THE DEAR LITTLE INNOCENT.

Evening Post, Volume XLIV, Issue 44, 20 August 1892, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE DEAR LITTLE INNOCENT.

She stood looking up at him so innocently from under that sprig of mistletoe, that still hung in the parlour as a reminder of the Christmas season. She was so pretty, and she was under the mißtLefoe, and he couldn't help it — he had kisted her. It was an ungentlemanly and unmanly thing to do. He knew that now, as he remembered her fright£aed startled look, and the miserable excuses he had tried to stammer put. Yes, and the tears in h,er eyes, and the little choking sob with which she had received his stumbling apology. " Who should think she would feel like that about it ?" he thought, dear little innocent !" And she — after he was gone— she lay down on the sofa and cried. " I like him— so much, and now — to think he should kiss me at last — and then say he didn't mean anything by it. What does he think I stood for ? the little idiot !"— Nejr York Life. A Bow- street magistrate, after hearing I «n assault case, remarked that if people i;uly Jinew what they w ( ere told in that Court about the misery of some married fouples, he was afraid there w.ould be no more weddings in Engjan,d. The Pope, after celebrating mass in -the private chapel on June 9th, performed the reremony of blessing the Golden Rose, ' which is this year to be sent to the Queen i. f Portugal. Grenoble is the place where most of the Jcid gloves come from. At this place alone 1,200,000 dozen pairs of gloves are manufactured annually.