Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1910-10-21


"Y~ VEN the last resort has refus-
r. ed me-" Loveland broke the
news to his mother wlen he
g. had lissed her.
Miss Mecklelburg?
"Yrs; begin to realize that I'm q
sinking ship The early rats are de-
spring me or declining TO come on
board Clever little animals"
You shun't sink" protested Lazy
Loveland. claSping the pretty hands
whence all save the wedding ring ana
its guard had gone to pay u visit or
indefinite length to MeSsrs. Battenbor-
ou-h. THE idiot. to refuse yOu-wi.h
her nose too"
'She didn't do 1t with her nose. ma
ter. Her engagement to Doriana WAS
announced the morning after she'd Of
fered 10 be a sister TO me. 1t was the
size of her purse. not her nose. which
caught his eye. But sooner or later
he'll beat her."
ing him instead Of you. Oh. Val. what
q world"
Don't grouse. mater. ! might nave
beaten her If Id got her. and then
there'd have been scandal. cant
stand women with important looking
teeth and noses which throw their
other features into perspective. be
sides. Lillah Mecklenburg isn't as
young as she's painted.
$50 few women ure nowadays. dear
est" sighed Lady Loveland. who IN
living for her handsome son did not
trouble to live up to the past OF her
complexion. "Oh. Val. it's hard you
should have to think Of such creatures!
But what are we to do?
THAT'S Just where want your ad-
vice." said Loveland. who had come
long way to get 1t. for the distance
from London to the north of Scotland
Is formidable when birds are out or
season.
Lady Loveland was flattered that
Val should ask for her advice. which.
when offered gratuitously. he had
never been known to take.
MY advice!" she echoed sadly
'sThat's all can give you now. al
though ! did hope. dear boy. must
confess. IL have been trying for
limericks 1t was for your sake. and
| hoped to win large sums. l thought
of lines all night long. and l did send
In some splendid ones. thousand
times better than those for which 9th
err people dreadful people. my dear.
with names like HogsOn and Dobbs,
have won hundreds Of pounds. l gave
the editors permission to use my
name, too-one would have thought
valuable advertisement for their pa
pers. But all I've won after the great
est efforts has been fifteen and six
an insult-while these Dobbs and Hog.
sOns-I believe the editors must be So
cialists. And the shillings for the
postal orders have counted up into
pounds. | am crushed with remorse :"
"Never mind. dear; you meant 1t for
the best" said Val, who cared more
for his mother than for any one else
In the world-except himself. And
that he made this exception was large
ly Lady LOveland's fault. for she had
brought him up to believe in but one
person of paramount Importance
adjoining the universe-Percival George
Victor Edward Gordon. thirteenth
MARQUIS of Loveland. 1.-The ships too
far under water to be raised with ltm
ericks."
Dearest. Is II bad as thatY'
Its as bad as anything can be-
Look out Of your window at the snow
falling. Well. that's nothing to the
way it's showing bills outside my win
dow. II you and | can't think OF
something to clear the weather ] shall
have TO chuck the army"
what horrible creatures tradesmen
must be-" said Lady I.0veland. whose
opinions had come down to her crust
ed and spider webbed from the cellars
of the stone age "'rO think that we'd
have had power of life and death over
them II we'd lived II few hundred
years ago! wish those times could
come back"
"The world at large doesn't agree
with you"
ut oughtn't to be mt large" replied
Lady Loveland without the SmalleSi
idea of joke. Its reached a pretty