Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-01-08

rWarded quiet Young wan VINO
Would Not Allow Her Name to be
Banded About in Saloon.
. Toledo Commercial ,.
| There is dashing, handsome girl
whom one-half of the young fellows Of
| Toledo were in love with; but theya are
not now SO badly mashed" as they
were.I They hrted with her, they
danced with her, and whispered soft
nothings into her ear, and limited dark
SANDERS behind her back, in the most
approved style of fashionable puppy
ISM, She gave no preference to either
| one or the other, but smiled her sweet
est smiles on all alike, and each be-
| lieved he was the lucky one, and
staggered and boosted of the conquest
| he had made.
Not so with another quiet, hard
headad fellow, who said nothing, who
never danced, who never firted, and
who never dreamed of having made a
"mash" in his life. He had noticed this
bright, particular star, this beautiful
and fascinating girl, who was the life
and soul of every party where she ap-
peared; but while he said nothing, and
perhaps never dreamed that she could
be any thing to him, he may have been
somewhat envious of the attention re-
ceived from her by those he knew to be
his interiors. +. ...... . ....s...
Such WAS the position Of affairs until
a recent period. At one of the larger
parties given not long since, there came
change. The young lady did not hirt
the less, and she did not dance the less,
but there was brighter light in her
on her face. AS usual, she was sur
rounded by the crowd Of her light-head-
ed, foppish admirers, each eager for a
word or smile. Little they dreamed
of the whitening scorn in her
heart, while they breathed their soft
and sickening batteries in the ear. She
had been told story Of the past week
that changed the whole current of her
thoughts. While she danced and firted
one scene was constantly present before
her eye. In Summit street saloon she
saw one, sober, calm and unmoved, as
she had known him, with scarce gest-
ure to indicate the storm of scorn
and anger that flashed from his
eyes, while Sinking away, like
cowed and whipped ours, from the
presence of the lion they had reused,
were her present tlatterers. AS usual,
in half-intoxicated state they were
Boosting of the "mashes" they had
made, and were bandying the name of
the young lady IN the most public and
indecent manner. Our hard-headed,
quiet friend was present. AS he had
plunged headlong into many quarrel
before, utterly regardless of conse-
quences, if he knew he was right 50 he
sprang forward now with a stern de-
mand for the young jewellers to "shut
their mouths" and stood ready to
strangle the first who dared disobey his
order Such was the story she had been
told, and the picture of our gallant
friend, whom she never before even
delgned to notice, standing with his fist
clinched and flashing eye, ready to
strike down the first coward who dared
with the foul tongue of SANDER, to
blacken the name Of absent and de-
fenseless innocence, was even now be-
fore her mind And what of him-he
vino had thus unconsciously become
the hero of a young maiden's dreams?
He was present tonight, but the scene
in the saloon, if not forgotten, was bare
ly remembered. For moment, while
she was whirllng through the may in
tricacies Of the waltz, and he was sitting
quietly by, watching the whole scene in
a half dreamy sort Of way, their
glances met, and there came into her
eyes 3 brighter light, and around her
mouth such wOndrous sweetness as was
never before. The same sweet old
story-old as time itself-was being re-
enacted.
Later in the evening there came a
time when the young ladies should
choose their partners for the next
dance. An eager crowd OF hatterers
surrounded the girl, each trying for the
preference, and the vanity of each lead
ing him to believe that he would be
preferred. For moment she hesitated.
Scorn and disgust On the one side, with
love and gratitude on the other; tAe
latter oyerbalanced all minor con-
siderations. Suddenly she turned her
back on the crowd of gushing youths
who followed her, and approached the
spot where our friend, who had uncon-
scioasly become hero, stood all alone.
Shyly, blushingly and with downcast
eyes, and in voice scarce above a
whisper, she said: 49, e.
"Will you dance with me this set?"
And then, frightened at her boldness,
she tremblingly waited for an answer.
Had a young volcano opened up at his
feet he would not have been more sur
prised. Here the belle of the evening,
the fairest and most beautiful girl in
the city offering to dance with him He
was COMPOUNDED. He stammered some
thing and she in an equally unintellig-
ible and almost inaudible voice replied.
They did not dance, but what was more
agreeable, they went off together arm in
arm, and that which was still better, it
was not long until they understood each
other. She had seen in the depths of
his earnest eyes noble, naughty spirit,
worthy to be conquered and bound by
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