Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-07-24
THOMAS BLUMBLE.
HOW HE GOT MARRIED.

HOW HE GOT MARRIED.
Blumble boosted of being u confirmed
bachelor, and took pride in being called
a woman-hater. I mean Thomas Blum
BILE, of the importing house of "Hood,
Silver & Blumble." He was very fond
of letting the people know that he disre-
garded the charms of the softer sex, and
was frequently heard to say that he
would Like to see the woman that could
get him under her thumb. There was a
time, of course, when Bumble was sus-
ceptible to the overtures of Cupid be-
cause when he was plain Tom" of
fifteen of age, and left Rock Cove, !"
came to the city and entered the employ
of "Mensor, Tigby & Hood" he left
behind him a young I" Polly Ann," with
many sigh and tear, and more vows
than both put together, to be true till
death. For two years he wrote con-
stantly to 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
bewitching young lady, when we may
be allowed to call Hattie Elton. Then
he forgot his Polly Ann down in Rock
Cove, and became very intimate with
Miss Elton he accompanied her to the
theater and made her presents :; he got
trusted for his new coat, and with the
money that should have been paid for
it they took sleigh-ride to Brighton
and feasted on hot chickens and cham
payne to please her he learned to polka
and waltz the schottische and varso-
vienne were not in vogue then. Things
had sped along very smoothly for about
year; SO Tom, thinking he might as
well have the matter settled at once,
popped the question. Miss Elton ap-
uo,-x, 11or1o11 fo1. o mo-
ment she remained silent, then lifting
up both hands, she exclaimed
+" Why, Mr.. Blumble-she had con-
stantly called him Tom for six months
previous-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 a long while, and I
thought you knew all about it, and was
only paying attention to me out of po-
iteness. Charley is in New York, now,
but we are to be married next Christ
mas"
"Married next"
e We may guess what Blumble was
about to say, but we shall always be in
doubt, for instead of finishing his SEN
tence, he took his hat and rushed out of
the house, not even waiting to 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
ber, with his door locked, his elbows
upon his ight-stand, 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 Polly 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 written before, to sue for
pardon for past negligence, and to assert
that his affections were still unaltered
and unalterable. So he unburied his
face, and penned the tender missive full
of falsehoods and of stale love, which
he dispatched with the fullest confidence
that Polly Ann would be very happy to
receive it. But alas for poor human ex-
pectationsI 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 Smllze, the
village blacksmith, the next week. She
returned to Tom his earliest efforts il
love-letter writing and lock of his hair
and requested him to return to her sun
dry articles in that line that he had re
ceived from her.
From that day Blumble announced
himself to the world as q woman-hater
He had been false to one woman, anC
one woman had tricked him. So ht
cried down the whole sex. The tim,
which. Blumble had heretofore divided
between love and business was now de
voted to business, and in consequence
he received one promotion after anothe
until he had the pleasure of seeing hi
own name the third on the sign over tn
door which he had entered as an errant
boy. L don't believe he remembered
that there WIS any such person in tn