The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-01-04
ROMANCE OF
CID PHILADELPHIA
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dinerent from ourselves and more diff
ferent than we are from each other.
How different from that immense
city w-I..cli today is spread over thou
So. DIS CT ac.vS. whose streets are uD
adorned eAcgnt with colossal buildings
ard wI-ose people are engaged IL the
mad rush for money. Then beautiful
trees lined her thoroughfares. her
houses We're quaint little buildings. aid
ner Quaker population wore broad
trimmed hats. broad tailed coats All
~ ~hreeches.
Polly Pencil. nineteen years old
was the daughter Of a PhiIadelphia
Quaker father the strictest sect :
phlrisee'-and a Church of EnglaH.
noti!er, Polly was pretty as a picture
trd I'D hosts of admirers. all of whom:
we're SHARPLY watched by her curmudc
Non father. Her most intimate friend
vas Rabecca Hamilton. Rebecca was
'.ot to the taste of old Pennell. she be
its of the world worldly. She took a
'iLcy TO Polly, however, and soon aft
r fl,eir first meeting one Sunday after
'hurch she came down the street car
yin~ alDft Il beaver hat, two feet OIL
h" b":ni. locking for all the world like
Z balioon iib. leg o mutton sleeves foi
~piIiiakcrs. and gloves laced to tie ell
BOWS. Tile res: Of her rig was IL pro
fusion OF tulle and india muslin. Meet
ing Polly. she swooped down upon he;
and carried her Off to dinner.
Polly was rescued by her Quaker at
endants and received Il severe ad
nouition to stun the worldly creature
!Ut RpD"cca WAS as much to Polly's
aste as size was TO Poily's parents
iiSt:iSte. \. high bred dame, she dis
iairrd conveEtioualities as only neces-
AIRY for inferior people who did not
now how to behave themselves and
made E2r own rules. Within a week
,ft"r tie rescue FLY had visited her
n Der home There she was taken into
Inner Gy Il young Nirginian, the very
iutipGicS of 4 Quaker, named Francis
Dularey. His dress was far more eff
'ective in timpressing Il young girl than
lie conventional black steel pen jack
I" of toilay--a canary coloreu waist.
oat embroidered with blooming red
silk roses, Il claret colored o with
.uffS). fat brass buttons the size of a
modern individual butter plate. breech-
% ard stockings of the color of the
'.oat, buckles on his shoes and plenty
# lace about his throat. How could
any young girl resist Il handsome fel-
;ow in such attire? Polly certainly did
not resist him. for she fell in love With
IT,, .,.I I-, l>,-o WA, d.
becca Hamilton fJstered the courtship
not only for sympathy with the young
.'ouple, but to score a point on the
Quake2s.
Think of the broad brim hated, coal
scoop coated old Pinnell having fog a
Son-in-law Il young man adorned like
Francis Dulaney. Fancy the scene
when these two costumes containing
he two ulen stood before each other
md The younger man. a perfect stran-
-rer to the older. asked for the hand OF
MS daughter. OF curse he was re-
fused. Could Quaker drab mate with
'anary and claret color? One might as
well think of a daughter of 8 prophet
mating with a spangled circus rider.
rhe old man stood rigid. listening to
he young ones entreaties. then gave
I curt refusal. and Dulaney beat q sui
en- retreat. Pinnell Sent for his daugh
'er. Instead Of meeting an obedien'
'hild be found a firm She
told him that she had pledged herself
10 marry Dulaney AID would do so.
I'innelI placed Polly under the care
" his sister. Patience. n woman more
austere. more Qllakerly dressed. more
commanding. tlan her brother. Poll!
was forbidden TO leave the house una
pmpanied by her aunt. and her father
made preparations to take her to Eng
and.
One crisp October morning in 1901
Pencil put Oh his broad brimmed hat
took his long staff. will! a silver e
ss big as a dinner bell. aud went down
Town. The duenna went to her Il,
put 1t in order. She had no sooner en-
tered than the loot was locked frou
the outside. The family black serral
was locked in the cellar. Then Polly
pale and excited. came downstairs and
pausirg a moment to bid farewell tc
home, sailed forth. followed by her
maid. Under Il large b~uttonwoOd tree
standing on a rue were Dulaney
and Miss Hamilton. with the Hamil
tons tilbury. Entering the tilbury.
the party We're driven to the home OF
the Haniltons. All the wedding ar
Engagements had been completed. No
iess'a parsonage than the mayor of the
town performed the ceremony, and An
drew Hamilton gave away the bride.
When Mr.. Pencil returned to bis
home. he found a gaping crowd OF
broad brims before his house. attracted
BY the screams Of his sister aud hi.
servant. who were demanding to be un
locked. Entering. he found the hous'
abandoned by the child whom he had
striven to keep from mingling with he
sinful world. But, though he consid
cred a canary cOlored waistcoast EN-
broidered with flowers the livery of Sa
tan, be did not consider forgiveness 8
part of salvation. lie never forgave