The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-11-04
DECLARED OFF.
Why a Fashionable Wedding
Was Postponed.
The Bride Masquerading in
Male Attire,
And Visiting a Variety Den
With Her Brother.
The Groom Turns Up Drunk at
the Same Place.
An Astounding Revelation in the
Social World.
St Louis Chronicle.

A fashionable Lafayette avenue engage
ment, for whose consummatiou cardswere
already being address, has been ceclsred
Of certain orders ut florists and csterer's
and livery stabls have bern recalled
wedding dress which would have been the
envy of sll female beholders has ben
packed away for the moths: q small bru-
netie, the daughter of one of the most
aristocratic families of the ctr who,
though hardly 10 years old, has figured on
society occasions as the rigning beauty,
left The. city yesterday morning with
pale face and trembling lips, accompanied
BY her brother, "for a season in New
York, )" as her parents blsndly inform in
-quiring friends; and yourg Fourth street
business msn scows during the daytime at
friends who have been accustomed to smiles
when his approaching marriage was men
toned, and be drinks little more deeply
and laughs tie more boisterously when
out at night with associates whom he did
not know a week ago.
IT ALL CAME ABOUT
last Tuesday night, and the frequenfers of
q very low variety tbeater ia the ely
know as much about the matter As any
body else. 1t was 10 O'Clock, and a wretch
Ell local parody of mereiricious suggestive
ness was beirg sung on the stage bys paint
ed woman in shors skirts, when
we kaown gentleman of the
city, accompanied by boy with
black hair and bril- hit black eyes, rather
stylishly dressed, entered the theater. The
gentleman motioned to a front seat; the
boy hung back, but glaucing around
seemed 10 overcome his reluctance,
and went boldly forward with his
companion, the two taking seats in a
corner near tine stage. The gentleman or
dered drinks, tsking whisky while the boy
drank sherry, and this WAS repeated three
times before ii o'clock, about which time
flush came to the cheek of the younger,
and he began 10 talk In a low tone 10 his
friend, with laughter, as at some good joke.
Then to them ent. Red q young man, also
with friend, with an unmistakable rarely
do-this-sort-of-thing air about him, although
much under the influence of liquor. The
two late arrivals took seats unnoticed d.
rectly in front of the other pair, and the
drunken man began to tell his comrade, in
amaudlin way of
APPROACHING NUPTIALs,
in which he was to figure the next week
He was out with the boys that night for
tiic last Hc dIOuEu
saw the gentleman smoking, and by a
drunken impulse lealed over and said:
~'Gi' me a cigar" The boy TURNED from
gazirg at the stage, started, turned pale
and looked towards the door.
Haven't another, sir" said the gsntle-
man politely.
Maybe Jour fr:eod has" said the other
persist -ntly, and quickly leaning still
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he thrust two OF his fpge.s into the upper
vest pockets OF the youth, who bad started
to rise. The next instant the man re
coiled, rose from his seat and exclaimed IN
a zone which drew the attention of several
of the audience,
"A WOMAN, BY G-i'
The masquerader turned invo!untarily,
and the eyes OF the Two met. The name of
a woman, and an oath of incredulous hor-
ror from him, while she looked at him
painting. with wide open eyes and white |
lips, ard then the man took his hat and |
half staggered out of the the ter with his |
companion, while the Uncovered girl and |
her escort, alter c"psuiting hurfledly an
iDstan., arose and lett The place by a side |
door.
IL thought something Was mp when l
first saw that COUPLE" said one of the wait
ers In the thester to a hronicie reporter.
The girl was scared un;il she had drank
once or twice and the liquor began 10 al
tect her. | was Standing near her when
thst fellow reached Over and saw her get
Is white IS one of our made-up
shOs s. / don't know where any
OF them went when they left
All of them disappeared But We didn't
think much of it. This isn't the first case
OF mssquerading I've seen here, though |
never saw a scene like this. We don't pay
much attention to them, although We gen
orally catch on. They are quiet and
SPEND LOTS OF MONEY"
The father of the young lsdy who will
aot be bride, ted Chronicle reporter
who called upon him at his place of bust
ness this morning that the engagement bad
been broken of on account of his daugh-
.er'S Ill health, but upon representation
hat facts OF the case were known, he &C
the real cause of the matrimo-
nial rupture, denying, however, the first
feature of the affair. my daughter had
been too much at eastern watering places
and has imbibed
TOO MANY FAST IDEAS.
Her brother took her 10 that place that
hight, bo!h thinking merely that they
would have little fun. That is all there :
6 in the story"
"Was she recognized"
"Idon't know very shortly.
The gentleman concerned in the dramat- ,
C episode refused positively to be seen, and
eferred the reporter to the family of the !
'oung lady for any information which I
vas needed.