The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-15

 daiHtily at such an angle as to ward of the rays of a somewhat fierce, four o'clock sun. We were seated in the deep bay window of a capaci0us hotel, enjoying couple of cigars in our shirt sleeves, and enjoying also, the view of the radiantly blue sea and sky through lace curtains, and from be- meath Iong-hung striped awning.
 1 suppose my eyes were fixed rather intently upon the female figure, for l heard grumpy laugh from my com panion.
 Losing your heart, old boy?' took the cigar from between my lips, and sent Q little ring of smoke to 1 the ceiling before answered. 1 had a surly fried from North Dakota to deal with. An inveterate woman hater. Not an old man, but that bitter thing a young man with an old heart. A | woman, no doubt, had aged 1t.
 She's worth looking at," answered.
 Then never do more than look at her!" snapped Major Ward.
 ''Ill take a jolly good look as I'm unobserved,' was my reply. And again my eyes went back to that graceful l figure, dazzlingly bright in the glare which seemed to center itself on the white muslin gown, ahd the white sun shine, both of which were spotted with red. A twist of scarlet silk was knot ted at her waist and another twist l went around the French sailor hat at the back of which was a bow which tilted the hat. over her face, and off her perfectly dressed dark hair, which swept itself up from g neck of snowy I Whiteness.
 A face-heautiful more from it's fin ishing touch of exquisite content than from it's own lines of beauty-looked out on the fair world with gravely sweet eyes.
 Look at her yourself, Ward" urged. Confess, now, if you have ever seen a sweeter or more. eontented face"
 i "Contented, very probably, because she has fooled some man." sneered the 1 major, and has come out to fool an- 1 other. So much spick and spanness l means more human worlds to conquer I know the sort I have seen too much of them, my friend. See them when l they're five years married-these dain- ' ty specimens. Tousled, heavy stepping 1 and sour"
 "I don't believe the woman walking there could ever turn into one of these creatures"
 "Of course not! They all say that 1 the poor deluged victims. Their own particular angel must-will-shall re- main an angel forever All say is: Wait and see! Look at her now-she's on the watch for somebody"
 So 1t appeared.
 She had taken a slower and yet a more slow step; then suddenly wheeled around and stood for a moment look ing down the road of which our hotel formed the corner. Now, as she stood fronting us, with masses of transpar- ent hounces caught lightly up in one hand, and her small dark head on one side we could see the upward curve of the lips. ..4
 That's the mouth of a sweet-tem- pered woman," said.
 You wouldn't say so after the has waited an hour or two for the individ- ual she's on the watch for It's an easy thlng-that twist of the lips Once married, down they go the other way. A husband's not of sufficient at- 1 traction to draw them up. II takes a loadstone of another color to do that. There she goes again, in her dainty walk. He Is evidently not yet In sight. We will wait, Bob, till he does appear, and view the meeting. She's got up for victory-liiaA' Ia fact!"
 And Ward actually took the trouble ! to adjust his single eyeglasses and lean 1 forward to take a nearer look at the woman who dared her complexion and her temper in such a sun. A broiling, smartihg sun, yet the smooth cheek l looked so cool and fresh that 1t almost made you cool ourself to look at 1t; and 1 said so.
 l "Youll have looked too long soon, J said the major, with sinister chuckler "Oh, vie no doubt she'd be glad enough to have shot or two at you | while the other fellow is away from the place. Anybody and everybody Is game to that sort. But take my ad- vice. Bob, and leave women alone They either make you love them and then throw you over, or do what's worse-rnarry you. And upon my word, old man, you would be disen- chanted yourself after a year, or, al | the most, two. They never look like this lady in white muslin when they're married. I don't say they don't dress sa well, for they do. probably better because they have their husbands ] money to squander as well as their own. But they don't look like this-as if the whole world had been combining to please them and had succeeded She looks like that doesn't she?''
 "she does" I said, under my breath and I suppose I was looking at the | lady in white muslin as if could look and look forever, for Ward laughed again--the laugh that is invariably &C., companled by shrug of the shoulders
 II believe" he said, slowly T verify believe that you are going to make a fool of yourself over the woman, Bob. When I see men look as you do, know what 1t means. have only one l piece of advise to give. Clear. out of | this place while you are still heart whole and cut and run from every place whenever you begin to look at a woman, and to wonder if your income will do for two"