The sun., 1919-04-13

| OF my dignity sacrificed to the wearing
OF goloshes. In the midst of her pride
Arabella. catching sight Of n thread on
| my sleeve, removed 1t with her delicately
gloved fingers In so wifely a fashion
| that / melted somewhat, but the grim
| sight of F'reeland at the wheel in his
most glowering OF attitudes reinforced
me-
He was very gallant and splendid with
Arabella. and we tucked her away In
| the midst Of warm wraps and subtle
compliments to be swept away, as we
believed, a victim to our wiles.
Taking the cue from him, sought to
adjust myself to the game of seduction
as we had planned to play It. While the
traffic was considerable there could be
little conversation, but I kept rehears-
ing my part. and my poetic utterances
as said them TO myself became almost
vocal when we struck an obstruction In
the road-to my great embarrassment
What did you say, Jonathan said
Arabella. "Northward from where?"
II said absolutely nothing" 1 pro-
tested, but went over the thing again
to myself.
Poetry and Home Hunting.
"Northward from fish shaped Pau
manok." 1t was a line from Whitman,
which found out afterward / was mis-
quoting anyway, to say nothing of the
fact that this poetic spot was not on
the road map for the day. Oh. well
Freeland, however. soon warmed to
his subject and 1 found my relatively
colder ecstasies much outdistanced.
We were finally away from the un-
prepossessing ferry houses and ac-
cidental tangles Of homely things that
seem to have gotten themselves hope
lessly caught like burrs in the sweep
Ing train Of the city.
1t Is as IL the city were like a certain
friend Of Arabella's, n young woman Of
imposing presence who was presented
at the Court OF St. James's, only to fall
afterward upon evil days and go about
maJestically with dignity in her heart
and mud upon her heels.
voiced this idea modestly 70 Ara
bella. who listened respectfully but in
the meanwhile strained her ears after
the less hackneyed remarks of our host.
There are a whole lot OF ways to
approach the subject OF New Jersey"
said he, speaking over his shoulder and
removing one hand from the wheel as
we spun along. "Of course II has it's
historic interest. always marvel to
think OF all the grants of land handed
about in the early days by kings and
III not clear
about New Jersey. but Of course you
know innumerable lordllngs We're given
pieces of this country quite carelessly.
1t wasn't anything at all to be given a
grant OF all the lands lying between the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans in Colonial
times. And then you Just came over
with your shoe buckles and your lace
frills and your postillions and what not,
and took lift you could get it"
Why Bother About Historyr
l was relieved to find that Freeland
was hazy about his history. 1t was only
n sketchy sort OF means to an end, as I
took il. And Arabella, being in high
FEATHER and most smiling and happy,
didn't seem concerned about the facts.
There were some great old fellows
here In the old days, I'll warrant" Free
land romanced on. MY father used TO
tell me about a Tory ancestor of the
shoe buckled and lace frilled type, who
had an estate at Hackensack, from which
he was drummed in disgrace. and of he
went in sailing vessel to Canada, glad, |
he said. to be rid of the rabble. Stuck
up old thing he was. Revolutionary
battles were fought bravely enough in
New Jersey TO make up for his having
besmrched the State with his royalist
fol de rolls. Morristown, Princeton, all
that sort OF thing. you know. And then
coming down to modern times, it's inter-
esting to note that our canny President
did some deep Scotch cogitating here"
Freeand winked at me and turned 10 ,