The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-06-04

in it now:
cts true1 love Johnnie, he's guide and he
bonnie
But woes me! ,ye ken he has nothing AVA.
q Nothing avail Nothing ava
4 oe's me ye Ken he has nOthin AVA
The youth colored to his temples, and
threw back MS head haughtlly.
so Miss Mavis. That's my question
and that's your answer Perhaps UNI
derstand you, and perhaps I don't but
think I do. Very well | am goiog
away, Miss Mavis, and when you see me
next time, mark you, my lady, you won't
sing that song to me-"
"You're going away? So you say"
continued the pretty girl, tantalizing as
mocking-blrd. "Send me "a letter to
bid me good-by, will you? Now look
here, Charley O'Hara, you aid I needn't
talk this all over again, and you needn't
reproarch me for not caring for you, and
call yourself poor devil and all that
No; don't care for o poor dewitt new
err could care for poor devil, and that's
the end of il. I'm too young to be mar
ried, and even if weren't, wouldn't
marry you. NJ, | wouldn't, if were
dried UP old maid with q hooked-nose,
and you were my last chance. [ wouldn't
|, Co r To-
very easy to talk. You have the whole
world before you You are q man, or
you're going to be next birthday. We
were children together. we learned our
primers together, and learned as fast as
you. Well, when we were a little older,
you went away to college and; learned
science and Latin. | staid at home and
learned to-kuit silk purses, for instance.
Here's one am making for you now. A
man can make bis own fortune and buy a
wife any time he wants One--wives amt
scarce, dear knows A poor boy can
make his fortune poor girl has to-
marry her fortune I have no feeling ??
No, | havn't. Poor folks can't afford any
feelings. When marry rich husband,
which mean to do, you'!l find me ex-
ceedingiy tender hearted and sympathet-
ic, and that sort Of thing, you know"
"Then you'd marry me if T we've rich
man ?" says the youth.
when you are rich man, come and
ask me and see, If Tn not dead of old
age before that time Charley, can't
live the life OF pinching poverty I've al
ways lived. Many day mother andiI
have gone shivering and hungry, to save
money to buy a new ribbon or lace ruff
lie. Human language car't describe how
[ hate and fear poverty
I. 3 "But if you loved auyb1dy very much
as ! love you, Mavis you wouldn't mind,
put in the handsome boy.
"Love exclaimed The philosophical
little maiden. 1t can't be thought Of for
IN 'ment. | tell you poor folks can't
afford it. From the time | was old enough
to understand what ding dong meant its
been ding donged into my head that
must marry a rich man, good or bad
Whether liked him or not wasn't a
question for consideration. Dear me,
no How foolish people would be if
they only married the folks they liked"
"Oh! Mavis, you are too young and
pretty to talk like that"
pretty? Yes. It's my only stock in
trade. Your brains. your science and
Latin, and your strong arm are your
weapons To conquer the world with. NV
tace is my weapon TO conquer rich hus-
band with. That's the difference be-
tween a young man and young woman"
"Mavls Mavis ! believe you're
perfectly beartless, sure enough It
doesn't seem to please you even to be
called pretty I never saw a girl like
that in my life before. But If | llvs to
be d hundred years old / shall never care
for anybody but you. You are my first
love and nay last one' 9a y ssB
{ "Nonsensea" says Mayis. ra .sas3
esIt's true, Mavis shant ask YOU to
make any promises, because you won't do
it. Ard won't make any promises or
prophecies about what I'm going Is do,
but If come back from California in
seven years, rich man, and you are not
married yet, what would you say then %
Mavis counted gravely on her fingers,