A SUCH GIRL S WHIM
By FRANK H. SWEET
Copyright. 190 3. by Dally Sto ry Publlshlnp Company
There had been an abundance of
apace on the through train from New
York, so when after two days’ stop at
St- Augustine, Mabel Waring con
tinued her journey toward Palm Peach
she neglected her customary precau
tion of securing o seat in advance.
So with the folds of her dainty trav
eling skirt held gingerly between her
gloved fingers, Mabel Waring en
tered one of the common cars and
moved down the rt-ws of passengers
until, near the far end, a girl made
room for her.
The man and woman in the seat op
posite, and the woman ahead, might
be like herself, without a choice in
the matter. And that nice old man
with the white hair, and the tall young
man on the end seat who-. She
dropped her gaze quickly and turned
with heightened color to the girl at
her side, who all this time had been
watching and waiting with eager,
wistful recognition in her eyes.
"Ah, Miss Waring.” she whispered,
“I saw you on the platform, and was
hoping I might get a chance to thank
you for that delightful trip last sum
mer. I haven’t been able to see you
since."
“Why, yes, to bo sure. How stupid
of me,” and in Mabel’s expressive face
was now a quick interest which atoned
for her former lack of recognition. "I
always liked your counter, for you
seemed so interested in what I bought,
and so anxious not to mislead.”
“Yes,” and the girl’s eyes sparkled
at being so well remembered, “she
.married a Florida man and went to
West Palin Beach. He keeps a store.
I am going there now. You see, I’m
not strong enough for the confinement
of store work, so Bessie wrote for me
to come and try to get the public
school. One of her husband’s custom
ers is the trustee, and they seem to
think I will have a good chance. No
one has applied for the position yet.”
“That will be nice,” Mabel declared,
“so much better than store work, I
think.”
One morning, a few days after reach
ing Palm Beach, Mabel took out her
purse to tip a waiter, and was sur
prised to find how Fmall an amount
of money there was left. It was odd,
how money slipped away in a place
like this. She must have another draft
cashed at once.
Her drafts were made in amounts of
one hundred dollars each, for conven
ience; and were kept in a small leath
er case among her stationery. She
opened the trunk and reached in con
fidently; then, as her hand did not
come in contact with the case, raised
the trunk-lid higher and made a more
careful search. But the case did not
reveal Itself; and from the statione-y
she began a hurried examination of
the entire contents of the trunk, and
then went to another trunk, and
another, and repeated the process. But
it wa3 no use, and at last she rose and
went to a window which overlooked
the sea, perplexed and annoyed. What
had become of the drafts? She had
cashed one at St. Augustine, she re
membered, and then—why. yes, cer
tainly, she had gone directly to her
room from the office. Of course *>he
had returned the case to its usual
place. Had it been stolen? She made
a quick gesture of dissent at the
thought. No, she would not believe
that. It was only her carelessness.
But it was gone; that was the main
point. Now what was she to do? Her
uncle had started for Europe, and she
would not even know his address for
another two weeks. It would be a
month or more before the drafts could
bo replaced. Of course she could go
to the hotel manager and explain the
situation to him; but that would be
humiliating, and. besides, there were
the little every-day expenses of boats
and curiosity stores and magazine
She began a hurried examination of
the entire contents of the trunk.
counters. She did not even have the
money for them.
Half an hour later, as she was walk
ing thoughtfully down the avenue, she
almost ran into the arms of a young
girl who was hurrying from th» oppo
site direction.
‘‘Oh, I beg your pardon. Miss 7,'ar
ing," apologized the new-comer, laugh
ing. ‘‘I was thinking.”
•‘So was I,” Mabel answered. Then.
‘‘Why, Lucy, how bright you look!
That school has become an assured
fact, I suppose?”
‘‘No, indeed,” with a wry grimace,
“the trustee told me I wasn't quite
competent. Lucky for me. though, for
the hotel manager has offered me a
position at five dollars a month more
than l would receive as school teach
er."
“Has any one ebe been engaged?”
she asked.
“For the school? No, not yet,"
looking at her curiously. "Do you
know of any one? The trustee said
he was puzzled who to get.”
“Do yon think I would suit?”
Lucy stared, pursing her lips as
though to whistle; then her lips
straightened and quivered in a vain
attempt to keep from laughing.
“Yes. I think you would,” she an
swered at length, controlling her voice
with a visible effort.
"Excuse me,” Mabel interrupted hur
riedly; "I want to see about the
position before there are other .appli
cants. Good-bye.”
When Mabel returned to the hotel,
a few hours later, she met Lucy In one
of the halls, a dusting brush in her
hand and a tiny white service-cap rest
ing demurely upon her brown curls.
“Did you get the position. Miss War
ing?” she asked, striving to keep her
face straight.
“Yes,” Mabel answered, “and thank
you very much for giving me the in
“Do ycu think I would suit?”
formation, Lucy. I commence work
Monday.”
Week after week went by, and Mabel
still remained at the hotel, going
across to her school every morning
and returning at night. There could be
but one conclusion. It was a rich
girl's freak. Nothing else would ex
plain a primary school-teacher receiv
ing thirty dollars a month stopping at
a hotel that, charged five dollars a day.
And this was the conclusion of the
others, also, for by this time every
one knew of Mabel’s occupation.
But perhaps the most curious fea
ture of it all was that Mabel never
once thought of the inconsistency of
a working girl staying at a place like
the Breakers.
The climax came one day when the
clerk handed her a letter from Berlin.
It was from her uncle, and after a
brief account of his travels, stated
that he had arranged for a trip
around the world, to be gone a year.
It would scarcely be worth while for
her to write, as his address would al
ways be uncertain. She would better
remain in Florida until spring, and
then go to the hotel in New York
where they usually stopped, and where
he would join her on his return. The
letter concluded with the statement
that he was glad he had furnished
her so abundantly with money. She
would have plenty for all possible con
tingencies.
For the first time she began to go
over the details of her situation. It
was now the last week in January.
She had been here twenty-five days,
and that made one hundred and twen
ty-five dollars due the hotel. She
wondered how much more than that
her salary would be. Quite a deal, she
hoped, for she was beginning to feel
the need of many little things; and
besides, she wanted to buy presents
for all her school children.
Lucy came to the door in search of
a truant child, and Mabel motioned
for her to approach.
“Do you know how much salary the
school pays?” she asked.
Lucy laughed.
“I thought the money part didn’t ap
peal to you?" she answered. “Thnt
was the first thing I inquired about.
The primary teacher gets thirty dol
lars a month.” and then she hurried
away to the child, who was laughing at
her from the hall.
Mabel sat rigid for a moment. Then
she arose and crossed to the elevator.
The manager was in the office, but she
did not glance toward him, nor to
ward any of the guests. Somehow she
felt that she had no right here now.
Once in her room she opened her
trunks and methodically began to take
out and examine their contents. Her
eyes were clear now, and her lips
firm. These things must pay her
debt and provide for her until she
could draw the school salary. She
would send them to Jackson-'Ve, or
perhaps to New York. It did not mat
ter. They would probably bring but a
triffe of their real value at either
place; but still they had cost a great
deal, and would yield enough to free
her from debt. She ought to havo
known in the first place that a school
teacher could not afford living like
this.
At length, from the very bottom of
a trunk, she took out and unfolded a
plain serge. Of all her outfit it was
the one article which Ehowed unmis
takahie signs of wear. But it bad
been a favorite gown, and was serv
iceable, and for these reasons had been
brought along for boating and other
rough usage. The last time she had'
worn it had been on a trip from St.
Augustine to Mantanzas. Well, it was
just what she needed now, and she
was about to place it on the small pile
when she felt something in one of the
pockets. Mechanically she took it out.
and then with a low cry sprang to her
feet. It was the leather case contain
ing her drafts.
HERE IS A “PEACH.”
Effusion That Must Have Cost Writer
Hours of Thought.
Arabella, active, agreeable and an
gelic, arranged alluring and attractive
amusements, acknowledged above all (
advertised an automatic apparatus*
and accepted as appropriate at all
academic assemblages.
Arabella arbitrated at argumentative
aggregations, avoiding abhorrent ac
cent and address—always. Able, am
bitious and adventurous, an absolute
adept, according ability all admiration
and adoration.
Arabella adroitly accommodated ac
complices and associates, abstemiously
adding appetizing admixtures and ob
sorbents. appertaining, affecting and
alleviating aggressive alimentary
agony. Accordingly, after Arabella ap
peased Augustus Arlington’s appetite,
awakened an ardent affection, asser
tive, and also acceptable, as Arabella
anxiously approached antique age,
awaiting adventurous annexation, al
lowable and agreeable among aesthe
tics and agnostics.
Augustus's attentive attitude arous
ed anger and animosity among Ara
bella’s associates, as all around Au
gustus an adorable admirer, and ap
prehensively awaited activities; and
Augustus’s avowed attachment ap
peased Arabella's abnormal alarm,
albeit affairs appeared awfully awk
ward, as asking always antedates ac
ceptance.
Augustus, ancient academician, ab
normally agitated, anxiously awaited
accommodating artifice; ably attempt
ed asserting affection and adoration,
and asked and awaited Arabella's ac
ceptance.
And Arabella answered affirmative
ly.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
IS “SORE” ON LATIN.
One Man Who Sees No Manner of Use
in Its Study.
Latin is a dum-fool thing. I feel
that way to-day. My boy works at
Latin and he requires 80 per cent of
something to pass something else. I
do the other 20 per cent myself. The
new French pronunciation is what puts
me at a disadvantage. When I was
a boy bonus was simply bone-us, now
it is bnoe-use; but when a thing is a
dum-fool thing the way you say it
doesn't matter ” says a writer in the
Book-Lovers’ Magazine. "Isn't it time
that our schools waken up to the fact
that we can get along very well over
here without Latin? If we must have
it, give us three weeks of Latin roots
from an old spelling book and let it
go at that. The teacher told me upon
inquiry that Latin gives a boy culture.
I told her in two words that. 1 didn’t
believe in any such thing. You might
as well scratch a boy’s back to pro
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Latin produces obstinacy, and cranki
ness, and deceit, and fickleness, and
hatred, and indigestion, and lying, and
sore eyes, and a strong tendency to
ward profanity. I admit tiiat Latin
has its place, but it belongs with oth
er Roman creations now dead, if we
were the least bit short of studies
there would be some excuse, but we’rf
not.”
Praise for Judicial Decision.
Judge Hazen of Kansas is an orna
ment to the bench. He upholds with
integrity the rights of citizenship and
the privileges of happiness as vouch
safed by the Constitution. Almost in
the same breath he decides that the
Bible may be read in the public
schools, and that theaters may be
opened for the entertainment of the
public on the Sabbath day. The Chris
tian may not be without his Bible
where he will, and the heathen may
surrender himself to quiet pleasures
as he may elect. It is likely that both
Christian and pagan will quarrel with
this eninently fair and unbiased de
cision, each declaring that the good
judge is pandering to superstition. “I
pray you.” said the beautiful Theo
dote, "what is superstition?” "Super
stition,” replied the wise Socrates,
smiling benlgnantly, "is the other fel
low’s religion.”—Roswell Field in Chi
cago Evening Post.
Unfinished Still.
A baby's boot, and skein of wool.
Faded, and soiled, and soft;
Odd things.- you say. and no doubt you're
right.
Round a seaman's nook this storr.iv night
Up in the yards aloft.
Most like It's folly, but. mate, look here.
When 1 iirst went to sea
A woman stood on the far-off strand.
With a wedding ring on her small, soft
hand.
Which clung so close to me.
My wife. God bless her! the day belore
8he sat beside my foot,
And the sunlight kissed her yellow hnir,
And the dainty lingers, deft and fair.
Knitted a baby's boot.
The voyage was over; 1 cume ashore;
What, think you. found 1 there?
A grave the daisies had sprinkled white,
A cottage empty, and dark as night.
And this beside the chair.
The littlft hoot, 'twas unfinished still;
Th# tangled skein lay near;
But the knitter had goo- away to rest.
With the babe to sleep cn i«sr quiet
breast,
Down In the churchyard drear.
A man ov powerful fee sick—the
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The Gospel of Art.
Work thou for pleasure, paint, or
sing, or carve
The thing thou lovest, though the body
starve.
Who works for glory misses oft the
goal;
Who works for money, coins his very ,
soul.
Work for work’s sake, then, and it
may be
That these things shall be added unto
thee. —Kenyon Cox.
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Many of the people who live in glass
houses go into politics and they don t
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A woman doesn’t fully understand
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Tell a man he mustn't, and he will;
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Jui tire only takes a man's part, but
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Lo -e may laugh at bolts, but politl
iam do not.
An Amusing Verdict.
At Fort Scott (Kan.) the other day a
jury in the district court returned a
verdict finding a certain accused per
son guilty of larceny. The verdict had
not been prepared in the technical
form desired, and the judge sent the
jury back to make the necessary cor
rections. The jury was gone for half
an hour, and when it returned it
brought in a verdict acquitting the
prisoner. But a verdict even more
a "using was perpetrated by a jury at
Pittsburg last Monday. The case was
a criminal one, and after a few min
utes' consultation the jury filed Into
the box from its room. “Have you
agreed upon a verdict?” asked the
judge. “We have,” responded the fore
man, passing it over. “The clerk will
read, said the judge. And the clerk
read: "We, the Jury, agree to disa
gree.”
Excavation Near Pompeii.
Excavation will shortly he commenc
ed in a marsh near Sanna/.zaro. on the
River Sarno, in the vicinity of Pom
peii. because it has been ascertained
that a very ancient city and necropolis
were buried underneath during the
eruption of Vesuvius several centuries
before the destruction of Pompeii. A
collection already exists in the mu
seum at Naples of great historic value,
consisting of indigenous vases and or
namental objects dating from the eigth
and ninth centuries before Christ.
The excavations are expected to lead
to other important discoveries.
A Bright Dog.
“Speaking about dogs,” said Repre
sentative Beidler of Ohio, “I suppose
I have the most intelligent iox terrier
in the country, and he’s only a puppy
yet. The other day he spilled his milk
and I cuffed his ears anil chucked him
out of the window. The next day,
after he had spilled his milk again,
he cuffed his own ears and went and
jumped out of the window.”
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A mother not spoken well of by her
children is an enemy of the state; she
should not live within the kingdom's
wall.
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