"Ph's rpnlly a lovely girl." hp raid,
"A blonde nml extremely fnir.
Vlth a gracefully small and clnpsfo
hemi."
"Indeed? And what did she wear?"
"Her eye you know thndc eyes like rnk-t,
.lust the eolnr of skies nt dawn,
AVith lnshes the longest, silkiest "
"Yes yes, but, what had she on?"
"I liked her manner. Its gentle charm
Suggested n soul nt rest;
And then her ismllo wuh so sweet and
warm "
"Good gracious! How was she dressed?"
"She must have worn some sort of a
gown."
Why yes that Is certainly clear;
But 1 did not see It, I frankly own
. 1 saw only her, my dear!"
Madeline Ilrhlges, In Portland Oregon-Inn.
(Copyright. 1900, by
Young and charming Mrs. Curtis
' nt In the extreme coiner of the big
double box which was slowly filling
;with. Mrs. Potter's guests and looked
over the great audience with languid
interest. A great part of the audience
4rettirned the Inspection with evident
(relish. It really was a very select
liox pnrty and the people out in the
fcody of the house found a delight
(even greater than watching the play
In identifying the members of the ex
clusive set whose names so regularly
Adorned the society pages of the
newspapers.
Among all the distinguished folk In
fhe box none was so charming an ob
ject upon which to gaze as young Mrs.
(Curtis. The gods had endowed her
(with great beauty and that subtle
Charm which may be called person
ality or a half dozen other things.
Her 'expression was bright as a May
morning albeit inscrutable.
"I wonder if he ever had a care
fceyond the' selection of her gowns,"
whispered a wan little woman in the
balcony to her husband.
"And I wonder how she would look
M she had some downright trouble and
worry," sW added with a sigh at her
own fading youth.
The box was now all but filled. One
lono seat remained and It happened
to be beside Mrs. Curtis.
"Oh, dear," said Mrs. Potter, a lit
tle impatiently. "How dreadful. Here
Is Mr. Curtis and the only seat left is
lieside Mrs. Curtis. I did not expect
you, sir, and had arranged that seat
(or Baron Sternhold. Now you appear
unexpectedly and I this moment re
ceive a note from the Baron that he
Is unexpectedly detained. I was sure
Mra Curtis said you would not be
here. Well, of all things that a man
nd his wife should be seated vis-avis
at a box party."
And there was a ripple of laughter
as Mr. Curtis gravely seated himself
beside his wife. He was a handsome
fellow with his finely poised head so
at variance with the almost boyish
effect his curly black hair gave. Un
like his wife, there were lines of care
In his face and touches of gray about
1 1 "Ed. Curtis looks as though he had
been up against some trouble," whis
pered a ruddy faced old beau back in
the box.
"Or else he's been going the pace a
Ilttle harder than usual," re'torted the
ady beside him carelessly. "Oh, you
men cannot go scot free from your
revels."
. ! In the meantime as Curtis seated
tlmself the color partly faded from
Is wife's face. Her fan trembled just
perceptibly and the eyes still scan
ning the audience were unseeing eyes.
Elthout looking at him she felt rather
an saw that his hand resting so
gracefully upon his knee was shaking.
"Inasmuch as we are on dress pa
rade and in full public view," he said,
leaning over and whispering In her
ear, "it might be best to act it out
and display enough decent interest In
each other so as not to gratify the
Berce longing for scandal which per
rades the kind hearts about us."
"You are quite right," she replied
Soldly. "I did not expect you. -I
Young Mrs. Curtis. '
thought you started for Mexico to
day." i "I decided to defer it until to-mor-
row," he replied. "If it were possible
lor you to smile pleasantly not at
Be, you know, but at Bomebody in the
audience, it might serve to lessen the
Interest of the dear friends about
M."
She flashed a dazzling smile at a
golden figure of Cupid over the stage
-a smile which drew an expression
9t agony to his face.
A "If you could think of some sublect
Dally Story Tub. Co.)
for sustained conversation it night be
easier," she said.
"I will," he answered, sharply, turn
ing toward her, "I will tell you the
story of a great love and its unhappy
end.
."The hero was but an unformed
boy, thrown into the realities of life
early because he happened to have
been born into the hot-houso atmos
phere of money and society. He
thought he was mature, experienced
nnd even blase, when really he was
more Ignorant himself than the com
monest clod."
"Was there a heroine?" she asked,
"And why did he not go?" asked the
woman,
dropping her eyes from the flare of
the great theater to the grateful dark
ness of the carpet.
"There always Is a girl," he replied,
quietly. "For goodness sake, Mabel,
don't look solemn. Remember our
kind friends all about."
She raised her head and swept the
house with the regal manner so char
acteristic of her.
"Go on," she said.
"Well, this pathetically unequipped
hero fell in love with the heroine of
course. Yes, he truly fell in love. He
hardly knew it at the time, for he was
a selfish young animal and little un
derstood what love really meant. Per
haps It was more desire than love.
Anyway he pursued the heroine and
won her for his very own.
"And then, you see, trouble began.
He was a primitive sort of animal and
his real civilization only began to be
foreshadowed when he married the
heroine. Up to that time the whole
scheme of the universe rested on the
cornerstone of what he wanted. After
a bit it began to percolate his selfish
ness that there were desires and
needs on her part."
"Couldn't you manage to laugh or
look bored or something," she inter
rupted. "Our dear friends are becom
ing interested."
Ho did his best, but it was more a
grimace than a smile. She flashed
full upon him that marvelous smile of
hers.
"Go on," she said, softly.
"Oh, well," he said, wearily, "It Is
a dreary story. He demanded every
thing gave little, and thought less.
And all the time he knew that she
loved him. And he loved her, too,
more blindly and passionately every
moment that he did the very things
to kill her love.
"Of course the end was bound to
come. There were bickerings and
scenes and there was brutal indiffer
ence and exasperating slights heav
ens, there were scenes between them,
disgusting, inexcusable and It was
all his fault. He was forming his
character at her expense, and he
was killing her love, which all the
time he was learning to value the
more.
"And finally the crash came. The
bitter things she said in answer to
the bitter things he said rankled in
his heart until he no longer could
stand it, and he determined to go
away and forget. So the hero and the
heroine agreed to disagree and the
hero was to have left for Mexico to
day and never trouble the heroine
more."
"And why did he not go?" asked
the woman, flashing the ghost of her
dazzling smile at the golden Cupid
over the stage.
"He went to the train and boarded
it," the man replied, regarding her
steadily, "but the flood gates of hiB
memory opened and the tide of his
great love swept over him and the
knowledge that there was to be this
bo party came to him, and he knew
'Hi?
I f "-v
Bhe would bo here and the hunger of
his heart drove him to leave the
train to come hero and see her once
more, if only from a distance. And
he is a boy no longer, but a man who
has put away boyish things forever."
"The heroine," said the woman
very softly, "was also very young and
had never been taught many things
she should have known. She never
knew nbouftuct and and that sort
of thing. She also had a great love
which grew with the years, but did
not know how to express it."
A great light filled the eyes of the
man.
"Don't you think the hero might
have another chance that they
might start over again?" he said
eagerly.
The smile she turned toward him
was not the dazzling one sent to the
golden Cupids, but so soft and woman
ly that the face of the woman was
transformed.
"Look here, you two," cried Mrs.
Patton, leaning over and tapping each
with her fan. "Pay attention to the
play. Positively, you haven't heard a
word yet. Anybody would think you
were lovers instead of a blase mar
ried couple of five years' experience."
HAD SEVERAL GOOD EXCUSES,
South Dakota Man Really Unable to
Invite Traveler to Dinner.
Along about noon as I was riding
horseback nlong a South Dakota high
way, I came upon n settler at his gate,
and, after he had brought my horse a
pail of water, he asked.
"Stranger, did you meet a strap
ping young man with a set jaw be
tween here nnd Kllendnle?"
"Yes, I believe I did," I replied.
"Wall, that was my son Jim, going
to town to marry a wldder woman 12
years older than he Is. Durn his
hide, but he wouldn't listen to me. Did
you also meet a gal about twenty
years old between here and town?"
"Cross-eyed and her nose turned
up?"
"Yep. That's my gal, Sal, who's
pone to town to sue a feller for
breaeh-of-promise. Dog her cats, but
nobody ever asked her to marry him
or ever will."
"I also met a woman about fifty
years old," I said.
"Red hair and freckled face?"
"Yes."
"That's my old woman. I told her
this morning that if she didn't like
my ways she could take the outside
of the house, and drat her antics, if
she didn't walk off. I was going to as
ask you to stop to dinner, but as
things are as they are "
I assured him that I wasn't a bit hun
gry, and that his excuses were all
right, and lent him a chew of tobacco
and left him trying to whistle up his
spirits Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle.
Why He Had a Grievance.
Half-time had been called, and, as
usual, the sides were fraternizing. The
goal keeper was talking earnestly to
one of the backs.
"George." he said, "will you do me
the favor of going into the goal, while
I play out In the first ten minutes?"
"Whatever for?" asked tbe back.
"You're doing very well."
"Yes; that's all right. But I've been
looking over the opposition lot, and
and "
His voice broke for a moment; then
he continued rapidly:
"Many years ago their center for
ward and I were rivals for the hand of
a beautiful maiden, and for what I
have suffered on his account I 1
should dearly love to come to an un
derstanding with him."
"Poor old chap!" murmured the
back. "You seem to feel it badly. I
suppose he married her and left you
out in the cold eh?"
"No, he didn't!" snapped the goal
keeper. "He stood aside for me, and
I married her!" Answers.
Chance for a Profit.
The artistic temperament often
lends toward poverty but it frequently
compensates Its victim with a saving
grace of humor which makes even the
poverty a source to fun.
A young woman who was possessed
of the temperament and had given
up everything else for it suddenly
sold a picture for a considerable sum
and made haste to apply the pro
ceeds as a first payment on a small
cotlage she had long desired. The
former owner attempted to advise
her about the neighbors.
"Now that couple next door," he
said, warningly, "they're all right
good neighbors, friendly, and all that
But keep your eyes open. If they see
a chance to make a hundred dollars
out of you they won't hesitate to do
it."
"Fine! Fine!" cried the young
woman. "I'm going over now and
see if I can't get them to do it on
shares." Youth's Companion.
A Limit.
At the University Club banquet a
night or two ago Secretary Wilson of
the Department of Agriculture told
about the greatness of the American
hen and eulogized the farmer as the
producer of the nation's wealth, says
the Washington correspondent of' the
New Yorlt World. He said he is look
ing for men to help him in the work
of investigation.
"If I can find a man who will dis
cover a plant that will bind desert
sands together so the winds won't
shift them, or who will tell me how
to plnnt a hundred thousand acres of
trees in a year," he said with fine en
thusiasm, "I will pay him I will pay
him"
"How much?" asked somebody.
"As much as the government will
allow nie to," he concuded rather
lamely, and everybody groaned.
Indigestion
TIutc is no reason why a person
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them." They actually starve them
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with us before long we have nothing
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Meltons, were $1.00, now 75e.
LADIES' COATS which were
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get for $5, $G and 7.00.
FURS I have a few yet, not
many. One-third and one-halt
off. $4.50 Furs now $2.50.
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