The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-29
LOVE IN GREENLAND.
Place where Sweetness II Very Ions
Drawn Out--A Nights Courtship.

Dravn Out-A Nights Courtship.
In the countries Of the extreme north the
nights are six months long. What place
Mat must be to spend the evening WIN
Young lady. Just think OF it. THINK OF H.
We poor young swans who are obliged
make your calls no longer than the iniser"o'o
SPACE of four or five poor hours. Think OF
the picnic that an Eskimo dude mas wneh
he starts out for call on his inamorata. lie
arrives mt her house just after dark and the
two sit in the front parlor for lew weeks,
not realizing that it is long past the hours Oh
cleaning and that the room IS rs dark as tne
tricks of a politician. Then her mother
comes in and lights the gas, saying: Il
should think YOU children would have better
sense than 20 sit here III the dark"
Then the old lady skips out TO give the
Young people chance, for she DOESN'T believe
i'm young girls losing time, and in Greenland
there is only one night in the year. After
her departure the young couple sit on the SOFA
and look at the photograph album for week
or two. This is no novelty to chem, as they
know every photograph in the book, from
hers taken when she was in short skirts, 10
his. taken only yesterday morning, represent
ing him leaning over the back OF a char,
twirlng his alleged mustache and smiling 20
persuasively that he looks as If he we're try
ing to get trusted for a half dozen shirts
They sit closer and closer as they begin to get
more deeply interested in the photographs.
She snuggles up to him and points with her
sealsl,in gloved finger to the portrait Of her
cross-eyed aunt, who was bitten by Spltz
dog the night before.
This is all very peasant, Of course, and
they sit h6idng each others hands and look
ing volumes of ByrOnic poetry into each
others eyes for few more weeks, when an
Interruption takes place. The parlor door
saueaks. and in the twinkling OF hook-and-
eve the Young man occupies the sofa at one
end of the room and is reading the evening
parer. while the young woman is looking
over the music. II is an embarrassing two
hours for both of them. when the father
enters and looks suspiciously from one to the
other. Anon he leaves them, first Winding
the clock in a rather suggestive manner, ana
then setting the alarm for four months
ahead in order that he may surely get up IN
time for breakfast
What a relief when he is gone! The two
kindred souls again proceed to intercom-
munion. and no sounds are heard but the
barking Of the pct seal out III the woodshed
and the suggestive ticking OF the well trained
clock as the weeks fly swiftly by. 1t seems
to the twain that the night is yet young'
whom a sonnd rs Of two heavy boots faliin9
on the floor mean that adieuX must be cut
short and that there must DO no hanging
over the front gate for thirtysix or forty
EIGHT hours. The young lovers grapple each
/ other in q convulsive embrace. 1t seems hard
| that they should have to part, that he must
go 50 soon, bat IL must be. Fate is against
tnem Time waits for no man, and the
SM,z dog is united They cling about each
others neck for three weeks, breathing VOWS
of fcalty. and then Kissing her again time
twenty-four hours he huries TO the gate.
In some respects Greeuland Is the place 70
Hve--Eugene Field in Chicago News