Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-02

| really feel quite happy. Your restfulness
and composure increase, too, when you
see Just in front OF you two young girls.
who verify charm your eyes. IL IS a
| real pleasure to sit behind these girls
! who are brimful Of life, and who smiled
| al themselves with utmost satisfaction
! when they looked in tho glass the last
! thing they did on leaving home, and as
I they chatter, to compare the colors of
| their hair how il is put up, and just how
| their hats rest upon 1t. Then you let
your eyes go, not unwillingy, to their
faces, or as much of them as you can see
and you try TO guess which is the prettier
1T IS a hard thing TO do, but you try. one
has light hair, the others Is dark, and
it Is very beautiful. You always did like
dark-haired girls, and you have about
made UP your mind TO give the golden
apple to the brown-haired Venus. Just
at that instant some one screeches the
door. and the lovely goddesses twist their
necks like owly Alnervas 10 see who it
is coming I'm, and you see their eyes. The
one with dark hair has light eyes and
the light haired one has the darkest,
largest, and most magnificent dark eyes
you ever saw. You must admit that you
are defeated. The crown shall be given
TO the llght-hair. dark-eyed one. you
say, and you are about mentally TO hand
ii over to her, when the very act brings
YOU a little closer, and you make am
other observation. The girl with the fine |
eyes has a nose that looks like II is try
ing to see over the high hat Of the lady |
in front of her Instantly you look az the |
nose of the other 1t is shapely. strong. |
and perfect Greclan in shape. She'll |
get the prize yet" you say, almost loud |
enough for them TO hear you. and you |
are getting positively excited over IL. |
You are half tempted 10 put up a wager /
with yourself on the result. The preacher,
a clean shaver young fellow, comes out |
at this point Of your proceedings. and |
his presence checks you. He gives out a |
hymn, and you at once congratulate your
self on the opportunity of seeing their
mouths and teeth. You have been TO
church before. and you know that after
the hymn the collection is taken up.
Shall you give, or shall you wait till next
Sunday, and give twice the proposed
Then n thought strikes you
You'll make harmless bet. II
the light-haired, dark-eyed. snub-nosed
girl. with the high hat trimmed I'm
flowers turns out 20 be pretter in your
honest judgment than the dark-haired, |
light-eyed, Grecian-nosed gil, with low
hat trimmed in ribbons. you'll put IS
cents in the basket, but If. on the other
hand. the dark-haired lght-eyed. Gre |
,ian-nosed girl. with low hat. trimmed i'm
ribbons. turns out to be prettier than the
ight-haired, dark-eyed. snub-nosed girl.
with high hat trimmed with flowers
you'll spend your % cents in cigars. or | :
that's gurgling. As you think
If it, you wonder II there will be any
'redestinatiOn or foreknowledge that IS |
soing to settle the destiny of your silver
In the mean time the people and your j
iris have begun to sing. You are in y
positive agony The girl whose nose has | =
SEPARATIONS has the prettiest mouth you q
yer saw. the teeth are even, and as