The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-07

"Men," resumed Winifred, stroking
the Angora beside her, "are, / admit,
a necessary evil can't exist without
them myself-but as for placing any
confidence in their silly speeches
and the increased elevation of the tiny
tiptilted nose was evidently intended to
express the measure of her diStruSt.
There are exceptions, Winifred," be-
gan Dick Donovan earnestly. you
spoke of men in general he continued
in explanation to the arched brows
momentarily, turned in his direction.
81 spoke of men-yes," murmured
the beauty superbly, her languid blue
eyes again fixed upon the haZy sky
line beyond the dipping sails along the
Sound, whereupon recalling sundry
opinions anent portionless youths, es-
pecially those unable to stocking-foo
the five-ten mark (Winifred tiptoed
just five two herself), the young man
perceptibly wilted. The Rev. John
Hamilton from the deeper shadow be-
yond the pink shaded porch lamp that
cast such a becoming glow about the
girl beneath it, gazed silently at the
sweet young face the while he unused
upon his mission pastorate somewhere
back among the hills-his three-fgur-
ed salary paid principally in potatoes
and next Sundays preachment in pre-
self denial and the follies of all car
nal pleasure and f1eshy beauty. He
laid nevertheless at Winifred's loaded
shrine what plain-faced Mabel Carew
would have given her soul to share.
Meanwhile the Hon. Vernon Hadding-
ton smiled. (The, Hon. Vernon Had
dington, it was observed, continually
smiled when in the vicinity of Miss
Winifred Worthington) 1t was gen.
orally conceded, indeed, that even such
Waywardness and WilfulneSs as hers
could not ultimately withstand the ar
rayed allurements Of shekels and social
distinctions. Something of this latter
having reached Dicks ear, thatimpetu-
Gus young man now gnawed his blond
mustache in silence while the Angora
continued to purr placidly under the
touch of Winifred's pink finger TIPS.
Cats had been much affected by Win
fred of late-also handbags-even knit
ting. Such "spinsteria," she said, were
becoming to her particular style Of in
genue youthfulneSs. Winifred, indeed,
had reduced the manipulation of this
style" of hers to something closely
resembling a Science-nOt to. say fine
art. Nonsense, Fred" Mabel broke
in; you're only a woman after all, and
YOU like to have pretty things said to
YOU Just as we all do. and like the rest
of You'll come to believe implicitly in
some man-no matter what you think
of the rest of the world"
"If I could only be sure" murmured
the beauty languidly-"as sure as am
of myself-but you never can tell
"And that's just where half the fun
comes in, Miss Fred" interposed Ted
DIV briskly. Gown UP for once now
isn't it really? If you're dead sure of
thing-like me, for instance (even the
reverend's risibles relaxed), you know
you own me body and soul, dead or
alive, married or single-that's where
I made my mistake
"Ted, dear, pussy's dropped her
ball." Winifred interrupted. See!
Catch it, won't you, before it reaches
the grass-the dew will spoil it,
hear that now continued the
young man to the company in general,
as he obediently restored the fluffy
worsted thing to it's slumbering owner;
land yet what good does it do me?
might slave my life out for her and in
the end like as not she'd go off and
marry some man who wouldn't so much
as open the door for her, let alone fetch
and carry for her cat"
Tied, you are positively tiresome at