Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1935-02-16

I Att1 always N110 NY A&Nofite. In tnf
past, up 70 this night. my lot ha.
thrown me mostly among my seniors
and have Sometimes wished I was old
so as 70 be done with the clutches oi
youth I am not afraid OF them now
7 am no hand at describing the garf
Of beauty. and the nearest I can get
to her, after much communing. is that
she is a long stalk Of lovellness. She
carried a large muff Of fur. and AZ
times would raise It 10 her face as II
she knew no better than to think It vas
a scent-bostle. or peep over Il like a
sitting bird IN the bole OF a tree. There
was a diverting hood over her head.
which. for some reason I cannot rs vet
determine. you could have rot IN sniI-
ING terms with though you had met
it hanging on a mob.
She IS from Edinburgh. end Il was
to convex her here that saw the
Grand House carriage going in TO
BranderS yesterday, have seen her
for twenty minutes only. There is such
a beloved huskiness in her voice that
she should be made 10 say everything
twice. She giides up a manse stair
with what take to be the nthesome-
ness Of a panther. like her wen when
she is naughty and even better when
she is melting. and best Of all when she
Is the two together. which she often IS.
was all throughither when she sat
down on one Of my horsehair chairs
that have hitherto held Of small &C
count. She looked as meek at that
moment as II a dove was brooding In
her face. It IS not beauty OF person
that heed but internal beauty, which
in her is as plain to read as IL she wore
1t outside. What would last part with
is the way her face sparkles, not Just
her eyes but her whole face. That
comes and goes. and when it has gone
there Is left the sweet LONELINESS that
is woman's surest promise to man. Fine
knew, that for ever needed none but
her.
Fain would have made observations
TO her that put a minister in a favor
able light. I am thinking that the Old
Lady spoke at times, for she is a mas
terpiece at conversation, but all I re-
member Of her Is that she soon fell
asleep in my big chair, which Is a way
she has. This indifference to others
has sometimes annoyed me at kirk /
meetings (where we have to pause tin 4
she wakes up), but not on this occasion.
In my lecture I had spoken about
humour which is profound and humor
which is shallow, such as pulling away
your chair. Miss Julie Logan said to
me in the manse that she was only
IN the profound kind, with
is ramifications and idiosyncrasies.
She said she found It q hard kind to
ietect, and wished she could be so In
Structed as TO recognize profound hui
nour whether written or spoken. When
he said this there was something so
pleading in her eyes, that, instead Of
'eplying In capable manner, offered
o explain the thing with bit Of paper
md a pencil I drew a note Of ex-
ilamation, and showed her how they
we're put into books, at the end Of sem
ences, to indicate that the remark was
Il a humorous character. She got the
oan Of the pencil and practised max
ng notes Of exclamation under my In
truction.
She said she questioned whether pro-
ound humour would not still battle
er in the spoken word, and agreed
hat here It was more difficult, but told
er that II you watched the speakers
ace narrowly you could generally tell
y a CLINT in It; and II there was no
lint his was the mistake and not
ours. She asked me to say something
umorous to her the while she would
vatch for the CLINT, which I did, and
be saw it. She said she feared II would
e a long time before she could do my
lint, and asked me to watch her face
lille she practised 1t; and was very
filing.
She said she would like TO have my
pinion on the statement Of an English
ian about the bagpipes namely, that
hey sound best II you are far away
rom them, and the farther away the
etter. Other people present had
.ughed at that, and could tell her
ny? I said that no doubt what they
lughed at was at the mans forgetting
nat II you were too far away from the
ipes you would not hear them at all.
Even in those moments I was not
lch a gawk as to be unaware that I
as making q deplorable exhibition Of
Iysen. Whatever she seemed 70 want
Ie TO say lust had to say 1t, for the
over had gone from me to show her
lat was not mentally deficient. How
1er, when IL came TO this about the
pes I broke down in shame and hid
y face on the table.
She was taken aback and raised my
sad gently, and was woebegone when
le saw the ruin she had made.
Have / hurt your" she asked, and I
'uld just nod.
why did you let me?" she asked,
ID answered darkly. Il cannot help
wing or doing whatever Miss Julie
gan wants"
The wet glittered on her eyes as II
tighter and a tear had met, just as
ey do on the strings. said, 1T 70
tier notifying 10 me to be seen In
ch Instantaneous circumstances by