The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-28
A DANCE ON THE SNOW.

Three Proud Young Women of Goettin-
 gen Get a Lesson and Also Illus 1 bands.
 It was at Goettingen-of which IIeine
 once said:
 The city of Goettingen, celebrated
 for it's sausages and it's university, be- longs to the King of Hanover. and con i tains 999 various churches, a hospital,
 an observatory, prison, a good library
 and municipal tavern, where the beer 1 is extra good.'
 l Major von A, who had been put
 on the retired list because of his
 rheumatisn1, according to himself, but because of his incapacity, according to
 others, had come there with his family
 to reside. that he might grumble to his hearts content.
 1 He had rented a small house some distance from the city. In summer it
 was charming, a hermitage of green, brilliant with flowers; but in winter 1 the place seemed isolated and far from Ieverybody. Tn order to reach there one
 had to traverse a long walk bordered with trees and wide plain coverd with snow.
 | Happily for Maj von A-he had | lfeathered his nest and was not obliged
 to worry about his rent, and there was
 carriage every time his wife and
 daughters wished 10 go 10 the city. They went there often for all three
 daughters were beginning to go to seed,
 as the saying is.
 | Old hfop 1,a youngest 23 Their mother never
 missed an opportunity of putting them on parade. She walked them into all l the parlors and showed them at all the dances in the little city.
 1 They were not bad looking, a little | thin, maybe, but that is a fault that young girls soon overcome. They had fine eyes, good teeth, pretty mouths and they seemed healthy and strong. Maj von A--had given them a strict and aristocratic education, which made them proud and naughty with the
 young people who were without an- cestors Of fortune, especially with the
 first year students whose future expec- tations were yet foggy.
 What good is it, Mime von A had said to her daughters, Ito lose your time with these youngsters who will have no position until you are old?' Look in society for the men who are already established in preference to others. It is the prudent mother who thus advises you.''
 The daughters had followed to the letter this counsel Each time at a ball that young student had asked for a dance he had been refused. But this year, the year of the carnival came hear being the end of everything. It was on carnival Thursday. The parlors of the provost of the university were thronged with dancers.
 The majors wife did not fail to bring her daughters. About the middle of the evening a dozen of the students Icame, one after another, to ask the honor of a waltz or polka with them, but the reply was always the same from the three sisters: "They had al- ready promised.''
 The students did not get angry. On the contrary, they went away laughing and when they met in the parlor they exchanged glances that would have |aroused the suspicion of an observer There was evidently some understand ling between them.
 Mime von A, accompanied by her daughters, was one of the last to leave the ball. When she reached the street she was much surprised not to find her |sleigh in waiting. She made herself hoarse calling her coachman, who did lnot come.
 At last she was told that he had gone Iaway. Some one had said to him that she would stay in the city that night.
 Mime von A--Was furious, and ex-