St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-19
A KISS DID 1T.
What the Bold Move of n Poor Stu
dent BrOug ht Him.

dent Brought Him.
/ Boston Transcript.
| In the University of UpSala, in Sweden,
living young student, a lonely youth,
with great love for studies, but without
means for pursuing them. He was poor
and without connections. Still, he studied,
lived in great poverty, but keeping up a
cheerful heart, and trying not to look at the
future, which looked so grimly at him.
His good humOr and good qualities made
him beloved by his young companions.
| Once he was standing with some of them
in the great square of Upsala Willing away
an hour of leisure, when the attention of
the young man was arrested by a very
yonng, elegant lady, who, at the side of an
elderly one, walked slowly over the place
1t was the daughter of the governor of
Upsala, living in the city, and the lady
with. her was her gOYerneSs. She was
| generally known for her goodness and
| gentleneSs of character, and was looked
| upon with admiration by the students. As
the young men now stood gazing at her, as
she passed on like a graceful vision, one of
| them exclaimed:
''Well, it would be worth something to
| have kiss from such a mouth"
The poor student, the hero of our story,
who was looking intently on that pure,
| angelic face, exclaimed, as if by inspira-
| ton:
WELL, THINK I COULD HAVE IT."
what, cried his friends in chorus.
care you crazy? Do you know her?'
Not at all, " he answered; but think
she would kiss me now if 1 asked her.
what, in this place, before ali our
eyes?" -
''Freely?''
''Freely"
''Well, if she will give you kiss in that
manner l will give you 81, 0O0r' exclaimed
one of the party.
And To ''And ~ cried three or four
others, for it so happened that several rich
young men were i'll the group. Bets ran
| high on so improbable an event, and the
challenge was made and received in less
time than we take to relate it.
Our hero (my authority tells me not
whether he is handsome or plain; have
my peculiar ideas for believing he was
rather plain, but singularly good-lOOking at
the same time)-our hero Immediately
walked off to the young lady and said:
''Mein Fraulein, my fortune is in your
| hands," She looked at him in aStOnish-
ment, but arrested her steps. He proceeded
to state his name, condition and aspirations
and related simply and truly what passed
between him and his companions.
THE YOUNG LADY LISTENED
attentively, and when he ceased to speak,
she said, blushingly, but with great sweet
ness: If by so little thing so much can
be effected, it would be foolish for me to re-
fuse your request" and she kissed the
young man publicly in the open square.
Next day the student was sent for by the
governor. He wanted to see the man who
had dared to seek kiss from his daughter
that way, and whom she had consented so
to kiss. He received him with scrutiniz-
ing brow, but after an hours conversation
was so pleased with him that he invited
him to dine at his table during his studies
at UpSala.
Our young friend now pursued his studies
in a manner which soon made him regarded
as the most promising scholar in the uni
versity. Three years were not passed after
that day of the first kiss when the young
man was allowed to give second one to
the daughter of the governor as his intended
bride.
He became later one of the greatest
scholars in Sweden, as much respected for
his learning as for his character. His
words will endure forever among the works
of science, and from his happy union
sprang family well known in Sweden at
the present day, and whose wealth of for
tune and high position in society are re-
garded as small things compared with
wealth of goodness and love.