Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-07

apple from my own side. When re.
turned Miss Eve had disappeared.
'It doesn't look quite SO large of
the tree" suggested, placing the
apple upon the table.
it critically, II scarcely think it does.
but it is very fine one"
Perhaps your daughter would like
to see it?"
"Ye-es." She laughed. II am
afraid it will make her feel rather
envious" She rang the bell, aud the
servant came. ''Ask Miss Eve tc
come for a moment, please"
After few minutes waiting during
which Mrs. Parker discovered that We
had some mutual frien Is, and asked
me to call iu there sometimes, pretty
Eve reappeared, looking guiltily de-
fiant.
'Mr. Newton wants you to see his
apple, Eve, dear. Isn't it beauty?'
Eve flushed and gave me swift
glance.
EYES," she said, hesitatingly. She
seemed to be studying the floor rather
than the fruit
'.It might be o fellow to the one
that tempted Ever observed, With
a smile. She traced a pattern With
her foot.
adam was also tempted.
''By Eve, 1 believe? I don't fancy
he wanted the apple much, did he?"
She blushed again.
''You could not have nicer apple
than this, anyhow" She looked right
at me at last. Her eyes said quite
plainly, "You needn't tell mother.
As ii I had any such intention!
II am glad you like it," L said,
''because 1 want to give it to you, if I
may. 1 could not help noticing that
you admired it."
"There. Eve!" said her mother. 81
told you that everyone would see that
you coveted it"
'T-I am sorry" she said, in sub
dued little voice.
"Please don't say that. or you will
spoil my pleasure in giving il"
"Then-I am not sorry" She took
it with laugh.
Soon afterward I went, assuring
Mrs. Parker that I should soon avail
myself of her kind Invitation to call
again. hope they did not hear me
laughing when I got indoors.
The next day was Sunday. In the
afternoon Eve sat under the shade of
my apple tree reading book. SO
strolled out and looked over the wall.
Eve" 1 remarked. 'was turned
out of paradise for stealing an apple.
She looked up aud smiled. Then
she looked down.
''rhe annual apple on this side has
always belonged to Eve" she asserted
pretending to cut the pages of her
book. They were cut already.
''She might spare tiny piece for
ADAM" suggested. She glanced at
me out of the corner of her eyes.
"Adam was better without the
apple, you know" she assured me.
adam" I declared, ''needed no
pity at all"
She rested her chin on one hand
and looked at me inqniringly with her
big eyes. would put down how she
looked, if it were possible. 1t isn't.
Mere ordinary charms of feature or
coloring is common enough to have
words. Real prettiness is unique, I'M
nameable; little wilful curves of the
features, little waves of the hair
and ways" Sha is pretty like that.
"Adam." she remarked, ''lost Para.
disc and the apples.
"But he had Eve"
She studied her shoes, and seated
myself on top OF the wall.
"You have plenty of apples" she
said; ''and you are not shut out OF
Paradise.
"Then," 1 replied, promptly, 'T
will come in." did
"How do you know this is Para
dise?" she asked, demurely.
''Eve is here
She looked at me saucily over her
book.
"Poor Eve was much to be pltied."
She simulated sigh.
Because she lost Paradise?'
mo; because she kept Adam"
''Did she mind, do you think?"
"Well-you see, it was just very
little bit her fault that he ate the
apple.
''She would have eaten every scrap
herself if she had been q modern
Eve"
She looked up at the desecrated
bough and laughed. A stray sunbeam
danced in her eyes, like the dazzle of
diamonds.
81 think she could be persuaded to
share it with the modern ADAM" she
stated.
Thereupon she dived under the
chair cushion and produced it.
Nov you have Paradise-and the
APPLE" she told me.
''They are nothing" said, feel
ingly, compared with Eve" ="
But Eve-my dainty little Eve-is
coming to No. 81 in the spring. 1t
will save any further dispute, she