Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-01-18
HE WAS MASHED.
An Amorous College Youths Bad
Case
On Pretty Minnie Maddern---How Washes
Are Made---A Talk With Her
Advance Courier.

Mr.. G. l.. Durham, the advance manager
of Miss Minnie Madden, reached the city
yesterday morning and raved over the sue
cess the little star has achieved in her new
play, Caprice" captivating the ladies and
smashing hearts among the men. Said he:
miss Maddern admirers are more nu-
merous than ever. All prominent musical
and dramatic artists are victims to the stu.
pid and brazen epistles Of the selfstyled
lady-killer, and pretty little Minnie is no ex-
c~eption. She receives letters Of every ma
ture, antimous sndi otherwise. Some are
from wealthy bachelors seeking marriage,
some are from men about town, who desire
her company at O champagne supper, while
others are from sentimental swains, who
wish to know her only to adore her"
what becomes of such letters?'
"They all meet the same fate. After be.
ing read and discussed by the fair recipient
and watchful mother, they are invariably
burned. In one case, however, the young
lady, unwittingly Of course, almost carried
out the provisions to a letter. During her
recent engagement in Boston a note was
handed in at the box.ofice, which fell into
the hands of her manager. The local post
mark and the exceptionally neat envelope,
as we'll as the strange c~hirography, led him
to believe it was another mash letter. He
opened it aud read as follows:
"'AD0RED Miss MADDERH-Doubtless
you will consider me impertinent and ILL
bred in thus addressing an entire stranger
in words of rspt affection, but destiny has
so decreed, and who eau battle against that2
l love you most devoutly, and am not
ashamed TO confess 1t before all the world.
When you know me, / fancy that similar
sentiments may animate your own mind re-
garding me- You see, ] am frank and hon
est. Ifyou like the tone Of this letter, please
year the corsage bouquet which | shall send
you this evening, and I will be waiting for
you in the dining room Of the fremont
House after the performance.
Yours in anxious anticipation,
HARVARD 81.
"The manager tore up the letter and
threw IL into the waste basket, not mention
ing it to Miss Madden. The curssge bou-
quet was handed to the back door-keeper.
who sent it to Miss Maddern's dressing
room. Surprising that her manager had
sent it, she wore it through the second
act, perfectly unconscious Of the result.
Meanwhile her adorer gazed, happy in the
belief that his note had met with favor.
"Aferth the performance as Miss Madden sat
at supper with her mother in the hotel din
ing room, and the waiter was taking their
order a young man entered and walked up
to Minnie with his hat in hand and face
beaming with smiles.
GOOD evening, Miss Msddern.'
GOOD evening, SIR
lawfully glad you accepted
Accepted whatG re,orted the lady. With
no little surprise.
why. the letter and flowers. Those
are the Aowers-my aowers-your flowers.
You accepted them and wore them tonight
Both ladies were too Hurried to know
what to say. but the manager. who entered
at the closing sentence, seized the collegian
In vigorous fashion and pushed him out
upon the sidewalk.
The explanation which the irste mana
ger offered to the ladies was hardly salts
factory, and he decided in the future he
would never NEEDLE with correspondence
not addressed to himself"