The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1900-08-16
THEY WERE YOUNG.
AND so WERE BOUND TO MAKE Ms.
ssg4..> TAKES.

Too Late They Learned That Discus
saon of Deep and Serious Problems
IL Not Always the Way to Attract .
Pretty Girls Attention.
They were young, shamefully young,
but they tried to hide it and thought
they were succeeding fairly we'll. They
waded through indigestible dishes, in
vented expressly for young men who
have not yet acquired self assertive
stomachs, and tried to be nonchalant
in the eyes of the waiter. They made
each move with stiff deliberation, and
with due gravity discussed art music
and the drama and settled certain deep
problems of humanity over which older
men are puzzling yet. In fine, they
.'ere getting huge and self satisfac-
tory pleasure out of their superior ex.
istence when the girl came in.
She was dainty and ethereal look
ing creature, and she modestly took g
seat at the opposite table with only
cursory glance of curiosity in their d.
rection before she began at the fatiguing
task of porting over the menu card
The thin young man with the wav-
ing hair and the white brow hung his
arm gracefully over the back of the va
cant chair next him and assumed q
much louder and more animated tone
than he had been using
Eyes" he said, "Cicero was right
when he averred that TO study philoso-
ply is to prepare oneself to die.
How true this is Often when engaged
in some deep study that is perfecting
my mind for this world 8 battles think
Of this and declare, with Montaigne,
that after all the end of our race 10
death and he who has learned to die
has unlearned to save. presume you
have read Montaigne, =" he added, adj
dressing the others, but glancing at tho
young lady, who was, however, quiet
ly reading a newspaper.
"No," said the young man with the
cuffs, as he turned himself SO the young
lady would be bound to look him
straight in the eyes the next time she
glanced up 1T have not studied him
deeply, and, moreover, do not care to
contemplate so dismal thing as death
Life-life with its endless movement
and beautiful coloring-is what inter
eets me most, although, as Mckay says.
All life is as a game of whist-the
biggest liars win. -
The thin young man was about to
answer this with a crushing blow from
the great. Carlyle, which should at once
crush any previous statement and estab-
lsh his right to be looked at and adj
mired, when the waiter committed the
awful indiscretion Of setting down be-
fore the angelic creature q common.
vulgar plate of ham and eggs. As tho
spirituelle beauty, however, waded into
the base viands with great energy they
gradually recovered from the shock and
returned to the attack.
Love and hate and friendship, war.
pestilence and bloody murder, wine,
women and song, and the fate of ma
lions and of creeds were discussed. all
the PHILOSOPHERS and all the philosophers
Of all ages were dragged into serv-
Ice, and an amount Of erudition that
should have won any woman's heart
was displayed, but all to no purpose
The divinity merely ate and ate.
It had just dawned upon them that
she was of course rare and unap-
proachable being. who was insensible 70
the attractions of handsome and brainy
men. when a. fellow with flaming
shirt front and tie that would stop a
tornado walked in with the stump Of a
Cigar between his teeth and pumped
himself down opposite the fair vision.
TO the two onlookers this was hor-
sihle sacrilege. and each Of the two felt
that 1t would be right to kick the coarse
fellow into 4he street if he were only
not 30 large. But the goddess only
hooked up and said:
why. hello, Billy Awfully glad
Soa blew In Cincinnati Enquiries.