The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-21
/: Over the Nuts and Wine
BY FRANCES coURT ENAY BAYLOR

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JRTENAY BAYLOR
nesday morning a terrible black bligh
a CRUEL frost, nipped the bud OF t'an
4 ny's hopes and killed 1t outright:i ito
Msn ss Earth Ratk sn a rs
near the gate. And what should I,ait
do but walk up TO her and snatc
away Ama ,.nls: Matilda her ,aG; dol q
sayng aist oge pi me a hack mon
amt never goin. to speak to you o.
the street even; you amt At to desc
ciate with me- and you AIM goin' I
| very tendcr-hearted. and had neve
| heard the like or dreamed OF pertid!
and tragedy In friendly places or any,
sha Sa@ slss So g Sady SO e
tenn that Faith. beholdin.
her utterly overwhelmed, began to b.
2 shade less impla .!wIl,. ~. 80 whe g,
i done. | haven't done 9 thing 70 YOU
not a thing. And you invited me your.
ssli i havs done sse said
amt done nothin'! Hush! Hush! II
amt You. at all; It's your motter. \,
Bobolitlonist," said Faith. what's
that?' asked Fanny. between her Ter so 7l'
II don't know.
but my mothers one; a ai1tls Y yo rw
pa says don't know what that IS
neither But It's something perfectly
awful; and you can't come. SO go
right along home"-dictated Falth as
stern as fate.
MYSTERIES at hanA and threw herself on the
tender breast Of her darling mother
who had hard work to console her,
even with gift OF % 80. cents MS. an nd
the relations between them were de-
cidedly strained: "Gimmy back my
doll" said Fanny. IF you are Yankee.
We spit on the black Bobolitionis Is IN
the SOUTH
Il will" shrieked Faith. Here;
take her. She gouged out Amanda
Matilda's eyes with enc hand; she tore
her, hair with the other; she broke
both her legs off on the park railing,.
poor amazed Fanny. darted off nome.
It Is terrible TO have q mother, that
belongs to "slavoldin- oligarkry, ana
innocent bystarders are often involved
in private quarrelS.
I. Justin NIcCnrthy's Child.
When Justin Mccarthy. was bud
ding litterateur in London he. used to
sit in the press gallery and report
the parliamentary debates His little
daughter was once completely crushed
by q little schoolmate with whom she
had words and languages" about the
of peer and we'll known English
Don't you talk to me-
said Miss Spittlre. "A1y mother writes
all the. books that there ever was, or
cage in Parliament and write down
every word my father says! He'd be
sent to jail If he didn't, and hope he
will be soon, too" Finding that his
little girl looked anxiously at him,
sCarthy finally drew from her these
facts and laughed so heartily over
them. that her fears quite vanished.
Children are delicious creatures, any
way Y your key fits the lock Of the
height of its mind and soul For chill
drens minds are narrow, but very
high, and Solomon couldn't answer all
their questions. Mcdonald shows that
e e PTs'x III hs What ss R Is he vino
doing. when it doesn't blow, Daddy?''
or. Where was God before He made
anywhere. daddy?" and the like. Truly.
as Victor Hugo says: "a house without
children 10 like a cage without birds"
I once asked bright little chap OF
six If he could do sums as we'll as
the headmaster. We'll, can't say that
can at present" he said. but we are
didn't didn't he level Ell up cieves s : Wv
When General Prim. of Spain. was a
common soldier In the ranks Of his
country his good looks and military
Queen. In the next twenty years
every successive grade from common
soldier to field marshal was conferred
upon him In turn. But an old proverb
silk purse. Prim lived in palace. but
almost swallowed his knife and ate
with his fingers likt plowboy. HIS
uniforms were stiff with gold lace. and
he was more like a tinseled booth at
a fair than anything else, he was so
papered with snowy decorations from
not to mention Africa: but he remained
as tough as a Biscayan fisherman. He
mingled with the finest society If Eu-
rope, yet among the Egrandees of Spain
and Austria, the most punctilious and
other high-bred men and lovely women
of that court and other courts. he was
never one Of them; learned nothing;
he remained a gross peasant. At last.
at some court ball. he behaved SO
abominably that the Queen publicly
rebuked him in these words: ':Prlm, /
found you a soldier in the ranks
had you made corporal. sergeant, lieu
tenant. captain, major. colonel, general.
Held marshal. but no power on earth
could make OF you gentleman"
"Dieu ct les Bourbons" God and the
Bourbons) stands at the head Of every
French patent of nobility. Only He
can make any man gentleman, or |
keep him one. Prim would have made |
q model butcher He was In a very !
false position. thanks to the whlm Of
a seN-willed, imprudent woman.
General MOrcnu. ~
This doughty old veteran of the Ma
poleonic wars was in this country with !
Louis Philippe. He had lost leg: he |
had made his escape from France lust
before the Bourbons came again to the
throne; he had not penny. The !
Comte d'Artois who was with him
taught dancing; another great noble |
taught the flute, Moreau and his aid. q
handsome young noble. cast about for
some way to make living. FINALLY.
Moreau cried out: Eureka! Eureka!
mon ami. know how to make a Ger
man sausage, I Will make them. You
VIII sell them. The aid was horrified,
and fatty refused to do anything OF |
the kind. Very well, them" said No.
reau. Il will make; i will sell. No
man need be ashamed of making a