New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-22
A TALE OF CANDY AND OPERA.
PROFITABLE SUGGESTIONS ON THE
HABIT OF EATING FOURTH-CLAsS
MAI. MATTER-AND ON OTHER
Subjects

AFTERNOON, ana TINS S a true SlOry- Ooiue ilhN4c
while before the other girl called for the girl OF
whom the story tells the girl OF whom the story
tells received a box OF bonhons by mail And
what did she do but eat some Of them-yes.
number OF them This was peculiar thing to
do, because they had come by mail and there
WAS no card to tell who had sent them, and
there was nothing to trace them By except the
makers name on the box. and they might be
fit to eat OF they might not, for who but
fool would have faith in a bridesmaids ware
OF his word?' Yet the name on the box was
that OF a tradesman well known and of good
repUte, and perhaps she trusted to that; and to
the average girl, anyway candy is candy. Still,
It was not likely that the tradesman had sent
them Of his accord. and there was no
knowing whether somebody else had not taken
them away from the shop, and there was no
knowing what that somebody might have done
to them. unknown to the tradesman. before be
sent them. and so she ought not to have eaten
them. there being no card with them. But
then, il is so easy to tell what ought to have
been done after something else has been done,
and she did eat several OF them-or more
When her friend came she offered her some. and
the friend ate a few. but not many. because it
was about time to start for the opera. II it had
not been for that she would have eaten more for
she was a girl, too, and candy was candy 60
her just as much it TO the other girl.
But they tore themselves away from the whole
box and went to the opera. While the overture
was going on the girl OF whom the story Tells
said:
"Oh, ] feel so queer"
How" said the other girl
"Oh, don't know; do you feel queer
mo" said the other girl
ut must be that candy" said the girl OF whom
the story tells. You didn't eat so much Of it
as 1 did"
The reason for this, as has been explained
was the same as the reason why the Carpenter
did not eat so many oysters as the Walrus did
Who sent you the candy" said the other
girl.
i don't know"
you don't know? But you ought not to eat
things that come to you by mail without any
name on them Why l read something in a
paper
"Oh. 50 did ~
do you feel any better?@
mo"
They were both silent for a few minutes. and
then just as the music began to be suggestive
Of potion scenes whether the opera was Iris
tan ind Isolde" or Romeo ct Jullette" does not
natter the girl Of whom the story tells cried
in a loud voice: "He said he would poison me.
She grasped the arm OF the other girl STOOD
up and dragged her out ~ the opera mouse.
Now what do commonplace persons do when
they are poisoned? First they send Tor oo'-
to-: then they die. either before the doctor
comes or while he waits, then they leave the
reporters 20 discover who did the poisoning ana
the police to make trouble and mix up the ce"s
al t,fc VI ~
duct herself in this manner? Not at all She
and the other girl Jumped into cab ana
she shouted. ITO the Waldorf and the opera
went on. Just as il such things as love and jeaI-
@ lsy and revenge belonged only on the stage
and not TO real life
In the gorgeous halls OF the Waldorf Astoria
a young man stood talking with his companions
There was a sound Of a horses hoofs.
CNow. Just pause to see how history goes III
circles A long time ago. in q story like this
there would have been sound Of horse
hoofs. because most people rode horseback
later such a story would say: There was a
sound OF wheels" because people rode IN car
riages This time there sound OF hoois
again. and not OF wheels. because they had rub
Der tires BY and by this particular line OF his
tory. having completed its circle. Will start Oh
on another loop and there will be rubber tires /
and no horses. and the sound will be OF
an electric gong. Won't that sound ro-
mantle Suddenly. above the harsh voice OF the
Baron. broke in the sound OF an electric gong
'Sdeathv cried his mental. now throwing Oh
his mask and revealing the livid, but still inn
pIacable. features Of Sir Roderck de Lush.
AN automobile is dashirg up TO the castle-gate!
1t has stopped"'D
But the time to write that story has not yet
come In the present case there was a souno !
Of a horses hoofs. In an instant two girls WIN