El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-07
PAGES 9 TO IL.

and the melody of running water. Edith
looked at all the fair picture with ex-
quisite delight, but most of all she look
ed at this girl.
"You have not had time yet to find
out the thorns beneath the roses. )" re-
turned Nelsine, almost with an air Of
pique. being, in fact, rather given to
certain enjoyment in the little airs OF
martyrdom she assumed by reason of
her social isolation.
IT shall see nothing but the roses,
my dear. I never saw SO many together
in all my life before. And to think that
I actually have been wasting sympathy
upon you, you wretched little impostor!
You write charming letters, Nelsine.
but you belong to the school Of the i'm
pressionists. Your scenery is always de-
ightfully vague and sketchy. I had
imagined you in bowling wilderness. -
"Well, think the wilderness is here,
for all the roses. You forget that one OF
the drawbacks of Arcadia is lack OF
society
''No, / don't. l count that in with
the roses and other blessings. Society Ia
a nuisance.
"Ah, you are like man who had
just dined, crying out, Who wants any
thing to eat?' You have been satiated
with the world, the flesh and the devil
for the time being
81 have, my dear, certainly, and the
last may take the first and welcome, sc
far as am concerned at this moment,
luxuriously swaying back and forth, en-
joying the landscape with eyes hall
closed.
"You are perfectly blasphemous, you
constituencies creature! | lament afresh
that we are so miles from church priv
ileges.
"What relief it must be in the mat
ter of bonnets'' rejoined the girl, smil-
ing incorrigibly. For my own part, ]
shall appreciate the opportunity for find
ing tongues in trees, books in the run
ming brooks, sermons in stones, and all
that sort of thing, without the draw
back of congregation, but suppose
there are neighbors somewhere her
glance speculatively ranging the dis
tant hills.
''Oh, yes Within a radius of 90 miles
there are several families-such as they
are. Good people, too, but You know
the type''-shrugging her dainty shout
ders. Nottingham lace curtains i'll the
parlor and God Bless Our Home in
worsted work over the mantel. -
Il recognize the description, and is
the young woman yonder one of the Ma
tives?''
"Artalissa'' -glancing down at the
young woman by the creek, Who had
now put down her pan and was gather
ing roses on the other side-'Oh, Arta-
LISA is from Nebraskar' g.,
''Artalissa of Nebraska. What fetch
ing title that would be for noveli1
idly amused with the idea.
81 believe she might tell bit Of a
story if she chose 1 have heard some
hints of a romance. Somebody think
1t was her sister-married her lover
Nelsine explained, with the smiling in
difference we accord to the tragedies Of
other lives.
''And SO Artalissas heart was bro
ken, Edith rejoined, regarding ths
girl with languid curiosity.
eff it was, she believes in the theory
of similia sinilibus curantur. In heI
limited sphere Artalissa is dreadful
iirt The boys on the place are all dead
in love with her, for which l am de-
voutly thankful, hoping they may
amuse her sufficiently to induce her to
stay
death to the frogs perhaps, but
"Oh, men have died from time to
time, but not for love- replied Mel
sine, calmly cynical. IF it is fun fol
Artalissa, l am not disposed to worry
about the frogs. The servant girl diff
Guilty is too serious in Wyoming to be
about trihes-another of thu
drawbacks of Arcadia. We have more
than work enough here for two girls,
but even with the bait of $50 "a month
it is all we can do to find one When
read of 900, 600 working women OH the
verge of starvation in New York, il
makes me furious. If only the senti-
mentalists and silly pbilanthropists
would stop talking and writing about il
and devote their energies toward bring.
ing those starving women west, where
they are needed
''She is rather handsome remarked
Edith absently, her eyes following the
girl. There seems even a certain ali
Of refinement about her. I should hard
" have regarded her as belonging to
that class. -
"That class! For PHYS sake, Edith,
don't breathe such a reflection aloudl''
,ried the other in comical dismay. car
alissa belongs to the best sOciety-ln
Arcadia. She teaches a district school
n the winter with half dozen schol-
RS. In the summer she has done house
york in certain we'll recommended fam
lies, partly, 1 believe, because of the
title family unpleasantness before re-
erred to, on account of which she pre-
ers not to go home, and partly because
# canny eye to business. And 1 sup
'ose the next thing she will be getting
married. live in fear and trembling
uch havoc as matrimOny has ALWAYS