The Dawson journal., 1883-11-08
The Wrong Package.
Evansville Argus.

No whittier than the skin beneath"
There is a young man in this town
who is going around with a great
wall of dispair and modification
pressing down on what was ostensi,
bly, fond and loving heart. He
stays alive simply because he knows
his family can't stand the expense of
a funeral, and he doesn't drown him
self because he feels that he is III
such bad luck that his body would
stay on top of the water and blow
up and wash down in front of the
city, instead of floating down stream
i'll a becoming manner. Aud ii
wasn't his falt either. He was just
as innocent as you are, dear reader,
unless you have borrowed this paper
instead of buying it. The whole
story is this: The other evening be
and his sweetheart were eating al
monds together at a confeciioner's
aud the young lady found philippe
ma. The young man went blindly
into the trap, and of course, she
caught "philopena" on him before he
went home that night. This forced
him to give her q present Of some
kind, and the next day he went to
dry goods store to get it. For a
long time he fuctuAted between
handkerchiefs, sashes, fans, etc, but
finally the girl at the glove counter
told him that the most appropriate
present for young lady was pair
those Jersey gloves that come near
" to the elbow. She told him that
they were just the things to wear at
parties, etc, and that if they became
soiled she could die them darker col
or and they would still last. SO he
bought them and had them wrapped
in tissue paper and put in a nice box
He told the girl to leave it on the
counter and he would go and write
a note and send both up to his
sweet hearts homo
He went and wrote the note and
shortly returned, and in a little while
one of the errand boys delivered the
note and green box to the young
lady. She was so anxious to see
what was in the note that she delay
ed opening the box until she had
read it. 1t was as follows:
My OwN DATING: / hope you
will accept this little token of esteem
with my love. Oh, Mary how 1
wish no other hand but mine could
handle them after you pull them off.
But 1 know this wish is vain. A
thousand fellows NAV touch them,
yes even rub and squeeze them, when I
am not at your side. They are white
now, darling, and soft but no whiter
and softer than the skin they will
soon cover. | know this because I
have felt-but why refer to this? !
never made any presents and l hard
ly know what to say but [ hope
you will wear these, and every time
You 60 to a party with me you will
wear your dress short above them,
so that you may pull them away up
high, and show they fit. And 1
know all the boys will try to get
hold Of them, because | am sure they
will fit so snug and nice. Yon may
think that if they wrinkle they are
too big, but that amt the way, be-
cause lots of the girls wear them
loose and slipped down. You know
Bernhardt wore hers that way, but
then she was awful skinny. And,
Mary, the girls say that if they get
soiled you can get them colored. SO,
if the boys keep getting hold of
them aud soiling them you can have
them dyed black, and they will cor
respond with the little spot above.
Blow in them before you put them
on.
send this present to my love,
White IN their color like the dove;
They'll Gt you like snowy sheath,
No whittier than the skin beneath.
WILDE.
The girl was completely overcome
and murmured: "Oh, the dear,
good fellow! And just to think he
can write such pretty poetry, too.
Now. I'll open it, bless his dear
soul. Aud she opened the green
box and ont fell a pair of long white
stocking.
She yelled and fell back in faint,
aud the whole family rushed in and
saw stockings and read the note. And
that is why when the young man