The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-02-24
ACONFIRMED BACHELOR.

"For Heavens sake, Blanche, say n,
more about it, exclaimed my brother
AS running his fingers through his wild
II disheveled hair, he thrust his hat OF
his head and started for the door.
"Poor Arch!' sighed my husband
throwing down the book which knew
he had, only been pretending to read
Blanche added he, 81 am inclined
to think you talk matrimony too mucl
to him. He is confirmed bachelor
and verify believe every word 20,
seven utter merely hardens instead o.
melting him"
"You seven'' was his peculiar way O
aHuding to myself and six married sis
tiers, who from year end to years enc
talked little if anything else to our one
brother but matrimony. '1 i0'i~
II have plan," said my husband
at length. "l ou remember my cousin
Violet Hunt?''
.'Yes-i -indistinctly."
well, she has been in Germany
studying music for the, last FIVE years
She would make capital wife fol
Arch, and he shall marry her, if she
will have him, which fancy she will il
the whole fourteen of us can get it into
our heads To- StG & FEfFssD -l
ITO whatP' gasped 1, breathless
with expectancy.
TO vigorously oppose the match.
YOnsee he wants to choose his OWE
wife. He has thought all along that we
were trying to choose for him, and
truly, too. sARA1Ie
p. II like the plan,' said I, but how
ae,we to bring about meeting be-
tween these two?"
Easily enough; she is coming here,
otherwise 1 doubt if / should have
thought Of the alliance at ALL"
The next morning at breakfast my
husband said, in tone of evident vexa-
ton:
II have received letter from cousin
Violet" "a. r....-..+s
He sat looking down at his plate with
adissatisied frown. -
..One would think she had asked you
for money!" said /, cheerfully.
"Worse than that, l assure you. She
is coming here to spend the summer
80, how nice!' / exclaimed.
"NO doubt-nice for those who never
care to have quiet moment from SUM-
rise to sunset, nor from that till morn
ing"
What do you mean?" l asked. in
surprise. =, ss.s....-. If
Music, music, music" groaned he.
"Isee her arrival now in my mind S
eye. She walks up the yard heavily
laden with rolls of sheet music, four
large trunks, packed with the same
precious commodity, a German piano
suner Just in the rear, instead of How
nave you been since last we met?' her
nsse Question will be, = Is. the piano in
tune?'n -
Why, I thought you were fond OF
music" said Archie, speaking more
quickly than usual. o. Ftg a7Atg.
) - love a simple air, but. l have, a
greater horror Of the sold masters than
Mark Twain himself g4A safd.se an
/" Don't compare yourself to him, !
nes, said Archie. t' He disgusts me.
BENG incapable of appreciating the old
masters, he seeks refuge in ridiculing
all who can,
"fllieave you to entertain her." was
ny ny husband s quiet rejoinder. "Come,
p blanche, hurry up your preparations.
wen go to Newport, Saratoga, the
mountains of the Moon-anywhere to
escape this terrible, terrible intiictionr'
You could not find a more cool OF
iule. resort than this cottage said my
urother, still uneonsciously pleading for
tne defenseless one. ,aDs
a. can think of but one way to avoid
shls visitation" said my husband. re-
neetiyely,I '.andthat is to write to her
not to come.'' 'x.s4 ~. -
No, nor said I; THAT will not do.
= remember seeing Violet some years
ago, and although / did not think her
at All agreeable, still do not think YOU
". Wouid De justitiable in forbidding her
.ne mouse. The most that troubles me
y Archles welfare. He could not en-
aure her for ten consecutive minutes to
save save MS life. Egotistical and self-as-
Ssg, so,tlng, she is the very woman of all
osners he would dislike the most. How
Ae Is more fortunate than most,
~ ,%1 ne can always count upon six places
"a IeIuge besides our home. For that
her. N ny. e'on stay W see
AS far as. l am concerned" said
afchie, asyou need not worry. Most
oIahg old ladies' have some regard for an
=. ..oa ooacheior,s eccentricities.'
n. one would not have any regard for
.he eccentricities of the godsr' ex-
vIsamed my spouse. 81 have only one
lung to be thankful for" he added.
ana that is that Arch is not marry
~ man. She has reached that age
mIhout getting a husband that / am
~ sure she will exert herself to the utmost
.n ~ sn,rap him. Then she is poor, too,
MUS ~nu she always said she would marry
nv uaey; and mercenary woman is, in
ny estimation, a monster"