Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-07-31
Miscellany.
HOW THOMAS BLUMBLE GOT MAR
RIED.

VI III
RIED.
BLUMBLE boasted of being confirmed
bachelor and took pride in being called a
wOman-hater | mean Thomas Blumble,
Of the importing house of "HoCt, Silver
u Blumble." He was very fond of let
ting people know that he disregarded the
charms of the softer SEX and was fre-
quently heard TO say that he would like
to see the woman that could get him un-
der her thumb. There was time, of
course, when Blumble was susceptible TO
the overtures of Cupid; because when he
was plain "Tom,' of fifteen years of ace.
and left Rock Cove" came to the CITY
and entered the employ of "Mensor, Tigby
q Hood y he left behind him a young
Polly Ann" with many a sigh and tear,
and more vows than both put together, to
be true till death For two years he wrote
constantly Ia his Polly Ann, repeating the
manifold VOWS of boyhood love; then he
was promoted from boy TO entry clerk,
and soon after was introduced to a very
bcWitching young lady, whom we may be
allowed to call Hattie Elton. Then he
forgot his Polly Ann down in Rock Cove,
and became very attentive to Miss Elton;
he accompanied her to the thcater and
made her presents; he got trusted for his
new coat, and with the money that should
have paid for it they took sleigh-rde to
Brighton, and teastcd on hot chickens
and champagne; to please her he learned
10 polka and waltz the schOttische and
varsorienne were not in vogue then.
Things had sped along very smoothly for
sbOul year; SO Tom, thinking he might
as well have the matter settled at once,
popped the question. Miss Elton appear
cd very much surprised; for moment
she remained silent, then lifting up both
hands, she exclaimed:
why, Mr. Blumble (she had constant
ly called him Tom for six months previ-
ous), I've been engaged these two years;
didn't you know it,"
know it? No. replied Blumble, in
utter astOnishment
Why, yes, I've been engaged to Charley
Dudley for long while, and | thought
you knew all about it, and was only pay
ing attention to me out of politeness.
Charley is in New York now, but we are
to be married next Christmas"
Married next"
We may guess what Blumblc was about
to say, but we shall always be in doubt
for, instead of finishing his sentence, he
took his hat and rushed out Of the house,
not even waiting 10 make the parting
salutation of good evening" Perhaps he
was afraid to trust his gnashing teeth, for
fear they would change his well-meant
words into some wicked expression.
Tom, in the privacy of his own cham
Der, with his door locked, his elbows upon
his lightstand, and his face quite buried
in his hands, reverted to the years time
and the many dollars he had thrown
away on Miss Elton; then he thought of
poor Poly Ann, whom he had "cut" so
shamefully, down in Rock Cove, and he
decided to write to her, to offer pressing
business as an excuse for not having writ
ten before, 10 sue for pardon for past neg
lIgence, and to assert that his affections
were still unaltered and Unalterable. SO
he unburied his face, and penned the ten
der missiye full of ialschoods and stale
love, which he dispatched with the fullest
confidence that Polly Ann would be very
py to receive it. But alas for poor
Laman expectations Polly AIMS letter
came. 1t was brief; She told Blumble
She had heard of his attentions to the
city lady, that she had almost forgotten
him, and was going to marry Jerry
Smike, the village blacksmith the next
week. She returned to Tom his earliest
efforts IN loveletter writing, and a lock |
OF his hair, and requested him to return
To her suudry articles in that line that he
had received from her.
From that day Blumble announced
himsclfto the world as woman-hater. |
lie had been false to one woman, and one
woman had tricked him So he cried
down the whole sex. The time which
Blumble had heretofore divided between
love and business was now devoted to
business. aud in consequence he received
the pleasure of seeing his own name the
thlrd on the sign over the door which he
had entered as an errand boy | don't
believe he remembered that there was any
such person in The world as Hattie Elton
or Polly Ann, the first day the new sign
Was raised
1t was as the Junior member of tho firm
that Blumble had travelled through the New
England States two years ago last fall
with samples, receiving orders During
his tour he remained in the pretty village .
OF p, \. H.. one fine night in October
He sat in the bar-room after supper. smok- 7
ing his cigar until it became filled with
Villagers, discussing politics, smoking
their pipes, talking of their crops and
ogllng him, all of which was quite unin-
terestlng TO him, so he concluded TO walk
out and view the village by moonlight.
lie had hardly stepped into the entry, and
before he could close the door, ere he
heard a voice inquire:
wv no is that gentleman?"
His name is Blumblc; he's from Bos-
Ion, replied the landlord
Btumble, from Boston," chimeI in a
.Aird voice, and then added, you don't
FLY so.' followed by long low whistle
q establishment.