The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1873-05-15
BLONDE FOB BRUNETTE.
4 Change OF Pictures and or KiTeS-A
Romantic Story OF I've ERgIIshmen
Who Exchanged Partners.

There Is a little romance, going thf
rounds about Richard Farquahr Din.
gle and his wife Phoebe, and Robert
Moore and his wife Mary. The ac
count of the strange fortune that hap
pened these couples is so eircumstan-
tial that il must be in the main true,
All the parties were English, and
were newly married as above in Eng.
land before they came to the New
Z World to court the goddess fortune.
Dick Dingle and his wife were both
blondes, and Bob Moore and his were
I browns, and both women were beau
ties OF their respective types, and all
were young and adventurous. The
/ two couples didn't come over in the
same ship, but they came about the
same time, and they did not know
/ each other. Dick Dingle, together
with his pretty wife, proceeded to Pc
/ trOleum Center, Pa, with a capital of
SlO-OOO, which was soon sunk in oil
wells-all but S400. Dick divided this
sum with Phoebe, and started out
alone for the Argentine Republic to
/ retrieve his lost fortune and make an
other. He struck a good streak CT
mining luck, and cleared 81, 900 in the
first two years, which he sent to
Pebe, and which she duly received.
! This recOnciled her to her husbands
absence for the time, but she heard no
more Of him for some years, and she
began to regard him as dead. The
fact is, he was living a wild sort of
life in South Ameries, and had al
most forgotten his blonde wife, al
though he carried her picture.
Bob Moore and his brunette wife
had also q comfortable capital when
they arrived in this country, and lost
some of it in unfortunate gpeculatiOns.
Bob left Mary in Rochester, New
York, and went to South America full
OF golden visions. He promised to
write to his wife soon, but never did,
and was not lucky in the Argentine
country. Finally Dick Dingle and
Bob Moore met, and both were vaga-
bOnds-in a strange country and with
out money or friends. They Joined
their fortunes, aad told each other t. Q
story of their lives. There was a re-
markable similarity between them,
They both had pictures of their wives,
and each went in raptures over the
others picture, and cared very little
for their own. In a mad freak Vaga-
bond Dick and vagabond Bob ex-
changed the pictures of their wives
and some luck appeared to come to
them a!terwerd. They were fast
friends, and accumulated some mon
ey, and began to behave themselves
better. 1t was seven Years since Dick
Dingle had written to his wife, and
one day in fit of repentance he wrote
her letter, enclosing $1,000, and ask
ing her to join him in South America
as soon as possible. In the mean
time, she had removed from PetrOle-
um Center to Philadelphia, but the
letter and the money found her after
a long delay.
As Dick had waited the proper time
and heard nothing from his wife, he
began to feel uneasy, and one day re-
solved to return to the United States
to hunt her up. He started from
Panama OH the English steamer
George Watts" for the United States
on Friday, the 9Th day of June last,
while his wife sailed from New York
for the Argentine Republic the next
day, Saturday, June SJh. Dick went
to Petroleum Center, thence to Phila- |
delphia, but could not find his wife or
hear anything Of her. He then went |
to New York, resolved to take the |
next packet for South America to join |
Bob Moore. But something occurred /
to prevent the voyage. He got ON II
little bit of spree in New York aud |
to stumble into a store in |
to buy some trifling article. |
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handsome brunette whose face looked |
familiar. He was not |
was she, and the picture |
he carried proved it. The acquaint- |
Gnce ripened. Mary had sought and !
obtained a divorce from Bob MOOEe
for desertiOn, and was free, and lovely
and still young. Dick Dingle told the
story of his wife's disappearance, and
the couple resolved that she must be
dead, so these two got married and
are now living happily in Brooklyn.
Phoebe Dingle plOwed the deep to
join her Tecreant but repentant hus-
band in the Argentine Republic. She
was doomed to disappointment, but
she found Bob Moore, and Bob showed
her the picture which he had received
from the hands of Dick Dingle him
self, but he did not tell her the whole
story. In fact, it is uncertain what
Bob did say to the beautiful woman
who had come so far to find her hus-
band and failed, but it is quite certain
that those two got married in q very
short time and now live in good style ]
in COrdOva City, Argentine Republic.
A real blonde is quite variety down
there and she makes a sensation when |
she rides out every evening on beau |
tiful palfrey. 1t is, perhaps, just as
well as it has fallen out. These two |
singular couples are too far apart ever
to interfere with each others happi- |
ness, and are much better satisfied as !
they are than as they were.-BOstOR
Globe