The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-06-20
The Modern Adam and Eve.

and live out of doors?" she said.
Yes. IL you want 10 live at ALL was
the Doctors answer.
/ Wen, really. sometimes don't care
| the snap Of my finger for living. It's
SO monotonous and so hopeless,'
mo wonder! You have made a ma
| chine of yourself When you ga back
| To Mother Earth you're country girl
are you notD you will be in love with
/ life again. as You were dozen years
ago, when you couldn't stay out of doors
| enough 10 satisfy your craving"
| II remember" her eyes Frightened y
| loved 10 work in the garden; not the
| flower garden, but among the vegeta-
bles, homeiy, useful things-like myss {
| No one can give me points on painting
I'm a farmers daughter
| The doctor took UP the morning paper
and read: ITO let. small cottage
| house. modern improvements. with kitch-
en- garden; terms easy
Would that suit me?" she said.
| 81 think so.''
"FlI apply"
| Let me know the result" said the
doctor. as he ushered her TO the door.
| II was such pretty cottage, and the
owner lived next door. His name was
| Adam Everett. She smiled when the
| agent told her this, for she was Eve
Sherhurne. "A new Adam and Eve" she
said softly, seeming romance in this
untried country
/ your husband, madam" said ths
| agent suavely, will be sure TO like this
place; and if he has taste for farm
| ing he will find every facility to crafty
it. The former tenant was an enthusi-
] asst. and improved the place wonderful
| ly."
Indeed. Lost his money, run away
or died?"
Married. It spofls mans prospects
/ beg your pardon thousand times;
mean unless the woman is practical and
a home body. Now, you and your hus-
| band will be contented and prosperous.
"A happy prophecy. Does the owner
1 object to letting the cottage to a single
! woman?"
The agtn raised his eyebrows. "Aren't
you looking for yourself? 1 thought YOU
| seemed so pleased with everything thai
! you were coming"
81 am. The husband you credit me
with does not exist"
! Miss Sherburne learned a few days
| later that she would be a welcome ten
| ant; so, taking the doctor out to pass
| judgment, she engaged Hawthorne cot
! tage.
| She had lived there a week and had
! not caught a glimpse of the owner. She
almost lived out OF doors. She unpacked
| her violin and practiced music almost
| forgotten in the stress of daily mechan-
ical work. She sang, too, and the song
fioated in through the open windows OF
the next cottage.
II wonder if it would be wise to call
| thought Adam Everett. 81 hardly know
| the etiquette" He was a florist He
! loved flowers, and their cultivation was
| to him a pleasure as we'll as profit
! When he saw every available inch OF
his tenants grounds being planted and
sown he succumbed to curiosity and in
! terviewed Miss Sherburne's gardener.
What does Miss Sherburne intend to
do?" he asked carelessly. II see you
are planting"
"She wants to raise and sell vegeta-
| bles,'' said the countryman. 'and, by
gum, she knows more about II than a
regular farmer. She can give me points
She's a worker, too; she can handle the
tools as well as man. If she were
only a bit heavier, but she's gaining.
Her cheeks are red as poppies."
Eva Sherburne sat on the riazza at
| dusk resting. She heard the gate click
and a step on the graveled walk A
voice said, I'm Mr.. Everett, your land
lord. l came over to get acquainted.
have brought some flowers"
They are lovely. o, thank you! The
country is beautiful
Sitting in the rocking chair In the
dusk she talked and he listened, then
be talked and she listened. They found
much in common.
One day, returning to his 6 o'clock din
ner, he found on his table some aspara-
gus in delicate dish, temptingly served.
A card beside announced Miss Sher-
burnes compliments 1t will be her
pleasure to supply cooked vegetables in
their season."
To her door he carried every morning
flowers enough TO make her rooms fra
grant and beautiful. The rain, the winds,
the CHARM of woods and fields, the quiet
and the freedom won Eve back to health
again. She was in love with life once
more. Was it because of the friendship
that had crown between a lonely man
and woman she wondered, or because
she was in better health.
Adam Everett, man fashion, wasted no
time in wondering. At the gateway ISSka
stood one lonely night resting her aIm
on the bars. singing softly. Up the path
to the other side came Adam. She made
a motion to unclose the gate. He stopped
her, saying: Keep it shut, Eve. until
me- fate is settled. Am to enter Para
disc? I found on my table tonight a
plate Of apples, woman's gift. I have
eaten. You have tempted roe away from
my solitary existence Tbs first Eve
tempted man out of Paradise, you are
tempting me In
A blush suffused her fair face. She
stepped back and swung the gate wide
in answer Adam entered.-Boston Post.