Life — August 11, 1898 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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MADE OP POISON IVY LEAVES, The Evolution of an Acceptance. At Sixteen. HE had just answered “yes,” and her oyes were dewy with a sweet mixture of maidenly love and womanly joy. “And I love you, love you, love you!” she repeated, with girlish abandon, while her flushed face sought shelter on his shoulder. For a moment he stroked the sunny bead in silence, Xo one ever loved as wo love, dear,” be whispered, an carnest light growing in his eyes. Then by bent and kissed ber. At Ticenty. “Ot course I'm surprised,” she said, and a charming smile brought the dimples into play. Then she sat with downcast eyes and listened to his wooing. He was an ideal lover, and bis words were fraught with passion. “He is awfully handsome,” she mused, “It he were only richer.” Sho gave a little sigh, “But then, he makes a splendid lover,” and sho give an upward glance from beneath long lashes, His eyes wero bent on hor with tender devotion. “ Yes,” she said, emiling up at him,“ of course I wil” “ERE” He gathered her in his “My queen of hearts!" he triumphantly. 105 arms, Swear Words. cried, T= action taken by the Common At Twenty-four. Sho rearranged the soft curls over her forehead, and gazed for a moment at the beautiful reflee- tion in the mirror, “And I really wrote them—and meant thei too," she said, her lip curlingand herslippered foot crushing the heap of letters on the floor, * Poor little fool!” Her skirts swept tho girlish letters aside as she passed from the room. In the parlor below bo was awaiting his answer, His hair was tinged with gray, and he stood care- lessly turning the leaves of a book. There was tho rustle of draperies, and she came towards him, his magnificent orchids in one hand, “I shall be very glad to accept your kind offer,” sho said, with a dazzling smile, “T shall endeavor to make you bappy,” be replied, gravely, as he bowed over her proffered hand, Harriet Caryl Coz, Council of Manbattan against the excessive use of unseemly language in public places must commend itself to all decent people. Whether the use of ordi- nary cuss-words is sinful or not, there is no doubt that the use of offensive lan- guage in the streets and in other public places is a nuisance, and may be pro- hibited and punished without undue re- striction of personal liberty. The value of such an ordinance as the one recently passed lies not in the letter of it, but in its enforcement. An intelligent police- man should be able to discriminate easily between the inadvertent expletive at which the law should wink, and foul and boisterous deliverances which outrage the public ear and impair the peace of the borough. Allowances should be made, too, for offenders who have special claims on the public forbearance. They say that the Rough Riders swore as vigorously before Santiago as any army ever did in Flanders. When they come to New York we hope they will use moderate language, but if necessary we will put cotton in our ears for one day. So, too, of Captain Evans of the navy. The dispatches have represented him as sometimes saying ‘‘damn" in the heat of action, He may say it once or twice while he is here, if he feels a need. Our new ordinance is not intended to dis- commode the like of bim. ‘A SQUARE DANCE.”