The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-09-08
ConrtshIps in Old Graveyards.

Courtships in Old Grayeyards.
~ don't think there is as much cenu.
inc love-making in Saratoga nowadays
as there used 10 be years ago ssid Sld
Sexton Painueston, as he leaned on his
spade. ..Thcy all sesn to be going for
money. Why. l havfIa't had four genu-
inc love cases in the geiyeyardtehis year.
Now. when a man is going for money
you don't see him briaging his girl over
here"
eaow does he actvhen he is going
for money?' / asked
..Why. he spends ~ time around the
florists, he heaps preselts on her, keeps
her room full.of flosRrs. hands chairs
on the balcony, asn4Ys stands ready
with music programme, looks after
her mail. always fonlpEments her
clothes, and
..And what else ? II asked, impa-
tiently. M
..Why, the courtfnefor- money lover
even looks aftez bis sspethearfs table.
He even goes ans ~ the head cooks
f.,sssss,iz lssss ss3sis szS ex s-osS5ofte.
woodcock and Shanssa ilfctee..eil LslSst.
cooks always have these Idelcacies for
guests provided and the9are well paid
for them. o. he gives Is girl an ele-
giant time, but there S nolove in it. 7"
'But how does the all 4or-loye young
man go to work?" L interrupted
. Why, he don fool around at a dis
tance, said the old sextpn. . with bou-
quets, and chairs. and Programmes ana
nice breakfasts. He just quietly walks
his sweetheart over to. the graveyard,
and, sitting onone' of those benches out
under the trees youller. ne takes her
hand. He sits right down and attacks
her heart. He don fool around buy
ing flowers for her eyes, nor candies 1or.
her tongue, nor perfumes for her nose
he just gets his arm right around her
heart, and when it begins to throp, ana
when her cheek gets red and warm he
: knows that girl is his'n don stand
so near the grave or it'll cave in.) why.
that girl would rather have one hour OF
our warm graveyard courting than 400
years of such iceberg courting as 1 see
going on over in the States parlors- l We
seen this eourtin' goin' on Tor forty
years. (By jimminy. there bone.
L IN getting too near that other grave.)
see old grey-headed men every day
riding up here in carriages who courted
their wives in this graveyard forty Years
ago. There's X. l. Stuart, the wealthy
sugar rehner-
But he's an old bachelor inter
rupted.
:. Never mind that Itell you, my
benches could tell why he never got mar
ried. He loved the girl well enough,
and -''
. But who else do you remember see
ing here?' ] asked.
e ssXVI,.- H., ,.-oc M. Winston of tbp
Mutual Life. He used to walk around
here. thirty years ago, with beautiful
blonde girl / can see him now kissing
that girl-but I'm not going to tell all |
know. Andrew H. Green, he married a
cirl he courted in my graveyard. Fer
nando Wood used to have seat here,
and Charles A. Dana, ne used to know,
forty wears ago. all about flirting in a
oraveya1.-I ald General James Watson
" eDD used TO VAIN sotis HstssEss sss<s
here fifty wears ago, and his son, the
Doctor, why he could never get along
at all in courting Miss Vanderbilt till he
got her away from the stuck-up States
Hotel, and found himself one day in one
of my seats / knew Vanderbilt would
lose daughter that night. tell you,
these graveyard seats mean business
every time Did l ever have any Sena-
tors or Governors on my seats? Why, OF
course. Senator Herman courted two
girls at once in this graveyard, and Pres
ident Arthur knows where all the best
seats are. They needn't be ashamed OF
it either. for Hamilton and De Witt Clin-
ton used to do the same thing when they
were boys. BOYS will be boys, contin-
ued the old man, as he jumped out OF
the grave, land girls viii be girls. Girls
with bio. hearts like to be loved, and fell
lows with big hearts will kiss and love
them. | don't care how straight their
parents make them sit up and down at
the States, they will occasionally get
away and come up herein the graveyard
to act natural. and I'm the last man to
hinder en- Why | often keep these
graveyard gates open Till nine O clock
when there are genuine lovers enough
around to warrant it. | don't mean
firters. l mean real, genuine lovers
.'But how do the lovers manage down
at Long Branch and over at Newport.
where they have no grayeyards handy?
/ asked.
Il don't know, but they have mating
| places somewhere. I'spect they SIT out
in the sand under the bluffs, or sit around
under umbrellas imthe payilions, or get
in dismal corners on the balconies
They've got toy gosh, they re got
tor'
That's what the old Saratoga grave
yard philosopher said Saratoga Cor.
~ Y. CoDamerciaI Adcertiser.