The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-07

doing things by the blunt term phil
istinistic;" at least. one of them did
when the other limited that they speak
with Dolly. And the other readily
agreed, and made humble apologies
They would not even be on hand to
watch Dolly come forth from her days
work. to see whether she went to her
nome, not because they would have
cared where she might live, but because
they would not run the risk that lay in
seeing her feet!
Think they told each other, our
Dolly, the ideal maid, may have feet
that are anything but ideal We never
see them now; kindly counter hides
them. OF course, they may be-very
likely are-perfection. like the perfect
parts of her we see. But let us not haz-
ard the possible jar that would come
from finding our idol imperfect"
Nor would they speak to her, either,
laughed to think how the richly dressed
girls about them might feel if thsy
knew that two young men, born and
bred as well as they, sat in their midst
oblivious of them, conscious that one
far fairer than they was dispensing
buns with unjewelled fingers, such as
theirs could never hope to be. But they
both feared to try the hazard of bad
grammar, and, to give them the credit
of their mood, to break the spell of their
intangible, sweet, pure intimacy of a
few daily glances and smiles from afar.
When they spoke of Dolly, it was as of
something fine and subtle, an essence, a
dream, as well as a person.
What Dolly thought of this aloofness is
another question. She was a girl; perha pS
she was puzzled, perhaps she was even
! piqued. One of them suggested in fact,
the horrible possibility that perhaps she
thought them SLOW"
Well thus the weeks passed, and from
! their morning glimpses and silent commune
/ ion with Dolly, gradually a gentle aware
ness of her fresh. sweet presence in the
world crept into all their waking hours.
/ New York good to live in because
Dolly lived there, with her morning smile
and her rose and sunshine purity Hardly
/ conscious themselves Of the inner fact, she
| lent a guiding sweetness to their thoughts
as health lies at the heart of happiness.
| Then, on a Monday, the inevitable hap
pened. Dolly was not in her accustomed
place.
nor the next. Then they realized that the
end, of which they had not allowed a
had come. They walked over to the coun-
ter and addressed THE Farmers Daugh-
ter What have you done with Dolly?'
To their amazement 1.-The Farmer :
Daughter manifested no surprise when
they called her Dolly. Perhaps it was her
right pet name. Dolly has left for good.
! She is going to be married in July said
THE Farmers Daughter
ITO whom?' they asked. quite calmly.
ITO young fener on One Hundred and
Fifty,ninth street" said THE Farmer
They did not ask his name. What did mis-
name matter? For few mornings taey
4 sat at the OLD table ana nOuued 10 DOlty
old con- panions behind the counter who
/ had long since come to regard them as
1 friends of their own well as of Dolly.
I But the place seemed strangely barren,
and the food suddenly lacked zest.
when the salt has lost its SAVIOR it Is
time we changed" said one So they wens
the next day to a hotel and ate amid
! luxurious unhomelike, "Philistinistic sur
roundings that oppressed them, A few
1 more restless days and one of them said
/ one evening. suddenly: 1T is summer
/ now and my sisters are sitting on a big
| veranda watching the starllt Atlantic roll
in upon the Maine Lodges. Down at the
little Casino, perhaps some of the crowd
| are dancing. Tomorrow they will batht
and get gloriously tanned. I've arranged
| with the office to go on a long vacation il
| two days I'm sorry to leave you here il
/ the city. but ! must get out
"GoOdby said the otehr. But dom
/ write to me here. After Saturday my ad
| dress viii be at the little postoffice by the
big Salt Pond where the Atlantic get;
| warm and quiet broken by the sand bar:
| and the buttress of Point Judith. l talked
| with my office today, too.
i A week later the dust from the New
\ York streets was settling heavily and un
disturbed upon their closed piano and tn
| forsaken objects in their rooms. But thei
golf clubs had disappeared from the cor
ner which is a sign, perhaps that Dolly
| triumph was incomplete.-NeW Y ork Irl
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