Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-18
Strangers, go to COnVerse's
billiard parl0rs, 81 3. Court st.
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Selecting a bridal "Trossv

Selecting "a Bridal "TrOssy."
Chicago Evening Journal.I
One day last week a powerfully. built
young man, to whose right arm was
linked a tell, thin girl Of eighteen. with
a sharp nose, pale blue eyes, and hair
like the color Of an old knife handle.
entered a Lake avenue store, with both
eyes full of business. AS the pair took
seats, a clerk animated that he was
ready to take bottom price on any goods
10 the store, from the finest silk to the
glaziest calico.
"lhis ia kinder delicate business for
u.s. replied the young man, casting
Sleeps eyes at the girl.
This is to say-that is-yes, aheml
stamnered the clerk.
but / guess Wen live through it.
Molly, and so here goes. What we want
is a trossy for this girl-a bridal trossy,
| believe, they call il"
That is exactly what they call il"
replied the clerk; and tell me what ar.
ticle you want, and I'll give you the
lowest figures
The pair looked at each other in a
half foolish way for a minute, and Their
the girl hid her face behind a stack of
goods.
"a little skeory, but she'll git ove i"
unused the lover. The first thing, |
s'pose, is a dress?'
From one to sixteen dresses, as you
like. You'll take a black silk, perhaps?"
And perhaps | won't. There's no
style about US, Mister. We marry for
love, and view got to make q little
money go a long ways. Is calico purity
low2'
"Oh, ZekeI' gasped the girl, sudden.
ly showing her face.
well we'll 60 a little better then,
though calico is my motto. Hand us
down something about twenty cents per
yard. Give US dove color, for doves are
meek and lovely, and so is Molly"
Twelve yards Of dove colored goods
we're cut off, and Zeks looked around
aud said: LESS see. | s'pose a be ok.
comb, two yards Of blue ribbon, a buach
of h%sirpins and two or three collars
ought to figure in somewhere"
The clerk AGREED, ard they were fig
ured in.
Less see. She'll wear her sisters
hat to stand lp in, and her sisters shoes
won't show if she has o long dress on.
| guess that's about all, isn't it, Molly?'
The girl blushed very red, beckoned
him closer, and, after a minute, he
turned to the clerk and said:
Its kinder throwing money away,
but she's purity good and ! don't mind.
She thinks she ought to have a fifty cent
corset and two pairs of stockings"
The articles we're brought, inspected,
and placed with the "trossy, aud after
the lovers held another whispered con.
versation, Ieke observed:
well, that's all. Figger up, and
there's your cash. We've got to 70 and
git some hair oil, and a dollar gold chain
with a locket to it, and a pair of sleeve
buttons and some shoe strings, and you
see the outfit is going to squeeze me
bad
When does the marriage come OFF,
aSheu the clerk.
I'm about ten days. She's a good girl
and loves me, aud I'm trying to do the
fair thing by her. 'Taint many young
men who would put up seven dollars on
a bridal trossy for his girl; but when !
make up my mind to marry anyone I'm
almost reckless of wealth. She didn't
need the corset any more than / need
suspend RS, but she had a sister married
with a corset on, and she didn't want TO
be behind her"
II hope you'll be happy"
I'VE shall be-can't help it. This
ere girl can sling more enthusiasm into
a mess of taters than any queen in
Europe. l had to take her old dad BY
the collar and jerk his heels to the cell
ing before he'd consent to this marriage.
Well, good bye