Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-01-08
A MODERN ROMANCE.

NHTuPu Nu't i""h- -h"h VIM
Would Not Allow Her Name to he
Banded About in a Saloon.
Toledo Commercial.
There is dashing, handsome girl
whom one-half OF the young fellows Of
Toledo were in love with; but they are
not now so badly mashed" as they
were. They firted with her, they
danced with her, and whispered soft
nothing5 into her ear, and limited dark
ISLANDERS 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 ne 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 Hirted, and
who never dreamed of having made
mash" IN his lite. He had noticed this
bright, particular star, this beautiful
and fascinating girl, who was the life
and soul OF every party where She aD-
peared; but while he said nothing, and
perhaps never dreamed that she could
be anything to him, he may have been
somewhat envious Of the attention re-
ceived from her by those he knew to be
his interiors.
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 tllrt
the less, and she did not dance the less,
but there was brighter light IN her
eye, and n more thoughtful expression
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 a 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 hirted
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 a half-intoxicated state they were
Boosting of the "mashes" they had
made, and were bandying the name of
the young lady III the most public and
indecent manner. Our hard-headed,
quiet friend was present. AS he had
plunged headlong into many II quarrel
before, utterly regardless Of conse-
quences, if he knew he was right, SO he
sprang forward now with II stern de-
mand for the young jewellers to shut
their mouths" and stood ready to
strange the first who dared dlsobey his
order. Such was the story she had been
told, and the picture of our gallant
friend, whom she never before even
deigned to notice, standing with hls hist
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-
ienseleSS innocence, was even now be-
fore her mind. And what OF him-he
VINO had thus uncOnsClousiy become
the hero of young malden's dreams?
lie was present tonight, but the scene
in the saloon, if not forgotten, was bare
IL remembered. Fora 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 n way, their
glances met, and there came into her
eyes brighter light, and around her
mouth such wondrous sweetness as was
never before. The same sweet Old
story--old rs time itself-was being re-
enacted.
Later in the evening there came II
time when the young ladies should
choose their partners for the next
dance. An eager crowd of tlatterers
surrounded the girl, each trying for the
preference, and the vanity of eacn lead
ing him to believe that he would be
preferred. For moment she hesltated.
Scorn and disgust on the one side, with
love and gratitude on the other; tie
latter oyerbalunced all minor CON
siderations. suddenly she turned her
buci, on the crowd Of gushing youths
who followed her, and approached the
spot where our friend, VINO had uncOn-
sc.ouSly become hero, stood all alone.
Shyly, biuShingly and with downcast
ewes. and III Il voice scarce above a
whisper, She said;
"Win you dance with me this set?'
And then, frightened at her boldness,
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