Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-13
An noIp mAN,s vvoo1NG.


 Making Love over The Counter Of One
 or our Chapel Street StOreS-Com-
 peIIed To Abandon The Suit without
 Even One Kiss From The InimOb bile
 Sweetheart.
 The life Fof this practical. century in it's
 most prosaic places is not without real TO-
 nance such as poets would have us believe
 was the peculiar property of ages long past
 and gone Even in the busy world of trade
 there are events transpiring which would make fitting themes for an heroic muse. Not long ago young lady employed in Chapel street store was stepping out of the front
 door of the store where she is employed, to pick up an article that had fallen from its | fastenings upon the sidewalk, when an old man with white locks and beard, bent form and tottering steps noticed her and, seeing the article that she was about to pick up, 1 stopped down and handed it to her with as polite bow as the the most gallant of ou1 | college students could have assumed. He
 smiled, too, very winning smile, and the | young lady thanked her aged assistant pc | litely and graciously while the old mans eyes rested on her talI,9 comedy form and 1 handsome face rather longer than the occa I
 l sion required.
 The young lady re-entered the store and | thought no more about the matter. A few
 days later she noticed that same old mar passing the store. He looked in and meeting her glance raised his hat and bowed. IT
 compassion for his age the young lady alsc bowed. That wasrepeated several times and
 one fine day the aged admirer of the comelJ l clerk walked into the store and made severa I inquiries relative to goods in the store. He repeated his visit, not once, but severa times. Always the old man chatted pleas ! antly with the same clerk and after talking awhile went away. Other clerks observed
 his peculiar visits and laughed a great dea
 at the expense of the F'old mans darling. | She did not particularly encourage his visits but treated him kindly in difference to his ' age. | Finally the old man began to grow some | what more demonstrative in his loVe-making | for such seemed to be his intent He evi ! dently had not forgotten the lessons of his | youth, and tried all his arts to overcome the | young lady's manifest indifference. He l looked fondly at her and talked very sweetly, | and certainly made the best of the short interviews the young lady granted him in ! the store.
 One day at an hour when but few besides the two were in the store the aged sutton 1 made a formal declaration of love across the ! counter to the clerk, who was considerably astonished at his boldness. He further | urged, begged and entreated her to become his wife. ssYou look so much like my Josie, ,
 he exclaihtBd. T must have you for my wife l So have pity on me and love me just little ever so little"
 Those remarks were followed by an az gressive movement on the part of the gray, | haired lover. He seized her by the arms | with both his hands stretched out across the ! counter and tried to kiss her. The young ] lady drew back and told him that she could not think of assenting to his proposal. 70, you must love someone else then" he | exclaimed.
 | He was assured that she was heart free I but did not know him oC love him vel enough to marry him.
 At this juncture suppressed litter escaped | from neighboring counter and the heads o1 several young lady employees of the store were seen peeping from behind a pile o1 1 goods. Even the young lady who was the ! cause of all that outburst of the ol6 mans affection, was forced to join in the l laughter which broke out and echoed ove1 l the store, while the poor old lover looked | around pleadingly, stole a last reproving look at his beloved and skunk out of the store, $ l rejected suitor. Nipples of girlish laughter fell upon his ears as he passed down the street.
 The force of the rejection was sufficient to cause the disappointed wooer to leave the city, where he had lived for some time, hold l ing good situation. There are several per | sons in the city who can testify to the truth | of the affair. All names are suppressed fo1 obvious reasons.