The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 6, 1884, Page 6

E | i f iq Showing ee THE PARLOR MATCH. — Que and One Make One and Two. That It is about <i n strong un Op “Humph! It as it is the dudes th “[ don’t see why you man a dude just becau petter than other fellows and happens a dog-car that w you ex- rected, was it? c t know what you talking about. Who said I expected any- body.” The young mant compre snort of lied by 2 hensive exclamation contempt and half a sne redu- ‘There follows a silence of some iity. minutes, broken only by the mellow croaking of the distant frogs and the or, sbriller and far less soothing m of the mosquitoes. «How cross you are to-night,”’ Miss Ethel observ at length, feeling that the duties of hospitality require her to reopen the conversation, but by 20 means prepared to descend st once to amiability; ‘‘perhaps it is the mos- quitoes.”” D: re- sl won't >to suffer I think it sponds wit keep you out hi martyrdom. I ses ¥ of which is nd stands gl knows } arkness, ction where hel to be s ‘Don’t house. e; com ter ye made up “ won't; because Ma spr and I doubt if it “Since when were you so pir- ticular “Well, if I pizy, you see, Mrs. Hunt would know w e here ir » dark; she’s such 2 5} “Don't play t ‘Ye can sit in the dark and talk, can’t we “No, thank you, ryther be proper. Shall I ring or have you a match.”? “LT ought to have one. Bother The exclamation was caused by 2 stumble over one of those minor pieces of furniture the whole object of whose existence is to get under unwary feet and to render otherwise tranquil lives 2 burlen. He regains his equilibrium, swallows his wrath and feels in his pocket for his match-safe. Finding to his disappointment, that it is well nigh full, he recklessly tosses the con- tents out of the window by which he has just entered, and calmly remarks: “My mateh-safe is as empty as a fool’s head. There isn’t a single stick in it.” “There’s a new kind of matches,” Ethel observes in a tone of disinterest- ed instructiveness. ‘Jim was ex- plaining them to me; 2 patent kind, you know. ‘There’s something comes down like a cap——”’ “A cap doesn’t come down,” Bob interrupts, stumbling over more furnit- urein a fresh attempt to follow his hostess, who, more familiar with the arrangements of the room, has safely down.”* Wo ib cap comes ¢ night now. g her say good d me when you br You won't s well.”’ match, oF Come, I'll beh “All rig. alk about C ‘All right; “It seems V returns rather s' you never will know |" “Never will know how far it is to | China? I do know that already, thank 739 is then. Let’s | | you. This confo match won't | light.”” * ” } “You wil know,” she con- | tinues, with d ignoring of his interpol: lonesome it was V for—— “Di he | queries becoming } what inclined to | some inysterious way | self of er hand as she e time. of Bally- } nd whistle, you good breedi I'm with | he goes on w | cannon.”* “Lwish v match,”” “You side of the m “You'd better try it yourself,’’ says Bob, with indifference, “the old match isn’t any good."’ ‘It would occur to some gentlemen to try another, then,’’ Ethel retorts, moving away in the darkness and seating herself in an arm-chair on the other side of the room. “[ shall only break my neck over the | furniture if I try to navigate abogit in | the dark. I don’t know where the | matches are. If youll bring me one | y light that ( remarks icily. | on the under Mi is utterly futile. Ethel remains where crossed to 2 distant corner, dexterously managers ni 58 } avoiding obstacles. ‘Jehu! How Pll light the gas. i many Feotstaals are there in this This transparent ruse on the part of | room?” Mr. Tracy to make her return to him } i “If you don’t want to know about the matches—— “Oh, Ido.” kind of eap comes down. “Comes down from where?"’ “I shall po tively noé tell you about those matches."* “But I'm dying to know!” “Did you the walk then Is there any connec and somebody's comi the walk?”’ “There m nt be!” Then don’t interrupt. There's a ink somebody came up she is, replying with great scorn: “You know perfectly well, where | the match-box She laughs con- temptuously and continue: ‘They've | | stood in the same corner of that man- i nee that Fourth of July and stole them i set fire tothe “At your sugzestio “Because I was afraid of Aunt Jane and you weren't, or said you weren't. “Didn't I prove it?” “] don’t know how you proved it.”” “There are some people who can't the most obvious thi gi ; se “Humph! You'd better go on about = your yettent match. + that comes And once more, with the most od- down,’ [think you sa over a fool's | streperous rudeness, he rela d into head, I suppose. Go on the shrill strains of “The Shrew of He hs his way to ; Ballycannon. by this time made a which Miss M the so ott is ed, and wi by her side. “Bob, this positively is not If you can’t be agreeable, we least be proper.”” “You seem to will a lights of impropriety.” “Bob Tracy! ” im that way. “If your mother were here there wouldn't be any occasion.”’ “Somehow, navy seems to have 5: as Aunt Jane said it would.” My Aunt Jane is my er” at- | takes a place proper. ou » intimate a strange | and vicious familiarity with the de- You know if mother were here, you wouldn't dare to speak | bert, going into the | pofled you, just «Your Aunt Jane is an old prade.”” | sister. | “Indeed! How singular! You're | t ceives hand and match togeth- seat by | “If there is any tune you like bet- | ter,’ he observes, “Iam st your ser- “Bob, I certainly shall not sit over here unless you light the gas.”’ “Why not? I surely can't flatter myself you want to look at me.” “I might.” “It’s more likely you want me to | look at you."’ { “It’s possible.”’ 3 | “Lassure you that is so your engraved on my heart ong i don’t need the cas."’ sation to m} “Like compat A moment’ t the 2pIor: “ He drops hand a J 1e mate thing and while she bre: laughter. “Why, if you please, ble boor.”’ strong languag ny. f hi bi he lf, I adapt er knew bly rude and hor obody e V iy else? for instance w, if you like. in his dog-cart ° of. can Ve chtto t lease, but I th a less y pause foliows this yol- Then once more Ethel k to e parlor | Howe tind are you u_to be- treated more to- shall go effect of this announcement is | > Lieutenant Bob alto- hold of his com- ins fruitl holds everything within into a little ripple of * she sly to upon any- | reach, demands, “shouldn't I go to ride with Tom | Shaw?” at fat thing!’ e ng the match re-place. ‘I your taste. “Oh, he from living then it i mandarins.”’ “There i parior match, Bob, spitefully. June said ig in the dark with sn't as { yellow as an orange | at when er, ‘A match isarréeable where the light won't n China, n't everybody that admires aculates Tracy, in the direction of must say I admire i true; but Snothing but sputter to a anyway, “*AS that pretty Annie was sitting is so remarked come till after there’s been a grand ex- pios “Oh, there's girl t “IT never was for misses; I le “Correct,” ward for your c.evern *Bob, y ou must stop them you where you were last Annie June is pretty fora at's over thirty.”” | iof bread and but- | Tom | for ice to knew June, 2 ce | the the made light s a parlor — wer of a Good reso- met titution, wel ic bove to \ nie Course which some rown good names Sige: i, in con- linaneial corporation wiich the us sorts, eworthy lines. | our readers if. they cannot each re- sor instunee Where the publie jhas been misled, or wh honored reputations have sutl ? ‘Lhe fact is \that, when any scheme or institution, | however proper oreven virtuous its ob- | jects, wants from any respectable per- ‘son, ‘nothing but his name,’ his name jis the very thing he should stoutly re- | fuse to give.” Chised E op Snake. rus ch riy a mile. about oop Taonst« ustasi seemed t hern spike two inches. ened tuat she sank cown, her heart ithumping as thourh would burst |} The Ohio & Missi pee 3 Dee Cue HE ecauroimers | he Oe NE SSIESIPDIS haat | ane ae had seen her flying down the hill, Is now Re a j AMUM, Riverside, © !. 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