, 1882-03-24
The BRIDAL Tour.

$50 vou would we'd with Alcihades
Doohttlr, dpughtor? said Thomas Tum
SUDDEN, a- he toulIy ,troked the golden
hcni OF his only child.
Ave. father. We love each other
dearly. Alribjalcs and |, And he Is do
ing extremely we'll, too, he tells me, He
Is, q, You doubtless know, law
clark
"A clark, my child? What is Il clark
"P2haps | should have said clerk,
father. said Theodo,ia Tum-udrn, flush
ug ,ii- htly ut her fathers ignorance;
"prrhaps you would have understood me
better. but at Mills Seminary, where
they have iuculcatrd into my mind the
purost principles OF religion, together
with French, music and drawing, we
were always bidden to say clark 1t
i, the English fashion and more elegant y
"Be it SO. my child, said Iumsuden,
fonlly, always talk in the most high
toucdest fashion. Show YOUR brung-up
wherever you go. But this young fellow
is a clerk, You say"
"He is more" said Theodosia, she is a
barristcr. He has been permitted to
practice in the police court and before
the justices Of the peace, and he ekes out
his income by other pursuits.
"And what other pursuts?' asked her
father.
He sweeps ont and washes the win
dows for his employers, said TheodoSla,
with brilliant blush, but oh, father,
he loves me sou
"There, there, daughter, " said Thomas
Tumsuden, strangely moved, "do not
weep. peddled peanuts myself when |
was poor boy. He is q good and worthy
youth, as l was. He shall have You for
his bride. Go, my child-go and pre-
pare your trosu. Never mind the cost
With q light and joyous step Theo'
dosiN Tumsuden put on her sealskin and
sailed out shopping.
Did she use up four or five dry goods
clerks that afternoon? All, you know not
Theodosia!
She used up six,
The nuptials were the most genteel,
gorgeous. and magnificent that ever
transpired in this locality. The bride
was the most beautiful, the groom o finer
specimen of manliness than ever before
known. The ladies' dresses were per-
fectly elegant, and the werrers were all
lovely. 1t was, in short. the regular
wedding.
Thomas Tumsuden gave his daughter
magnificent diamond necklace, ten dia'
mond rings, a diamond tiara, and check
for fifty thousand dollars. To A!clbl-
AIDES he gave bis blessing.
But it was all in the family.
pbo yp,1pCr ppurln ltortaI on their
bridal tour amid the congratulations of
together, Theodosia spoke:
"Alcibiades," she murmured, "let us
not make the usual trip through the
usual interior towns; | would be far
away from the kind though inquisitiye
eyes Of those who know and love me, on
this, my wedding tour. Let us journey
far toward the Morning Land, Alcibiades
even to the East"
Just as you say, my darling" replied
Alcibiades.
He let her have her own way. Hus-
bands always do.
On bridal tours.
Two months have flown.
"Tumsuden," said friend to him one
day, "did you know that your daughter
and her husband were back"
"No," said Il. Tumsuden, hurridly. Il
thought they were still in the country"
mo. | saw them to-day in poor
quarter of the city, and they both looked
very wretched."
"Where did you see them?
Stevenson street, near first"
10, a.
the indicated place. 1t was q tenement
house. AS he mounted the rickety stairs
and saw the squalid children playing on
them, his heart grew sick within him.
He reached door pointed out to him by
frowsy urchin. He knocked.
Come in" said a faint but still IA
miliar voice,
He entered. What a sight for o
fathers eye A bare and cheerless
room, uncarpeted, furnitureless-noth-
ing in it but trunk. Upon this sat his
daughter and her husband, with features
pinched for lack of food. Between them
lay what was evidently their frugal meal
"a bologna sausage and four crackers.
Where be their diamonds now, ha, ha !!
and their fifty thousand dollars?
All, where
Tumsuden advanced and opened the
trunk. 1t was empty. But these words,
printed on o label, scared themselves
into his brain Fifth Avenue Hotel. -
Thomas Tumsuden had long been
threatened with apoplexy. He fell
heavily to the floor, with dull thud
They had been to New York.
Charles Reade tells Us that the late
Justice Leist, while an attorneys clerk,
wrote his practice" which became q