The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-01-23
How She Won Him.

Two beautiful young girls, though
OF different temperamentS and style of
beauty, were in love with the same
young gentleman in a northern suburb,
Or-which comes to the same thing In
effect--desircd to marry him. One was
a plump, robust and vivacious brunette;
the other an ethereal and sentimental
blonde, of whom one admirer-a Bos-
ton young man-said that "fastidious
critics might describe her as blanched
and etio1ated." The young man was
rather taken up with the latter, who
had bewitching sigh and far-away
dreamy look, and, when refreshments
were passed around, contented herself
with pecking timidly at maccaroon,
like dyspeptic canary, and the bru-
nette felt that she must deliver a mas
terstroke ere the holidays, or else the
young man was lost, and, in the pres
ent stringency of the matrimonial mar
ket. such a catastrophe was not to be
contemplated with calmness. Accord
ingly, a week ago last night, she in
duced the young man to see her home
from church, and on the way said:
"What darling girl Lucy is!'' "She
is. indeed" warmly answered the young
man, pleased to hear the woman he
was almost engaged to so warmly
praised; $50 dainty and delicater'
Eyes, indeed" resumed the apparently
guileless girl; "and she would make a
very nice wife for anyone who could
afford it." "Why," said her compan-
ion, cit wouldn't cost much to board
her-she doesn't eat any more than
Molly Fancher." "Perhaps not,'' re-
piled the temptress; "but even if she
didn't the money wouldn't 60 into her
husbands pocket, for the woman that
keeps the clearinghouse would charge
the same anyhow, and, in point of fact,
it would cost her husband more, for
the Bologna sausage, peanuts, fat ham,
sandwiches, plum-cake, and SO on that
she would eat between meals would
have to be furnished by herself. 1t
isn't like when you have your own pam
try to 60 tt" :" Bologna sausage!"
said the young man, somewhat nervous
ly; "do you mean to say that an
ethereal angel like Lucy feeds on b.
logna sausage between meals?'' "They
all do it," responded his companion,
land in that manner ruin their stom-
achs and lose their appetites, SO that
they look delicate" s.But it would be
different if she had a home of her own,
where she could do her own house.
work, and have sufficiency of plain
food, which, ssBut If she had q
home of her own she couldn't do her
own homework; she'd be too delicate
for that, and her husband'd have to
hire a servant girl that would eat as
much almost as she'd carry away for
her friends. Poor Lucy's poor dear
elder sister tried it, and overtaxed her
strength, and for nine years she has
been an invalid, and has to be fed on
liver, wings of chickens and dry cham
payne, three pints day. Poor Great
ures! pity them. know l seem
vulgarly coarse and unpoetical to many
young men, because l eat SO heartily,
but since was two years and eighteen
months old / haven't cost mamma and
papa dollar for doctors bills, l can
carry scuttle of coal in each hand
heaping full, and l always get up be-
fore the servant-girl in cold weather to
light the tires--the sensation is SO de-
lightful; just like electricity and cham
pagne." This last touch settled the
young man; he cried in raptures, s.Be
mine! and il was 2:20 a. m. on Mon
day before she let him out of the front
door. On Monday afternoon he was
seen at wei. known jewelers. getting
q set Of pearls and sapphires changed
for something more becoming to lady
OF dark complexion. Alas, poor Lucy!
Chicago Tribune.