St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-02
WAXBY's HURRIED WEDDING.
A Yeung officer Esescues II Girl from
"a Rich NaDob.

W.
gathered around two tables at one end OF
the Hygeia dming-room. 1t was a Deautl-
FIJI dav in late October; Chesapeake bay.
smiling and sunny. rolled before the win
dows and joined Hampton roads not twenty
wards below where grim Fort Wool marked
the ruins at the ripraps.
They were a very good-looKing set of
young men-young, since nearly every one
wore the unadorned badge of second lieu
tenantcy, though white spots were threaten
ing some of their crowns. and in not few
cases gray hairs Outnumbered the shining
buttons. In his treatment Of artillery otil-
GERS Uncle Sam bears a striking resemblance
to the mills of the gods which are reported
to grind slowly. but the philosophy of
America lies in the army, where men early
learn to take what they can get ana I'VE
cheerfully upon expectation. 1t IS one OF
the conveniences for second lieutenant 10
be young. Age is admissible III captain,
but lieutenant de rigeur must nave an any
lightsomeness, suggestive OF newly escaped
cadetship This accounts for the extreme
satisfaction with which these mortalS ap-
near to regard their uniforms, as If gorgeous
raiment were still a novelty. Otherwise,
jnconsiderate civilians might remember that
the army might suffer.
People from the gay world never by any
chance visit old Port Comfort in October,
and this morning, as the men were talking
over a late breakfast, the dinng-room was
entirely emptied of other guests. and they
were quite at liberty to discuss the APP
preaching season. [ shall not attempt to
reproduce mess-room gossip. The discus
sion opened in this way:
Next month";" said Lieut.. Howells, ''we
shall have to begin lodging brides. Your
November bride always wants to be lodged.
The January ones would rather be danced
with: | wonder why?"
Il don't object to brides myself" said the
amiable Lieut.. Gay. But do wish so
many sick people wouldn't come. They
make fellow nervous"
why don't you be honest, WaXy," said
the first speaker, land ask to have admiS-
sion refused to all but young pretty, rich
girls, with the smallest allowable proportion
Of chaperOns?"
William Gay, addressed as WaXy on ac-
count of the eagerness with which he had
cultivated mustache during his first fur
Tough. was the youngest of the group. He
was a little man who had all his life sur
prised his friends with his achievements.
When his mother supposed him to be cutting
his first teeth he was having the measles,
and before he had finished fractions he had
fallen in love with adebutante five years his
senior.
At this point of the conversation Henry
Lefay, who had Just received his iirSt pro-
motion, interrupted, Il want to give you
hint, fellows" he said. "When you see
me spooning this winter you may know that
it means business. | shall be ordered away
III June at the latest, and there is nothing
so ScandalouSly young and insignificant
about man with a strap across his epau-
lei. | did intend to wait for captaincy,
but I've being doing some work in applied
mathematics lately, and l find that unless
there is unusual mortality among my SUI
periors | shall be an even 81 when that day
dawns. So I'm going in now, when [ can
find the girl that can afford me; and, by
Jove, she won't get such bad bargain,
either, for I'll give her everything she wants
ii she has the cash to pay for it,"
A laugh at his high-minded generosity
went around the table, then William Gay
spoke with amusing seriousness.
''It's absurd, fellows, but do you know
couldn't go into it that way? Seems to me
the man wants certain amount of-er-regard
for the girl he marrieS. OF course, she
would have to scrub, very likely, and turn
her chats and dresses. if she lived on a quar-
ter of my pay, and I'd have to give up
smoking and shoes and don't know what
else, TO spare her that. I'd hate to see her
scrub, but I'd hate worse to have her run an
independent machine and make BUSINESS
transaction er-domeStic bliss"
''Well said, WaXv," and Lefay patted his
shoulder paternally. "You learned that
about turning dresses from Miss Madden
last winter She said the same to me-, but
I'm a first lieutenant now, and deserve
BETTER
SO they chartered from peaches to cot
fee, then went their several ways with no
further thought OF breakfast table nonsense,
which would not have made part of my
story except that it dOvetailed curiously into
an incident which happened three months
later
The Hygeia in February is quite another
affair. Twelve hundred guests, the least of
whom pay dollars and dollars Tor daily
bread and nightly bed, makes an aggregate
OF responsibility awful to consider. Then
drive i'll the morning and doze in the after
noon. go to parade, dress fordinner, and
dance at night. There is always the ener-
getic setwho do" the neighborhood, walk
some and 90 boating. 1t is a paradise for
women, with infinite occasion for display;
a paradise for men. too, since there are
never enough of them to go around. The
season was at its height when party of
girls entered the hall one morning. They
d arrived on the belateu Baltimore boat,
and were not essentially different from the
SAT young ladies already in the house. They
laughed tritie too loud, perhaps, but they
were TudorS and PlantagenetS in a social
way, and dared, if they chose.
One of them walked up to the pile of
cloakS laid carelesSly on table. Girls, :"
she said, oTacularly, ''yOu may have all
the rest of the officers, but remember the
one to whom this cage belongs is mine l
shall know him by the little hole IN the lin
ing, and l give you fair warning to leave
my property alone"
WaXy was calmly peeling an orange at
the moment. L daresay that he calmly
peeled it without feeling the slightest thrill
from the hand which touched his cloak. As
for the little hole, it was great annoyance,
but he could not give the tailor his one
warm garment in February.
1t was full three days before Miss Camp
(the lady was Miss Camp had thoroughly
convinced herself that Waxy was the man.
Her emotions were those of amused curios-
ity, but when say that she singled Will
lam Gay for numberleSs tiattering little at
tentionS l do away with any necessity Of
calling in fate to place him immediately at
her feet, He loved her so distractedly the
morning that she appeared at guard-mount-
ing because he was all officer of the day
that in the evening he added up his pay ae-
count again. substracted nothing for cigars.
and inconSiderately divided the whole sum
by two. Heroic-but it wouldn't do-the
answer was too small; Waxy groaned and
smoked till midnight, when he went sor-
rowfully TO bed.
Mrs. Camp was well-bred American
mother and concerned herself very slightly
about her daughters flirtations. and had not