower limbs that would throw into the
corridors of obscurlty anything boosted
| OF by the blatant acrobat or athlete.
| N the man who works the hillside
shouldn't have n cent at the end OF
| Inc year to show for his toilsome climbs
and descentA his legs ought ut least to
be rs big hs barrels
II was while watching farmer
gracefully mcander up and down the
| side OF n hill-hls sole patch OF ground
| that q wheeling tourist In Hump
shire county evolved scheme which
| bore testimony 10 an inventive eere-
hrum. The Wheeling young man sat
! nj the bottom OF the hill, LAYING his
persplrlng brow and he evinced great
interest that burning August day, Eag-
| ing on the Hampshire rurtiist. bend
| ing his back 10 the sun. as his hoe hack
| ed nj the base OF the corn, which for
nil the world looked like gigantic
cane rack set on end, for the hillside
almost rose up perpendicular from the
edge Of the creek II was when the