New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-17

scr I'll tell you how it is" ne went on sagcly. "The
good Lord made many beautiful women that we
never to the end OF them, and think everyone
we meet is just a little bt nicer than the last onejust
like eating apples smoking good cigars looking at
fine pictures.
At length they sailed through the Sucz Canal and
glanced over the yellow, the pink and the brown; and
Papa Gladdin was thereupon moved TO remark that
beauty, after all, comparative, matter OF geog-
raphy, as, for instance, the Turk falls in love
with girl unless she is fat and the Italian ditto unless
she is ean and the Iot,cntot doesn't take to the OPP
poste sex unless they have pcekaboo patterns worked
in their ears and noses and checks that they be
strung with crochet needle and the South Sea Islander
insists on his lady fair being rcscoed and embossed
DADDY GLADDEN. had one last surprise left in his
II bag. He didn't lift it out until the steamship Mon
COLA tied up at the San Francisco wharf and they were
entertained at a dinner and dance up the hill Young
Master Thomas so impressed with the exhibits Of
the Golden Gate this occaSion-being back on his
native heath again after so long an absence-that
Daddy Gaddn for the noncc wondered if he had not
erred actcay in starting their pilgrimage east instead
of west For several days he in serious doubts as
TO whether or not he could get out Of San Francisco
without daughter-in-law.
"You are the rascal, Sir You are the rascal he
cried. "You are not content with leaving trail OF
dead and wounded across two continents. You must
start more trouble the minute you set your foot in your
own country Remember, they shoot over here! They
don't take the trouble to send you their cards. I'll
whisk YOU out of here quick enough, SIR
And of they went galopng across the country taking
a dip here and there in the fountains of beauty-but
only dip. No more spashcs 1t was a wild and dizzy
finish.
The old gentleman quite bit worried by the
time they caught the Limited out Of Chicago but once
the wheels began to move he brcahed sigh OF relief
They we're going straight through, with no more one
night stands or weeks engagements. His young hope
ful had become altogether too much OF connoSeur,
and he wasn't taking any more chances. lie had
stamped out many fires, and his feet were sore. 50
they bounded across the prairics and through the
mountains and at length dipped under the river and
came up on solid rock on the Island of Manhattan, IN
the narbc-piarcd station on 33d-st. There were many
pretty girls there, waiting for some lucky dogs, and
Daddy Gladdn, cloycd with beauty-international
Though he was, could not Withstand the temp
tation of pointing out one pretticr than the rest.
"Bv George and amt she the pippln, hey, Tommy
whispered the old gentleman in tense whispers, excited
for once in his life. And he couldn't help thinking that
maybe he had made a mistake, after all in going all the
way round the world. Only catch few like this and
stir his young rascal up among hcm and goodby to his
puppy love.
Hey there you young cuss, what you doing! sud
IL denly cried Daddy GLADDEN. rubbing his eyes For
there on the platform in front OF thousand staring eyes
his son. the young man to whom he had
just given ostgraduate course in beauty,
was actually winding his arms in ecstasy
about that amazingly pretty girl. And.
horrors! worst Of all, that amazingly
y pretty girl was actually winding her arms
about his Tommy.
Breathcss and putting, the old gentle
<,<s man took off his glasses and rushed into
E0NHs the melee. And then, to his further
~ amazcment the amazingly pretty girl