Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-08-04

who have dissected love with your brutal
German philosophy. and found every girls
faults with such ease-it will be fun to
watch you founder in the meshes at
lastr
"Auntie. seriously. It will be the happiest
day Of my life. For four years my dreams
have been growing more and more impos-
sible. Who is this one7"
"She is the most beautiful girl know,
and the brightest and the best, and If she
gets hold of you she will clip your wings
and bring you down to earth. I'll watch
you with interest" said Mrs. Durham
looking over the letter again and laugh
ing.
''What are you laughing att"
Just a little joke she gets off in this
letter."
But who is she? You haven't told me-"
II did tell you-she's General Worth's
daughter, Miss Sallie. She writes she Is
coming up to spend month and wants
me to corral all the young men in the
community and have them fed and in fine
condition for work when they arrive"
"she evidently intends to have a good
time"
Yes. and she will"
FORTUNATELY my law practice is not
rushing me at this season. My total re-
ceipts for June last year were two dollars
and twenty-five cents. 1t will hardly go
over two-hfty this year."
1--WE told her you're a rising young
lawyer"
81 have plenty of room to rise. Auntie.
If you will just keep on letting me board
with you, I hope TO work my practice up
to ten dollars month in the course of
time"
Don't you want to hear something
about Miss Salhe?"
"Of course, I was just going to ask you
II she's as homely as that last one you
tried TO get off on me?'
i've told you she's a beauty She made
a sensation at her finishing school in Bal
timore. It's funny that she was there the
last year you were at the Johns Hopkins
university. She's the belle of Independ-
ence. rich, petted and the only child of
old General Worth, who thinks the sun
rises and sets in her pretty blue eyes"
so she has blue eyes?"
Eyes, blue eyes and black hair"
what a funny combination I never
saw a girl with blue eyes and black hair"
tits often seen in the far south. ex-
pect you to be drowned in those blue eyes.
They are big round and child-like, and
look out of their black lashes as though
surprised at their dark setting. This con-
trast accents their dreamy beauty, and
her eyes seem to swim in a dim blue mist
like the point where the sea and the sky
meet on the horizon far out on the ocean,
She is bright witty, romantic and full OF
girls life TO its full limit. She is fond of
society and dances divinely.''
That's bad. 1 never even cut the pig
cons wing in my life-and I'm too old to
learn"
'she has a full queenly figure, small
hands and feet, delicate wrists. dimple
in one cheek only, and mass of brown
black hair that curls when it's going to
rain"
That's fine, we wouldn't need a bar
ometer on life's voyage, would we2'
''No but you will be looking for pilot
and a harbor before you've known her a
month. Her upper lip is a little fuller and
projects slightly over the lower. and they
are both beautifully fiuted and curved like
the petals of a flower, which makes tho
most tantalising mouth standing chal-
lenge for kiss"
"Oh! Auntie, you're joking! You never
saw such a girl. You're breaking into my
heart. stealing glances at my ideal"
'All right, sir, wait and see for your
self. She has pretty shell-like ears her
laughter is full. contagious. and like mu-
sic. She plays divinely on the piano,
can't sing a note, but dresses to kill. You
might as well wind up your affairs, and
get ready for the first serious work of
your life. You will have your hands full
"But did 1 understand you to say she's
rich?"
yes. they say her father is worth half
a million"
do you think she could be interested
in the poor in this country"
Eyes, she doesn't seem to know she's
an heiress. Her father, the general, is
deacon in the Baptist church at indie
pendence, and hates dudes and tops with
all his old-fashioned soul. His idea of a
man is one of character, and the capac-
ity of achievement, not merely a possessor
of money. Still, imagine he is going to
give any man trouble who tries to take his
daughter away from him."
I'm afraid that money let's me out of
the race"
Nothing Of the sort, when you see her
you will never allow little thing like
that to worry you"
"Its not her dollars that will worry
IRE. It's the fact that she's got them and
1 haven't. But anyhow. Auntie, from your
description you can book me for one night
at least"
I'm going to book you for her laclSey,
her slave, devoted to her every whim while