Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1912-08-22
CHAPTER Z.
What's In a Namef

iically IL not in fact. two characters OF
individualities under one epidermis'
As. IN most cases. a peculiar disadVan'
ltage. One hears OF scoundrels ana
saints striving 20 consume one an
other in one body. angels and hsr-
pies: but ofttimes, quite tho contrary
10 being a curse. these two warning
temperaments become a mans ulti-
mate blessing: as in the case OK
George p. A. Jones. OF Mortimer q /
Jones. the great metropolitan oriental /
rug and carpet company. all or which /
has a diEniGed. sonorous sound |
GEORGE was divided within himself. /
This he would not have confessed
even into the trusted if battered ear
lof the Egyptian Sphynx. There was.
however. no demon-angel sparring Tor
r,oints in Georges soul. The difficulty
knight be set forth IN this manner
IOp one side stood inherent common
hense. on the other. a bOundless, TO
seate Imagination which was Ike
NUise {nberent-a kind Of Quixote mag
hnation OF suitable modern pattern
This alter ego terrified him whenever
n raised its strangely beautiful head
and shouldered aside his guardian
angel (for that's what common sense
IS. argue 20 what end you wilD and
pleaded IN that luminous rhetoric IN
der the spell OF which our old friend
SanchC often fell asleep
=. A as they called him behind the
counters, was but wenty-eight. and Il
he was vice-president rin his late IA
theirs shoes be didn't wabble rounc
IN them 10 any great extent. In
crowd be was not noticeable %
didn't stand head and shoulders abov'
his fellow-men. nor would he hav
been mistaken BY nearsighted pei
sons. the myopes. for the Vatican
Apollo in the flesh. He was OF ms
dium height, beardless, slender. bu
tough and why and enduring. 70
may see his prototype on the street
a dozen times a day. and you ma
also pass him without turning roun
Cor a second view. Young men III
p A. must be intimately known
he admired; you did not throw yo'
arm across his neck, hrst-On. n
hair was brown and closely cIpp'
about a head that would have gain'
the attention Of the phrenologist.
not that OF the casual passer-by. 4
bumps, IN the phraseology OF n
Bcience. were good ones. For the re
he observed the world through a p'
of kindly. shy. blue eyes.
Young girls. myopic through tx
rance or Stiffness, seeing nothing
yond what the eyes see. seldom ga
him a second inspection; for be
not know how 20 make himself
tractive. and was MORALLY afraid
the opposite. or opposing sex
could bullyrag a sheik out OF his Ct
els saddle-bags, but petucoats
lace Narasols and small OKfords
the same effect upon him that
prodding stick OF small boy
upon a retiring turtle. But man
worldly-wise woman. drawing out y
tact and Kindness the truly beaut
thoughts q this young mans S
sadly demanded OF fate why sw
clean boy Ike this one had not :
sent 70 her IN her youth. You
the worldly-yyise woman knows
81 is invariably the lay-hgure and
Prince Charming that q woman ]
ries. and that mRtrmony is b
mans bun IN grown-ups-
Many OF US lay the blame upon
parents. We shift the burden or
dering why we have this fault
lack that grace 10 the shoulder
our immediate forbears. We &
the ONCE each morning denying
we have any responsibility; We
the boss do the worrying. But &c
never went prospecting IN his sou
any such dross philosophy. He
grateful for having had so bea'
a mother; proud OF having Ia
honest q sire; and II either OF
had endued him with false weigh
did his best TO even up the balar
The mother had been as rom
as any heroine out OF Mrs. Rad
novels, while the father had O
90 "a much romance as one gen'
ands in a thorough business
which is practically none At all
very name itself Is a bulwark a,
the intrusions OF romance On
not lift the imagination TO the
psct OF picturing a Jones In
and highboots. pinking varlet
midrtn. 1t smells OF sugar-barre
ootton-bales. or steamships and
roads, of stolid routine IN the
and Of placid concern over the
news under the. evening lamp
Mrs. Jones, lovely, lettered y
worldly. had dreamed OF hel
Nayed and decorated. MARVIN
most disSinKuisned woman IN
roDe. whoever che might Dc.
conen had had 20 dreams ~ =
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