The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-05-08
A ROMANTIC YOUNG LADY.

A ROMANTIC YOUNG LADY.
How She Asked, In a Moment or 3Rase
an lmposibility OF q Young Man
The Happy Result.
Miss Aurelia Sample is milliner's
Young woman in a fashionable establish
,aent on Broadway. Long continued con-
TACT with the aristocracy in the way of
business (she is in the fitting depart
,nent has given her notions not alto
s:ether consistent with her condition in
ilfe- She is firmly impressed with the
saea that she is fitted by nature to shine
an sphere far removed from that which
she now occupies, and she has a grudge
against fate for making her milliner,
instead OF an occupant of gilded halls,
ana the mistress of servants and things
ot that nature. So far IS outward APP
pearances go, Miss Aurelia is right. She
is actually beautiful. She has a very
pretty face, an exceedingly pleasant fig
ore and pretty little manner, which
many fine lady would give her back
seeth to possess. And then she has
way of saying little smart things which
are pleasant to hear, and altogether is
prepossessing little body who would
make very good figure in almost any
position in life.
AS a matter of course, Miss Aurelia had
lovers-almost every girl has lovers, no
matter what may be her style. One pos.
sessed finer attractions could not pos
sibly be without them. She had seven.
MIR. John Thompson, the brother Of the
proprietress of the establishment in
which she was employed, was the one
man who most persistently followed her,
but she did not love him at all. He was
SMALL insignificant man, with light no.
colored hair, veiy small, and uncertain in
the matter of legs, and altogether most
unsatisfactory parson. The only good
point about him was the part in the hair,
which was as exact and beautiful as any
thing could be. The more Miss Aurclia
crowned upon Mr.. Thompson the more he
pursued her. He loved her precisely in
the proportion that she did not love him,
thus making himself and the object of
his alteration thoroughly unhappy.
But she did love. The man she loved
was Mr. Samuel Frehantle, a salesman
in Stewards, who was precisely the man
tor her fancy. He was tall, and had
black hair, which was parted in the
middle, and he had beautiful side whis-
kers and broad, expansive forehead,
and would have done admirably for a
wax figure in the window of fashionable
hair dresser's establishment Indeed, he
has been offered a position more than
once, but has always renamed true to
drygoods, which was his first love.
Unfortunately for Miss Aurelia, Mr..
Frehantle did not love her Smile she
ever so sweetly he paid no attention to
1t, and when her attention became more
demonstrative he very CURLY informed
her that it wouldn't do, that he was not
snatrimonially inclined, and that he was
a man OF too much princi PIE to firt with
Il lady. He~had made it the rule CT his
life never to trifle with woman, for he
did not want the guilt of making them un-
happy on his mind. He never distracted
goods or made love. He was a correct
young man, and always would be-
Then Miss Aurelia's love turrcd to
hate. "Hell hath no fury like woman
scorned." Her reading was of charac-
ter that inclined her thoughts to gore.
She was in the habit of perusipg all sorts
OF ten cent literature, and had just fin
ished highly exciting romance, entitled
Double DagGers; or, Deadwood Dicks
Damnably Deadly Defiance" in which a
scorned woman had melted one lover to
kill a man whom she loved in vain, and
she saw no reason why what had been
'lone in Dakota could not be as we'll done
in New York. She painted for revenge.
And so she turned to Mr.. Thompson
and asked him if he still desired to wed
her. He remarked that nothing on earth
would please him more, that she was the
bright particular star which he had al
ways worshiped and in whose beams he
existed, and that withou: her life was a
burden to him which he should ere long
shuttle off.
"John," said she, II am you:s!"
''Bless you!'' he replied.
''Bat there are conditions!'
Name them. There is nothing I will
not do for you!'
"Only one. Whale Sam Frehantle, in
Stewdrt's.'' - .-~--~.--
Mr.. Thompson's inconscquential legs
dOub .ediunuer him. ~
whale Sam Frehantle! Why, Aurelia
he is six feet high and takes lessons in
boxing. But never mind. shall posi-
bly, be brought home corpse, but may as
well die that way as any other. Farewell
Aurelia !! Consider Sam Frehantle whaled
wi i do it or die in the attempt"
The young man left her presence with
desperation on his brow and determine.