Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-11-25
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A ROMANTIC EPISODE.
One Filtration, One Thanksgiving,
One Wedding.
BY %.

SKY PARLoR, CHICAGO, Oct. so the
Editor Chief Criterion, City.-Dear Sir: 1t
pains me exceedingly to be obliged to incur
your displeasure in regard to the next
chapters of Coming Events" But really
the days have grown so short, with work
ever on the increase-indeed, sometimes, l
think 1 shall drop either the office or my
literary aspirations altogether The former,
Notwithstanding your kind assurances, I
am not prepared to do; the latter, 1 can not );
so there the days go by-frittered at both
ends, wasted in the middle. And then
and then-dear Mr.. Editor, lend me your
most sympathetic ear, if you have got such
a thing-I have little romantic episode of
my own!
Hoping not to strain your kind temper
too far, remain, Yours Resp.
''TIGER."
SKY PARLoR, CHICAGO, Oct 13-Editor
Criterion.-Dear Sir: 1 send you the prom
ised sheets, and hope to be son hand' with
the next.
Aha! So you really have a sentimental
carr and want to know about my "roman-
tic ep." Well, I do not mind telling you
we are such great friends-though we have
never met Besides, know you are such a
regular old mole you never will disclose.
Besides, I have not soul to tell, and am
dying for sympathy. You see Dick Ray
as to our favorite style of beauty; the sub
ject being started by question as to pref
erence, in my new 'sMental Autograph
Album" So pronounced was my enthusi-
asm for that rare combination, eight hair
and dark eyes," that Dick, whose unre-
lieved ravenness has never been able to
score hit closer to the center of my heart
than Friendship" was somewhat startled,
and l could see not little nettled. One
Id ~ u, L.
but the more loyal to what, true as fate,
dear mole, has never been more than an
ideal in my mind. So strong was the i'm
preston left by the controversy that sleep
was not able to Danish it. A hero of slight
hair and dark eyes, wandered with me
through dreamland, appeared IN the sunlit
rays which woke me; indeed, followed me
clear.into the office, where every thing, not
business and clothes, are supposed to be
peremptorily dropped"
By noon, his 1dealship was pretty well
banished, however, and started to lunch
at the usual hour without him, till, coming
to the corner of Wabash avenue and
Adams street, the capers of fractions
horse disturbed the symmetry of travel,
and sudden huddle and halt of the civ
ing stream" brought me face to face with
as perfect a type of poor Dicks rival as
could possibly be met with in a days
search. Such remarkably fine brown eyes !
SO deep set in shape, so liberal, kindly and
frank in expression, so charming in con-
trast with the hair, whose Brightness !"
the rim of a very stylish and becoming
Derby disclosed to be "whiteness," for
my materalized ideal was an elderly, port
ly, handsome gentleman, of the type only
to be met with on earth, believe, in Paris,
New York and Chicago-a thoroughly
stylish, clean, healthy, business man!
The huddle of people, the sudden ap-
pearance. right before my eyes, of my
ideal beautiful in man, recalling, as it did,
the ridiculous quarrel of the night before,
shocked me utterly out of all my usual
occurrences, all my theories on the subject
of streetconduct, all my self-control; 1