Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-06-12

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in his manner that the girl just
checked a smile.
1--WE never forgotten it," she said,
a little stifiy.
81 don't suppose they let you for
get it," said the man, with a sudden
smile. $50 many things, as well as
persons, must remind you of it. No
doubt the speed of this a 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 a comical little bow.
"And that dignifed 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.
"We 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 u 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 u front
steps,"
The girl really laughed.
"That's dreadfully libelous," she
said.
TITS a 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 a little shocking
but then we have nc 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 O:
our venerable town." said the girl
"but I see very plainly that it is al
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 sacre'
inner ~circles?"
"How, indeed?"
"True," said the man, tive ca
watch the grass growing in tn
streets, and stare at the quick de
livery boys sleeping on the fir
h~ydrants, but of that inner Philade
phia life we can know nothing. Ho'
placid it must be-"
"It is beautifully unruf1ed," sal
the girl.
"Of course it is" said the mai
81 think your expression just dt
scribes it. Beautifully %unruflet
I'll make a note of it. Beauty will
out rufles is beauty u~nadorned, {
course. Still, you know, beauty III
adorned in Philadelphia is quite di
!, ferent from beauty unadorned
, Boston,"
81 think you are talking nonsense
said the girl.
4 "From the Philadelphia point
view, of course said the man. "Tf
, Philadelphia idea of humor is som
! thing that can be laughed at lat
}, or. That's good, isn't it? I'll NAL
a note of it, too"
S He laughed lightly. The gi
echoed his laugh with a little f1as
of white teeth and the sudden a
q pearance of a provoking dimple
one cheek. The man, an interest'
q spectator OF this phenomenon,
once determined he would make h
laugh again.
cam / to infer" she asked, eth
you really have visited Philad'
e phia?"
Several times" the man reptile
"but never when in a hurry"
; She did laugh again and the dill
Il pie came and went.
Il "And did you meet any really re
# resentative Philadelphians?"
81 have supposed I did. But
may have been a piece of empty pl
sumption on my part. 1 haven't
It lineage, you know, that would en-
tie me to recognition as an equ
D. And they are so exacting about
IT 1t is in the atmosphere, a sort
u moldy smell of ancient family vaul
Oh, / know you can't help it. Y
" encounter it at every turn. I have.
a the slightest doubt that the rever
il ancestor of your next-door height
# signed the declaration of indepel
ence."
I'd 81 think not" said the girl WI
N mock gravity. "T know that she
k, neither a child OF the constitution
Ia convention nor a spinster of the or
n inal thirteen. But just around I
re corner from our home lives a wort
D. old gentleman, whose grandfatf
was in the boat with Washingt
when he crossed the Delaware"
Ill "How fine!" gasped the man.
n suppose his fortunate descendant
il the grand chief splasher of the 81
is of the Patriot Scullers. What
ut idea for a new historical novel! !
Is. ten: Then the noble Washingt
ut folding his heavy military cloak S
closer about his towering form,
lie, his resolute eye sean the shade
he bank of the farther shore that dir
doomed beyond the field of interv