The Port Gibson reveille., 1910-08-11
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The Match Making
Spider.
Happy Ending to a LeiSureIy
COurtShip in a Boarding
House in Brussels.
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did you ever know of match
making spider?" said an art student
who recently returned to New York
from year in Europe. "Wen, 1 came
across one last summer in Brussels
When Miss Angelica Crawford
first made her appearance at Nine.
Ducazet's boarding house in Brussels
last summer there was not one of US
who did not put her down at once
among the hopelessly unwed. Tall,
angular, with a figure too like the
average English model to be called
pleasing in the American acceptation
of the term, Miss Angelica looked as
if she were doomed to pass the rest
of her natural existence counting one,
two, three, four to the music pupils
of the fashionable seminary for young
ladies in a little Western town where
by her own confession she had al
ready taught fifteen years.
Nothing occurred to modify our
forecast Of Miss Angelica's matri-
monial prospects until Prof James
Heber Bates put in an appearance at
the long table in the dining room
one evening about ten days after
Miss Angelica's arrival. Neither the
professor nor Miss Angelica had
fallen victim to the after dinner cof-
fee habit. and naturally when they
had left the room along with some OF
the other tired out sightseers who
had been trying to put three days
work into one we fell to discussing
them, and the young woman who had
been studying music in Paris suggest.
ed that if the professor and Miss
Angelica would only fall desperately
in love how delightfully."- romantic it
would be.
'I am afraid that her remark was
greeted laughter that came near
being uproarious.
"What! He fall in lover exclaim-
ed a young architect who was max
ing some studies in the Belgian cap
ital after a course at the Sorbonne.
wv uYy lUdI O1u SA0p 10 eA0 AAhNA ~
fossil as the Greek roots he tries
to drill into the heads of his pupils
"'Now that's where you are wrong
interrupted an English commercial
traveller from Sheffield. I used to
know a chap but we had all
heard of various chaps of Bright
leighs acquaintance and their won
derful experiences and when he
reached that point the room was sud
denly cleared. -.''-r - -
prof. Bates, as he soon informed
US, taught Latin and Greek in some
unheard of little college in remote
corner of the United States. This
was his first trip abroad. He had
been saving up for years for the pur'
pose, and by gum'-that was the one
expletive he permitted himself-he
was going to see 'Yurrup' until his
money gave out With his long black
frock coat, wide brimmed straw hat,
black bow tie and beard that strag-
,gled uncertainty over the greater part
Of his face the professor would hard
ly have passed anywhere as a pat
tern of fashion and elegance, but we
soon found he was manly and sin
cere and began to like him.
Neither he nor Miss Angelica
seemed to discover the interest that
grew up among US concerning them,
but in the general pairing off in,
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house it invariably happened that
when party was made up for an
excursion Miss Angelica fell to the
lot of Prof. Bates or he to her, and
we who watched them observed that
between them conversation never
seemed to lag. --s', '.ss~4r $500. ~--.''."
"By this time interest in the two
had grown to an intense degree.
Whenever a woman boarder left she
was sure to beg of madam, the pro-
prietress, to keep her informed of the
progress of the affair and many were
the small sums that were wagered
on the outcome Each new arrival
was Immediately acquainted with the
origin and progress Of the romance
and became as deeply interested as
the rest of us.
''Miss Angelica had come to Brus-
sells, she told us, to stay three weeks,
while the professors original plan
was to rest in Brussels two weeks
before going on to Holland and then
down the Rhine. When the length
OF Miss Angelica's stay has doubled
and the two had apparently not come
to any definite understanding some Of
us began to feel bit anxious and
accused the professor OF being toe
bashful for his own good.
I'm the rear Of the pension was
pretty shaded little terrace with lat.
tice work at the sides and furnished
with small tables, where some of US
had our midday breakfast and occa-
sionaIIy our dinner. One Of these
tables came to be favorite with the
professor and Miss Angelica, and in
the early afternoon when sometimes
ii was too hot to tramp about the two
would pass hours reading or dis
cussing the professors favorite sub
jects. Really these tete-a-tetes might