The Portland daily press., 1875-05-04
"E" or 81"
AN oRTHoMANIAc ROMANCE.

Friday afternoon last, young man living on
Warren avenue and young woman dwelling
on Thirty second street were married. The
wedding was quiet one, as the brides family
was in mourning on account of the recent death
of the brides mothers grand-aunt, and though
merrily tang not the bells, still these were wed.
After dinner, the shedding of tears, the shylng
of old shoes, and similar nuptial ceremonies
had been duly performed, the young couple
proceeded to the modest cottage on Warren
avenue which was to be their home-delicious
thought!-their home. After tea, the two
young people were sitting in the duskg parlor
testing the carrying capacity of one chair,
when, naturally, they happened to remember
that at that very moment the great spelling
tournament was raging at Farwell Hall.
After saying that each would rather be where
he or she was than at Farwell Hall, ETC., etc,
the turtle-doves organized a spelling tOurna-
ment OF their own, the reward OF merit being
kisses, and the condign penalties for errors Sc
we're hugs Presently the newly-made bride
asked the newly-made groom to spell "Impent-
trable," and he spelled it, 'I-m-p-e ct E.
b-l e." 20, you great goose" biithely said
the sole partner of his home and heart, "You,
educated at university, can't spell impeBe-
trable." This Dettled the head of the family,
and he asked her how she spelled it. I'm
p-e-n-e-t r-i-b-l-e" ''That's the worst l ever
heard, said he, ''for young woman who pre-
tends to have moved in society and gone to the
Dearborn Academy" "Pretends," remarked
could be seen glowing in the dusk (for the lamp
had been turned down very low ''pretends,"
she echoed as she left his knee for rocking
char. and began to rock herself vigorously and
fan herself with her handkerchief, my father
never was tailor, and | cannot remember
that my mother ever took in washing" Pos
sibly not" retorted the husband with forced
calmness, "but at least my father always paid
his debts, and my mothers bridal trousseau,
ii PLAIN, was paid for" =. Edwin slept
orIo hot ,,rht ul,,io
Angelina shed bucket and half of tears in
the solitary nuptial couch that she occupied.
At 10 a. N. the husband and wife of day,
pale, cold and determined, called on lawyer
whoi had known their families for years, and
announced their determination to separate as
soon as the requisite papers could be prepared,
on the ground of incompatibility of temper.
Edwin stated that he hoped to find in the
Black Hills present distraction and speedy
death, while Angelina remarked that though
she looked perfectly horrible in black and de-
tested wells, she would to punnery go. The
lawyer, after some difficulty, induced them to
tell him the cause AMI manner of their separa'
ton. Sir said Edwin, Il cannot live with
aiwoman that spells 'impenetrable' with an +:
''Did you really do that" my dearY said the
kindly old Judge to the weeping wife. "Yes,
she sobbed. THAT was wrong, that was very
wrong" he replied. 80 | told her," stated
the husband, "but she said she could not safely
trust her happiness to the keeping OF man
VINO SpeieQ IL Win an e. An! Salu Ine
lawyer, that is the way you spell it, is it?''
sit is.'' '.Then you are both wrong; it
should be spelled with an "a" Swift as
flash of lightning Edwin, pressing one band to
his throbbng brow, leaped to the book case,
and seized Webster's Unabridged, while An
gelna, whose heaving bosom betrayed her
emotion, turned over the pages of the copy of
Worcester's that the kind hearted old lawyer
had placed before her. 1T is an "a"
cried each simult ,neously. "Edwinp ''Ange-
lnar' Like torrents from one noun
tain source they rushed into each others arms.
Chicago Tribune.