River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-09-01
A Romance of Chautauqua.

know little romance that believe
has never yet been given to the public
1t is too good to be kept from newspa-
per readers any longer. Two years age
a Pennsylvania belle of Is summers
because of her interest in Sunday School
work, attended the Chautauqua Sun
day School Assembly. She was travel.
ing with lady friend, and, like most Of
the sex when travelling, had some bag
gage to be taken care of. During heI
stay at the lake she made the acquaint-
ance of college sophomore, a tall
1.-the, good-looking youth few years
her senior. They did much travelling
on the steamboats, together, and fire.
quently found time to try row-boat
when he of the sophomores would use
the oars with the grace and skill of a
true college youth, and the boat would
''glide, gently glide" over the smooth
surface of the beautiful lake. But all
this might have been done and yet
nothing further have come of it. Those
charming boat rides and tete-a-tetes
might have had results that would have
lasted no longer than the moonlight
under which they were enjoyed. have
said that the lady had some baggage.
| am sure she now blesses the day she
was fortunate enough to bring extra
baggage to the lake. A costly silk
dress was for safe keeping carried in a
valise, and the valise was left among the
other baggage on the boat. When the
fair one was engaged in some other
way than attending to her baggage
that much-belated individual, the bag
gage-master, threw off her valise, among
hundreds of such things, at the wrong
landing. Ii ever lady so fair swore |
am sure she did. But it was in vain.
The valise could not he found. She
correspondent with the sophomore, and
as he was staying at the lake after she
had left, and, moreover, as he had en-
joyed the pleasure of SO many delight
full boat rides and tete-a-tetes, he gal
lantly did all that even the ingenuity
of a college sophomore could suggest
to recover the lost dry goods; but as the
young lady's search had been unavail-
ing, so was the college boys. He did a
great deal of travelling on the steam
boats from wharf to wharf, and he
probably interviewed more baggage
masters than even the average sopho-
more would have had cheek to inter
view. The valise and silk dress were
lost forever to both the eager youth
and earnest Sunday school worker, but
their loss in that regard might ultimate
ly be for them mutual gain in some
other more important respect. In fact
the mother of the young lady said that
she would not regret to lose the silk
dress if only Minnie should secure a
husband by the mist rtune. Probably
Minnie thought so too, and probably
Freddie was expecting the success he
did not have in finding the lost silk in
securing heart whose owner would be
content to be mistress of his modest
manse when college duties should be
laid aside for faithful discharge of those
connected with the functions of Meth
odist minister. At any rate, out of the
correspondence about the lost dress a.
rose another correspondence; to this
succeeded a visit by the young man at
the lady's home, and although other
desirable suitors sought her heart and
hand, Freddie was the one of them all
VINO last January placed upon her fin
ger the ring that symbolized their con-
stancy and future union. Fred and
Minnie are at the lake this year, but
their relations are different from what
they were two years ago, though the
reader must not think the knot has
been tied yet. But it will be tied some
time before long. -PhiLddekDhiG Press.