New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-19
SOME WAYS OF THE WORLD
SUMMER FILTRATION THAT SENT A DOC
TOR TO THE MOLOKA1 LBPERs.

A WRECKED LIFE THE RESULT OF ONE GIRLS
rHorcuT1. EssNEss-EAsY WAY no TEACH
pRAwING-HoRsB SHOW CONTRASTS.
Like everything else IN this matter OF fact age.
love Is rapidly becoming eminently practical IL Is
obviously true that men no longer fall IN love
as they used TO. The youth of to-day walks
warily and carefully into the land of sentiment
infinitely scrutnizing the adjacent surroundings
and weighing the comparative advantages of the
different paths that he may choose from. When
therefore we hear among associates OF case
like the following. II seems quite medieval In us
romance.
Several years ago, young physician VINO hau
graduated with honors from the medical college,
and won golden encomiums from his chiefs at the
hospital where he had taken service thought he
would combine business with pleasure by selecting
some seaside resort for his summer outing. where
he could hang up his shinge and practise his pro-
fesson. while enjoying some social pleasure After
due deliberation he chose well known village on
the coast of Maine where for two successive sea-
sons his popularity caused him TO be In constant
demand both professionally and socially.
The second year of his sojourn a family from one
of the Western States leased of the principal
cottages of the place and as the household COM
prised several daughters whose ages ran from six
teen 10 twenty they Immediately became impor-
tant members Of the summer colony Before many
ond daughter became marked that they were re-
ported on every side 10 be engaged. That he was
head over ears in love obvious. and that the
young woman accepted his attentions with evident
pleasure was equally apparent, so, although the
family laughed when questioned on the subject.
and said It only "Emily's way" IL was uni
versally conceded that there was at least mutual
understanding
No one was more convinced OF his good luck than
the doctor himself lie no more doubted the young
woman's faith than he did his own. and his simple.
honest nature never for one moment conceived the
idea that he was being firted with for a summers
pastime.
AS the season waned, however. the maiden grew
colder. until at last. when pressed for an ex-
PLANTATION by her admirer she confessed that she
had been engaged for year to an officer in the
Navy, and that she expected TO be married before
Christmas
That DR.. S. had taken down his name from the
cottage door where he had been boarding and had
left rather suddenly without saying goodby 10 any
Of his friends and patients. rather surprised the
little community. but as the summer practi-
cally over and goodbys were the order OF the day
the affair excited little comment and It was
not until couple of years later that his quondam
associates heard Of the sequel of a summer girls
Irritation.
II is far cry. and q sad one from the gay little
New England watering place to the island Of Mo-
lokai, where the most hopeessly miserable COM
munity in the world appeals TO the pity Of the uni
verse. II the leper settlement OF Kalau-
pIpa, 1.-THE living tomb 1t has been appro-
priately called. that poor young Esculapus
carried his wounded heart. the world forgetting
and by the world forgot. giving up his life in a
hopelessly heroic struggle with incura5le disease
and misery far more despairng than his own
all for the sake OF "A rag and a bone and a hank
of hair" which he clothed with the attributes Of a
goddess.