The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1906-06-23

plate with pathetic smile.
II have fellow Telling" she con-
tinued, 'for that old gentleman who
said that the wing of the chicken was
doubtless the very incest portion of
all, but that he had never tasted II.
When he was young the old people
were supposed to monopolize IL, and
now that he had grown old, he said,
1t had to be reserved for the young.
MY dear he lamented, 4 have never
tasted the wing Of the chickenv Trag.
&c, wasn't it?"
1T was dastardlyv' The fine Hooking
white-mustached gentlemen on her
right hand stified snort of indlgna.
ton.
Nothing gets away from the young
sterS Of to-day" he growled. I'm
only bare fifty-nine, as you know
"Yes-I remember you were always
Just five years ahead" the sweet-faced
little lady smiled sympatheticaliy.
"Fifty-nine years. Mrs. Merrydew!
and to judge from the attitude of the
young fedgelings in this hotel, one
would say l was a relic of the stone
age-belonged somewhere. unclassified,
with the pyramids and Rameses H.
his genial face took on a sudden null
berry hue; "dastardly, repeat! You
can't plead the most trivial sensation
OF Indigestion nowadays, even Just a
plain, ordinary headache, but it's put
down to incipient senility-I meet 1t
on all sides, can tell youy"
II know-I know! responded his
fair listener, appreciatively. "And
that rOsy-cheeked girl from the acad-
envy prefaces every other remark to
me with In your day. 1t does
come hard, certainly. when one is still
in fair state of preservation, and can
yet maintain ordinary conversation"
Conversation, humph! merely the
last expiring efforts of once powerful
intellect, my dear madam" quoted the
elderly gentleman, savagely.
The pretty little widow giggled out
right at thls-she could look very charm
ing when smile dlspelled her natur-
ally pensive expression. Really, it's
comfort to meet you again, after so
many years." she confided, "lets go
over to that window seat. where we
can sympathize. feel quite as young
as i did twenty-five years back-and
younger; but there is always such an
unreasoning prejudice regarding gray
hair-it's public opinion concerning 1t
that harrows up your soul"
Gray hair Is most becoming over a
youthful face" put In the gentleman,
with gallant bow, while they both
withdrew to friendly alcove. "Oh,
thank you for not saying still youth
full! That still is such a paralyzlng
wordv' the little lady shuddered. "They
might as well say: Mrs. NJ. still re-
tains her intelligent expression 1t is
all very unnerving."
He chuckled, and moved his chair q
trlhe closer.
~ say, this judging of age by years
IS the most outrageous procedure ever.
isn't 1t now? l maintain that 1t Is
primitive and unworthy of our so.
called civilization. One might as well
judge by rheumatism. of which babes
in arms are our most prominent expo
tl'St :" tiut SouHS
cub out yonder at tennis is barely a
self.confessed twenty-four, and yet his
mamma Uhe stout, be-damonded per-
son. with three chins) is sore put to II
to extrlcate him from his considerable
and fOurishing crop of wild oats (regu-
lar hsrse-chestnuts they are, too,
believed My dear young friend, you
\ ,t.,h hn tt,In ha m
the wood by comparison with this
word.weary youth! And yet'-the
white mustache went upward with a
twist of fierce exasperation-"he want
ed to know what colleges they had in
my day, and were telephones and horse
cars invented"
The lady laughed so heartily that the
irate speaker Joined in perforce after
q while.
I'm so glad you came" she re-
marked prettily; II am getting demon
allied here alone by myself OF course
my daughter comes at times, but then
I am more than ever guilty conscious
of my shortcomings. II as much as
mention wearing my brooch or tor
toise.shell comb down to dinner I feel
that 1t is almost a personal insult to
her, and sometimes Just long to take
up the baby and soothe and pet him
when he is hungry or fretful, but am
promptly Informed that the best
grandmothers do not do 1t. or course
1t is all for my best good, for she says
Il all In love, and 1t hurts her more
than II does me las she thinks 1t does,
As for an eardrop, an eardrop is an
anachronism! i don't mind any of
these things so much, but in my little
parlOr at home there are my pretty col
ored wreaths, and that quaint shell
work father made, and the tides !
worked long ago when mother was
alive-all unhygienic, suppose"
"Unhygienic" calculated her listen
er hotly, "and I've an old red silk
dressing gown, reekins with germs, no
doubt, that's been the chief prop and
stay of my declining years; It's got to
70, of course, as so, n as my folks
strike the place"
"And the notices my little Emma