The Penn's Grove record., 1884-10-04
A LOVE STORY.

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Miss Jessamine Kept boaideT5. 1T
was none Of your common boarding
houses" She was in the habit Of telling
those who came luther seeking a home,
No, Miss Jessamine a5piTed to select
ness and excIuslveue55 III The eZ tremes
degree,
II have but SIX boardels, said Miss
Jessamine with a nod of the lavender
cap ribbons which she always wore
after the clock had marked the hour of
noon. Mrs Pouncer, a most genteel
widow lady, living upon an income of
her own, occupies my second t0or. Ny
third is let to young ladies'. Miss Mark
ham occupies the front room Miss
Markham teaches in a select school On
Che square. The tive Miss
Apple1elds, at the back, are III Stop
fields fancy store on 9th ayende-most
reasonable young persons. Miss sara
Everett, IN the hall bedroom, does the
fashion articles for the City Recorder.
And the exteusion-room down stairs is
occupied by my brother, Mr.. Gerard
JesSamine, who is in the office of the
commissioner Of chlmney-tops down
town. Youcan see for yourself, ma'am,
how genteel and refined my circle is.
A piano in the back parIOr, ice cream
for dessert twice a week, and select
readings from the poems by my brother
Mr.. Gerard Jessamine, in the parlor
every Tuesday evening "
And it was in this establishment that
Sara Everett lived when Mr.. lacking
ton fell in love with her.
Mr.. Jackiugton boarded just around
the corner. Mr.. Jackington was tired of
life III a human menagerie, as he called
existence i'll a clearinghouse.
"A housekeeper can't be got for less
than $50 a month, " said MI. lacking
ton, counting up expenses Cd his fingers.
And then she'd want a scullery-maid
under her. Costs too much ia better
get married ~
Mi. Jackington rode up Il day IN
the omnibus, and was pleased at the
valiant manner in which Miss Everett
contested a dubious 25-cent piece with
the driver. The driver was an old hand
at the business. but Miss Everett was
too much for him, and routed him with
great slaughter. Mr.. Jackingt0n
watched her get off aud enter the
Jessamine establishment.
II know Jerry Jessamine, thought
be. paid my ehlmney-top taxes to
him only the other day. A good fellow
but cracked a little on Shakespeare and
Tennyson. III call there and get an
introduction. l think she'd suit me.
BY George how she did double up that
omnIt US driyeTl"
And Mr.. Jackington Rugged himself
at the recollection
That was the way IL which Miss
Everett came to be engaged to MI.
Jacklngton. 1t IS quite needless to say
that all the other bOaTders were insanely
Jealous Of her. The Widow Pouncer,
who was fat, fair and forty, thought a
''maturer female " would have suited
Mi. Iackington's years 80 much better
thar a chit like Sara Everett, though
10 be sure, she added, viciously, ''she
was t. -aud-thirty if she was a day"
The Miss A%ppledelds were sure she
painted and wore false hair, Such a
bright complexion and such IA CHM
mering golden hair couldn't DO real,
they were quite certain. And Miss
Markham who feigned TO be intellect
ual, remarked grimly, that 'no man
could long respect a N who
thought only of dress and fashions, 80
But Miss sara, having got the inside
track, could afford to look down on
them with supreme superiority, which
Mas infinitely more ~aggrayatmg than
any other system Of treatment
, could have BEEN. She thought herself
safe, but she did not reckon on the
thousand little Inducements of the
stream Of true love.
~ say, Jack, " said MI Gerard Jessa-
mine one day, as lie met his friend on
the street 3" the girls at 0uT house are
saying odd things about your young
woman"
'Odd thingsl What things p sharply
demanded Mr.. ~Jackington.
TT isn't my fault 1 didn't say me. y