Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1910-06-10
TIER II.
CHAI

In an old-fashioned sitting room in an
Anticipated brick house in that unfash-
ionable quarter of downtown" New
York formerly known as Greenwich
village there sat- one autumn evening,
young couple both OF whom were
exceedingly good to look upon.
To the judicious observer it would
have been apparent from their atti-
tude and bearing each towards the
other that they were something more
than mere friends, yet less than man
and wife. In fact, they were con
tented and happy dwellers in that de-
lectable border-land known as Being
Engaged.
The girl was fairly tall of stature, bru-
nett as to complexion, with a wealth
of tine and glossy dark hair which
rippled and waved around a small but
shapely head and above a witchingly
feminine forehead, white and broad
and low Her eyes were of a very
steadfast dark gray. set widely apart
giving one the impression of quiet re-
pose and cool judgment. A firm chin
above a strong and supple throat
made her look older and more wom-
anly than her years really warranted.
She was busted with one of those
rifles OF needlework which keep the
fingers busy without curbing ones
tongue, and at the same time serve
to display to admiring and even co
qUettish advantage a very shapely
wrist and hand. Yet even the dearest
OF her feminine friends would never
have insinuated that Eunice Trevecca
was the least bit of coGuette. In
deed, it needed but a glance into the
depths of those quiet gray eyes to
convince you that that here was a ma
ture tender and true as that of the
Douglas himself.
SO at least thought young Wilfrid
5teunis, who sat opposite to her, and
who certainly enjoyed the best OPP
portunities in the world for knowing.
He was pleasant, wholesome lad,
fair and lorid, with light golden-brown
hair and mustache, slim and with
slightly stopped shoulders. A rather
weak face on the whole, one might
say, though perhaps this was partly
owing to a rather querulous droop of
the mustache, which barely yelled the
sensitive mouth; a beard would better
have hidden a chin which was far
too pretty for any mere man.
Had you guessed him to be a clerk
or q bookkeeper you would not have
boon 20 or n fhnGn
who make exceedingly valuable and
faithful servants but very poor mas
ters AS to character, he was neither
better nor worse than thousands of
J other youngsters who start out in life
| in some downtown Office or store at
| SO week, the goal of whose ambition
is to earn fifteen hundred or two thou
sand dollars a year, to marry some
| pleasant girl. settle down in a Harlem
fiat or a little one-of-arow house over
! in Brooklyn, raise small family, get
along on a couple of new suits OF
clothes each year, with a semi-oc
casional visit to the theater in winter
and an outing on Saturday afternoons
at Coney island or Rockaway.
Not wildly hilarious or thrilling ex
istence, It may be granted, yet there
are hundreds and thousands of such
men-gentlemsnly and refined, Meth
er very strong nor very weak, not
vicious nor conspicuously virtuous
but who, In paraphrase of the old
Shorter Catechism, are piously or me
Chemically doing their duty in that
state of life to which IT has pleased
the Almighty to call them" 1t is OF
kindred stuff that the average citi
%en9 is made.