Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1885-10-16
MAMMALS SLIPPER.
A Love Which Was Cured By It's
Application.
The Young Lady Who Was Prevented Froit
Wrecking Life and Family ny
the Use or an Old Method
OF Correction.
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The young lady In this case Is q volup
tuous brJnette. with rather handsom
features. She is e lucated and ref ned,
q comparatively good music and ar.
tiste in several arts. She m,ves in good
society, AMI had the es'esm Of all who
knew her, and, for that matter, has
their good wishes yet, as but few be-
yond her most intima Q friends and rela
tives have ever heard of the romantic
episode am peuning.
For convenience sake I shall call hei
Emma, because that u as much unlike
her real nams as il Is possible to get.
Her father well.kuown aud respected
basinsss man, had bsen dead Cor sew.
eral years, and her mother, having .
isrgs house, well furnished, rented lod r
ing-rooms 10 several young professional
men. In due tims Emma picked out .
companion among her associates, a charm-
ing and attractive young man, whs
seemed to be proud OF her. They were
seen together constantly, aud With the
Progressive euchre parties Of last fall
aod winter CAME the assurance that they
were to be married id the snrin.. The
report seemed to rratity the acQuain.
tsnces Of both parties, neither Of whom
when questioned took the tr ,uble t. deny
the report
With the new year young student
took lodging with E.nma's mother. Ii,
was q stranger here, AMI, In fact, Is bu,
little known now. He made no effort te
become acquainted, and soon developed 9
passionate regard for Emma, which did
not disturb her in tho least Now, man.
ma is a woman who years ago learned heI
ps and Qs, and she soon saw that the stu.
dent was stealing away her daughter
heart. Now, she rather like the ydunl
gentleman to whom her dau yhter was en-
gagged, and determined to take a hand ID
the affair for his benefit. Emnia was giv'
On to understand that the student would
not b, countenancel, and he, poor fel'
low, was ordered to hunt new lodging
place
But the love-making between him and
Emma had progressed much further thar
mamma had any idea They found ar
OF D unity to talk to each other, without
. third party present, and, after striking
q balance Of his cash account, It was de-
termIned they should elope. But mamms
being a splendid student OF human nature
scented something strange in the air, and
tho night they were to run away
she was specially Uneasy. Sh,
watched, and shortly before t~elv,
o'clock thought she heard some one II
Emma's room. She stationed herself IL
the hallway where she could see the stu.
dents door, and where Emma would hav,
to pass. Presently she saw her daughtei
come from her room. with hcr shoes In
one hand and q small valise in the other
Mamma stepped back and let her pass
She stopped at the students door, family
Knocked, and passed on toward the real
Of the hall and down the stairs to tht
dinins-room, instead Of down to the front
door. The mother now quickly went
down the front stairs and down the lower
hallway and took mp her place near the
dining. room door. The student soou
came down stairs, also with his shoes in
his hand. He went into the dining.room
aud whispered conversation followed.
While the intended runaways were
busy putting on their shoes, mamma
bounced into the room with a lamp.
The young man gave one yell OF
surprise, ran twice around the room,
and finally ou. into the kitchen and from
there into the street, with one shoe on and
the other In lis hand. He the next day
had his baggage taken to one of the ho.
tells, which place he has since left with az
unsettled account against him. But Elm.
ma! Why, mamma just reached down,
took slipper from one OF her feet, and
used it on her romantic and entsrprising
daughter in the way she was wont to dc
when she wore short skirts and never
dreamed of voting students. This Incl.
dent, while unromantic in its Termination,
Is recalled from the fact that Emma no:
very long ago became the bride of the
young man with whom she attends the
progressive euchre parties last fall. Her
husband will, in reading this. recognize
In his blusliing BRIDE the would be run.
away, and, IL do not JUICE him wrong,
will enjoy q hearty laugh over t. Em.
mas love surely is one made up entirely
of peculiarities and eccentricities.