Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1890 — SHE WAS HUNGRY. [ARTICLE]

SHE WAS HUNGRY.

Hence She Preferred linked Clams to Poetic Sentiment. - They were sitting on the piazza of the hotel at the beach, watching the moon as it slowly rose ,out of the slumbering sea. (Silence was around them, naught being heard save occasionally the faint clatter of dishes in an adjacent restaurant or the musical hum of an aristocratic mosquito that was making as vain a search for a blue-blooded person as Diogenes did for an honest man. It was the hour for love—sweet, pure, delicious love. The youth felt it in his soul as he sat there by the side of the beautiful maiden, whose silken hair almost touched his shoulders. Suddenly he spoke in low, but thrilling and passionate tones:

“To the poetic temperament, to the -soul th&t-is capable of feeling the teuderest emotions, that throbs ip, unison with the harmony of nature, that is susceptible to the influences of the beautiful, there is a peculiar fascinar tion in a scene like * this. The balmy air, the rising moon, the twinkling stars, the contiguity of one of the fairest of creation’s, most perfect works, all unite to awaken in the heart its softest, sweetest, tenderest feeling— love. ‘ Don’t you think so, Mehi table?” “I do—oh, George, don’t them baked clams smell nice!’*