Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1910-01-28
HUNTING AN IDEAL.
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Copyright, 1902, by Associated Literary
j The main reason why Phillip Hutch.
lnson found himself a bachelor stiIl
ct the age OF forty was because be had
an ideal and because be had never
found her. He had looked and longed
and hoped, but she had not crossed his
path. She did not until after his for
tieth birthday. Then fate or fortune
or something else smiled on him.
Mr.. Hutchinson was strolllng up
Fifth avenue, New York. when his eye
caught a photo IN a showcase. There
she was--the counterfeit OF the woman
he had carried In his mind for thou
sands Of daysl Her hair was down.
and she was draped as an angel. How
the photographers get on to the angel
business without going to heaven Is
none Of the publlc's business. You can
take their angels or leave them. This
particular angel, as near as the old
bachelor could figure out, had blond
hair. blue eyes, ruby lips, and her voice
was the trill Of bird.
The ideal hunter stood long before
the picture and made up his mind to
hunt the earth over to find the original.
He did not 90 upstairs to find the
artist. He waited down below for the
artists boy, and that rising young man
replied to him:
"That gal? she came in a carriage
and had poodle. Took away our
breath In a minute. If l growed up
Eand had the scads-geep
"But her name, boy-her name and
address" demanded the man with the
beating heart.
"You can search me- The boss has
got II in book, and he keeps the book
In safe. She must be Fifth avenue
fiier. though. and II you walk up and
down long nun youth be sure to meet
her"
III It hadn't been for the dreams that
Mr.. Hutchinson dreamed his legs and
his perseverance would have given
out He had various dreams Of the
angel in the show case, and they al
ways heartened him up for the next
days hunt. In those dreams he was
always saving her from going over
Niagara falls, from a mad bull, from
joy ride auto going ninety miles an
hour and from other things.
March gave way to April. and still
the search went on. Sometimes it
rained on the searcher and sometimes
it didn't. Sometimes he caught sight
Of face In a carriage and hope eter-
net dubbed up in his breast, and some
times he simply saw females and drag
ged his weary legs along. One must
even give credit to the rat that gnaws
through a two inch plank. Clubmen
wondered and talked, but they didn't
get hold Of the truth. They took 1t
that Mr.. Hutchinson was haunting
Fifth avenue In search Of a site to
erect an old mans home, II they had
any other idea he was man not to
be questioned.
| April dragged away and May came
In. Up one side Of the avenue and
down the other. just the same. The
photo still remained In the showcase,
and 1t was scrutlnlzed regularly at
least twice day. The photographers
boy still remained, and gradually
feeling Of pity came into his young
heart for the persevering searcher. He
always encouraged him with nod
when they met, but 1t was well along
In May when he waited at the show
case with smile on his face to say:
"Say, I've got news. That angel was
in the gallery agin yesterday"
"You don't tell met gasped Mr..
Hutchinson.
'Sure as shootln', and she ordered
the boss to send fifty of her photos
to Coney Island. Said she was going
down there today"
"But what f0r?"
"DuDno. That's what she said. Meb-
be her dad has rented Dreamland for
a bungalow. You orter find her down
there In a day"
"You are sure 1t was the sameT'
''Sure Mike, Cant any one tell an
angel after seeing her oncest? You go
right down there tomorrow and youth
find her"
What was money to the searcher
when the search was so near endedf
Another ave changed hands, and at
the club that evening they noticed the
great change In AFR. Hutchinson. He
was joyous and loquacious, and they
said he had finally bought the site. He
was down at Coney by 10 o'clock next
forenoon. by noon be had made sure
that no angels were registered at any
OF the hotels. BY O'Clock he had ex-
hausted the bungalow idea, Then a
feeling Of despair crept into his heart,
and be entered concert hall to brace
up ON sandwich and a glass Of beer,
He didn't brace. lie wouldn't have
got into the place II he hadn't fallen
In. At the door. In big, cheap frame.