The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1906-07-11


Dressed
Horrors, child! Don't you say such
things out loud. What il he should UNI
derstand Euglish?"
impossible. Aunt Ellen German
blondness. reading German paper,
travelling in II German train with bag
gage marked y. Won ), Bremen.
Virginia! What does possess you?
L never heard you talk 50.
Miss Dressed laughe Il hearty Amer
lean laugh. Il am SO glad to shake the
dust of Europe OFF my feet that | can't
keep 1T In. I'm SO glad we're headed
for Hamburg, the Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse, America and Washington that
-that-Nell, honestly | should like to
kick the epaulets of the guards gor
geous blue and gold uniform. Don't
faint, Aunt Ellen III stop and not say
another word for an hour.
For an hour and tive minutes Miss
Dressed sat silent, ostensibly watching
the valleys, the German gables, the
green OF meadows and forests, as they
swept by For an hour aud i've min
utes their young German fellow travel
FL read his German paper, and for an
hour and i've minutes Miss Ellen Van
strum enjoyed perfect peace OF mind
Then Miss Dressed coughed, aud Miss
Nanstrum inwardly caught her breath
Aunt Ellen" said Miss Dressed Ia
lilly waving her hand toward the seen
cry as Ii she were discussing it-"Aunt
Ellen, do You know that young man
has dfeadfully nice face, even II he
is a German. Oh, don't look shocked.
Just gaze out the window as ii | We're
talking about the scenery, and he will
never know the difference. I've been
looking at him Off and on for the last
hour Just see what n nice firm mouth
he has. He's SO we'll gro0med too. Just
look at his finger nails. oh. Aunt Ell
len. ! wish you wouldn't gasp so.
like his looks better than any foreigner
| have seen Ia the i've years we have
spent in Europe, Really. | shouldn't
mind being married If | could get such
handsome, we'll groomed man as he
Is
Virginia. Oh Virginia" - groaned
Mrs Nanstrum "It's-it's Indecent ta
talk about man like that when he
cant understand "
Don't jiggle your pompadour crook
ed Aunt Ellen,' said Miss Dressed
calmly. Don't worry II he under
stood English he would have betrayed
himself long ago. lie might be "a chunk
OF pink and white and yellow taffy for
all he understands of the English Ian
guage. Thank goodness, Aunt Ellen.
here we are almost at Hamburg. Here,
let me tie your veil. You are getting
II ON crooked. No, let me curry tine
suit case, It's young house. Now
for my last fee almost foreign
soil -
The train had hardly come to long
sereeehing stop In the great station ut
Hamburg when the door of the car
riage was jerked violently open aud
young man pulled the German out
with a hearty grip, exclalming in Eng
fish:
We're In luck. There was "A state
room unengaged Oh the Kaiser vii
helm, and we can sail four days earlier
than we expected Good luck. man.
'
of looking at ne like dazed IDIOT
The GeTn. pulled himself together
with a noticeable effort and began To
stammer out something In German,
when the other Interrupted him impa
tiently.
''Aw, cut that out You know per
fectly Well | cant understand II word
OF German. Never mind, come along"
The young German flushed red. and
with one appealing look straight into
the eyes OF the astonished Miss Dres
sci he picked up his suit case and was
soon lost to view In the hurrying
thIong.
Miss Dressed silently picked up her
luggage, carefully avoiding her aunt's
eye, and for minute after leaving
the carriage she looked helplessly
about her. Then the label Berlin on
carriage caught her eye, and without
a word to her puzzled relative she took
her by the arm, raced her across the
station and pushed her in, stumbling in
herself, just as the guard put his hand
on the door to close IL.
"Why-what where said Miss
Vanstrum.
Il don't know" said her niece des
perately, but most anywhere out OF
Hamburg"
But our steamer" gasped Miss Van
strum
What's losing a steamer, Aunt FL
len, compared with my peace OF mind?
ia no more sail ON the Kaiser Wilhelm
now than I'd fly. Aunt Ellen you're
jewel not to say, 4 told you so nor
even to look ii.
you haven't given me time" laugh
ed Miss Vanstrum, but | must say |
certainly think 1t. There, I'm glad
we're off at last. | don't think my
self care to come face to face with that
young fellow again.
Ii was the evening OF the last mu-
sicale OF the season at the White
House, and an unwohted air of anticl-
patton peryaded the brilliant throng as
1t gathered in the great east room
''They say she has one of the finest
voices ever heard off the stage" said
the wife of II South American diplo-
mat. but the family Is one OF the
kind they call here + +. " and will
not let her accept any Of the offers she
has had for grand opera. This Is her
only appearance in public since she re-
turned from Europe, There's Anton
Won Stosch Did you ever see any one
so eager to go everywhere as that man
Isl He's simply crazy about meeting
Americans
american women strangers, you
should say" laughed man wearing
the cross OF the Legion Of Honor. You
San get Tony Won Stosch to go any
where just BY limiting that some new
girls will he there