The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1906-07-26

Dresser.
Horrors. child, Don't go say sues
things out loud What II he should m
derstand Eugllsh3'
impossible. Aunt Ellen German
blondness. reading German pouef
travelling Ia q German tHau wth bag
gage marked A. Won s Bremen
Virginia What does POSSESS y9af
never heard you task So
Miss Dressed laughed hearty Amer
lean laugh Il ana 80 sHa = shake tHe
dust OF Europe 81 my faet tbaf aa z
keep 1t IN I'm so glad we're heHde8
for Hamburg the kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse. America uud Washington that
-that-welI honestly / should uks -
kick the epaulets n tae Euarls Ear
geous blue and gold uniform Don't
faint. Aunt Ellen. I'll stsf sa1 not sag
another word for nn hour
For an hour aud Eve "a a4tes Mss
Dressed sat silent 0steusIhlg watching
the valleys the German gables fha
green af meadows und forests. ~ they
swept by For uu hour aud GIVE mIu.
utcs their Yaaug German fellow travel
err read h.s German paper. and for an
hour aud Hfe minutes Ms Ellen Van
strum enjoyed perfect peace OF mind
Then Mss Dressed eougbed aud Miss
Yanstrum iuwardiy caught her breath
Aunt Ellen" said Mss 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 dreadfully nice fnce even II he
Is a German Oh. don't look shocked.
Just gaze out the window as If | were
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 well groomed too. Just
look at his finger nails. Oh, Aunt Ell
len. | wish you wouldn't gasp so. l
like his looks better than any foreigner
| have seen in the five 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
talk about man like that when he
can't understand"
Don't jiggle your pompadour crook
ed, Aunt Ellen" said Miss Dressed
calmly. Don't worry. If he under
stood English he would have betrayed
himself long ago. He might be chunk
of pink and white and yellow taffy for
all he understands of the English lam
guage. Thank goodness, Aunt Ellen
here we are almost at Hamburg Here
let me tie your veil You are getting
it on crooked No. let me carry the
suit case. It's young house. Now
for my last fee-alm0st-on foreign
soil"
The train had hardly come to a long
screeching stop in the great station at
Hamburg when the door of the car
riage was jerked violently open and a
young man pulled the German out
with hearty grip, exclaiming in Eng
llsh:
Were In luck. There was a state
room unengaged on the Kaiser VIII
helm, and we can sail four days earlier
than we expected. Good luck, man,
Why don't you say something instead
of looking at me like dazed idiot?'
The German 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 we'll | can't understand a 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 Ores
sci he picked up his suit case and was
soon lost to view in the hurryng
throng.
Miss Dressed silently picked up her
luggage, carefully avoiding her aunt's
eye, and for a minute after leaving
the carriage she looked helplessly
about her. Then the label Berlin" on
a 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 it,
"Why-what-w where said Miss
Vanstrum.
81 don't know" said her niece des-
perately, but most anywhere out Of
Hamburg"
but our steamer" gasped Miss Van
strum.
whats losing a steamer, Aunt FL
len, compared with my peace Of mind?
I'd no more sail on the Kaiser Wilhelm
now than I'd fly. Aunt Ellen, you're 4
jewel not TO say, I told you So, nor
even to look it"
you haven't given me time" laugh
ed Miss Nanstrum, "but l must say
certainly think it. There, I'm glad
we're off at last. I don't think / my
self care TO come face to face with that
young fellow again"
It was the evening of the last mu-
sicale of the season at the White
House, and an unwonted air OF antici-
patton pervaded 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 a South American diplo-
mat But the family Is one OF the
kind they call here r. f, " and will
not let her accept any of the offers she
has had for grand opera. This Is her