The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-27
Courtships in Old Grayeyards.

stI don't think there is as much genu-
Inc love-making in Saratoga nowadays
as there used to be years ago." said old
Sexton Palnueston, as he leaned on his
spade. "They all seem to be going for
money. Why, 1 haven't had four genu-
inc love cases in the graveyard this year.
Now, when a man is going for money
you don't see him bringing his girl over
here"
"How does he act when he is going
for money!" asked.
"Why, he spends his time around the
florists, he heaps presents on her, keeps
her room full of flowers, hands chairs
on the balcony, always stands ready
with music programme, looks after
her mail, always compliments her
clothes, and"
Sand what elseP" 1 asked, impa-
tiently.
why, the courting-for-money lover
even looks after his sweethearts table.
He even goes and bribes the head cook
to send her chicken liyers en- brochette,
woodcock and Spanish mackerel The
cooks always have these delicacies for
guests provided and they are well paid
for them. o! he gives his girl an ele-
giant time, but there's no love in it. /"
''But how does the all-for-love young
man go to work." interrupted.
"Why, he don't fool around at dis
tance," said the old sexton, '' with bou-
quets, and chairs, and programmes, and
nice breakfasts. He just quietly walks
his sweetheart over to the graveyard,
and, sitting on one of those benches out
under the trees yonder, he takes her
hand. He sits right down and attacks
l. g. hr,xr
ing flowers for her eyes, nor candies for
her tongue, nor perfumes for her nose;
he just gets his arm right around her
heart, and when it begins to throb, and
when her cheek gets red and warm he
knows that girl Is his'n. Don't stand
SO near the grave or it II cave in Why,
that girl would rather have one hour of
our warm graveyard counting than 400
| years of such iceberg counting as / see
going on over in the States parlors. I've
seen this courtin' goin' on for forty
years. (By jimminy. there's "A bonei
| I'm getting too near that other grave.)
1 see old grey-headed men every day
riding up here in carriages who courted
their wives in this graveyard forty years
ago. There's r. l. Stuart, the wealthy
sugar refner-"
al But he's an old bachelor" inter-
rupted.
"Never mind that. 1 tell 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.
.sWhy, there was Mr. Winston, of the
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 Fl. Green, he married a
girl he courted in my graveyard. Fer
nando Wood used to have a seat here,
and Charles A. Dana, he used to know,
forty years ago, all about flirting in a
graveyard. Old General James Watson
Webb used to walk the young ladies ur
here fifty years 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 State:
Hotel, and found himself one day in one
of my seats. knew Vanderbilt would
lose a daughter that night. tell you
these graveyard seats mean busines:
every time. Did ever have any Sena
tors or Governors on my seats? Why, o.
course. Senator Herman courted two
girls at once in this graveyard, and Pres
ident Arthur knows where all the bes
seats are. They needn't be ashamed o
it either, for Hamilton and De Witt Gin
ton used to do the same thing when they
were boys. Boys will be boys" contin
ued the old man. as he jumped out o
the grave, land girls will be girls. Girl
with big hearts like to be loved, and fel
lows with big hearts will kiss and low
them. don't care how straight thei
parents make them sit up and down a
the States, they will occasionally ge
away and come up here in the graveyard
to act natural, and I'm the last man u
hinder 'em. Why 1 often keep thes
graveyard gates open till nine o'clocl
when there are genuine lovers enougl
around to warrant it. l don't meal
hirters. mean real, genuine lovers
..But how do the lovers manage dow
at Long Branch and over at Newport
where they have no graveyards handyP'
! asked.
81 don't know, but they have matin;
places somewhere. 'spect they sit on
in the sand under the bluffs, or sit aroun'
under umbrellas in the pavilions, or ge
in dismal corners on the balconies
They've got to-by gosh, they're go
torf
That's what the old Saratoga grave
yard philosopher said.-SGratoga Cor
NJ Y. Commercial Advertiser.