Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-03-23
i GOSSIp'S CONFESSION.

For some reason or other-it is not
well to eXcayate too deeply into our
reasons-I am touching up their wan
ing decorations with sprigs of mistle-
toe. Being the Sage's Junior by TWEEN
ty years, it should be my duty to look
after him-middie-aged people are SO
easily led away; but, as it is holiday
time, | think he deserves a chance.
Five p. m. She came. With laugh
ing lips that matched the holly berries
she threw at him a host of good wishes
for the New Year, and %! how much
besidesI"
What smart decorationsw she
chirped delightedly How bright the
holly is! | love looking at it. but hate
pricking my fingers in the arrange
mentn
"All the brightest things of the
world are prickly," he said feelingly.
"Holly-roses- girls -
Not girls. Girls are like nettles-
harmless TO those who know how to
handle them
by the way she jerked out, evil
IDENTIFY for the purpose of changing the
conversation, 4 am longing to intro
duce you to my Phyllis. This is her
first visit to London, and talking to
her is like talking to Judge. She says
such naive things.
Its scarcely wise to invite a man
to meet pretty girl till you know how
many naughts there are in his in
come"
But when it's all one big naught-
l,
HARM" sh laughed
I'm ketn on hearing some of Able
Perosi's work. They ought to give
his Resurrection of Lazarus over
here"
another prodigy! They say he is
only 20! Mr.. Kipling must have set
a fashion in juvenile genius Since
his debut. twelve years ago, all sorts
of precocious artists have revealed
themselves"
Talking of Mr.. Kipling, have you
read his "reminiscences of Westward
HOP They are absolutely jolly, aren't
they? So inspiriting. But he mod
estly refrains from telling us how
Gigs, otherwise BEETLE, put his talent
to practical uses at an early age. AS
a small boy he was, of course, tagged
by the bigger ones, and once, when in
the act of smuggling a parcel of con-
traband goods-cider, l think it was!-
he suddenly met the housemaster-the
gentleman he calls Mr.. Prout, you
know! Well, Mr.. Prout, on various oc-
casions. had evinced eondescending in
terest in Kiplingesque anecdotes, so
the youngster, feeling retreat to be i'm
possible, greeted the enemy with the
most astounding yarn that ever tickled
mortal ears
''Splendid.''
''rhe ruSe succeeded-more than sue
ceeded. The housemaster was fas-
cinated-just as all of us are fas-
cinated today-and the better to hear
the tale tthe youth was putting and
painting under the combined weight of
his load and his iniquties), volunteer
ed TO bear hand with the parcel, and
thus, all unconsciously, was the means
of steering the precious cargo into
port
The Sage laughed unbelievingly.
I'm afraid we must take the story
cum grano,' he said
Not Il bit of it. The tableau. as
seen by Stalky. MacTurk & Co, from
IL
item in the school history!'
Il should like to hear what he has
TO say about the promise of universal
peace
so should /. If any one could eX-
press a wink of poetry, he could. Tell
me. what do they mean by Bulling and
Bearing on the Stock Exchange? |
suppose. translated. it means process
by which somebody wants to get the
better of somebody else. doesn't it?'
THAT is the long and short Of it, I
fancy. But what has Bulling and
Bearing to do with Kipling:'
20. only that | thought he might
translate the process into diplomatic
language and call it the European
Jungle Book.
In these matters. I'm afraid. he
loves to call spade a spade. Even in
fiction. he practices the fine art of ly-
ing truthfully.'
"There is such a thing as being too
truthful Like Phyllis: we We're at
sale this afternoon, and the shopman
showed us a lot of tumbled things
NANCY fur neclSlets among them-and
said. perSuasively: They're much
worn. madam They look sO.' she
answered quite seriously
she must be "A unique young lady.
| am anxious 10 see her We must
take her to something; say the Opera
Comique: We are having an extend
ed Carroll season. and every one is
going Alice in Wonderland mad
The Butterfly laughed. Have You
heard that club for the baldheaded
* about Ia he started in Brussels: :" She
asked. Every candidate must display
a smooth dome of twenty-one square
crntimetreS
~On pain Of being blackballed? I've
often thought that the hairless needy
might earn q livelihood by being tat
tooed with the name of somebody or
others soap
But suppose the somebody or other
ceased to pay up: II would be a trifie
inconvenent ! know poet who was
much in love- and decided TO have tat
tooed on his arm Il heart. with Iso-
beFS forever in the center. TnfOrtu-
natelv. a miSunders. anding arOSe-Iso-