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

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man girls with their dinpled chins, and the Italian
girls with their OK eyes. You must admit that this is
an improvement over exploring catacombs and ruined
castles and art galleries, and at the same time makes
quite as much for culture (Which anyone can buy IN
guidcboo, form and sentiment too. The old gentle
man grew more and more shiny with each succeeding
dav He chucklcd with his old friends and exchanged
many knowing wink and poke in the ribs, as they
pccpcd into conscvatorc and cast eyes along secluded
garden paths built for the purpose and one and all they
declared time and again what fine thing 1t was TO be
Young and good looking and to have all the world be-
fore one.
As for the young man, he really having the time
of his life Before he fairly started round the circle
of prospects the old gentleman had blocked out with so
cunning a hand, Tommy had adopted the germ theory
of diseases and applied it TO true love. lie welcomed
all the germs and il was only question OF time when
one would catch. Daddy Gaddin began to look sharp.
isn't she pcach?" the young buck would cry at
this stop and "Oh, what pippn.' at the next; and
every time they packed aboard train by porter
or flricpr or a comiSSiouudrc dicuStHdHH il was
TO bubble over some fresh experience OF this Miss,
that Dcmosclle Fraulcin or Sgnonna These
foreign girls have way OF carrying themselves. by
love- YOU can tell that they have the blood behind them
Our country is pretty young yet, and one has to make
allowances and remember that it takes Just about one
thousand years TO get the proper tint OF blue OF course
our girls are all very nice and charming and we wouldn't
exchange them for all the girls in the world; but we
must admit that for the real hdm foH-why, one must
cross the water, Daddy Gladdin watched the patient
with nevcr-fang eye and applied the cure in allopatmc
doses and always Just when the day would seem won by
some covctous mama ne would snip the young rascal
out Of the irving pan and carry him to the next
stop.
@Look e here young fellow the old gentleman was
forced 10 calculate as he shipped the impctuous young
sr ont of the confederation OF die Schre5 with pair
Of tones. Look e here. young fellow. Don't YOU
know that Laura Jean Libbcy don't 60 over here' If
it had not happened that was sneaklng by Just as
Won sprung a leak in your broken Dutch over that
pretty Fraulcn Eggcr, YOU would have put your foot
in il ND to vour collar Her brother accommodating
from the other side of the orchard. Do YOU want your
old daddy spittcd on sword, split open with an ak,
Young man, ch? What are YOU grnning at, you young
rascal?
That was merely one narrow squeak. But they
wcathcrcd them all and in every case they proved
miss TO be as good as a mile. The old gentleman told
himself that never before had there been such trail Of
broken hcarts-or at least blasted cXpcctatlons-that
is, since he himself was boy.
what DO YOU thinl, OF the American girls, eh'
he cried when he felt quite that the international
virus had taken And he pokcd Master Thomas in the
ribs.
And Master Thomas pokcd him in the ribs.
"Oh YOU tickle rascal, YOU cried the fond parent
a chip of the old block, | swear. But don't blame
YOU, mind. | did the same thing when was a young