The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1902-06-27

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fraction of our peace of mind"
But can't something be done"
queried the girl.
Nothing that wouldn't be fool
hardy" replied the man. I've
thought it all out. Remember that
| you are quite comfortable here. You
are not alone. You have some one
near you who knows you"
"But 1 don't know YOU" said the
/ girl; "and I can't bear the thought
of staying here for hours"
There, there said the man, has
! thy, and his words had a soothing
tone. you mustn't feel like that.
Summon up your courage. Don't for
get that you are from Philadelphia.
There was something so whimsical
| in his manner that the girl just
checked smile.
"I've never forgotten it," she said,
little stifiy.
| 81 don't suppose they let you for
get it," said the man, with sudden
smile. $50 many things, as well as
persons, must remind you of it. No
doubt the speed of this car at the
present moment forcibly recalls the
wild rush and scurry OF the dear old
! Quaker town."
| There are some very nice things
about Philadelphia" said the girl.
"And some very nice people," said
the man, with comical little bow.
"And that dignified elaboration that
marks the town has its advantages.
Why, they even grow old slowly in
Philadelphia
The girl laughed softly.
| people who do not know us very
well, get wrong impressions" she
said.
| eve are very anxious to know you
BETTER said the man heartily, land
hope that you want to know us bet
|ter. Of course, it's all very different
here. We are so rude and so lively
Why, our fire engine horses actually
run when they go to fires. Yes, and
we have our window shades up in the
evening, and we have no ancient bars
of wood for our heavy inside blinds,
and our servant maids don't spend
half the morning scrubbing our front
| steps,"
| The girl really laughed.
That's dreadfully libelous,'' she
said.
Its simple statement of facts"
he answered. "There's nothing the
least bit malicious about it. We are
breezy and unconventional, but we
are neither envious nor untruthful
We may do things little shocking,
but then we have no long line of cir
cumspect ancestors to look down re-
proachfully at us from their dingy
gilt frames. In Philadelphia you are
looking backward, you know. Here
we are hustling forward"
| "You seem to have made a study of
Eour venerable town." said the girl,
''but 1 see very plainly that it is an
outside view, and consequently mar
row and biased"
"Of course that is the only view
permitted to western barbarians, -
laughed the man. ''How could we ex-
pect to be admitted to the sacred
inner circles?"
"How, indeed?'
"True," said the man, eve can
watch the grass growing in the
streets, and stare at the quick de-
livery boys sleeping on the fire
hydrants, but of that inner Philadel-
| phia life we can know nothing. How
placid it must be-"
cit is beautifully unruf1ed," said
the girl.
"Of course it is" said the man.
81 think your expression just de-
scribes it. Beautifully unruffled.
I'll make a note of it. Beauty with
out ruffles is beauty unadorned, of
course. Still, you know, beauty I'M
adorned in Philadelphia is quite diff
ferent from beauty unadorned in
Boston,
81 think you are talking nonsense"
said the girl.
From the Philadelphia point of
view, of course" said the man. 1.-THE
Philadelphia idea of humor is some
thing that can be laughed at later
on. That's good, isn't it? I'll make
a note of it, too"
He laughed lightly. The girl
echoed his laugh with little flash
of white teeth and the sudden ap-
pearance of a provoking dimple in
one cheek. The man, an interested
spectator of this phenomenon, at
once determined he would make her
laugh again.
"Am 1 to infer" she asked, chat
you really have visited Philadel-
phia %
ssSeyeral times" the man renlied
"but never when in hurry"
She did laugh again and the dim
pie came and went.
"And did you meet any really rep
resentative Philadelphians?"
81 have supposed 1 did. But it