Show r 4 i 5 BELIEF IN BUDDHA M 1 Jolly youthful gay and all nil nilo e o that 0 o And I 1 wear my myo o hair in a braid I know no more than how to 7 spell cat 4 But Im I'm dangerous danger danger- o ous s till still t Im I'm afraid For I know you you you- Oh you men Dainty Dolly was singing the lively ditty of which this Is the re refraIn refrain refrain re- re frain In three parts part's of the metropolis every evening and four parts of the Impressible youth of the city were singing it after each meal and before retiring as as' as the doctors doctor's prescription reads Cards and flowers occupied half halt her hansom each night as she rode to her modest home uptown She threw the cards Into the grate with a sighed half prayer that men be born with more sense and nd that engraving were not so cheap The flowers vers she allowed to die in her over-heated over parlor parlor parlor par par- lor without a shadow of compunction Dolly had been working long and hard enough to be convinced that her success would last just about so many swift years even with the best of tend tend- ance So she scrupulously saved her princely salary against the days of the sere and yellow leaf when perhaps the same cards and flowers should be flung nightly at the twinkling toes of another Dolly One dismal raw night being in melancholy melancholy melancholy mel mel- mood Dolly read her batch of cards In a spell of curiosity She had not done this since the early days now a a. good while past when there were only two or three To her amazement she found that three of them bore the same name Clarence The goose must have followed me from one place to the other she thought with witha a a fine curve of scorn on her pretty mouth Again the next night she night she tried to tell herself herselt it was force of habit habit sac sue read the cards of her admirers Again she found Clarence thrice represented On one of his cards she read these penciled words words' I have worshipped thee or thirty nights thrice the night equivalent equivalent equivalent lent to three months' months devotion Is this not religion Thy adorer C. C L. L The Impudence of the fellow Ill I'll give him a lesson in religion and that on next Sunday morning if I live Uve she snapped out to the consternation o of her Angora stamping her little foot i in its satin slipper She sat down at her writing table and scribbled off orr a few words which were posted the next morning to the address on the card Sunday morning at 11 precisely Clarence appeared before Dolly He was tall thin and pale His clothes were not too new and his y yellow hair needed trimming But when he stammered by way of In- In 1 pl V VI 1 I GO HEART BROKEN that he wrote for a living and was purely and Intensely literary Dolly excused his hair and his attire He was Just about to start upon his religion tack when Dolly stopped him himIn himin himin in amazement by asking Mr do you believe in Buddha Madam Mad m replied the literary youngster youngster young young- 1 ster eter dreamily not to believe In Buddha Buddha Buddha Bud Bud- dha oe ne to mistrust you That settles It it ground out the pretty soubrette with a very un sou- sou grimace and she proceeded to tolay tolay tolay lay the lash of her quick tongue unmercifully unmercifully unmercifully un un- un- un mercifully upon her adorer I go away heart-broken heart he murmured murmured murmured mur mur- when she had finished her tirade ti tirade tirade ti- ti rade but with faith unshaken A day will come when you will be kinder to tome tome tome me and not send me off orr like the stern yet adorable churl who refuses the beggar the glass of water Belinda Dolly called to her maid who was passing through the hall at this moment hand Mr a glass of water Good morning sir Ten years later Mr Clarence Low Low- the most successful and bloodcurdlIng bloodcurdling bloodcurdling blood blood- curdling of the decade was speeding along a lonely country road on his bicycle His last six months month of ot labor worry and sleeplessness sleepless sleepless- ness had resulted in the greatest melo- melo drama within the recollection o ot of the tho critics critics and and the worst But It caught the tho crowd and Mr Hi vis u endeavoring endeavoring en en- to recuperate his spent energies energies ener ener- gies far from the busy haunts of menThe men I The dust rose in clouds parching his hla I throat and he was fain to alight before be be- fore a rather shabby cottage in the endeavor endeavor endeavor en en- deavor to buy a glass of milk or elderA elder cider A fat short woman came out as sL str s1-o heard the gate slam behind him She was not a ravishing but a decidedly healthy creature and her homely features features fea fea- tures seemed to grow upon him in Interest interest In in- I terest despite the unmentionable state of her kitchen apron Mr asked for tor the milk and received the enormous bowl of cream from her hands with an inward der He offered to pay for it and the dame took his bis quarter and made him change to the sum of fifteen cents In Ina Ina ina a Jiffy Is this the quickest road to Corham Corham Corham Cor Cor- ham Mr asked as ho hl stepped outside of the g gate to and pre pre- prepared prepared pared to remount what It Is young joung man n replied replied re- re plied the dame In an ear twang and with the next net breath she drawled In song sing-song Im Jolly youthful gay and all that And I wean my hair In a braid braid braid- But Mr Clarence waited to hear bear no more He shot up the Incline incline incline in in- In- In cline of the road as though pursued by bya a spirit meanwhile making an internal Internal internal inter Inter- nal note of another character for his drama comedy-drama of country life When he reached the thc summit of the climb he glanced back with a sigh of relief and muttered Thank heaven I once believed In Buddha Buddha Buddha-Amsley's Amaley's Amsley's Magazine |