The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-12-05

feminine subservience TO fashion.
Cleveland Romance.
now A sCHOOL-TEACHER ASSISTED NEW
ORLEANS BANKER IN EUROPE IN SELECTING
PRESENTS FOR HIS FRIENDS.
From the Cleveland (OhIo) LEADER
A very romantic story reached the ears
OF a Leader reporter yesterday, involving
former teacher I'm the public schools OF
This city and wealthy New Orleans
banker. The teacher Is q lady OF refine
ment. ard is very attractive OF face and
form. During her vacation last summer
she accompanied an excursion party to
Europe. On the steamer she became ac-
ouainted with a portly bachelor, banker
doing business in New Orleans. He was
also on a vacation, and being very agree
able soon made friends OF all the excur-
sionists. lie paid marked attention 10 the
Cleveland teacher, and promenaded with
her upon the decks very frequently. Ihey
talked OF poetry, OF philosophy, but never
OF love, and passed the time very pleasant
ly until the steamer reached Queenstown,
where all disembarked. the excursionists
going TO London and the New orleans
banker 10 Birmingham. Suddenly the
banker appeared in London, and secured
APARTMENTS al the hotel st when the
excursionists were stopping. lie was
travelling alone, and asked the ADVICE OF
some of the ladies OF the party as 10 pur-
cbsses he wished to make for friends IN
New orleans. The schoo-teacher accom-
named him on several shopping expedi-
lions in London, and assisted in the selec-
ton of fine laces and silks and elegant
n
isfs iourneyed to Paris, where they were
shortly after joined by the banker. IN
Paris the teacher again selected quantity
~ siIks. bric-a-brac, and fine pictures
for friends of the bachelor in the
limited States. A very pleasant time
was spent In the French capital, and
wba,eyer places of interest that were Wis
tied nv the teacher were visited by The
banker The two met at almost every turn,
but nothing was said by either that would
have led the other to believe that love nau
aupht 10 do with their frequent and APP
parently unexpectedmeetings. FROM farls
the excursionists went TO Rome, and on
the second day after their arrival the Dache-
lor banker registered at their motel. I'D
Rome more purchases were msde, anu,
after being packed in great iron'bound
boxes, were shipped to New Orleans:
The teacher was one day Frustrated WIN
the Roman fever. For days she tossed
upon delirious couch, but the bachelor
saw that flowers and little deiicacies ana
nurses and doctors were always on mana.
Finally the teacher recovered, ana AFTER
thanking her kind friend for his goodness
TO her she turned her face toward Amer
lea, and Rome and the beaming features oil
the big-hearted banker faded in the DIS
lance as her ship plowed ITS way through
the deep waters OF the Atlantic. "1ou
were alone and sick among strangers"
said the bachelor to the teacher, just before
she left Italy, land as you kindly assisted
me in selecting little tokens for my friends
In New Orleans, | was determined TO repay
you for your trouble and see that you were
properly cared for until you had recov-
ered.'
In due time the school-teacher arrived in
Cleveland. still weak from her serious Ill
ness. Shortly after the Board OF Educa-
ton issued a solemn decree to the eject
that the public schools should open upon
certain day. The schools opened, but the
teacher OF whom this little history relates
was 100 i'll to be at her post. The Board
granted, at special meeting
called for the purpose, the sick teacher a
short furlough. But when the time gwen
her elapsed she was still too weak TO as
sumo her duties. The Board shook ITS
large head impatiently, and declared that
IL would give the teacher just one week III
which to get well. II she was not ready
then to take her place her successor
would be appointed. Such action and IAN
euage bore heavily upon the sick teacher,
and instead Of getting better she got worse.
The last day of grace was speedily passing
away, and the teacher, feeling still too Ill to
work, was gazing out Of her little window
into the street below, wondering what was
to become OF her il she was really turned
out of her place. Presently carriage
stopped below, and a gentleman rushed up
the steps and gave the bell jerk. The
door was opened and familiar voice asked
II Z" Miss Laura - lodged here" BE-
ing Informed that she did, the gentleman
asked to see her, and was shown into the
parlor. 1t was II O'Clock before the
banker took his departure, and when
he did he had the promise that the
teacher would become his bride and assist
him In spending his vast wealth. The we'd
ding was solemnized not over one month
ago. and the Cleveland teacher is now the
mistress Of one OF the finest establishments
in New Orleans. When she was
conducted to her elegant new home,
the heroine of this tale was sur
prised to see all the laces, silks,
brc-a-brac, and pictures which she had
assisted in purchasing for unknown friends
in New Orleans spread about in Il great
room, and was still more surprised when
the happy groom told her what she saw
were his presents TO his bride. The moral
of this true story is that all good looking,
refined, and even-tempered school-teachers
should spend their vacations in Europe.