Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1909 — Page 3

OVERCOMING HER PREJUDICE.

The Wooing of a Big Man and a Mite of a Woman. a. By OLIVE ADAMB. [Copyright. 1909, by Associated Literary Press.] He had always declared that he would not marry a small woman. No diminutive creature of scanty stature could ever grace his home. She, on her part, had been quite sure that she disliked big men. No weighty giant, towering far above her, could ever capture and hold her heart. Yet fate threw them together, and neither one felt comfortable. They seemed strangely antagonistic one to the other, and yet there was something in their Innermost selves that was kin. He, busy day after day in his law office, found his thoughts and fancies continually, unaccountably, straying to the memory of her delicate htlad and yet more delicate fingers. She, painting away, as always, wondered why, the recollection of his big frame and strong featured face should haunt her. She, half indignant, tried to conquer the persistent recollection by working harder than ever. He, in a way wiser, yielded to his strange fancies and paid her a studio call. Her greeting was cordial, but they were long silent. At last he invited her to take a walk. The dusk was falling. The avenue gleamed with myriad lights presenting an alluring vista. For nearly an hour they walked, she taking hasty steps to each of the long, swinging strides into which he had naturally and unconsciously fallen. By pnd by. unreasonably irritated, she came to a sudden halt. "There can’t be much sympathy between our natures,” she said sharply. “They say that people who can’t keep

HER PURE, CLEAR PROFILE WAS OUTLINED AGAINST THE DARK WINDOW.

step comfortably are out of tune somehow. We're not even Walking in the same key.’’ “Let’s try again,” he laughed, with gay good humor, “I’ll accommodate my steps to yours politely, as I should have done long ago. See how nicely I can do it.” He minced along with determination, keeping time with her tripping steps. The effect was so ridiculous that she yielded to impulsive laughter. “No, no,” she cried, still smiling, "we won’t try your plan any longer. Let’s be natural and ‘gang our ain gait’ in peace.” “The truest friendships are built on that plan,” he answered with meaning, but she was ( silent. As for the man. he no longer desired to conquer the new, strange fancies. They had become too sweet. She was wondering why his quiet glance could cause her heart to dance. But the walk was pleasant, and other Walks followed. They spent one long, perfect autumn Sunday in the country, walking through the golden hours and fields together. Night found them a long way from the city, far too distant to walk home again. They waited at a little wayside station for the train that should bear them thither. Both were silent, wrapped in the dreamy, trancelike happiness that is too eloquent for speech. Presently, however, she broke the soft silence with her thrilling laugh. “What is it, little comrade?” for so he had elected to call her. “We haven’t quarreled once today over keeping step,” she said, still smiling. “I wonder what has come over us.” “Love,” was his unexpected answer. But she shrank farther away in the sheltering darkness, and his heart felt a strange chill. The next moment the train rushed noisily down upon them, and in the crowded, uncomfortable day coach they occupied they were again silent. She sat so still beside him that he fancied she was asleep, and her head, on a level with his shoulder, leaned against the red plush seat back. Her pure, clear profile was outlined against the dark window. He watched her with the hungriness of suddenly recognized worship. He did not know that she, wide awake in all but outer seeing, gloried in his glance. She would not, could not. give up her profession for marriage, but still how good it would seem to rest in his love. And then suddenly there was a wild shriek from the engine, a Jarring collision, a horrible, grinding stop and an utter desolation of blackness. She knew that something awful had happened, that she was losing control of her senses, but this was all. When she opened her eyes the black

iky, star studded, impenetrable, was above her. The man of whom had been her last conscious thought caiqp between the sky and her puzzled gaze. Then she saw the long train, dim. shadow-like, uncertain, stretched out darkly before her. She knew that lights flashed about, voices cried? moans shook the.silence. And then, with a sharp twinge of suffering, she knew that the wreck had caused her to be injured—that she could not rise. Perhaps—horrible thought!—her spine had been seriously disabled and she would never rise again. “My darling!” said a voice softly, a voice she knew well, yet had never heard with this strange, wonderful intonation. A wave of ineffable gladness met and conquered the rising tide of distress and agony. Again she swooned. This time the hospital had been reached before she came to. For weeks she lay there helpless, facing the terrible uncertainty in regard to her. future. There were times when it was feared that her days of activity were over. Through it all he was her constant stay and the rock on which her wavering hopes rested. To the lonely woman with no living relative his tender, gentle companionship was sweet beyond expression. She was still determined—more than ever determined now that possible invalidism lay before her—never to marry, but she would not allow herself to realize how and where she was drifting. To have realized and acknowledged the truth would have meant his banishment, speedy and unrelenting, and she simply could not bring herself to face this new and pain filled life without his ocntinual solacing presence. Fate, smiling, took the case In hand. “I shall not be helpless or even lame,” Marcia told him joyously one day after long months of waiting. “But I shall be even smaller than ever, they tell me.” ■ He. who had come outwardly scathless through the ordeal, smiled as he bent over her. “Dear love,” was his tense whisper, “you will be just as high as my heart.”

It was a frail bride, pale, slender, leaning hard upon the arm of her husband lover, who stood at the altar a few weeks later—a bride who looked especially small and diminutive beside the big man who had just thankfully claimed her. And into the eyes,of this bride, joyously happy in her complete surrender, crept a whimsical gleam as she Realized this fact.

MacDowell’s “Wild Rose.”

In a biography of Edward MacDowell by Lawrence Gilman the writer quotes some of the famous musician’s witticisms. On one occasion he had been told of a performance of his composition, “To a Wild Rose.” played by high school girl on a high school piano at a high school graduation festivity. “Well,” MacDowell remarked, “I suppose she pulled it up by the roots!” Some one sent him at about this time, relates Sir. Humiston. a program of an organ recital at which this same “Wild Rose” was to be played. “He was not pleased with the Idea, thinking doubtless of a style of performance which plays Schumann’s ‘Traumere.’ on the great organ diapasons. He remarked simply that it reminded him of a hippopotamus wearing a clover leaf In his mouth.” A member of one of his classes at Columbia, finding more unoccupied space on the page of his book after finishing the exercise, filled up the vacancy with rests. When his book was returned the page was covered with corrections—all except these bajs of rests, which were inclosed in a red line and marked: “This is the only correct passage in the exercise.”

Grandmother’s Two Fads.

“My grandmother,” said the man who was raised on the farm, “was a woman of great determination. One day she was showing grandfather and me how to seize hornets and smash in their skulls between the thumb and forefinger before they could sting—a little trick In which the old lady took great pride. She picked the yellow bhzzer off the window shade; the usual faint crushing sound was heard, and the old lady smilingly held the dead body up for our approval. We showed proper admiration for the feat, but still regretfully preferred to slap the little fiends with a board. Not till several days afterward did we notice the swollen finger and discover that the hornet, by some sort of devilish ingenuity, had managed to sting grandmother. “She also used to cut up with a hoe all the snakes she could find and feed them to the chickens. Snake meat, especially milk snakes, gave the chicken a peculiarly fine flavor, she asserted. No one could contradict this theory, as the fine flavor was there every Thanksgiving day to prove it.”—New York Sun.

The Cause of Hie Awkwardness.

He—At last we are alone, and we have an opportunity to speak. I have! been seeking this moment for days and days, for I have something to say to you. She—Go on, Mr. Harkins. H%-I will.’ Miss Jones, you perhaps have noticed that at times I have been fconstralned, uneasy, even awkward, In your presence; that I have had something on my mind that I felt I must say to you? She (softly)—Yes. He—That constraint, that awkwardness, Miss Jones, wa3 due to—due to— She—Go on. Mr. Harkins. He—Was due to the fact that 1 feared you were not aware that I am en-' gaged to your mother.-Pearson's 1 Weekly.

Humor and Philosophy

By DVNCAN M. SMITH

EXPERIENCE. mo give and to take, To earn and to keep, To wade in the shallows. To swim where it’s deept To keep in the channel, Avoiding the rocks, And that's what you learn In the school of hard knock* No money tuition * You pay in advance. Instructors are often s Appointed by chance. Nor optional is it To stay or to go. You take in the courses Whether or no. But. though, as I mentioned, The entry is free. Before you have finished It costs you a fee. And little ft matters, < Although you may say • . / You cannot afford it. The price you must pay. But no education Is equal the kind You get in this College For body and mind. It’s through disappointments. Heartburnings and shocks Diplomas you win In the school of hard knocks. A Bad Sign. *1 don’t believe In signs.” “I do.” "For a fact?” “Yes; for a fact.” “As. for instance?” “Seeing a creditor over ray left shoulder is sure evidence that I am about to lie annoyed.”

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Most girls are so busy being romantic that they can’t find time to be just natural. He is certainly a clever man who can fool himself when he Is watching. A telephone man is one who knows how to put up a good line of talk. A meddler is a natural born boss temporarily out of a job. Keep a good appetite and you won’t need to keep a physician. The second baby in the family is never wakened up to see if its eyes are changing color. No young man was ever able to sise op his sweetheart from his knowledge of his own sister.

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