Renting Camping Hunting Boating Armour & Company, Chicago New York- Philadelphia - Boston - Washington and all principal cities. "YES, dear; it is a queer-looking old glove with that little portrait on the back; and you are quite right in saying that it is a picture of the Marquis de Lafayette. It is just seventy-two years ago this year that I wore that glove with its mate at the ball given by the city of Philadelphia in honor of the return of the Marquis, who was visiting again the country he had helped many years before to wrest from the King of England. "The whole country went quite wild with enthusiasm over the brave young man who had proved himself to be such a trusty friend to our beloved Washington; and when my honored father came home from the court-house one afternoon, and told mother to get the girls' dresses ready for the ball, and to spare no expense, as there might be a possibility of one of them being chosen by the Marquis for a dance or a promenade, my little heart beat high with anticipation. But, alas! I was reminded that I was only a very small child,- only twelve years old, and as I could not even make a proper courtesy, I would certainly have to stay at home. So I accepted my bitter disappointment as a necessity, and watched the great preparations made by the rest of the family with much interest and not a little envy. "The girls practised their steps dutifully, and made graceful courtesies before the long mirrors in the drawing-room, until I could stand it no longer; and I rushed away to the prim old Copyright, 1897, by THE CENTURY Co. All rights reserved. 708 HOW GRANDMOTHER MET THE MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE. garden, and there, in the privacy of that retreat, I bobbed and bowed, imitating the sweet smiles and coy glances I had watched so closely in the house. Then, when I felt that I could bow and smile at the same time, not forgetting the one in the exertion required for the other, I stole quietly into father's study, and climbing up on the arm of his chair, I coaxed to be allowed to go. I finally assured him that I could make a most beautiful courtesy, and I showed him. To my great delight, he caught me in his arms, and laughing merrily, he cried: "You shall certainly go to the ball; and if the Marquis can resist that-that salutation, he is not a Frenchman!' "The girls 'fied' at me when they knew it; but my dear little mother had a simple mus lin made for me, in which, with the dainty rosebud trimming, I felt quite as fine as my sisters in their gorgeous silks and their pow dered hair; and, to make my happi ness complete, just before we started for the ball mother gave each of us a pair of white kid gloves with the portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette printed on the back. And the one you are holding is the one - but wait, I am going too fast. "Ah, I can see him now, with his courtly grace and elegant manner, as he bent low over the hand of every lady presented to him; (JULY, and I watched curiously to see if he noticed the decoration on their gloves: but he did not seem to at all. "I had been placed in the corner of the room, and was told to keep very quiet, as it "IN THE PRIM OLD GARDEN I BOBBED AND BOWED." was a most unusual thing for young folks to appear in so public a place. So after the |