The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-07-30
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"Well-ef-t0 tell rue tfutn-tlle 1act
is -you see-well," said the man, I'm
have TO tell YOU ALL There's been a
man in there with smallpox, though of
course it isn't gene 'ally known, yor
know. and they won't let anybody in
till it's been fumigated.
And pardonably proud OF his success
in fiction he mopped his brow.
| ooh" said the girl why didn't you
saw that before? Why, 4 don't mind a
| little think like that. I've had small
pox. Just go tell them that.
The young man did tell them. He
| came back triHe wan and pale, and
| when the girl later asked him the time,
he turned scarlet, and said he'd left his
watch at home But they saw the old
house from garrett to cellar, anyway
and the watch is i'll safe hands.
I heard a phrase not long ago which
is so pretty that | venture To offer it
as an addition to your stock Of express
sions. though it may not BE- as new 20
YOU as it was to me. Somebody was
asking a dainty little Austrian woman
something about an artist whose en-
gagement to lady in the lard of ms
birth was announced. dear only knows
how many years ago.
DO You think Mr.. Such-a-One really
will marry?" asked somebody.
"Oh. yes. indeed" she said, she Will
marry-when the blue snow falls"
And if there can be a prettier way
than that of saying never" I'd like TO
know it,
One of the literary men of .he town
has taken II house for the summer in
one of the suburban towns near. and
there he was visited within the fortnight
by Il somewhat dorsey but exceedingly
popular young society man, who stayed
over night.
Its awful quiet out here, amt it?'
said the guest during the evening. 'No-
body round, nothing to iodon't y)u
| find it lonesome?'
, "Oh, no." answered the author. II like
it,"
Il suppose you do" said the horsey
young man. contemplatively. Il guess
| it suits you down 10 the ground You
literary fellows always do like soi'ci-
tude."
| A young man with an obvious air Of
being perfectly correct and up-to-date,
/ rode out to Chevy Chase one afternoon
| of the week. ] mention his air. because
but for that / should have dismissed
| his hat as harmless eccentricity. In
view of his air, and of what 4 girl who
| knows him told me about him later, |
realize that the hat he wore was in
accordance with fashions latest decree.
and we shall see hats. like it in droves
/ when fall comes. 1t was a hat OF scft
] brown felt. almost the shape of the
| grayish hats. bound about with what
| looked like handkerchief or wash
cloth. that men Wore ut the out-of-town
resorts and on the golf links last year
| 1t had a folded band of brown sill: a
shade darker than the felt, and on the
| left side. where the ends Of the silk
/ were fastened. was Il guinea-fowi's
| feather-a small. polko-dotted, black and
| white guinea feather, tucked into the
band. / don't know the Significance #
it. and / won't tell who the man was
| but he was in the latest mode a mode
| on which Dame Fashion has set her
stamp of approval, her guinea's STAMP.
as one may say.
Until a few days ago | aad always
supposed that there were bur four ages
| in woman's life, the young, the still
young. the weIl-preserved. and the eld-
erly. but Il man | know has added 10
my knowledge fifth age 1t comes in
somewhere between the still young and
the well-preseryed. | imagine. | said
| to him. maliciously:
How old is Mrs. Blank? Is she Il
young woman!'
Not exactly" he made answer,
.'she's-well, she's at the age When II
woman always tells you, when she IN
PRODUCES her oldest son to you, that
she was married ridiculously young"
There is marked, a more than
marked GOODNESS in certain Rhode Is
land avenue neighborhood inspite or
the weather, and this is how it came
about Mrs. SIS being as good n let
ter as an other-was lying on her bed
one hot afternoon, when Mrs. BIS card
was brought in. Mrs. was not dressed
to see anybody, and she didn't know
Mrs. Il well enough to go down as she
was. The maid had been prompted of
the evil one to say she thought Mrs. $
was ut home, and Mrs. $ said several
things very emphatically as she rose
aid began to dress. Her sweet-faced
daughter was in the room, and begged
permission to go down and entertain
Mrs. b while mamma dressed. Mamma
consented. The angel child descended,
and presently her shrill, piercing voice
fIoated up the stairs.
lis you got friends i'm HalifaxY it ask
ed. Mrs. BIS reply was inaudible.
well, is it cool in Halifax" the small
voice went on. Mrs. BIS reply, again in
audible was apparently i'll the affrma-
tive, for the small voice expressed great
relief in its next remark.
'Oh," the fond mamma up stairs heard
it say, II dess that's why mamma said
she wished you was there this hot day. 7
Mrs. BIS reply to that was far from
inaudible. 1t was slam1ning of the front
door that Jared the house, and since
then the mercury in the thermometer
climbs down to near the point of abso-