Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1885-07-25
BILL NYE'S MASH.
A HOTEL ROMANCE AND IT'S CoNsE>
OUENCES.

QUENCEs.
Night before last (writes Bill Nye), at
ser / had been registered at the hotel and
assigned, "the last room in the house,
use the language OF the hotel clerk i
went into the dining room to tea.
After I had regained my confidence
among strangers, and curled myself up In
as abiect a manner as possible in the
presence of the head waiter, l began to
look around me for an opportunity to
beam on some unprotected female with
my sunny smile 1t is net nay custom
while travelling to smile on one in whose
heart hope might spring up to be DASH
ed to earth by my departure. If 1 have
caused pain In that way did not intend
to do SO. can joke and carry on, and
have real good time, but do not wish
to inspire in any breast a hope which
may be blasted, ah, alas! to sooB.
1t was not long before I discovered
beutiful blonde of the female sex, at the
farther end of the room beneath the chan
delier. Her skin seemed to be of deli
icate sea shell color, and her hair was corn
colored. Her clothes were also entirely
new, should judge, and made especially
for her. On her finger she wore a dia-
mond ring with perfect ease. She knew
just how to work that finger in order TO
get the most possible glitter out of her
diamond. Every little while I would
look over there and revel in her beauty,
and thought that she was not entirely
insensible to my charms. Still, she look
ell at me in half reproachful manner,
which gave me the idea that | did not
know wether it was identical or not.
All that evening she was in ny mind.
l dreamed that night that | sw"oped
down upon her and carried her away to
the remo.est boundaries of the world in
a special car. The next morning Iawcke
hungry, for didn't eat much supper the
evening before went down to break
fast, waiting and fooling away my time,
hoping that she would come while was
n the breakfast room, aud I would fill
myself up with the beauteous vision and
a cup of coffee.
Anon she came. She sailed into the
hauteur and such things as that. The
head waiter waved bis hand like self
acting duke 10 theatre and gave her
seat at my table. A thrill: passed up
through my graceful and delicatc'y
nodded spinal column, and l laid down
the vulgar sausage which was about to
feed myself when SHE dawned upon me.
ventured then to look across the table
at her in the full glare Of the new born
day. (Stereoscopic views of the last sem
tence will be forwarded to any address at
one dollar per glare.) The frat thing
that discovered was that sire hadn't put
her yellow wig on straight. 1t was
little hig her on one ear than on the other
which gave her the air of a young man
who had overmonkey ed with the flowing
bowl. This showed to the casual spec
tator glympse of her own moth eaten,
sage brush hair peeping out like the iad-
cd tail on an old buffalo robe.
Then knew that we could never be
more to each other than friends. Her
nose was red also, and she had not been
properly kalsomined. In the hurry of the
dressing she had missed her nose with the
powder, and that organ meaning. CT
course the nose, not the powder rag
loomed up robust and purple IN the
gbastly waste of cheek bones and other
Osseous formations.
Ah, what pain it gave me to see my
beautiful vision fade thus before my ewes!
Then thought how had smiled upon
her the evening before. and how, perhaps
a new hope had sprung up in her heart,
an Il l feared that when she knew it was
all over between us the shock, at her time
OF lite. might kill her.
lett my hot pancakes with the maple
syrup all aver them and fed. Out into
the din, the hurry and the tlreless rush
of the mad. mad world, trying to stiHe
the memory Of that broken heart. Should
she see these lines l hope she will not
think bitterly of me. still adm,er hers
as u we'll preserved ruin, but love in such