AUTHORITY FROM HEADQARTERS.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3030, 24 January 1899, Page 3

AUTHORITY FROM HEADQARTERS.

" Papa," said the beautiful daughter of the rich old widower, '* I need your advice. There is no woman 1 care to go to, and I think you can help me out. You went courting when you wero young, didn't you, papa ? What a foolish question. Of course j you did, or you would never have married." "Of course not," with a suspicion of a blush. " Did you ever get foolish, papa, and want to hold hands or to get your arm around her when you were out driving, or coax her for just one kiss, or ask her to lean her head agains v you so as not to get tired or to keep warm ?" " Nevt-.r did I make, such a ninny of myself," growled the old man, sturdily. Then ; he mentally crossed himself and whispered to his conscience that the truth was not be3t. " I was sure of. it," exclaimed the girl, ' triumphantly. " I knew it, and I told Dick that you never could have been so soft. And here the poor fellow has been accusing me of being too cold and too indifferent. ' Too infernal Bostonian,' he puts it in his blunt way." " Dick," muttered the old man, for i his thoughts had been upon a certain tow-headed and callow youth with nothing to commend him but a fat inheritance. " Are you and Dick engaged ?" " Not exactly, but neither of us will ever marry anyone but the other." I " I see. Styles change you know, daughter, in courtship, as in everything else. I would not reject — cr — that is I would accept Dick's caresses with reason, not too often, nor too long, you know," and the beautiful girl was content.