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Show CHEWING Gt'.II. In her lecture about girls the otlier evening, Cady Stanton contrasted the buoyant, spirit of tho males with the dejected sickliness of immature women. , Tins, sbe Says, is bcciuscs the latter are keenly sensitive to the fact that they have no aim iu life. This is a sad, sad truth! No longer ago than yesterday, yes-terday, the town crier's youngest girl Gloriana, a skim-milk blonde concern, of fourteen came pensively up lo her father with big tears in Iter little eyes, and a forgotten morsel of buttered bread lying unehewed in her mouth: "i'apa" murmered the poor thing, "I'm getting get-ting awful pokey, and my clothes don't seem to set well in the back. My days aro full of ungratified longings and my nights don't get any better. Papa, 1 think society needs turnin' inside out and scrapin'. I haven't got nothin' to aspire to no aim: nor anything!" Aud the desolate creature piled herself loosely into a cane bottom chair, and her sorrow broke "like a great dyke broken." The town crier lifted her tenderly upon bis knee and bit her softly on the neck. "Gloriana," said he, "have you chewed up all that gum in (wo days?" A smothered sob was her i'rauk conless'ion. "Now, sea here, iilo.," continuod the parent, rather sternly, "don't let me hear auy more about "aspirations' which are always adulterated with rem alba nor 'aims' which will give you tho gripes like anything. You just take this two bit i piece and invest every cent of it in tig pastel" You should have seen the long, bright smile crawl from one of that innocent's ear to tho other you should have marked that lace sprinkle all over with dimples you ought to have beheld the tears of joy jump glittering into her eyes and spill all over her father's clean shirt that he hadn't had on more than fifteen minutes! min-utes! Cady Stanton is impotent of evil in the town crier family as long as a vestige of that lig paste remaius on haua. Han Francisco News Letter. |