The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-23
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
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Good-natured people who go abroad
are frequently the victims of their own
amiability and their friends The lat
ter are sure to impose all sorts of COM
missions on the tourists, who find
thmselves much hampered thereby
These friends are certain to want the
most impossible things, ranging from
live stock to some unobtainable object
of historical Importance
There was one young person who
was very much eated over her pros
pectiVe tour and who in the eXuber-
anCe of her enthusiasm, promised all
the people she knew everything they
suggested as desiring to have her
bring to them. She went blithely
away on her journey and enjoyed every
minute of it, after the manner of good
natured people, entirely oblivious of
her promises. 1t was not until she
was about to return home that she
CHANGED to recall the fact that some
where in her trunks was a list Of arti-
cles she had solemnly agreed to con-
vey to many waiting friends. She hur-
riedly searched for the list. Good
natured people are always in a hurry
for they invariably take so much more
upon themselves than is expected Of
them or that they have any right to
attempt and spend so much time lis
teninG to bores that the days and
nights aren't long enough for tn a"1 But
this is aggression. our young WO-
man did, for wonder, find the desired
memoranda after much trouble; for
good -natured people can't stop 10 keep
am orderly condition of their mortal
affairs, and the forgotten data ap-
palled her. The largest item she had
contracted to take home was certain
brand of PcrcherOn horse whi,h she
was to secure in particular part Of
Normandy. This was for a kind old
uncle in the country who had been lib
eral in his birthday remembrances
since the date of her first. Now she
had been in Normandy and had FEAST
ed her happy eyes on the real land
sCapes that hung on the walls of gal
leries at home and had walked over
ground full of the romance Of history
that had made England and the New
World and all that i'm them is Her
eyes We're alight with the glamour Of
the past and the panorama of the pres
ent and the big dappled grey horses
she saw only as a part of the ineffably
lovely landscape.
Now, i'm the colder light of Paris
ian morning, she suddenly thought
how absurd it was Of Uncle Joe To
Imagine that she, i'm three rlCntnS'
tour could bother to look up "A horse
and import the same to the land #
the free, Why it would he like a huge
speckled elephant. OF course, it vas
absurd, and then she wouldn't listen
To the little hateful INTERPOLATION ot
conscience, that If she hadn't been so
swift to promise absurd things she
wouldn't have this bad quarter of on
hour; for certainly Uncle Joe had hrpl
a dear, and she turned a sapphire and
diamond ring round her finger some
what nervously as she mused. Wen
she must get something else, that was
all, ana Uncle Joe must be content
Then, OH dear! The very next thing
on the list was certain point uf the
Mona Lisa in particular shrine
frame To be found only in Florence and
in certain shop. In Florence our
tourist had spent most Of the time i'm
the l'fiiZi and she had revened i'm the
rich treasures of art TO be found in the
rare old city ana never once had she
thought of the Mona Lisa. Hateful
old thing anyway" she said to her
self. II never could bear her with
those catty eyes of hers looking al.
ways round a corner. / wouldn't have
her watching me-nO, not even If