New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-07-26
ONE WAY OF LOVE,

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washington IN : salary If nine I'm ndred.
dollars wear. .ha wns n the nost.ofI,ca
eniovino the nrivileves afforded Nv an.
income 81 twelve hundred Once = :
while there was . holiday, when they.
would take the boat down to Mount
Vernon, If it was warm. and spread
their luncheon in the shade of its his
toric trees and patr0nize nature as sue
cessfully as If they were nabobs. Some
times they had tickets given them for q
comedy or tragedy. when they laughed
or cried with the discernment Of mil
lionaires and the old families. On Sun
day mornings they sang in a choir and
walked out to Long BRIDGE later in the
day. or strolled in the Canitol pronnds
and surpriaed the first violet IN its rid
;nr Mace Helan,s landladv told every
new boarder that Mr.. Van Week ..was
going WITH Miss Hildreth. but Miss
Helen always protested that he was
merely a friend, that they were neigh
bors at home, and had gone to school
together when they were in their pima
fOres; and the landlady always shifted
when she remarked, IF he's nothing
but q friend ! should think there'd ba =
secession OF MS love-maklng sooner or
later"
One day. when they were rambling
about Mount Vernon together Helen fell
into romancing vein. .'Suppose this
is my country seat" said she, ''and I
have furnished it in the Queen Anne
style, and I'm entertaining the creme de
Ia creme, just as they do in novels
"a sort of Lady Geraldine and am
the poor poet, eh?''
IAN but the poetry Knocked Helen.
'.Now suppose this is my manor
house," suggested Theodore, furnished
in the renaissance, let ussay-I'm max
ing great demands on your imagination
and I'm entertaining all the swells.
I've lured you here on the Pretext OF
looking Tor tour-leafed clover, but
really to ask II you will share my mag
nificence with me: what should you
II should put my lessons in gymnas-
tics into use and iump at the Glance. !"
"And if I should ask instead.
".Come share INV cottage. gentle matd9"
..Don,tp, cried Helen
he looked at her a little hlant,v
.eYon don,t mean that Won cara an
little for mep',
II don't mean ANYTHING. Don't Let
ma talk abont marrvino and GIVING n
marriaoe. we ara hannv enonoh ne We
are0
..Rut g , don't marry vo, Some othor
fellow wilir'
..Nonsense: nenn;less pirls ara a dn,o
in the market. i've seen migerv enough
from marrying on a small salary: re
seen neonle iiv;no in two rooms m
.w.tar an5 = crnst On IN small do;no
their own work with M measures .n6
"a society ond M hone of anordmort.
neonle Who thouoht love would t;.l.,
them over ali tRa nn;cksands- aml
presently the hallucinat;on wore off, hit
The ouicksands remaincd. renroaches
act in: She Grew bitter ami nnlovclv. ami
he r,orose and neplectfur'-
''Thcn you think love an hallucina-
tion?''
II think marriage is a mistake on
twelve hundred q year. II became
dowdy and hadn't time to cultivate .
taste for esthetics or whatever was the
fashionable craze, and grew faded and
spiritless with the uncongenial task Of
washing pots and kettles and stewing
over range, and If nobody turned to
look after me as I passed. one day you
would find yourself disenchanted. Then,
surprising the new administra alton should
push YOU out Of Office, even for month,
or you should fall illp No, we are hap
py enough Just as we are; don't let us
discuss marriage; let us wait, like Mr..
Micawber, till something turns up."
And SO Van Week waited. Perhaps
he was disappointed in Helen's views,
but he refused to confess it even to him.
self; all women felt SO, he supposed,
cared more for shadow than substance.
or mistook the one for the other; it was
their poetic temperament which made
poverty hateful to them and splendor
their natural atmosphere, and he ap.
piled himself more diligently than eve,
to his idea. working far into the nigh,
at times.
..Yon were not at the President's las,
evening. ), one Of his fellow clerks saii
to him later.
ZIP No: I should think not"
.But Miss Hildreth was there: she
and Nh. Sterling. NJ. c.. were hand IL
glove I haard him aak her tn Oh AM
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