Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-12-18
How Ipecac Came to Marry,

Did you ever get married? Ip
awful jolly. l was kind o. fraiC
at first to try it, but I'm glad nov
aud wouldn't be unmarried for 6
two hundred acre farm. There.
nothing like 1t. Don't suppose
You ever thought III get married.
didn't either, cause I'm so limo.
cent and bashful like when in the
society of ladies'. Nobody thought
I'd get married. Don't look like
a married man, but looks are
dodgers -'still water runs deep.
I'm terribly quiet, / am. Perhaps
you'd like to know how / came TO
get married, so I'll tell you.
One evening / went TO a party
at the house of our minister; they
didn't have any dancin', because
that's wicked, but they played
harmless games, in which the la
dies and gentlemen kiss each 9TH
err. That isn't naughty if it is
nice though some one has said
'kissin' leads to graver deeds In
my case it led to marriage.
AS | was saying, at the party
mean the young folks' congrega-
tional meeting-there were heaps
OF pretty girls, and only few real
nice men like me, so nearly all
the girls We're just crazy after me.
III ! do say 1t myself, I looked very
sweet. My hair which you know
is a little on the carmine color, was
all creased up with scented OK
morrow, so it looked quite dark,
and it was parted in the middle,
and my mustache was colored with
injun ink; but l won't do that
again, it rubs off on the girls. /
had on my new brown trousers
and purple coat, and a new white
vest, anu pink neck tie. Oh, /
tell you,-just like city fellow
and they were awful mad and
jealous, and said they guessed I'd
been studying the fashion-plate in
some patent medicine almanac
Well, we played pillows and keys
and bull in the ring That's a
game where all hold on to rope
and form a circle with one person
in the centre. He slaps some girls
hand and makes a dive for her;
she runs and he after her, grabs
and tears her clothes, and kisses
her. Then she does the same
thing to the young man. / think
It's ss rough on dresses, and there
is just as much huggin' and squeez
in, not to speak of the kissin' as
there Is In dancin', but then it
isn't wicked like dancin'.
There was at that party one
girl who was just peaches and
cream She was about five feet
high, and had Cinderella feet, the
prettiest you ever saw, and waist
you could span-a lovely figure -
Her eyes were the color of the
blue heavens, and they twinkled
like stars in the aforesaid heav-
ems. Her browning glory, her
hair, was long enough to sit on,
and was of lovely L0ckport yell
low. She just froZe to me, and I
didn't try bit to thaw from her.
Just before the time to go home
she came to me and remarked,
'Ipecac, if you want 10 see me
home, I'll tell any one that asks
that pleasure that l am engaged,
shall I?'
"Oh. yes, dol" said.
She lived quite q piece down the
road, and l enjoyed the walk to
her house, but l was awful lone
some coming back, because I had
to pass o graveyard, and l don'l
like to pass one at night, alone
] amt afraid, but it always makes
me think of my dead grandfather
To return to Adelaine: Before
kissed her goodnight she looked
kind o. sweetly on me and said /
/ wanted to keep company witt
her she'd let me, and she wouldn'
keep company with any othe
young man, if l wouldn't go t.
see any other girl on Sundays OF
Wednesday night. So we agreed
and the next Sunday night tool
her to meeting, and when we go
back home in the parior, l sat il
a big rocking chair and she ga
on another chair, but pretty sooI
she said to me:
"Ipy, dear, 1 don't believe yol
are very strong
"Why ~ l asked.
"Oh, nothing" she said, "onl,
/ thought if you were strong yol
would ask me to sit on your lap.
told her / was an ambition
young man, and I'd try to hole
her, and she came and sat dow
on me. / felt awful red in tn
face. Then she said she believe,
/ couldn't get my arms aroun,
her But / did, and she put he
arms tight around me. Afte
awhile abe said