The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume], February 24, 1894, English, Image 4

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wetted with me when Me
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iadou wee Teeth, whose brow from ear* wai
tlMt
^ second one woe Joy, who danced end sane
other, Hope. These left me company
Until a day when Tooth ''farewell" did say
And left me at a turning of the way.
Fair Hope walks with me still, bnt keeps her
eyes
Lifted to where the hills of heaven shine.
And Joy (whose other name is Peace), remains.
Though in her face I see a light divine.
But well I know, when past earth's toil and
pain.
Sweet Youth, once lost, will then be mine
again!
—Helen Percy in Good Housekeeping.
A LOVE AFFAIR.
The girl I am going to tell yon about
is rather pretty, and her name is Edith.
She has dark hair, and her eyes are blue,
end she dresses well. She has been
graduated from a eeminary of good re
pute. and her disposition is amiable to a
degree which mere than a year ago
brought all the young men of the neigh
borhood at her feet. I think she won a
tennis championship in singles some
where last year, but I am not certain
about that. What I can recall among
her most pronounced accomplishments
I will put down heie later on. I met
her so long a time ago that I have for
gotten the circumstances of our meet
ing. but I guess they were of the ordi
nary sort. I live two doors from her
house, and I drop in to see her and Mrs.
Burke at least once a week. Even her
marriage, which hurt me so much at
the time, did not separate us for very
long, and 1 think I have lived to forget
my first rash determination never to
look upon her face again. 1 called the
night of the wedding, and I have been
calling regularly ever since. I am be
ginning to believe that it was a good
thing, after all, that she didn't marry
me.
What I want to tell—and it won't
take long to tell it in my dry fashion—
is the story of old Browne's courtship.
I make my living by keeping the cash
accounts of a big Market street whole
sale house, and Browne is the man
whose desk is next to mine in the count
ing room. Our salary is about the same,
and although he is two years younger
than I am, I being 51 now, we both
have held the same positions for 20
years. Browne weighs more than 200
pounds, and I weigh a trifle less.
Mrs. Burke, who is Edith's mother,
came to me this summer and had quite
a long talk with me about her personal
affairs. She said that her late husband's
estate was pretty much entangled, and
that to keep her present establishment
on Arch street going she would have to
rent some of the handsome rcoins in the
house to hoarders. Of course she didn't
want to do that, and of course I depre
cated the plan, hut in the end it turned
out that we both had to give in.
Old Browne rented the second story
front room the day after 1 told him
about it. He had been living away up
town, and he was glad to get a little
nearer to the office, l.c*sidcs enjoying all
the social prestige which geographical
conditions could give him. He moved
into the rooms with a dor^n trunks and
a wealth of bric-a-brac, which, to my
mind, did not become his age. Mrs.
Burke was glad to accept the reference
to me which he gave her. and Edith
smiled upon him when she gave him his
night key.
I thought a good deal of Edith, and
every night or two we played cards in
her mother's rooms. She and 1 played
partners against young Bob Smith and
Mrs. Burke. We were pretty evenly
matched, too, for Bob played a stiff
game of whist, and 1—well, yon may
remember that I was one of the Pente
cost club's prize team last tall. Edith
and I won most of the games, though,
for Bob was too infernally lazy ever to
do anything well. And then he never
seemed to mind it if he lost.
The presence of old Browne annoyed
me a great deal, and I don't mind say
ing so. About a week atter he took his
rooms there I found him occupying my
seat at the whist table when I called.
He was fumbling the cards in his awk
ward fashion, and Edith was laughing
at him. Bob was engaged in giving an
imitation of me telling a war story, and
even Mrs. Burke was approving the ri
diculous proceedings. I coughed, and
that stopped the game, but I was un
comfortable all the evening. But Bob
had the good sense to apologize, but old
Browne simply tittered for an hour over
what he seemed to consider a good joke
on me.
After that all my affairs seemed to
go wrong, and I began to seriously con
sider whether 1 shouldn't rent every
room in Mrs. Burke's house myself. I
was actually contemplating this propo
sition one night in my own apartments,
smoking my last bowl of tobacco the
while, when the colored girl who waits
on the door said that a man had called
to see me. I have few callers, and I
thought it might be Mr. Phipps, the
managing partner of my house, whom I
had invited to come to see me more than
a month ago.
With this idea in mind I told the girl
to delay the man below stairs for a mo
ment while I slipped into other clothes.
Then the dcor opened, and old Browne
came ambling in. I was disgusted on
the instant, bnt I managed to conceal
pj real feelings and invited him to be
He looked all aroend him to
aee if I was alone, set his hat on the
floor and then accepted my invitation
with a kind of sigh.
"Thank yon," he said, "I only want
to see yon for a moment."
I offered him a pipe, and he declined
it. 1 told him my cigars were oat.
"It doesn't make any difference," he
said. "I'd rather not emoke. I came
here to ask yon some things about the
Bnrkee."
The Lord only knows how I looked at
him as he hesitated for a moment.
"I have seen enough of them," he
went on, "to believe that they are per
fectly respectable people—otherwise 1
would not have taken lodging there.
Too and I are old friends, and you will
take away even the slight doubt there
is in my mind. Are they perfectly re
spectable?"
Somehow or other I managed to nod
my head, but his presumption was par
alyzing me.
"Thank yon again," he proceeded.
"The reason that I asked you is that I
am going to marry Edith."
It took me a couple of minutes to
master my emotions, bat I am proud to
say I did it. My reply was cool—al
most chilly.
"Indeed!" I said. "Has she accept
ed you?"
"No, because I haven't proposed yet.
I have given the matter a good deal of
thought, but before I took so serious a
step in my life I wanted some such wise
old head as yours to advise me. Now
I am happy, and we'll get married at
once."
He shook hands with me, and the old
idiot didn't notice that 1 failed to re
spond. At the door I managed to ask
him this question:
"What makes you believe she'll have
yon?"
He seemed astonished.
"Have me!" he repeated. "Why,
she's been after me ever since she knew
me. I'll settle it tomorrow evening."
As he turned the stairs I noticed that
he had on a suit of new clothes, a white
vest and a red necktie. He said some
thing about feeling like a schoolboy,
and I rushed back to my room more af
fronted than I had ever been before in
my life. I can always think best when
1 am in l>ed, and so I undressed and got
under covers very quickly. When I had
thought diligently for an hour, I turned
over and said this to myself:
"The old fat beast! The idea of her
marrying him! I'll propose myself to
her tomorrow morning. She has been
expecting it, I know, tor a long time."
I didn't sleep very well and arose a
little after 7 o'clock. It took me an
hour to dress myself, and having no ap
petite for breakfast I only drank a cup
of strong coffee. I then walked nearly
a mile before I had decided what to
say and was barely satisfied with the
result. Edith was the sort of a girl to
be particular about such things, and 1
wanted to please her fancy.
Mrs. Burke came to the door and was
just as much surprised to see me as 1
thought she would be.
"It was very good of yon to come so
scon," she said, "and I didn't think you
knew it yet."
"Knew what?" said I.
She pulled me inside the hall and
looked at me. half smiling and half
tearful.
"Didn't yon come to—er—congratu
late anybody?"
Then 1 sat down cn the hatrack and
shook my head. I felt that it was all
over, and tnatold Browne had won, and
never in my life did 1 suffer so mnch
misery in so small a spaee of time.
"Then." said Mrs. Burke, "I am glad
to l.e able to inform you myself. Edith
and Bob are engaged to he married. "
i arose and sat down again. I thought
of many things, but only one sentence
struggled through my lips.
"Does—does old Browne know abont
it?" I asked.
"Oh, yes. bnt it won't interest him.
Before he went down town this morn
ing he told me that he would have to
give np his room on account of the sun
shining in it too brightly in the morn
ing. 1 'm going to turn the whole house
now over to Edith."—R. B. Cramer in
Philadelphia Times.
Texan Hospitality.
"The lntchstring hangs ont," ex
pressed the hospitality of the southern
trontier in the days "before the war."
If a traveler rode up before the fence
that separated the log cabin from the
road, he was greeted by, " 'Light, stran
ger, Tight!" W'ithout this salntation
no one dismounted, hut it was rarely
withheld. Mr. Williams, in his book,
"Sam Houston, V thus describes the im
pulse of hospitality, which made ever}'
traveler a guest, during the early settle
ment of Texas:
The traveler who rode up to the front
fence was instantly invited to alight.
His horse was staked out or hobbled to
feed on the prairie grass, and the vis
itor sat down to exchange the news with
his host. The coffee mill was set go
ing, if there were any of the precious
grains in the house, and the hopper in
the hollow log to grinding the corn.
The venison or bear meat was put on
t c coals, and the ash cake baked.
After the meal and the evening pipe,
the visitor stretched himself on a buf
falo robe on the floor with the members
of the family and slept the sleep of
health and fatigue. In the morning the
response to any inquiry as to the charge
was, "Yon can pay me by coming
again."
The story that a certain hospitable
settler used to waylay travelers on toe
road and compel them to visit him at
toe muzzle of a doable barreled shot
gun wee only a bn morons exsggerattoa
of tire instinct for hospitality which
characterised toe community.
The visitor was a living newspaper,
who brought the only news obtainable,
and was a welcome relief to the monot
ony and loneliness of the wilderness.—
Youth's Companion.
Beflected Light.
A dead white surface has decided ad
vantages for reflecting light over a look
ing glass or a bright surface. Good
white blotting paper reflects back 82
per cent of the light cast upon it. Many
persons are under the impression that
looking glass mast he a better reflector
than paper or whitewashed snrface be
cause with looking glass a 6trong shad
ow can be cast, while from a dead sur
face no heavy shadow is obtained.
The reason is not so much that the re
flected light ia less from the dead sur
face. bat that the reflection is concen
trated in the case of the looking glass.
With paper or whitewash it proceeds
from a vast number of points.—Brook
lyn Citizen.
Better Than Ham.
Hog and hominy is the popular dish in
some portions of the south, just as pork
and beans delight the palate of the New
Englanders and catfish and waffles ap
peal to the taste of Philadelphians.
How dearly a Virginian loves hara may
be inferred by the following conversa
tion reported by a home coming com
mercial traveler:
While riding in from an interior town
in the stage he fell into conversation
with the driver. The talk finally turned
upon hunting, the driver informing his
fare that the woods thereabout abound
ed in game. Passing a stream, the trav
eler asked if it contained fish.
"Lots of them," was the reply.
"What kind?"
"Mostly trout," said the driver. "All
these mountain streams are full of
trout."
"They must be fine eating," was the
next remark.
"Fine eating!" exclaimed the driver.
"Well, I should say so. You just go np
to the mountains and catch half a dozen
trout about 10 or 12 inches long, clean
'em without washing 'em, rub in some
salt, roll 'em in Injun meal and bake
'em in the ashes. Good eatin! Why,
stranger, they beat ham!"—New York
Herald.
Frenchwomen of Business.
The Frenchwoman, unlike her English
sister, has, as a rule, a very good busi
ness education. In the common schools
she is taught household bookkeeping and
is given lessons in purchasing and use
ful expenditure. As a wife she is expected
generally to help her husband in his busi
ness, and sometimes she manages it en
tirely for him. In the small store she
acts as clerk for him, and in the larger
ones she is an equal partner.
The Bon Marche was made famous by
Mme. Boucicault, who helped her hus
band to found and maintain the estab
lishment, and after his death she took
entire charge of it. Her system was one
of so mnch kindness and consideration
toward her employees that they called
her "The Lady of the Bon Marche" and
looked upon her as almost a saint.
There are many other large establish
lishments in Paris managed by women.
Mme. Coquelin, it is said, invests all her
husband's money for him, and many of
the wives of artists manage the selling
and exhibition of their husbands' works,
attend to the collecting and paying of
debts, obtain orders and call upon news
paper men, doing all the necessary work
to make their husbands' artistic efforts
profitable.—W oman.
" '"" r " ■* T * Twri r -- - -_________ me wortn
living—love of art and art of love.—Ed
mond Harancourt.
A good sewing machine is supposed to
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