The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1875-09-16
Affections Never Come
Singly.

was born handsome. Tradition
has 1t that / was perfect as baby,
and SO successful Ia my nativity, con-
quering all hearts, that my father re-
solved TO call me Alexander, and as /
did, la one sense, capture ali that saw
me, / dare say thai I Taauiated the
Alexander, FOR L wept. L doubt net
that my tears were shed because there
were no more hearts to conquer, yet
my after acquaintance with infants
led me to infer that the cause Of my
anguish may, In a measure, have
been pins and exc collie. 95l
During my boyhOod and youthful
days l was just as handsome. Then
Comes the time when the down on
my lips has grown TO the consistency
OF csterpillar's back, and / shaved,
read Chesterfield's letters to his son,
and gave that heartless but elegant
writer my exalted approval.
L pass the time OF my e7ltree into
society to be much noticed by young
ladies, courted my young gentlemen
for my prestige with those same la
dies, till come to q summer OF my
existence and haunt the seaside.
Oh, the hirtations and the charm
ing, deceitful days of that summer.
The place wss crowded with rich
people, from that man who b0asted
his ancient lineage, not in words but
in insolent stares, to the amazed stout
old pdrOenu who thought that kid
gloves and spotless linen hid all sigma
OF the tishop,n and who daily assever.
ated that money was the thing after
ali, but who was inwardly aware that
il wasn't.
In that season believe I knew all
the nammas who We're there, and all
the daughters too.
There was, in particular, Miss
Alicia Proudtop. Size was large.
languid doll. Such dresses She
could wear any shade of any color, for
her complexion was an established
fact 50 is Mr.. DOWNS rouge shop an
established fact.
Now Miss PrO1dtOp was the belle
that season. but l did not like her.
Like all the marriageable girls there
she was INTERNALLY boring a Fellow by
attention and her love OF moonlight
walks.
Now, one day had left everybody
and everything for little while, and
was leaning on an old rock looking
out to the sea, where the sun broke In
millions Of little rays near the shore.
/ was standing there, perhaps less
vain than | had been for q long time,
when q shadow passed before me, and
turned and there was just the pref
tieet little maiden OF about eighteen
that one would care to look upon. So
fresh, so uneonstrained by the sense
less burden of fashionable attitude and
look, that think felt an interest in
her at once.
Shall attempt to describe her eyes,
her smile, everything that goes 20
make up q plump, rosy little creature?
No won't, because / can't.
Suffice It Is to say that found out
she was stopping at the same hotel
where l had 3 six by ten chamber
thst her name was Annie Thornton,
an0 that nobody thought of her, for
she was not known in ''soc iety,r 1
determined to get acquainted with
her, and did. / found out she was
an. orphan, and was here with an old
rheumatic aunt. Annie and / took.
many pleasant walks together, and II
used all the exquisite Wiles that had
never failed to captivate female hearts
before. 1 would look pensive, and
then catch Annie's eye, and she would
burst out laughing in that ringing
way OF hers till | really often felt
ashamed. l would talk p0eticaIly.
and she would bite her lips.
"Mfss Annie,n l said one daV Ia
well-remembered day. 'T believe you
have no heart ~
Indeed, Mr.. Vernon, in the little
that know OF anatomy, I think the
article is necessary to life.n
but you have no feeling.n
"Feeling 90 she uttered sxc,tedIy.
tfYou should have seen me dancing
around the room last night, when 1
burnt my forehead trying to crimp my
hair with hot tongs-"
"Ah, you will not talk seriously a
minute.n was q little out OF hunior,
"I see no reason for being serious,
Mr.. Vernon, on such q beautiful day.,i
she responded and then slightly
raising her eyebrows, added, land be-
sides, the subject does not call for any
thing serious. Gentlemen, as q gen.
erai thing, are not so rude rs TO accuse
ladies Of defects"
There I was thunderstruck. /,
the disciple OF Chesterfield, to be told,
for the first time In my life, that
was uucourteous. I raised my hat.
'Good morning, Miss Thornton % II
said, and was walking away. Her
eyes were laughing. "Gentlemen
whom 1 have met never left young
ladies on the seashore after they had
asked them to walk" she said, even
more tantallzing than ever, and / was
burning with anger as l went to her
slde, Tor really my surprise had cloud
ed my poiiteness.
NOW, I'm sure I've offended you,u
she said, laying a little hand On nv
arm, HDut Pm afraid vou rava- L.,,-a