Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-21
CHARM OF THE OVERHEARD
strang" Fascination of Remarks Not
Meant For Our Ears.

" hY il il that the legitimate e0n=c..
salons of our associates. to which w
have harkened from the beginning aftl
which We are pr"destined to tojlu&
s:,9kiT to the end should 50 often f.
10 interest tIs. whereas the interrupted
rel2sziks We ovpfilear and Which w,.gt
rover lac:.at for our ears, diI IL W.
the t.g"iieSt curiosity and conc N =.
hvpu u!>ing off OF i scria story is Il IT,
70 most meu,s minds Eat W. >aCw
that another month will lti6. 4..o;l.sg
I.C4..9er. The ucyitaJlc bseaki:s. a.-e {
{ causerjr in which we haVl IL
share fills rs with Il sense of hopeless
and irremediahl" loss once over
heard an ed English lady say. with
STOW emphasis. To n fri"nG 1t is
charming book. n chAruiug book II
Is just the hIud of II book you would
want To give To your dressfuaker Aud
for fifteen Years have Si,eclIatpa in
vain AS to what that volume was
Apart from the manifest ndscrrti0n
Of giving any book 10 one ,lressiaakrr
ana thus withdraw ing her alteration
from ones clothes the 0Gly appropri
ate literature | can think of is the In
stru"tiYe history OF Anatlils and Sap
ptta and that has ceased to charm
a uan waiting patiently at the glove
counter of ~ New York department
tore heard one young SltopWonHn say
20 another as she handed Gown II box
IF 9fov"s Maria told him {. .W.nrlght
she'd have nothing more 20 do with
!.nl, and she called him "A poison faced
adder, he gripped her in the waltz
tEat SCandalouS.
HIS was ali, Customers clamored
Ter attention. and the confidence ceased
/ this point Bat the force and rich
ness of the language the livcliness of
the allusion, captivated the hearers
solii II" confessed that for Years aft
prward, Wien he was waltZiag. with
docorOus reluctance under the compel
ling eye of hts hostess, memories o. Ma
riH's partner would assail him and he
would tinI himself envyin@ the adder
the mysterious nature of his cnthuSt
aSm
It sometimes happens that fortune
fay0tS us beyond ol!r deserts or cur de
sires, and the conversation to which
We have ne right To listen. but which
We cannot We'll help hearing. goes on
as TRANQUILITY in a railway carriage o.
ON steamer deck as though We weis
not in clos" and helpless proximity
English travellers are particularly ex
haustive in their condolences and par
toularly Indifferent to their surround
ings In one hour on Como boat
hav" learned a whole family history
full of purely domestic features how
Dan had been sent to school at I.au
Same because he WAS 50 troublesome
and the school so cheap and how Con
ne Ga sister=in law. I tli'isll made the
castle" a most unpleasant place Of
residence. and how Laura with her
three children came to stay Il week
Just when granny was diving. which
WIS, to say the least. inconvenient, and
how tho trouble between Harold and
his wife lay entirely in the bringing MP
of the children Al this point the de-
tails became too iutimate for rppett
ta0. though there was no question of
Withholding them from my ears.
felt like fellow eountryman who once
Travelled from bordeaux To Earis in the
company of Young F,ngljshWoman,
her sister. nurse ami child Il entered
that railway carria ge." he said AN in
0eeeut American bachelor; | left it ca
pablo Of running day nursery. au in.
FAINT Sehael or mothers congress -
Agnes Iepplier in Life