Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-04-10

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Archaic. very archaic" she inter-
rupted.
"Disillusioned in ten seconds!"
cried, dismally. How could your"
She laughed. ga rt4skgrs
Have YOU no romance? Can you
not see the fitness of things? If you
have not q box at the OPERA You
ought at least to make believe you
have. History walks about us. and
you call the old style archaicl That
hurts!"
''Methinks, Sir Monk" tge
There! That's more like It, BY
my haldiom, that's the style!"
odds bodkin. you don't tell mel"
There was second ripple Of laughter
from behind the mask. It was rare
music. @&@
Il could fall in love with you!"
There once was a Frenchman who
said that as nothing is impossible let
us believe In the absurd. / might be
old enough to be your grand mother"
lightly.
Perish the thought" rr
Perish it, indeed!" #.fA& A4
1.-THE mask is the thing!" cried,
enthusiastically. You can make love
to another mans wife"
"Or your own, and nobody is the
wiser. "-cynically. u 40 A
I'VE are getting on"
Eyes, we are getting nsboth in
years and in folly. What are you do
ing in monks robe? Where is your
motley, gay fool?" #8
81 have laid it aside for the night.
On such occasions as this, fools dress
as wise men, and wise men AS fools;
everybody goes about in disguise"
How would you go about to pick
out the fools ?"-curiously.
Beginning with myself"
Thy name Is also Candor"
Look at yonder Cavalier. He wab
bles like ship in distress, in the wild
effort to keep his feet untangled from
his rapier. I'll wager he's awealthy
plumber on weekdays. Observe Anne
of Austria! What arms! I'll lay odds
that her great-grandmother took in
washing. There's Romeo, now, with
a pair OF legs like an old apple tree
The freedom Of criticism is mine to-
night! Did you ever see such ridicu-
lous ideas of costume? For my part,
the robe and the domino for me. All !
lines are destroyed; nothing is recog- !
nizable. My, my! There's Harlequin,
too, walking on parentheses."
The Blue Domino laughed again.
you talk as If you had no friends
here, "-shrewdly.
But which Is my friend and which
is the man to whom l owe money!"
What! Is your tailor here, them
Heaven forbid! Strange, isn't 1t,
when a fellow starts in to pay up his
bills, that the tailor and the under
taker have to wait till the last"
THE subject is outside my under
But you have dressmakers"
Il seldom pay dressmakers"
"Ah! Then you belong to the most
exclusive set!"
"Or perhaps l make my own
dresses"
SSH" Not 50 loud. Suppose some
one should overhear your"
1T was a slip of the tongue. And
yet, you should be lenient to ALL"
Kind heart! All, wonder what
Ill those interrogation points mean
he black domino there%
Possibly she represents Scandal"
Scandal, then, is symbolilzed by
he Interrogation point%
Eyes. Whoever heard Of scandal
coming to full stop, that is to say,
| period?'
II learn something every minute.
4 hundred years ago you would have
,een cousin to Mile. de Necker."
'Or Nine de Stael"
"Oh, If you are married."
II shall have ceased to interest
vOu?"
ION the contrary Only marriage
would account for the bitterness of '
our tone. What does the Blue Dom.
no representa-
"The needle Of the compass" she
tretched sleeve out toward me and
observed for the first time the min
AZURE compasses woven in the cloth.
surely, one does not rent a costume
Ike this.
Il understand now why you at
racted me. Whittier will you guide
ne sentimentalIy.
Through dark channels and stormy ,
cas-, over tropic waters, into the
aven under the hill"
"Oh, If you go to quoting Tenny- ,
on, it's all up with me. Are you :
1arried?"
"One can easily see that at any :
ate You are not" {
To be continued. )
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