Mexico Missouri message., 1906-08-02

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land tired trying to try Oh, dear
sounds like a nonsense verse. doesn't
lit7 Have you anyone to-night7 MOI
I think must stay with you tan morn-
ling. Send some one home to say ia
be here. I can always think so much
better here--and you, dear old thing,
to mother mel"
4 do, child; I'll send sandon directly.
"He win go to the house of mourn
ling"
whats the latest7"
Papa was on the verge OF collapse
this morning, and yet he was striving
90 bravely and nobly to bear up. No
one knows what that man suffers; 1t
makes him gloomy all the time about
Everything Just before left, he was
saying that. when one considers the
number Of American homes In which
green salad is never served, one must
be appalled,. Are you appalled,, auntie2
But that isn't It"
Nothing has happenedT
well, there'll be no sensation about
It in the papers tomorrow, but a very
dreadful thing has happened. Papa
has suffered one OF the cruelest blows
Of his life. fancy he didn't sleep at
all last night, and he looked thorough
ly bowled over this morning"
But what is it?"
"Well-oh, it's awfull-flrst OF all
there were six dozen OF early-bottled,
1875 Chateau Lafitte--that was the bit
terest--but he had to see the rest go,
too-Chateau Margeaux OF 'S0--some
terribly ancient port and Madelra-ths
a dryest kind OF sherry-a lot OF fine,
full clarets Of II and '7S-oh, you can't
know how agonizing It was to him
n I've heard them so often know them
all myself"
"But what on earth about them?"
Nothing, only the Cosmopolitan
\ clubs wine cellar-auctioned of, yoH
know For over a year papa has
I looked forward to 1t. He knew every
bottle of wine in 1t. He could
reclte the list without looking at
1t. Sometimes he sounded like a
French lesson-and he's been un-
der fearful strain ever since
the announcement was made. Well,
the great day came yesterday, and poor
pater simply couldn't bid In a single
drop. II needed ready money, you
know. And he had hoped so cheerfully
all the time to do something. 1t broke
his heart, I'm sure, to see that Cha
n teau LATTE go-and only imagine, Il
< was bid in by the butler of that odiouf
% Higbee You should have heard papa
rail about the vulgar nouveaux riches
when he came home--he talked quitE
like an anarchist But by tonight he'll
be blaming me for his misfortunes
That's why chose to stay here will
you"
g Poor Horace. Whatever are 20,
going to do?"
well, dearie, as for me, It doesn'
re look as If could do anything but on,
sr thing And here is my ardent younl
is Croesus coming out of the west"
ct You called him your athletic Bay
ara once"
b. THE others more to the point a
" present. And what else can / do
Of Oh, II some one would just be brav
Is enough to live the raw, Quivering liz
he with me, could do It, give you m,
/, word. could let everything go by tn
in board-but am SO alone and so help
OF less and no man is equal to Il, nov
IN adays. All Of us here seem to be con
sy tent TO order half portion Of life.
be Child, those dreams are beautiful
but they're like those flying machine
n that are constantly being tested by tn
ty credulous inventors. A wheel or
q. pinion goes wrong and down the sill
things come tumbling"
VERY well; then shall be wise
suppose shall be-and I'll do
quickly. This fortune of good gol
shall propose marriage to me at onc'
and be Gccepted-so that / shall b
able to look my dear old father in tn
! face again-and then, after I'm maj
ried-well, don't blame me for any
thing that happens"
:. "Pm sure you'll be happy with hi
4 Its only your silly notions, He's
q love with you"
THAT makes me hesitate. He reall
Is mani like him--see this letter
Ia long review from the Already LyI
Of the poem ne wrote. poem conslB
ing OF 'Avice Mllbrey' The reviews
has been quite enthusiastic over It, to
written from some awful place
Montana"
what more could you askl Hen
kind"
you don't understand Mutterche
He seems too decent to marry thl
way-and yet It's the only way cou
marry him. And after he found n
ouf-oh thfntr of What TnarrfaSa a
he'd have to ina It out--l couldn't o
long doubtless he wouldn't even |
q. kind to me then, "-
~ you are morbid, chilli.
~ "But / viii do It; l shall; win
-, credit to my training and shs
learn to hate him and he will have
learn--Well, a great deal that
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