LfONDON THE CINDERELLA
OF THE CITIES
Story of the Mall for the County jSouncil and the
New Embankment.
For 18 years the greatest, the
healthiest and the wealthiest city in
the world has been without a civic
habitation worthy of its ancient set
tlement and honored name. The size
of London, its power, utility and dig
nity, have not yet secured adequate
expression in embodied brick, chiseled
stone, or fashioned bronze.
London has been too long the Cin
derella of the cities in the matter of
municipal recognition. Like poor Cin
derella, her county council had to
work and live in the basement dwell
ings of Spring Gardens. Her sisters,
the borough councils and the city cor
poration, feast or junket in the Guild
hall and Mansion house, or disport
themselves in the numerous town
halls and other buildings that have
been granted to them by the grace of
parliament or the cheerful consent of
their constituent ratepayers. The
metropolitan asylums board and
Thames conservancy without comment
have installed themselves in riparian
palaces, so that with greater ease they
can do lesser work. Only the council
is without a home and exist in lodg
ings.
The bold policy of banks, insurance
offices and large commercial houses
having prominent sites, adequate
space, handsome exteriors and inter
nal attractiveness, stimulates a joy
of work in staff, an order in business,
and a supreme command of organiza
tion impossible in low, mean and
disorderly habitations, which but for
high ideals of public duty would drag
down the average public man charged
by popular vote with a city's govern
ment.
This has been recognized and prac
..cotland Yard, and forming in the
new structural approaches, changed
amenities and nobler environment, a
great riverside embellishment, useful,
yet ornamental. Ranking appropriate
ly, yet modestly, with Greenwich has
pital, Lambeth palace, the houses of
parliament, custom house, Chelsea
hospital, Hampton court—buildings
that survive to us as worthy and
monumental reminders of the days
wheh the River Thames was the chief,
as it was, and as it must again be, the
widest, cleanest, prettiest, quietest
thoroughfare in this great metropo
lis.
Looked at from tfce point of view of
a great and beautiful riverside im
provement, the embankment of the
south side of the River Thames offer
ed opportunity for a fine and bold
treatment of this * present squalid
spot. The best embankment in the
world runs from Blackfriars to West
minster bridge and the houses of par
liament. This noble roadway has re
ceived a handsome lengthening of its
Victoria Tower gardens, fronting as
far as a new Lambeth bridge by a
new embankment wall and a riverside
promenade backed with fine offices
overlooking a garden that will occupy
the land where the old houses and
wharves now stand facing Lambeth
palace on the north side. From this
garden there will be, when the county
| hall is finished, a finer view of houses
of parliament, Hospital, Lambeth pal
ace and council offices than that
which feasted the eye of Canaletto
when he painted the Stangate shore
in the years that are gone; a better
view, even, than that which caught
the artistic eye of Sir Thomas More,
View of New County Council Hall from Westminster Bridge.
ticed by private enterprise, and every
where but in London municipal admin
istration has built a suitable habita
tion, and in so doing founded a public
spirited name.
But now London, through its county
council, is to have a civic building, a
municipal home, an administrative of
fice in which to strenuously carry on
the multiplex duties that are intrust
ed to it for the good government of
mighty London.
For over ten years the council
pressed its claim; for all that period
the health, time, and fruitful energy
of its councilors and staff were
“cribbed, cabined, confined;” and to
some extent its work has suffered by
the lack of centralized, spacious and
well-equipped offices.
Patient, submissive, tolerant to an
intolerable degree, the council prac
tically unanimously, irrespective of
party, decided a year ago, for the
good government of London, to se
cure a new home away from the old
Site, which has been neither suitable,
sufficient, nor available, for its ever
increasing work and Its multiplying
responsibilities.
And, as the council was being evict
ed ffom Spring Gardens, parliament
would not have it a* the Adelphi site,
and the timid refused to have it in
Parliament street, where better could
it be placed than on the spacious plot
of ground occupied by dingy wharf,
none too pleasant factory.
The river on the north, a public
terrace intervening between a fine
embankment and the county hall.
This structure is a solid, massive,
dignified, useful building bounded on
the south by Belvedere road, im
proved as a relief approach to Water
loo station from Westminster bridge
for the western traffic that now ob
structs the southeast corner of
Bridge. On the west St. Thomas’ hos
pital, opposite to the house of parlia
ment, enhancing the beauty and view
of that great pile.
In keeping with the abbey, New
as he drifted with his daughter, Mar
garet Roper, past the parliament he
adorned, down to the ebb tide to his
death, through Traitor's Gate to the
block at the tower.
Cartainly the view from Westmin
ster bridge is now and will be still
finer than when Wordsworth's lines
were written, when the council's work
between Vauxhall bridge and Charing
Cross is completed, and the projected
county hall on the south side between
Westminster and Charing Cross rail
way bridge leads to the southern em
bankment. This great improvement
which is slowly revealing itself, from
the end of Abingdon street to the
Tate gallery, has cost over a million
of money.
And now the public, council and
architect have all cooperated in mak
ing the Ark of' the Civitas of a free
community fair to look upon and as
worthy a repository of the municipal
archives, the center of civic activities,
as continental cities boast, and, in
erecting a fitting workshop for Lon
don s devoted aediles, will give space
and encouragement to those municipal
governors who have made London in
18 years of their administration the
municipal Mecca to which all civic
pilgrims turn for instruction, example,
ar.d ideals in-modern city government.
_ JOHN BURNS, M. P.
Remarkable.
A celebrated actress, fresh and
youthful looking, was in the habit of
invariably taking 18 years from her
age. She was called once In a law
case and gave the usual response. Her
son was called immediately after and
on being asked his age, he replied,
promptly: “Six months older than
my mother.”—II Riso.
Hopeless Case.
Eva—I heard Reggy telling that tall
blonde that we are here to-day and
gone to-morrow.
Katharine—Poor Reggy is ‘gone’ al
ready.—Chicago Daily News.
WAYS OF FRENCH HUSBANDS.
Punctilious in Small Courtesies That
Please Women.
The French husband has a faculty
that amounts almost to a genius for
bestowing the delicate attentions
which cost little except the exercise
of a modicum of tact and thoughtful
ness, but which carry joy to every
true woman’s heart. He not only
thinks Jo take home to her often (in
the absence of the means to make a
larger offering) a ten-cent bunch of
violets, pinks or roses from the flower
market or the itinerant flower ven
der’s barrow on his route, but he
presents them gallantly with the com
pliment and the caress the occasion
calls for; and this makes them confer
a pleasure out of all proportion to
their Intrinsic worth.
He remembers her birthday or fete
day with a potted plant; a bit of game,
a box of bonbons, a cake from the
pastrycook’s or a bottle of good wine.
He is marvelously fertile in expedi
ents for making the time pass quickly
and agreeably for her. He has a
thousand amusing and successful de
vices for helping her to renew her
youth. He projects unique and joy
ous Sunday and holiday excursions.
He improvises dainty little banquets.
He is a past master especially in the
art of conjuring up amiable mysteries
and preparing charming little sur
prises. And in all these trivial enter
prises he vindicates the old French
theory that true courtesy consists in
taking a certain amqunt of pains to
so order our words and our manners
that others "be content with us and
with themselves.”
The American husband is particu
larly solicitous to do the proper thing;
the French husband to do the agree
able thing.—Indejiendent.
Sing.
Banish the sighs.
For sighing Is leaden,
There was never a heart
Made lighter by sighs;
Sing of to-moirrow.
Forgetting tie sorrow—
A song to "he heart
Will go high to the skies!
—Milwaukee Dentine!.
CHIEF FIGURE IN SENSATIONAL SCANDAL.
This portrait of Hedges, the coachman and former express wagsti
driver, whose presence in the Platt party on a tour of the west led to the
public scandal over senator Platt’s domestic troubles, is enlarged from a
group photograph of the party taken in Colorado.
BOOKS IN QUEER BINDINGS.
Human Skin Among Other Things
Used for Coverings.
Extravagance in binding has fre
quently furnished an opening for the
display of fantastic tricks and fads.
In a book-seller’s catalogue was once
an advertisement of a Latin copy of
Apuleius’ “Golden Ass’’ bound in the
skin of an ass. A book relating to
Jeffrey Hudson, the celebrated dwarf,
was bound in a piece of the silk waist
coat of Charles I. Fox’s historical
works were bound in foxskin, and
Bacon’s works were dressed out in
oogskin. One offspring of the French
revolution was the grim humor of
binding books in human skin. France
was not alone in this practice. In
various parts of England the skin of
murderers has been tanned and used
to bind books. The public library of
Bury St. Edmunds has a book con
taining the account of the trial of a
man for murder, bound in his own
skin. Eccentricities of binding in such
skins as cats, crocodile, mole, seal,
wolf, tiger, bear, etc., abound. The
VERY LIKE THE ICE TRUST.
Attitude of Grasping Corporation and
Thieving Waiter.
Mayor Brush, of Mount Vernon, had
been describing to a visitor the mu
nicipal ice plant that, thanks chiefly
to his work, Mount Vernon had set up
“Reproachful?” said Mayor Brush
“Yes, it is a fact, the ice trust is re
proaching sorrowfully the cities that
sick of its extortions, have at last set
out to make their own ice.
“In this respect the ice trust re
minds me of a certain waiter in a
Parisian cafe.
“An American ordered at this cafe
an hors d’ouvre, agneau pre sale,
artichoke salad, peche Melba, and sc
on, and, when the waiter brought him
a bill of 30 francs, he paid it like a
man.
“After his change was brought, he
counted it, and pushed a franc toward
the waiter for a tip.
“But the man, pushing back the
franc, said in gentle reproach:
“ ‘Pardon, monsieur, but that is the
counterfeit franc.’ ”
MAKING A LANDING IN BALLOON RACE.
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—From Published Reports.
use of cloth in binding is one of com
paratively recent date. In 1835 Archi
bald Leighton introduced cloth for
covers, the first books so bound be
ing Byron’s complete works.
White and Red Wines.
“A misapprehension about the
strength of red and white wines ex
ists,” said a Californian. ‘‘Because
red wine has a darker, richer look
people think it is more intoxicating.
The opposite, really, is the case. Red
wines are made by fermenting grape
juice, skins and seeds together. White
wines are made by fermenting juice
alone. In the skins and seeds there
Is a lot of tannin, and red wine con
tains much tannin, while white wine
contains none. This tannin, an astrin
gent, closes the pores of the stomach
and prevents the alcohol in the red
wine from entering the blood freely,
and going, as the paying is, to the
head.
“White wine—champagne, for in
stance—has no tannin and hence its
intoxicating properties are much more
keenly to be feared than those of the
tannin-filled red wine.”
Real Style in New York.
They were wasting a few idle mo
ments at the Women’s Dependence
league in intimate remarks.
“As a womanly woman, with woman
ish ways, I want to propose Mrs. Dahl
gren for our next president,” said Mrs
Peter F. Rhinelander.
“Who is the womanly woman with
womanish ways, yourself or Mrs,
Dahlgren?” asked Mrs. Pembroke
Hood, always with an eye to correct
ness of expression.
“I hope it is not necessary for me
to state that I am too much of a lady
to refer to myself in so glowing
terms.”
“Oh, very well. It is Mrs. Dahlgren
She is the perfect one.”
“The most exquisite creature in pet
ticoats! Why, my dears, she even
washes her dishes with perfumed
soap!”
Not a Beauty.
Knox—Blinker’s fiancee must have
all kinds of money.
Blox—Are you acquainted with her?
Knox—No; but a friend of his
pointed her out to me to-day.
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Peer a Practical Chriatfan.
For many years past the earl of
Tankerville has preached Christianity,
and now he haB given practical proof
of the sincerity of his convictions. For
the purpose of mitigating local dis
tress, his lordship has reopened the
lead mines on his estate at Sailbeach,
Shropshire, and has offered the men
all the profits, while he contents him
self with taking the royalty and a
small percentage on the outlay on ma
chihery. The earl may frequently he
seen in the little chapel on the estate
conductinv services In which his own
singing forms a prominent feature
Before he came into the title his lord
ship, as Lord Bennett, was greatly ii
request at evangelistic missions. The
countess, an American lady, is his
right hand in this religious work.
The Truth of It.
“Couldn’t you get Krotchet to give
anything? It’s certainly a very de
serving charity.”
“Yes, but he said the subscription
price was beyond his means.”
“H’m! He meant beyond his mean
ness.”
Miss Dennett-Brown was much
elated. The post had brought her two
gratifying communications—one from
her banker announcing the advan
tageous sale of some shares in a com
pany she believed to be unsound; the
other from her married sister in Lon
don telling her that Lady Macintyre
had made up her mind to settle in
Chipperton.
She was only the widow of a city
knight, it is true, but she had a han
dle to her name, and was supposed to
be wealthy.
“It is just what we want in Chipper
ton,’’ Miss Dennett-Brown remarked
to her unmarried sister, Olivia, “some
one to give tone to the place and
lead society.”
And already she saw visions of gar
den parties, at which she would be
an honored guest, and bazaars at
which she would be asked to hold a
stall. With her mind's eye she even
began to range rapidly over her some
what antiquated wardrobe and to
reckon up its possibilities.
»he will be a great acquisition,
but”—turning to her letter—“she is
not to be here till the end of the Lon
don season, Carrie says.”
Having decided that this was to be
regretted but could not be helped, she
armed herself with a sheath of tracts
and went forth in great good humor to
visit those of her neighbors who, be
ing poor, had apparently forfeited the
Englishman’s right to consider his
house his castle.
She went first to some pretty chalet
like cottages just on the outskirts of
the town, in two of which new tenants
had lately come, whose acquaintance
she was anxious to make.
The door of the first was invitingly
open. Through it she saw, in the lit
tle sitting-room opposite, a woman
who was engaged in ironing some
lacey-looking articles. She was of a
pleasant, but homely countenance.
Miss Dennett-Brown rapped sharpiy
on the door with the handle of her
umbrella, and without waiting for per
mission, entered.
“I hope I do not interrupt you,” she
said.
The woman’s face expressed sur
prise—and—could it be possible?—a
shade of annoyance. But she said
politely:
“Oh, not at all: if you will go into
the front room I will be, with you in
a minute.”
“Don’t move,” exclaimed the other.
“Go on with your work—I will sit
here,” and she plumped herself down
into a chair by the table. “I love to
watch people work.”
“I expect it is fascinating some
times to those who themselves have
nothing to do.”
Miss Dennett-Brown was a little
taken aback and tried to look severe.
“Oh, I am a very busy woman, I
assure you. Do you always do your
own ironing in here?”
“No, not always. I sometimes iron
in the kitchen—but to-day the kitchen
is rather in a pickle.”
“Ah, that is a pity. Do you not
think it is a good rule to clean your
kitchen early? An ill kept kitchen is
—well, you know, so very untidy. I
think I have a little paper on that
very subject. I am sure you will find
it useful,” and diving into her string
bag, she produced a tract.
“ ‘Her House in Order,’ it is called,”
she said; “it is most interesting.”
“Thank you. Kindly put it down,
and I will show it by and by to Susan.”
“Read it yourself, my good woman
—read it yourself—it will teach you a
great deal.”
The ironing being now finished, the
mistress of the house suggested an
adjournment to another room, as her
visitor seemed inclined to stay. The
latter unceremoniously pushed open
a door in the passage, looked with
disfavor at a pile of unpacked luggage,
and sniffed ostentatiously.
“A very unpleasant smell here,” she
said. “What is it? Stuffy—very
stuffy! I should keep that window
open if I were you. Let me see, when
did you come in?”
“About ten day3 ago.”
Oh, you are not very quick in set
tling down, are you? I shall be
around again next week with the ‘Par
ish Magazine,’ and shall hope to find
you quite straight; in the meantime,
mind you, read the little paper—it will
be a great help. No, I will not go out
into the other room—and, oh, don’t
forget to send the story to your sol
dier son.”
“I will certainly send it. Who shall
I say sent it to him?”
“I’m Miss Dennett-Brown—but you
can tell him it was one of the parish
visitors. Oh, and I have not asked
your name.”
“I am Lady MacIntyre,” the other
replied sweetly. “I have come in here
to be near the Poplars, which is being
got ready for me—pretty, quaint little
doll’s house, isn't it?”
But Miss Dennett-Brown could not
reply; she felt a cold, creepy sensa
tion down her spine, and finding her
self suddenly bereft of speech—fled.
“How was I to know?” she asked
plaintively when her sister reproached
her with want of penetration. “She
looked just like any one else—not so
aristocratic as Mrs. Wegg, the post
man’s wife, and she had on an old
holland overall—and—’and” she went
on breathlessly, “it was mean of her
not to say who she was at first, and to
lead me on—and it was just like Car
rie to say she wasn’t coming yet—she
always does get hold of the wrong
end of a story—of course we shall not
be invited to the Poplars now!” And
the much-injured lady wept. *
Just Possible.
The two angry men were about to
come together.
“Stop right where you are, my good
men," said the parson, who happened
along just then. “What’s the use of
fighting?”
“But,” protested one, "he called me
a liar, parson.”
“And he called me a lazy loafer,”
said the other.
“Well, there’s no use in fighting
over a difference of opinion,” rejoined
the parson. “You may both be right”
—Chicago Daily News.
Our Washington Letter
Some Things of Interest from the National Capital—Assistant Post
master General Hitchcock Stops System of Fining Postal Em*
ployes as Means of Enforcing Discipline in Department
WASHINGTON.—Fining of employes as a
means of enforcing discipline in the postal serv
ice, a system that has been in operation for
many years, is to be abolished. First Assistant
Postmaster General Hitchcock, who has jurisdic
tion of all post office employes, after a year's ob
servation has reached the conclusion that it is
detrimental rather than helpful. He proposes to
establish a uniform system of efficiency records.
To that end he has started Assistant Superin
tendent John A. Holmes of his bureau on a tour
of inspection of the largest post offices of the
United States. Dr. Holmes will confer with post
masters and their assistants regarding the
nhange.
The practice of subjecting 250,000 or more
employes to the liability of being fined for mak
ing errors in handling mail or for misconduct is
nenevea Dy Mr. Hitchcock to be a type of punishment rightly termed nunn dat
ing and degrading. As there is no definite schedule of fines applicable to
specific cases of dereliction, their imposition is solely a matter of discretion
on the part of the administrative officers. A wide variation inevitably oc
curred in the relative amount of fines imposed by different officers. The sys
tem frequently led to resentment on the part of employes receiving the heav
ier fines.
In criticism of the system Mr. Hitchcock said that in the absence cf an
efficiency record which enables the clerk to receive full credit for the amount
and character of work done, \he plan of fining for errors is likely to discour
age rapid work because of the increased liability for mistakes. Under Mr.
Hitchcock’s new plan, which will be used as a basis for all increases and
reductions in salary, employes will be given to understand that when they
become careless or inefficient a reduction in salary will follow. The periodical
promotions that are made at the beginning of each fiscal year will affect
only employes who deserve advancement on their efficiency records.
The amount of reduction in the salary of an inefficient or delinquent
clerk will not be lost to the department, as in the case of fines, but will be
utilized in the promotion of the most deserving.
NO DIVORCE SCANDALS TO BE PUBLISHED.
The report about the bevy of young women
sent out by the United States census bureau to
collect statistics of divorce, sent a shudder
through the circles of Pittsburg, Newport, New
York and South Dakota. It was at once sur
mised that this meant taking off the lids of
scandal in every divorce case. Protests were
heard by the census officials. The acting director
of the bureau, Mr. Rossiter, felt called upon to
say:
“It has been reported that the census agents
will have interviews with divorced persons and
ask them all sorts of personal questions. Noth
ing of this kind will be done. We are simply
sending a corps of clerks from our offices in this
city, as we continually do in collecting various
kinds of statistics, and they are being installed
in the courthouses of 20 of the larger cities,
wnere, under the direction ot an employe ot the bureau, they will go through
the divorce records of the last 20 years hurriedly and in a business like
manner, and take out certain cold facts, which will never have any personal
significance to the bureau of the public.
“It is estimated that between 30,00') and 50,000 cases are recorded for
this 20 year period in each of the cities of New York, Chicago and Philadel
phia, and that 1,000,000 are recorded for the entire country for this period.
Is it likely that our clerks, used as they are to doing this sort of thing daily,
will remember or will even look at names as they run through the records?
Of course not, unless, perhaps, they happen to be personally interested in
'some particular case, and even then they are sworn to secrecy and would
lose their position if they gave out to anyone what they had read. Our rec
ords will not even contain the names of the divorced persons when they are
complete. It is a block of statistics that the government is after, and nothing
else.” ,
Mr. Rossiter estimates that it will require about a year to conclude the
government researches upon the subject of divorce. At present there are 20
clerks at work in New York, 30 in Chicago, ten in Philadelphia, 12 in Bos
ton, four in Baltimore and proportionate forces in other cities.
INDORSES PHONETIC SPELLING.
Charles A. Stillings, public printer for the
United States government, who was the first to
be notified of President Roosevelt’s adoption of
the phonetic or simplified style of orthography
urged by Andrew Carnegie and a number of lead
ing educators and literary men, has enthusiastic
ally indorsed the president’s decision. In a let
ter to the president Mr. Stillings said that only
recently he had appointed a commission to revise
the public printing office's “manual of style.”
Mr. Stillings expressed himself as having no
doubt that all departments of the government
would take their cue from the president and ad
vocate the phonetic changes. To provide the
printing office with a uniform code of spelling
would, he declared, “reduce considerably the
necessary force of proofreaders and so lessen to
an appreciable extent the cost of the office’s
operation. 1 he amount ot composition and pressworfc will also be reduced,
appreciably lessening the expense.
Charles A. Stillings, as official printer for Uncle Sam, rules over the
greatest printery in the world. He was appointed, to the post in October,
1905, by President Roosevelt.
Mr. Stillings was connected with a Boston printing house for some years,
was once secretary of the Typothetae of Washington, and at the time of his
appointment was manager of the printers' board of trade of New York city.
Ho is a son of Gen. Stillings, who was adjutant general on the staff of the
late Commander-in-Chief Blackmar of the Grand Army of the Republic,
TO SEEK QUIET OF CLOISTER.
History will be repeating^tself if the reports
■which reach here about Countess Marguerite
Cassini have any foundation in fact. It is alleged
that the bea.utiful chatelaine of the Russian em
bassy is soon to retire from the world anti assume
the black garb of the Sisters of Mercy in Paris,
at whose convent she was received in the Cath
olic church some time ago.
Countess Marguerite, who was for threo
years the most intimate friend of Mrs. Nicholas
Longworth and one of the most fascinating
women who ever figured in Washington society,
is remarkably handsome and talented. She is
barely 25, but she has drained to the dregs tho
cup of international popularity.
She became chatelaine of the Russian em
bassy in Washington when she was less than 17.
WThile in Washington she sat for no less than
300 photographs and more than JO oil paintings and crayon sketches.
As chatelaine of the Russian embassy she became a society leader in the
diplomatic set, and retained her leadership as long as she remained in this
country. Her entertainments were noted for their brilliancy and invitations
to them were eagerly sought, and seldom, if ever, declined. She was particu
larly popular with the young officers of the army and navy stationed about
the city, and it was several times rumored that Cupid was not to permit her
return to Europe.
RELATES A QUEER EXPERIENCE.
A few days after Chester I. Lons, of Kan
sas, had been elected to the senate, he returned
to his seat in the house of representatives to
serve out his term there.
Long was talking to some members in one
of the cloak-rooms, and after awhile* the conversa
tion switched to palmistry.
There were various opinions expressed.
Some of the talkers thought there might be
something in it, but most of them pronounced it
a fake and a fraud.
“Of course,” said Long, “I do not believe in
it. It is absurd to think it more than an amuse
ment, but I had a queer experience, nevertheless.
I wouldn’t have this known for the world. It
must not get out, and I tell it to you in the strict
est confidence, but, before I was elected, I was
at a fair in Kansas City and, just for fun, I had
my palm read by a palmist there* strangely enough, that palmist told me I
•was soon to be elected to the senate. Now don’t say anything about that. I
don’t want It to get out. I am quite ashamed when I think it had any bear
ing on what happened.”
“Well,” said Representative Shattuc, producing a copy of a Kansas City
paper, “evidently the palmist isn’t ashamed of it.” And he showed Long a
flaring advertisement which had for its top line: “I am the palmist who told
Senator Long he would be elected.”
Candid Confession.
Sir Mortimer Durand at a dinner at
Lenox said of a certain unkind ac
tion:
“It was a logical action. There was
reason behind it. But to be simply
logical and reasonable in our treat
ment of others is not enough. A cer
tain amount of kindness, or unselfish
ness must be thrown in or otherwise
we are cruel.
“I heard of a reasonable but cruel
young lady the other day. A young
man proposed to her and met with a
flat rejection. He seemed hurt and
offended and at this she expressed
surprise.
“ ‘But,’ said the young man in a
low, respectful voice, ‘why did you
encourage me if you didn't love me?’
“ ‘Encourage you?’ cried the young
lady. ‘How did I encourage you?'
“ ‘Tile entire summer,’ he replied,
‘you accepted all my invitations to go
automobiling.'
“ ‘Oh,’ she answered, logically
enough, ‘that was not because I loved
you—it was because I loved automo
blling.’ ”