Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-01-02

! Of her mouth. come for ward. She was
about so and maiden. What her OBJ
| ject was in trying to pass th 9 resolutiop
| in regard to women not assuming THEN
| husband $ name, I canno lot say.
| After q rather long winded speech,
she sat down, amid rapturous applause.
Then the "Machieon family gave one
! of their characteristic gloes," and in
answer to an encore, gave the woman's
War Song" 81, .%'#.
At this juncture stir was heard on
| the platform, and John, Jr., among
the rest, looked up and saw Mandy
| Baker! 49,.
She had come through the back way,
and Mrs. Grub, seeing her, knew her
spite the bronzed skin and incipient
mustache, r. ~. %s:, -
John, Jr. felt himself growing pale as
she sat near him, with her large, black
eyes fixed on the speakers face.
At last in answer to q motion from
Mrs. Grub, she came forward, and Mrs.
Grub introduced MISS Baker, the great
African traveller, who had successfully
established a woman $ rights government
among the cannibals of the Fiji Islands,
as also the rest Of the islands of the Pa
cifc!"
She was greeted with rapturous ap-
plause, and, with great deal of mod
esty, said she had surprised her most
intimate friends by appearing so sud-
denly. She thanked them for her re-
| ception, and would take the first OPP.
| portunity to address them at length.
/ Il, L. ~ l.
come to recognize the blushing John,
Jr., which she did 10y asking him in
solemn voice, how he was? for Maudy
was not given to exhibit her feelings in
public.
Now, the meeting broke up, to go to
supper and return the same evening.
Mandy and John, Jr., walked behind
the rest-John, Jr., on the lnside--Mrs.
| Grub with woman's ferethought. had
placed them so.
And John, Jr., was very, very happy,
if one may judge from his extended
mouth and smile as he listened to his
| beloved ones "reminiscences.
| I do not propose TO enter into details
IN regard to Mandy Bakers fortunes
| I have intimated that she had gone
into the world to make her fortune
! preferring to ask John, Jr., for his
hand when she could support we'll
built house.
She had found making her fortune
very slow work, and at the end Of four
years she had come back with but very
little gold But she had done in1meas-
urable good in the uncultivated regions
Of Africa and the islands of the Pacific,
and, would You believe, had received
six distinct offers of marriage, at which
John shuddered and asked was she
| heart free.
The question was soon answered, for
at the supper table that night Mandy
| formally asked his mother for the hand
OF the blushing John.
OF course, it was given, and Mandy
sealed the bargain by kissing John, and
in lieu of ring, put gold circle
around his finger.
Then Mrs. Grubb. with an eve to the
future, and knowing that they had
been engaged long enough. proposed
that they should get married before
they attended the evening session, when
she could have the pleasure If ;ntrodu-
cling the African traveller us her daugh~
teri law.
The Rev. Mrs. Van Colt IVES called
in, and Mandy Baker promised "to
love, cherish and support and take
,, John, Jr., for better or for worse"
So John Jr.,'s face wore happy ex-
preston that night, as he heard his
lord and master speak so splendidly OF
her adventures.
In fact, it was John Grub]'s thanks.
giying"