The Worthington advance., 1882-03-02
ARGONACT NOYELETTES,
y The Bridal Tour.

From the San Francisco Argonaus.
so you would wed with A!cibiades Doo-
little, dauRhter?" said Thomas Tumsuden,
as he fondly stroked the golden head Of his
only child.
AYE, father. We love each toher dearly,
Alcibiades and I. And he is doing ex-
tremely we'll, too, he tells me. He is, as
you doubtless know, q law CLARK"
"A clark my child. What is q clark7"
"Perhaps should have said clerk. faith
or, said Theodosia Tumsuden. flushing
slightly ut her parents ignorance: perhaps
y0a would have understood me better; but
at Mills's Seminary, where they have incul-
Gated into my mind the purest principles of
religion. together with French. music. and
drawing, we were always hidden to say
clark. It is the English fashion, and more
elegant"
"Be it 30, my child" said Thomas Tum.
suden, fondly, ALWAYS talk in the most
high -tonedest fashion. Show your brung-
up wherever you 60. But this young fell
low is clerk, you say2"
"He is more." said Theodosia, he is
barrister. He has been admitted to prao-
tice in the police court and before the JUS
tees t the peace, and he ekes out his in
come by other pursuits"
What other pursuits?" asked her father.
He sweeps out and washes the windows
for bis employers, said Theodosia, with a
brilliant blush, but, oh, father, he loves
me- sol"
There, there, daughter" said Thomas
Tumsuten, strangely moved. do not
weep. l peddled peanuts myself when 1
youth, as was. He shall have you for his
bride. Go, my child-go and prepare
your trosu. Never mind the cost.
With q light ard joyous step Theodosia
Tumsuden put on her sealskin and sailed
out shop ing.
Did she use up four or five dry. goods
clerks that afteroon? All, yon know no,
Theodosia!
She used up six.
The nNptials We're the most genteel, gOr-
geous, and magnificent that ever transpired
in this locality. The bride was tho most
beautiful. the groom finer specimen of
manliness than ever before known. The
ladies' dresses were perfectly elegant, and
the wcarers were all lovely. 1t was, in
short, the regular wedding.
Thomas Tumsuden gave his daughter q
magnificent diamond necklace, ten diamond
rings, diamond tiara, and check for fifty
thousand dollars. To Alcibiades he gave
his bit ssing.
But it was all in the family.
The young couple started on their bridal
tour amid the congratulations of rejoicing
friends. When they were alone together,
Theodosia spoke:
"Alcibiades," she murmurred, "let us not
make the usual trip through the usual in
terror towns; I would be far away from the
kind though inquisitive eyes of those who
know and love me. on this. my W. dding-
tour. Let us journey far toward the Morn =
ing Land, Alcibiades- seven to the East"
Just a. you say, my darling" replied
Alcibiades.
He let her have her own way. Husbands
always do.
Two months have flown.
"Tumsuden," said friend to him one
day. did you know that your daughter and
her husband were back?"
No." said T. Tumsuden. hurriedly, Il
thought they were still n the country"
NO. saw them to-day in poor quar-
ter of the city. and they both looked very
wretched."
Where did you see them?"
Stevenson Street, near First"
In five minutes +. Tumsuaen was at the
indicated place. It was tenement house.
AS he mounted the rickety stairs and saw
the squalid children playing on them, his
heart grew sick within him. He reached
a door pointed out to him by frowsy
urchin. He knocked.
"Come IN, said faint but still familiar
voice.
He entered. What sight for fathers
eye! A bare and cheerless room, uncarpet-
ed, misunderstanding in it but trunk.
Upon this sat his daughter and her hus-
band, with features pinched from lack Of
food. Between them lay what was evident
ly their frugal meal-a bologna sausage and
four crackers. Where be their diamonds
now, ha ha! and their fifty thousand dol
lars7
All, where!
Tumsuden advanced and opened the
trunk. 1t was empty. But these words,
painted on label, scared themselves into
his brain: Fifth Avenue Hotel"
Thomas Tumsuden had long been threat
ened with apoplexy. He fell heavily to
the floor. with dull thud.
They had been to New York.