, 1877-01-26
A Bridal - T-ossy."
now A YOUNG coUPLE PROM TIE coUS-
THV MADE THEIR SELECTION.

THV MADE THEIR SELECTION.
One day last week. powerfully built
Young man. 20 whose right arm was
linked tall. thin girl Of eighteen. with
. 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 the pair took SEATS a
clerk intimaied that he was rrady 10
make bottom price on any goods in the
store. from the finest silk to the slaizest
/ calico.
This is kinder delicate business for
us replied the young man, casting
sheep eyes at the girl.
" That is to say-that is-yes, ahem r.
stammered the clerk.
but 1 guess we'll live through it,
Molly. and so here goes. What we want
is q trossy for this girl-a bridal trossy,
believe they call it.
That's exactly what they call it, re-
piled the clerk, "aDd now tell me what
articles you want and Ill give you our
lowest figures"
The pair looked at each other in q
foolish way for a minute, and then the
girl hid her face behind stack of goods.
A leetle skeery, but she'll git over
it, mused the lover. 1.-THE first thing,
1 'spose, is a dress?"
From one to sixteen dresses, as you
like. You'll take black silk, perhaps "
And perhaps won't. There's no
style about us, Mister. We marry for
love, and we've got to make leetle
money go long ways. Is calico purity
low?"
"Oh Zeke !" gasped the girl, sud-
denly showing her face.
"Well, we'll go leetle betteE 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 looked around
and said "Less see? 1 'spose back
comb, two yards of blue ribbon, bunch
of hair pins and two or three collars
ought to fgger in somewhere"
The clerk agreed, and they we're fig
ured in.
"Less see? She'll wear my sisters
hat to stand up in, and her shoes won't
show if she has long dress on, guess
that's about all, isn't it, Molly?"
The girl blushed very red, beckoned
him closer, and after minute he turned
to the clerk and said:
I" It's kinder throwing money away,
but she's purity good and gentle, and 1
don't mind. She thinks she ought to
have fifty cent corset and two pairs of
stockings I" y
The articles were brought, inspected
and placed with the " trossy," and after
the lovers had held another whispered
consultation. Zeke observed:
"Well, that's all. Figger 'er up, and
here's your cash. We've got to go and
git some hair oil, dollar gold chain
with locket- to it, pair Of sleeve but
tons and some shoe strings, and you see
the outfit is going to squeeze me hard p
when does the marriage come off?
asked the clerk.
In about ten days. She's a good
girl, and loves me, and am trying to
do the fair thing by her. "Taint many
young men who would put up seven or
eight dollars for bridal trossy for his
girl but when make up my mind to
marry any one ON almost reckless as
to wealth. She didn't need the corset
any more than 1 need suspenders, but
she had sister married with a corset
on and she didn't want to be behind
her."
"I hope you'll be happy"
eve shall be-can't help it. This
ere girl can sling more enthusiasm into
mess of taters than any queen in Eu-
rope, and as for her fried pork-yum
She can compose poetry, chop wood 4,
draw pictures, milk COW, build a suit
of clothes or spell down anybody that
stands on legs, and when winter howls
around our little home we'll sit with our
feet in the oven, chaw apples, and re-
member that had to take her old dad
by the collar aud jerk his heels TO the
ceiling before he'd consent to this mar
riage. Well. good.by come gal"