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MONDAY. NO\*KMTlEH 9. 1908.

GREENCASTLE HERALD

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Their Green Gown. By CLARISSA MACKIE. Copyrigtn.J, 19u8, by Associated Literary Press.

• I d love to go, Aunt Lily, but you know 1 haven’t a decent thing to wear.'’ Mildred looked wistfully at the invitation in her baud. Miss Weston thoughtfully turned a worn Utile ring on her slim linger as ■ lie surveyed her pretty niece. They looked very much alike, Miss Lily and young Mildred, only the aunt was slender to thinness and her once golden hair had faded to ashen blond, l.at her eyes were as beautiful and long lashed and full of depth and sweetness as they had been fifteen years ago, and her skin was as fair and her Ups were as red as Mildred's. “The cheek book tells a sorry tale, dear," she said at length, ‘‘but perhaps I can help you out of my magic clothes press.” ‘‘Aunt idly! 1 can’t take anything more from you. You have given me your embroidered muslin and the pink silk-and 1 have worn them out. Don't tempt me!” The girl covered her ears and closed her eyes tightly. "Don’t be foolish, Mildred,” protested Miss Weston. "I want you to go to the Patterson dance, and you must have a new gown. My green tissue can be altered and will make you a sweet frock. Come to my room ami try it on.” Reluctantly Mildred followed her aunt (o the pretty front room where the older woman spent much of her time. The furniture was rather oid fashioned, but of fine quality, for it had

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"l HAVE SEEN YOTTll GOWN BEFORE, .MISS LANK been purchased in the days before Lily Weston bad lost most of her fortune. Miss Weston spread the green gown on the lied and surveyed it with a strange yearning in her eyes, it was of line silken tissue in a tender loaf green and embroidered here and there with u tiny golden flower. A pair of green slippers with gold buckles and green stockings were tucked iu one corner of the box from which the gown had been produced. "It is lovely, Aunt Lily! I suppose you have worn it to dances too.” "I wore it more than once, Mildred, and had the happiest times of my life. Now you must wear It, and I hope you will be equally happy.” She bent and kissed the girl tenderly, and Mildred felt a warm drop on her cheek, but when she looked at her aunt Miss Weston was smiling. “Come,” she said blithely, “get your work basket.” Mildred danced with tireless energy at the Patterson bull. The green gown was vastly becoming to her fair beauty, and she had never looked more charming. Lester Stearns had succumbed to her loveliness and iu the fragrant coolness of the conservatory lie asked Mildred to marry him. She was radiant with happiness when Mrs. Patterson approached her, followed by a tall stranger. •’Mildred, dear. Captain Gray lias re quested an introduction to ‘the girl In the given gown!' Miss Lane Captain Gray! Now, Mr. Stearns, you may take me Into the supper room.” With a little nod she was gone with the reluctant lover. Mildred looked at her new acquaintance, and decided at once that she would like him. He was a man in the prime of life, with a brown, rugged face that told of an out of door life. Strength ami kindliness were in ids gray eyes and vigor in Ids large, well muscled frame. "I have seen your gown before, Miss Luiic," said Captain Gray abruptly. “You must i»e mistaken,” laughed Mildred. “I have never worn it until this evening.” “it was worn by another girl,” he said thoughtfully, ‘‘a girl w’ho looked Just us you do. It is fifteen years ago that 1 saw her last, and she wore the green gown." “It must have been Aunt Lily,” said Mildred constrainedly. “It whs Lily Weston—then.” “It Is Lily Weston now," said Mildred, “and she Is Just as sweet and Jovely now us she ever was, I am sure!" “I am sure of that, too,” lie remark ed gravely. "1 had no frock to wear tonight, and I wanted to come so badly, and Aunt Lily brought this out of her treasure chest and fixed it for me. I know it was the dearest thing she owned, yet she lent it to me.” “She was always unselfish and loyal

to i he core, and I could never understand"— He paused and looked at her strangely, wistfully. “What?” asked Mildred warmly. She suspected a romance In the past of sweet Aunt Lily. ”1 am a simple sullormau. Miss Lane, and I confess to not understand the ways of women. 1 was a lieutenant in the navy when 1 met Lily Weston and fell In love with her. We became engaged and were to be married. This green gown 1 brought to her from China, and she wore it several times while I was on leave. We had a foolish quarrel one night, my last night ashore, it was a matter of trifling jealousy on my part, and before the evening was over I had seen my folly. 1 wrote on a programme that I was repentant and asked her to meet me in a certain cozy nook on the stairs.” He paused and sighed. “And?" suggested Mildred. “She was surrounded by admirers, and as I had no other opportunity I slipped the programme into her hand as we passed each other while dancing.” “And then?” “She never came. I waited until after midnight, and then when I had seen her depart with her friends I left. 1 have never seen her since.” Captain Gray's voice shook a little as he concluded his story. “How utterly ridiculous!” exclaimed Mildred. “Why, it seems to me if you truly loved each other you would not have quarreled, and yet you have never forgotten Aunt Lil, and she— why, it Is your picture that is on her dressing table—a young officer in a cap and uniform!” “You are sure?” The captain bent over her eagerly. “Positive. Como and see us tumor row. Captain Gray. 1—am sure she will 1 e ■ lad to see yen.” cried Mildred impulsively, lu iding out her hand. “Thank you, I will,” lie said resolute l.v. ♦ * * * When slu» rea<'h(»d home Mildred flew straight to her aunt's chamber, where Mis; Weston sat reading and awaiting the girl's return. “Aunt Lily," cried Mildred excitedly, "have you kept the ball programme you laid the last night you wore this gown ?” Miss Weslon stared a moment, and then her eyes grow said and retrospective. “I believe so, dear,” she said at last, “but please do not ask to see it!” “I must, auntie. Please show It to me.” Willioul a word Miss Weston opened a small sandalwood box on her dressing table, and from it she took a yellowed lace handkerchief, a withered bunch of roses, a little green and gold fan ami lastly a dance card, crumpled and faded. “Here.” she said, holding it out in her hand. "Look at it. Aunt Lily, and see if there is not a message written on it— a plea for forgiveness by some one yon cared for long ago.” Mildred's voice quivered with excitement. Miss Lily read and grew white. "What is it?" she stammered pitifully. "I don't understand.” Mildred took her in her loving young arms and told the story, and then and there Lily Weston laid bare her heart to the girl. It laid been a miserable mistake she had never read the message penciled on the programme, and she had grieved all the years. “Flo is coming tomorrow, Aunt Lily," whispered Mildred, and thou she tiptoed away, radiant in the knowledge that her aunt had at Inst attained the happiness that had lain so long within her reach, quite unexpected. “It is all due to the green gown,” whispered Captain Gray to ids long lost sweetheart when he came the next day. Down in the garden Lester Stearns was repeating Ids words of love to Mildred. "I think It was due to the green gown that I really knew,” he murmured tenderly.

No Private Interview. "Could 1 have a few minutes’ private conversation witli you?” tie asked as lie stood at the open door of a lawyer's oflli e. “Can’t you speak right out from where you are?” asked the lawyer in reply after looking the man over. “I'd rather make a private matter

of It."

“What is the nature of your busi

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“Confidential — strictly private and confidential, sir." “Well, I have no time to grant you a private iidorvtew. If you have anything to say, you can let her go rigid here. Now. what is it?" "1 1 wanted the loan of a quarter, sir,” stammered the man. “Oh. you did! And you wanted a private interview to ask me that?” “Yes. sir. I knew that would hurt both our feelings if 1 were refused In public—yours because you couldn’t afford to loan me the money and mine because I couldn’t get It. Can you grant my request, sir?” “No, sir.” “And does it hurt you feelings?” “Not a tilt. You are mistaken on that point.” “And my feelings are the only ones

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“Y’ours alone.” "Just so,” said the man as he bowed and backed out. "I beg your pardon. I was mistaken. You have the money and no feelings, and I hare the feelings and no money. Impassable chasm; no use in trying to bridge. Good day!” —Washington Post.

Getting Ready.

“What Is your son doing this year?" “Fitting himself for college."

“In what school?”

“Oil. In the sporting goods store and In the pipe section.’’

I Love’s Vibrometer. [Copyright, ISOS, by American Press Association.] “I fear, professor,” she said, toying with her fan, "that if I should marry you you would be constantly referring everything to a scientific cause. If, for Instance, you were so devoid of feeling as to forget to give me even a flower on the anniversary <>f our wedding you would excuse yourself on the ground that the photographic impression on your brain had not been sufficiently strong, whereas your action 1 would he—well, it would lie just hor-

rid.”

“No; I should say that mental activity In another direction blurred the picture.” “Which would still he horrid. You are so steeped in materialism that all sentiment has gone out of you.” “Sentiment! You mean sentimentalism. And what is sentimentalism? Manufactured emotion. I say manufactured emotion, fur It surely is not natural, like anger, fear. pity. And how many couples does it tie up in matrimonial chains who are not fitted fur each other? Wiili what result? Misery and divorce." “Then you don't believe iu marriage for love. You would scorn those happy moments of lovers in the moonlight, among flowers, listening together to strains of sweet music.” “Why not say with Shakespeare, 'To the lascivious pleasing of u lute?’ I grant you that all these things induce passion, but is mere passion a sufficient reason for marriage?” “Of course not!” (indignantly). “Tlie scientist, where he reaches a foundation for ids faith, stands on bedrock. There is where I stand in the matter of love. We have attained to a knowledge of what love is. We may nut always lie able to determine if it exists between two people in a sufficient degree to warrant marriage, but I believe the day will come when It will I .■ measured to a scale. Just as we measure our weight, temperature, pulse.” “In other words, a trained nurse puts n love thermometer on our hearts aud reads zero, temperate, grand passion, us the case may lie. People who submit to such absurdity are indeed fit to be under the care of a nurse. A lunatic asylum is the proper place for them." “Suppose in 200 marriages 100 of the couples are brought together by your moonlight, flowers, music and such like; the other hundred by a—well, call it a vibrometer. In the first hundred cases we cannot expect all to turn out happily. Let us assume that sixty are happy, thirty unhappy and ten are divorced. Now, if every l a -e pronounced by the vibrometer to be genuine lovesay, 05 per cent, to allow for errors— turns out happily If the amatory oscillations continue through a long life, would you admit the scientific method to be the better?” “Oh, certainly! And if you should pump a gas into me from one of your abominable machines that would make me soar in the sky I would admit that you are a conjurer." “Now, 1 have said that we know what love is. It has been defined by Dr. Seheibler of the Berlin institute of Electro Therapeutics tints; ‘The os dilations in the Interior of u person’s body, ns may be seen in the case of vibratory attraction, are in harmony— that is to say, they are at the first movement in complete accordance witli the oscillations in the interior of some other person's body.’ ” “Oscillations! That's a man's love And the more women between which he may oscillate the better, i suppose.' “Please don't interrupt. ‘It is, ol course, necessary that the reactionary sentiment' “Sentiment? Y’ou mean clockwork." —“'in the ease of the two sub-

jects’

“Automatons.” —“‘should lie of an agreeable na

ture’

“A grin painted on their faces.” —“ ‘since tlie two vibrations facilitate the movement of all the atoms which in this way accumulate and emit their rays wlthunt disturbing the diffu-

sion’

“I suppose each heart Is a lighted tal low candle?” —“ 'tills It is which causes tlie sentiment known as sympathy’”— “Machine sympathy. I'd stick a pin in a man who would offer me such sympathy." —“‘and which subsequently causes tore.’ “ "Oh, heavens! And this is love! Then I suppose cotton mills where shuttles are continually vibrating are brimful of romances. And think of the eases in watchmakers’ shops where the watches all hang together to lie regu lated. How they must vibrate for one another! And is tills tlie kind of love you are offering me?” “My love for you is not a thing to offer. It can only exist with yours. "Do bring the vibrometer and let us see whether we are lovers.” “There Is yet no such instrument The nearest we can get to it is by the touch,” taking her hand. “Do you feel a thrill? That’s vibration in unison This pressing my lips on yours is n more sensitive test.” “I think I do feel it just a little.” “Perhaps a cardiac juxtaposition”— “A what?” "I will illustrate. I fold you in my arms so that your heart will beat against mine. Tims.” “Oh, professor, the three tests to gather are” "In you reactionary vibratory sentl ment.” "I don't rare what you cult If. It’s I Just too nice for anything.” * F. A. MITCHEL.

The Gag Was Omitted. “Nearly all of us players can gag," said n well known actor. “Usually, though, the gagging is of a selfish nature. I'll explain to you what I mean. “Once, at the beginning of my career, I played the part of a footman. I wore In this part a very broad white collar. a kind of Eton collar. Well, the leading man told me one night that with my help he would Introduce a ttag. “ 'All right,’ said I. ‘What is the gag to be?’ “ ‘Y’ou know how,’ said the leading man, ‘In the third act, I write a letter while you stand beside me and wait to carry it to your mistress? Well, after the letter is finished, I'll reach over to you in an absent way and wipe my lien on your w hite collar. Of course it will make a large black stain, but you’ll see- It will bring down the house.’ “I laughed heartily. “‘Capital,’ I said. ‘And I’ll finish the thing off with a little gag of my own. As soon as you have wiped your pen on my nice collar I'll wheel round and knock you down. Of course It will hurt you a little, but you'll see - will be tlie hit of the show’”

Fife Wheat. Y’enrs ago, about a century, David Fife., a Scotchman of Otonabee, Out., sent to a friend in Glasgow fur a small hag of seed wheat to try lu a cleared patch of the backwoods The friend obtained some scud from a vessel just in from Danzig. Unfortunately It was a fall wheat and reached David Fife in the spring. Nevertheless David Fife sowed it In spring. One can guess how feverishly the backwoods farmer watched for tlie growth of his experiment. Only three wheat heads survived till the fall, but those three wheat heads were entirely free of tlie rust that had ruined his neighbor’s emiis, and those three heads really represented a new variety of | wheat, a fall wheat turned into a spring wheat. David Fife treasured the three heads and planted them in j spring. Such was tlie beginning of Fife wheat in America.—Agnes C. I.aut in Outing Magazine.

A Reassuring Truth. A lady on one of the ocean liners who seemed very much afraid of Icebergs asked the captain what would happen In case of a collision. Tlie captain replied, “The Iceberg would move right along, madam, just as if nothing had happened.” And the old lady seemed greatly relieved. Sue cess.

Unsettled. Skinner—Good morning, ma'am. Did you ever see anything so unsettled as the weather has been lately? Mrs Hashiey Well, there's your board bill. Mi . Skinner. Philadelphia Inquirer. In a Bad Way. "Here Is a doctor who says you mustn't eat when you're worried.” "But suppose you're always worried for fear you ain’t goiu' to gut anything to eat?"—Cleveland Plain Dealer.

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Vanity of the Peacock. Our favorite and much petted pea ( cock, says a correspondent of the Lon- ; don Spectator, can lie kept happy any length of time looking at his reflection I in the window pane or in a looking glass. He comes in daily to tea. making no mistake about the hour, and spends much time en route in gazing at i himself as he appears in the glass of ' the French windows by which he en ters tlie room. If I am sewing aud do not speak to him when lie comes into the room, he will gently put his head pilte close, almost touching my ring or needle, for he likes bright things, till 1 have to give up working and talk , to him as with a small child whom one Is afraid of pricking. Lost Charm of the Wayside Inn. The inns of England, celebrated by ( Harrison and famous far and wide at the beginning of the last century, have degenerated Into sad places which we visit only of necessity. Little did Stephenson think when lie proposed the line from Manchester to Liverpool that lie would ruin the wayside inns of England and kill the art of cookery. — Blackwood’s Magazine.

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