The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-01-30

the gracefui pepper treess Wy
with smart carriages and--of courss
this won't be very interesting 10 YOU
hut YOU must remember ! had been
for : year living on the desert-thers
were any number Of pretty women
exouisitely gowned. IL was the hrst
sight had had Of civilization since
left home. and I'm not ashamed 70
confess that Just for a moment iet
rebellious against my lot. had never
known what poverty meant un,ii 'ha'
moment when was positively gaping
with astonishment 20 see people nv
inc the kind Of life which j used 10
on,v n short time ago. My love
seemed TO guess what was IN my
mind. He urged me again to leave
him and go back to the life TO which,
he said. my gay nature belonged. lou
can imagine didn't allow him to tax
Ike that for long
~ must tell you there was ono
house particularly which ! thought
was the most beautiful / had ever
seen IL was built in the old mission
STYLE with large open courtyard.
The walls we're covered with creepers
~ every hue-a mass of hundred
: radiant blossoms blending hundred
. perfumes. Around the house was
J big. smooth lawn-a green lawn
preener than any green you have ever
= seen-and here and there were some
, tropical plants and spreading palms
and orange trees and several big goid-
en- oranges were lying on the grass.
! You can ina CINE that il seemed haro
q IN have TO turn ones back on such
paradise 70 GO and look for cheap
l lodgings for the night.
3 IL wonder whether you will De
j. ashamed of me il / tell you that the
tears came TO my eyes. pinkeu
T. hard and wouldn't let them ges
: through. but l couldn't help them
lie bursting up. Yet when l felt my dear
e. husbands hand in mine l knew al
T. once that was truly happy Imagine
~ please, right in the middle OF TINS
~ street big live oak with a little sea-
70 underneath il. Here we sat for lev
III moments to rest and watch the car
ne riages drive by. and to admire tina
-. enchanted garden with its fairy-hk'
,l- house that really might have bee'
ed built Of flowers.
l." ".Do you think we should be an.
's- happier If we lived thereT my nus
band asked.
as eyes said, but am much haT
GU pier Just to have you than any 'hin
,e- else in the world. don't envy any
ng body their beautiful homes or an
I'D other thing, since they have not &c
YOU
ter Suppose lie said, you could ha'
me and that house, too, and
be- LETS imagine it, said.
ing 1--WE ought to know what the II
n.y. side looks like he said.
is ~ was just thinking OF that
it said.
nd I'm going in he said.
lar "Well. do you know, he got up al
lie entered the gate and strolled aero
,all the lawn and into the house. al
so there was l actually trying to DR.
me him back. thinking he must have 60
cps mad.
e ..Please don't GO any farther
any said. What will people think? Y
,ver make me dreadfully ashamed
ppy ".Well, it's our house. he said.
one "And-well. it was. that's all. "
an You believe that this ridiculous hi
be- band of mine. for all of this tin
ess- las been putting my love to the te'
oh, He pretended to me, from the mr.
, to to be poor-and he has all this veal
The He wanted to see whether my *
We would stand the test of poverty
Al is "And-oh, there is so much to s
able and this letter is really too long
ont ready. but am to ask you to co
July and stay with us, and when the
best ter is over. we are TO GO east
luch awhile. and then go to Europe
got our honeymoon Ia
be- News.