The daily morning Alaskan., 1903-07-04
4 ROMANCE OF
 . OLD PHILADELPHIA
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different from ourselves and more diff ferent than we are from each other.
 How different from that immense city which today is spread over thou sands of acres. whose streets are un- adorned except with colossal buildings and whose people are engaged in the mad rush for money! Then beautiful trees lined her thoroughfarcs, her houses were quaint little buildings. and her Quaker population wore broad brlmmed hats, broad tailed coats and knee brooches.
 Polly Pennell. nineteen years old, was the daughter of a Philadelphia Quaker father "thc strlctest sect Pharisee"- and Church Of England mother. Polly was pretty as a picture and had hosts Of admirers. an of whom were sharply watched by her curmudg. con father. Her most intimate friend was Rebecca Hamilton. Rebecca was not to the taste of old Pcnncll, she be. ing of the world worldly. She took fancy to Polly. however, and soon aft CT their first meeting one Sunday after church she came down the street car rylng alOft a beaver hat, two feet on the brlm. looking for an the world like a balloon jib, leg O mutton sleeves for spinnakers. and gloves laced to the el' bows. The rest Of her rlg was pro. fusion of tulle and india muslin. Meet ing Polly. she swoopcd down upon her and carried her on to dinner.
 Polly was rescued by her Quaker at. tendants and received severe ad monition to shun the worldly creature. But Rebecca was as much to POlly's taste as she was to Polly's parents distaste. A high bred dame, she dis dalned conventlonalltles as only neoes- sary for inferior people who did not know how to behave themselves and made her own rules. Within week after the rescue Polly had visited her ln her home. There she was taken Into dinner by a young Virglnian, the very antipodes Of a quaker, named Francis Dulaney. Ills dress was fur more ef- fective in .mpresslng young girl than the conventional black "stccl pen jack et' of today-a canary colored waist. coat embroidered with blooming red silk roses. clarct colorcd coat (with cuffs). fat brass buttons the size Of a modern individual butter plate. brcech es and stockings of the color of the coat. buckles on hls shoes and plenty of lacc about hls throat. How could any young girl rcs,st a handsome fel low In such attire? Polly certainly did not resist him. for she rcll lG love with him. and her love was returned. Re becca Hamilton fostcrcd the courtshlp not only for sympathy wi,h the young couple. but to score a point on the Quakers.
 Think of the broad brim halted, coal scoop coated old pmncli having for a son.in-law young man adorned like Francis Dulancy! Fancy the scene when these two costumes containing the two men stood before each other and the younger man, pcrfcc, stran- ger tO the older, asked for thc hand Of his daughter. or course he was re- fused. Could Quaker drab mate with canary and claret colOrg One might as we'll think Of a daughter of a prophet mating with a spanglcd circus rider. The old man stood rigid. listening Co the yonng ones cntrcatlcs, then gave a curt refusal. and Dulancy beat sul len retreat. Pinnel sent for his daugh ter. Instead of meeting an obedicnt child he found firm woman. She told him that she had pledged herself to marry Dulaney and would do SO.
 Pinnell placed Polly under the care of his sister. Patience. a woman more austere. more Quakerly dressed, morc commanding. than her brother. Polly was forbidden to leave the house unac- companied by her aunt and her father made preparations to take her to Eng. land.
 One crisp October morning i'm 1890 Pennell put on his broad brimmcd hat took his long stan. with a silver head os big as a dinner bell, and went down town. The duenna went to her room tc put 1t in order. She had no sooner en- tered than the door was locked from the outside. The family black servant was locked in the cellar. Then Polly, pale and excited. came downstairs and. pausing moment to bid farewell to home. sallied forth. followed by her maid. Under large buttonwood tree standing on a corner, were Dulancy and Miss Hamilton. with the Hamil' tons tilbury. Entering the tllbury. the party were driven to the home Of the Hamiltons. All the wedding ar. rangements had been completed. No less a parsonage than the mayor of the town performed the ceremony, and An drew Hamilton gave away the bride
 When Mir. Pennell returned to his home. he found gaping crowd Of broad brims before his house. attracted by the screams of his sister and his servant. who were demanding to be un. locked. Entering, he found the house abandoned by the child whom he had striven to keep from mingling with the slnful world. But, though he cons!d- cred a canary colored waistcoast em- broldered with flowers the livery Of Sa. tan, he did not consider forgiveness Q part of salvation. He never fOrgave his daughter and died unreconclled.
 Dulaney took his wife to Virginia, that home of the inlqultous Cavaliers.
 who, if in 1900 they had cut their hair,