The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-07

what you hear"
Thrown off her guard the girl
ceased to talk, turning her head at
tentively on her pretty shoulders. For
a long pause neither spoke.
do you hear them?" whispered the
man under his breath.
"Nol What?'
1.-THE little fellows out there in the
grass, the toad singers in the trees,
all the little players of the night! all
the thousand little voices whispering
to each other while we talked! on,
my Che told me afterwards that he
was going to say darling and have
done with it at once and then trust to
listening to the tree toads for the sake
of his silences ever after), but the
girl broke in quickly in her high
voice:
"Oh. those Why, yes; 1 believe l
have heard them before-Im sure l
have, in fact-but speaking of tree
frogs and things have you read
Lafcadio Hearns 'Exotics and Retro
spectives'? You remember his insect
musicians of course. Wasn't 1T just
perfectly charming? You know my
Cousin Bella Wentworth, we'll she saw
Hearn once in New Orleans and do
you know he's the most perfectly con-
sumptive looking man you ever saw!
Now in the last Literary Digest there
German doctor-from Leipsic, | think
who says that consumption and
the man with intentions groaned and
went his way.
Now the above seeks in no way to
instruct Young women in the getting
of husbands That is game III Whlch
the sex needs no teaching. The young
woman in question, like nlnety-nlne
out of a hundred maidens, will ineVlta-
bly marry the man she desires, al
about the time she wants nm. MoSt
women do. OF course they had rather
he sought without the effort on their
part to lead to the chase, but many
man finds himself going at break
neck speed with lolling tongue sitter
shrinking chit of girl who is laugh
ing in her sleeve the While she hees
ahead.
All my conversational lady would
have to do, for instance, to capture
anv one of half a dozen men would be
| to weave into the learned thread OF
her discourse some reference to the
Venus de Milo and then, branching OIL
make some such remark as speaking
/ of love-" and pause but the fraction
| of a second.
Whereupon the desired swain. Jump
ing at the chance to say something
and surprised at the opportunity
would almost individually repeat after
| her:
speaking of love, I-er-I love
you'll"
And it would be all over except the
| trusseau.
This is a serious hunt after big
| truth as to the value of sO-called ST.
| lences on the finer perceptions. Guilt
Yate the night, let the shadow of the
| earth enfold you, whisper To you the
myriad things it is always telling
! from behind its veil! We all know
! the night, it's call to the heart, the
! intimacy of it's being, speaking to the
! soul But we do not let her WOO us
! enough. We are too prone to go TO
bed, to shut out all the beauty that is
! being poured out around our snoring
carcasses, to sleep too much when we
| might feel more! Listen in the night
1.-THE thousand things one hears, near.
at ones feet, in the air. murmuring
| from the distance, all soft, all sooth-
| ing, all melodious, enchanting, every
| thing save man afraid to spoil the
sweetness, to brighten away the caress
of the vague and healing currents
tangled in the moon-beams, reckoning
| to the Starsi