The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-08-06

81 just told him l guessed l know
ed your preferences about as well as
he; but, Miss Sanderson you needin'
mind calling me Mr.. Morrison it
sounds so distant like. Just call me
BILL and I'll feel better acquaint-
ed"
Excuse me, bnt it's not city Gus
tom to call gentleman by his first
name upon so short an acquaint
ance"
Frank could bear no more, and
made some trihing remark, at which
they might all laugh and recover
their equilibrium. Ida had cough
without any cold, and so an hour
passed, in which various excuses
were framed for giving vent to their
secret merriment. Irene set her call
err perfectly at ease, and when he left
he was so deeply in love, that Frank
declared that his face shown like an
angels.
A few days later Mrs. Palmer saw
her husband walking about half
square with Irene, and when he came
in to dinner she would not speak to
him.
Lawyer Cherry asked her to step
into his office few moments to talk
about business matters, and when
his wife heard of it she threatened
to leave him if he ever did the like
again. But the more jealous the
women grew, the more the men sought
her society. She could not go upon
the street without being joined by
some gentleman, and she chatted as
gayly with Morrison, the old bachelor,
as with the young doctor, and rs
freely with married man as sin,
gle one.
But they never said silly things to
her more than once, and no married
man presumed to kiss her hand sec
ond time. She never placed herself
in any mans way, but if she had an
GRAND up street or down, she went
when it suited her, regardless Of
those who were watching her. After
spending a most delightful summer
with her cousins, she left Marysville,
and not a single misdcmcanor could
the gossips attach to her name, though
the entire village had been in fer
ment during her stay,
When Mr. Morrison heard that she
was going, he came and offered her
his hand and fortune, the latter a
ten-acre farm, hut she kindly told
him her heart was in another mans
keeping, and he must try and forget
her.
Ida, through the summers expe-
riencc, became so disguised with the
society Of Marysville, that she per-
suaded her husband to sell out and
start for the West.
Many of the women were heartily
ashamed of their conduct, but the
men were as much piqued at the cool
ness with which Miss Sandcrson
could wind them around her finger,
and not harm herself as were the wo-
men at her beauty and wit. So they
compromised matters, and when the
next beautiful woman came among
them, they were not so ready to be-
lieve the first flying rumor.
Telling "a Lady's Age.
| Alexander II. Stephens has regis
tered an oath on high that, under no
circumstances whatever, will he ever
be guilty of the objectionable crime
of telling a lady's age. He did it
once, and that was enough for all
time. The Washington correspond
ent of the Louisville CourierJou,nM
tells the whole story: ale says that
at time when it was known that
the widow of President Madison was
in such great poverty as really to be
suffering for the necessaries of life,
bill for her relief giving her pen
sion was introduced into the House,
which lie earnestly championed. He
made telling point in urging its
immediate passage by saying, Gen
tlemen. to-day the lady reaches the
venerable age of eighty-two years,
and it would be particularly grace
full thing for this house to honor the
! day by passing at once the bill for
her relief He laid such stress upon
the matter, and advocated the pas
sage of the bill so warmly, that it
was passed or that day. He felt 80
elated with his triumph that he de-
cided to take the news to her himself
and FASTENED at once to her resi-
dence. Some one, however, had pre-
coded him and fully reported his
speech to the lady, who, to his sur
prise, greeted him by saying: ooh,
thank you, Mr.. Stephens, for getting
my bill through, but you made mis-
take when yon said was eighty-twe
to-day; l am not eightytwo; l am
only eighty to-day. That WIS
grave mistake When Mr.. Stephens
repeated this to Mrs. John j. Crit
tcnden, one Of Mrs. Madison's
friends, who had told him her age,
she said: All the same, Mr.. Stephens,
it is true she is really eighty-two
years old"
Fool once more.
For ten years my wife was confined
to her bed with such complication of
ailments that no doctor could tell what
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