Show AX INCIDENT OP TRAVEL BUI Nyo Ha a Vision Whlcll thc lIorImiiig D1s1paics had Night rcgister before at last the says hotel Bill and Nyc been after I as sIgned the last room in the houseI use the language of the hotel clerkI went into the dining room to tea After I i had regained my confidence as among strangers and curled myself up in abject manner as possible in the look presence of the head waiter I began to around me for an opportiS opportunity to beam on some unprotected woman with my sunny smile It is not my custom while traveling to smile oneTinSse on one in whose heart to earth a hope might spring up to be dashed by my departure If I have caused pain in that way I did not intend to do so I can joke and carry carryon and have a real good time but I do not wish to inspire in any breast a hope which may be blasted ah alas 1 too soon It was not long before I discovered a beautiful blonde of the female sex at the further end of the room beneath the chandelier Her skin seemed to be of a delicate seashell color and her hair was corncolored Her clothes also were en tirely new I should judge and made especially for her On her finger she wore a diamond ring with perfect ease She knew just how to work that finger in order to get the most possible glitter out of her diamond Every little while I would look over there and revel in her beauty and I thought that she was not entirely insensible to my charms Still she looked l at me in a kind of half reproachful manner which gave me the idea that I did not know whether it was intentional or not All that evening she was in my mind I dreamed that night that I swooped down upon her and carried her away to the remotest boundaries of the world in a special car The next morning I awoke hungry for I didnt eat much supper the evening before I went down to break fast waiting and fooling away my time hoping that she would come while I was in the diningroom and I would fill myself my-self up with the beautiful vision and a cup of coffee Anon she came She sailed into the room with calm disdain and an air of hauteur and such things as that The head waiter waved his hand like a self acting duke in a theatre and gave her a seat at my table A thrill passed up through my graceful and delicately moulded spinal column and I laid down the vulgar sausage which I was about to feed myself when she dawned upon me I ventured to look across the table at her in the full glare of the newborn day Stereoscopic views of this last sentence will be forwarded to any address at 1 per glare The first thing that I discovered was that she hadnt put her yellow wig on straight It was a little higher on one car than the oilier which gave the air of a young man who has overmonkeyed with the flowing bowl This showed to the casual spectator a glimpse of her motheaten sagebrush hair peeping out like the faded tail on an old buffalo robe Then I knew we could never be more to each other than friends Her nose was red also and she had not been properly prop-erly calcimined In the hurry of dressing dress-ing she had missed her nose with the powder rag and that organ meaning of course the nose not the powderrag loomed up robust and purple in the ghastly waste of cheekbones and other osseous formations All what a pain it gave me to see my beautiful vision fade thus before my eyes Then I thought how I had smiled upon her the evening before and how perhaps per-haps a new hope had sprung up in her heart and I feared that when she knew it was all over between us the shock at her time of life might kill her I left my hot pancakes with the maple syrup all over them and fled Out into the din the hurry and the restless rush of the mad mad world trying to stifle the memory of that broken heart Should she see these lines I hope she will not think bitterly of me I still admire her as a wellpreserved ruin but love in such a case would be a hollow mockery f |