New-York tribune., 1899-06-07
LIGHTS AND SHADOWS.
ppr.rI FROM THE FIELDS.

A BREATH FROM THE FIELDS.
She was short. stout. almost to pudghess on.
had smiling face and twinkilng oiue eses s',s
seemed TO tell OF large fund of good nature ohe
had been down on Long Island somewhere anu
,bosa whom she had visited had sent her back 10
her city home laden with priliiaht ".e" w
sweet smelling mass OF blooms ana ouus anu 80. 80
She had come down the East River on ieii i'o
from Long Island City. and was on hei way W ."
office in the Swamp" where the pungeh' ooo' u
leather would soon overpower the fragrance Oh her
burden Her route took her through Cherry-sI'
the unsayory road leading into Franklin SQUARE
and the short walk was all too long for the ho"r e
On miss M otsbly pease ve Eee years Down pair Of
big looked the laushins fo oi brole into
delighted grin as a grimy little first closed aiou"u
Td bunch ali ii sdes came the cry of the children for
nowers Just miss Please ser pIeasif fSe sif and al
every Sbaon Sna saa eousy Followed the gver the hill
When under the span she bnrhe Girls and crossed
hand hand with 10,o cResTS RTsnkn' r00'O'' '"''' w
"Goodby goodby,' was the answe., anu roo o donced
ith nfIessure and she did not miss the flowers
NOTHING ESSENTIAL WAS WANTING.
Tho colored people of a little Georgia community
in' u,,,ht1v excIted about a wedding that was to
,aLo pIaca among them. None were more 80 thah
o,d Aunt Sarah whose skill in cookery hao peen
battered by a request that she should maze 'ne
cake She was fully convinced that the "ho.
success of the wedding depended on that CANE an
she devoted all her art making II perfect Ai.ei
,ba wedding was over one or Aunt odIah "'
friends happened to meet her and asked no" ever!
thing had gone "oh tell YER" she said d,Ss %Ss
lust the bestest weddin' ever you saw o'''
never see nothn' like It, ~
Good, M-m-m! Everybody said dey didn't never
eat weddn' cake like dad one.
And how did the bride look! or, IN white.
Sen Tl1 d. bridesmaids M-m-ml Eight oh EN- ad al
drgssed drS de- IN safr VEIL @ jest use ryn y to
ten yOu bout r, it, PSy SGat canw snw no"0'' it, N'
0SAi %And j. how SV'' did the bridegroom lOOkT
The bridegroom-how did he look 1vhv
"oh de aG ID mess pTeesr1H 8arer man
amt put In no pearance at all
A DISAPPOINTED ARTIST.
Tho trials of an artist many and sore out one
o,oo,,rtored recently by a young New-Yorker VINO
earns scanty living with his penci anu VI 9
~ &c ludicrous side also. Though his heart Is
,ruo IN "art for arts sake the exigences oi rent
clothes and food make necessary an oceas ~
sort to trick painting, at which ne Is cleNei' anu
uouor-dealer who about to open ne" anu
extensively decorated saloon gave him an oruer
~ ..a,,o.btns that will put the laugh on fresn
customer" Design size, etc. we're LETT "hohy ~
the artist: price not to exceed $40 acceptance ''
jcct to approval .,r,o ord
tben procuring n small, rough ~aai poA aoou'
tyolva inches long and six inches wide, spread MS
canvas on the inside of the bottom of 1t ana painted
thereon about a half pint of broken peanut she.S
and n handful Of whole peanuts. lie eXecu'eu Tue
,,orL en- well that when the box, whcn haq no no
oTar vas set on a table or bar ana uIteu DaC
against the wall the temptation for man ioIu Io, oi
nsanuts 10 reach into the box for one was alIlost
yresjetIbe and the artist tried the tlcK upon So - ~,
Of his own friends with success Delore tahl"s 1t ~
' lie asked $50 for It, and felt that the money %as
as good as in his pocket, but TO MS INTENSE i us
ei,s1 The man OF spirits would not aCcepI IL. au
when pressed for his reason would give ,, no wbo
VactnrIY exclamation. friend Of the artist, VINO
had the confidence Of the rumseleT undertoos sa "a
ga at 'aThey were too natural altogether, saIu
I,u .h or, o natron land some OF my customers VINO
do not care for peanuts seeing the box standng AZ
The end Of nv bar. might go away unGecelVeu anu
think / was selling peanuts. That wouid heve, % w.
Now IL II had been some rare tropicai iauIn, o'
a,or burnt almonds that might go, but peanuts,
never: not in this high-toned pace-they are 100
cheap"