The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-06-26
BLAINE'S EARLY LOVE.
How He Met his First Flame After
B0th Had Grown Old and Gray.
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BON h64 GEOkn OA0 ana 6EAS.
Chicago Letter to San Francisco Call.
Already a half dozen romances of Mr.
Blaine's early Life have been given to the
public, but one that was once told me is
such acomplete and well-balanced love
story that 1 hereby pass it over for some
novelist to make use of. It's suitability
to modern novel readers tastes is prov
en- by the unsatisfactory way
In which 1t ends for the heroine, and il
stops as short Of q happy ending as il
one of Henry James very own. The
heroine, who told it, was then q stout,
middle aged, overbloWn beauty, with
few traces of the delicacY of face and
feature that made her so captivating to
the young student at Washington Uni
versity over thirty years ago. It was q
tale of Woman's caprice, well repented,
as, wishing to test himself little further,
and tantalize and humble the high-spir-
tied youth just trItie more, she let the
close OF his college year come with
out has having q chance to speak
out. With ardor undated, he mounted
horse and trotted off one July morn
ing to spend the day at her fathers
house, some miles away from thesuni-
Yersity town. He determined to put his
fortune to the touch and declare him
self, In spite of maiden coyness and con-
trarIness, but for all of that summer day
she hept him off the vital topic,
and, WaVering between certainty and I'M
certainty, the aggravatIng beauty held
him spell bound, and although intend
ing to accept him in the end delayed
until il YVES too late and the sutton mount
ed and rode away with pathetic look
in his black eyes, and firm intention In
his heart to win her for all. The obsti-
nate girl of course cried her eyes out as
soon as the solitary horseman had gone,
but she, too, trusted to seeing him again
when all would come right. Instead of
that the three old women who spin and
snip off iife's threads sent young Blaine
70 teach in Kentucky, and his fair Mar
garet, forgetting him among other con-
quests, married dreadful old man with
a lot of money and was accord
lngIy miserable when she heard
that Jim" Blaine had mar
ried New England school teacher at
Georgetown, KY, and moved to Maine.
Her lite grew more wretched, and she
was finally divorced from her husband
and then married the lawyer who got
the divorce for her. They went west
kls
in her rose-hung cottage beside the great
mountain range she read continually Of
the great name of that representative.
then speaker, and then Senator. Blaine
was making IN the nations capital. She
would not have been human If she
had not spent much, of her time
dreaming Of the old romance and the
might have been, and when her SISTERS
husband YVES sent TO Washington in an
official capacity she chung to that sis
ter and went esst with her. The sister
was bound over not to reveal her identity
to Mr.. Blame, e. she wished him first TO
recognize her, forgetting at the time the
changes and the ravages that years of
unhappiness had made In her appear
ance. twas ct Adinner party that she first
saw him. her sister going out on
and she occupying seal
directly facing them. No one introduced
them and she stole puzzled and fanci-
full glances &C the grAY-haired man OPP
posite, trying 70 find some resemblance
10 the young college student of early
days. AS her sister and Mr.. Blaine
progressed through the course of the
dinner they began TO discover their
mutual acc uantances, and when he had
learned her maiden name he said, "Why,
II Was your sister Maggie, then, that 1
used 10 know ct college. What pretty
glrI she Wssl wonder If { should
know her now If met her. But, prob
ably not, ss few women retain besuty Of
that style, and she would have
changed terribly by this time" The
poor woman opposite felt the double
stab, and in few minutes asked her
escort TO take her away from the table.
The next day she left Washington and
went back 70 the west, and on the first
occasion her sister told Mr.. Blaine that
| the stout lady opposite him at the dinner
pGstywas the pretty Maggie OF his early
fancy A few years later she again VS.
| tied Washington, and in company with q
| western woman TO whom she had told the
4 tale she went to the senate gallery and
had q good look ct the senator from
Maine. Gaining courage, she sent keE
card, with her maiden name written on
| il, and watched the start with which he
received It. At that time thefe had been
great deal Of talk about women send
ing cards from the gallery and waiting
| IN the anEe-roOms. and after twisting the
card nerviously for few minutes, the
ssnstor sent word for the two ladies to
follow The negro 70 his committee &c
/ The third person felt herself IN an
ward position alter she saw tbs
way IN which these two entertain 6
sei7ed eacn otGneDt at the Episcopal
100 re1held at the residence OF j.
| youth q on Friday evening. A plat
facEIll be erected and covered with
las for dancing. there will be lawn
;nnis aud cToquei. and The K. p. band
nd orchestra will he on band To furnish
lusic. Refreshments will be served
I'D all who 60 can count on an evening
Oh in enjoyment.