Year: 1873

OF me for my own tailor in particular
l will rather go your security in the
s. Widows and Orphans Institution
than 60 with you to the Blue Cloth"
Chum, am 10 hero OF romance, I am
a man OF sense [ am clerk in the
royal post Office department and you
serve in the royal court. can: bear
either the royal court or the life Of the
common people: however opposite these
are one to the other.


Fool! you jest, you think better
than you speak. 1t is always fatter-
ing to man to know how to play anoth-
er roze than his own I know maids OF
honor, VINO still at forty years Of age
boast of having at the age of twenty
played peasant girls so we'll that the
whole world thought that they had
MIXED COWS and tended sheep all their
lives.


Brother Notary! It is all very we'll to
be journeyman dyer as am, but I
don't take any luxury iu colors-I don't
want to be wandering rainbow in
twenty degrees cold The Heaven it
self would not be able to exhibit such
rainbow I don't want to be more
than Heaven. Is there not to be found
any more pleasant restaurant than the
Blue Cloth,' to which We could 90.


We find from the above conversation
between the two men, that they were
mechanics, only with regard to the
outer shelf. What could then be the
reason that they were out in such a
cold winter evening, so little suitable
for romantic love adventures Why
did they carry such disguise and what
could those so-called children Of the
higher classes" have to do with the
i" Blue Cloth,' which, according to
what one Of them said, must be one of
these so-called "preserve-saloons " in
which the city Of Stockholm abounds ?
he who wants to study the people has
soon completed his course within the par
lors Of the rich, where the men with all |
their might strive to sacrifice their own
individuality so as to become as near as
may be like each other.


They speak and fatter each other
always with masks over their faces, but
seldom or never do they remove the
mask, which finally becomes immovable
from the face and soul.


The curious inquirer soon grows
weary of this eternal carnival. He
longs for free and natural views, and if
the mists prevent his viewing the life
from the submits, he seeks the
depth Of the valleys, which offer clear
er though not 50 grand objects.
Edward Jager, Notary in the Royal
Court, belonged to this number, and he
therefore visited frequently every place
where he thought he could find some.
thing different from what he saw every
day around him.


Adolph Dahl, clerk in the post Office
department, and Jager's old college
chum, accompanied him this evening,
persuaded thereto, not so much by
the same design that actuated his friend,
as from friendship and curiosity to
learn how such promising youth, as
his friend, would conduct himself
among number Of outcasts and other
scum Of humanity. But he had al.
ready, as We have seen, repented, while
yet only half way


What most troubled him was that he
had been obliged to cover his fine SYM
metrical person with a !aborer's coarse
garments because he was an admirer of
such cloth that cost twenty rix dollars
per yard ,aud the world generally does the
| same.


Admired young man =! walk on *Norr-
boo, in the middle of beautiful day,
dressed in coarse homspun coat and
slouching hat. The world: will be as
tonished and believe you mad, although