The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-03-23
AnRIDAL sr.RoasY..


built young man, to whose right
arm was linked tall thin girl of
eighteen. with a sharp nose, pale
blue eyes, and hair the color of
an old knife handle, entered a
Sixth Avenue store with both
eyes full of business.
AS they took seats clerk 1u-
timated that be was ready to
make bottom prices on any goods
in the store. from the finest silk
to the giaziest calico.
''This is kinder delicate bust
ness for rs" replied the young
man, casting sleeps eyes at the
girl.
"That is to say-thls is-yes,
ahem" stammered the clerk.
"But l guess we'll live through
it, Molly, and so here goes.
What we want is trossy, for this
girl-a bridal trossy, l believe
they call it"
That's exactly what they call
it." replied the clerk, ''and now
tell me what articles you want
and I'll give you our lowest fig
ures."
The pair looked at each other
in a foolish way for a minute, and
then the glrl hid her face behind
stack of goods.
GA little skeery, but she'll git
over that" unused the lover. "The
first thing I 'spose is a dress?"
"From one to sixteen dresses,
as you like. You'll take black
silk perhaps?"
"And perhaps I won't. There's
no style about US, mister. We mar
nv for love and we've got to make a
leetle money go long ways. Is
calico purity low?''
"Oh! Ecker gasped the girl,
suddenly showing her face.
"Well, we'll go a little better
then, though calico is my motto.
Hand us down something about
twenty cents a yard. Give us
dove color, for doves are meek
and lovely; and so is Molly"
Twelve yards of dove colored
goods were cut off and Zeke look
ed around and said: LESS seef
1 'spose a back comb, two yards
of blue ribbon, a bunch of hair
pins and two or three cellars
ought to figger in somewhere"
The clerk agreed, and they
were figured in.
"Less seer She'll wear my sis
ter's hat to stand up in, and her
shoes won't show if she has a
long dress on. 1 guess that's
about all, isn't it Molly?''
The girl blushed very red, beck
oned him closer, and after a min
ute he turned to the clerk and
said:
"It's kinder throwing away
money, but she's purity good and
gentle, and 1 don't mind. She
thinks she ought to have a fifty
cent corset and two pair of stock
ings." The articles were brought
inspected and placed with the
"trossy," and after the lovers had
held another whispered consulte.
ton. Zeke observed:
''Well, that's all. Figger uI
and here's your cash. We've got
to go and git some hair oil, a dol
lar gold chain with q locket to it
a pair of shoe strings and you see
the outfit is going to squeeze me
hard"
"When does the marriage come
Off" asked the clerk.
"IR about ten days. She's s
good girl and loves me, and I an
trying, to do the fair thing by her
'Tain,t many young men who
would put up seven or eight dol
lars for a bridal trossy for hi:
girl; but when 1 make up my MIND
to marry girl Pm almost ,reck
less as to wealth. She did no
need the corset any more than
did need pair CT suspenders, bu
she had a sister married with 6
corset on and she didn't want &c
be behind her."
81 hope you'll be happy"
"We shall be-can't help it
This ere gall can sling more en-
thuiasm into a mess of taters
than any Queen in Europe, and
as for her fried pork-yum! She
can compose poetry, chop wood
draw pictures, milk a COW, built
suit of clothes or spell dowr
anybody that stands on legs, anC
when winter bowls around oul
little home, we'll sit with our feet
in the oven, chaw apples, and re
member that I had to take her
old dad by the collar and jerh
his heels to the ceiling before he'd
consent to our marriage. Well
good-by come gal"