Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-12-12
LOVE IN GREENLAND.
A Place where Sweetness is Very Lang
Drawn Out-A Nights Courtship.

q p,.e. Who're Sweetness Is Very Lang
Drawn Out-A Nights Coartship.
In tho countries of the extreme north tho
nights are six months long. What place
that must be to spend the evening Win .
Young lady. Just think OF it Think Oh II,
We poor Young SWANS who are obliged 70
make YOUR calls no logger than the miserable
,nace of four OF, five poor hours Think OF
the picnic that an Eskimo dude has when
he starts out for call on his inamorata he
arrives Mt her house just after dark and the
two sit in the front parlor for few weeks,
not realizing that it is long past the hours OF
cleaning and that tho room is as dark as the
tricks of a politician. Then her mother
comes In and lights the gas, saying: Il
should think you children would have better
sense than to sit here in the dark"
Then the old lady skips out to give the
young people q chance, for she doesn't believe
in 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 them, as they
know every photograph in tho book, from
hers, taken when she was in short skirts, TO
his, taken only yesterday morning, represent
ing him leaning over the back OF chair,
twirling his alleged mustache and smiling 50
persuasively that he looks as il no Were try
ing to get trusted for 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
sealskin gloved finger to the portrait OF her
cross-eyed aunt, who was bitten by Spitz
dog the night before
This is all very pleasant, Of course, and
they sit holding each others hands and look
ing volumes of Byronic poetry into each
others eyes for n 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 Mt ono
end of the room and is reading the evening
paper, while the young woman Is looking
over the music. 1t 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 rather suggestive manner, anu
then setting the alarm for four months
ahead, in order that he may surely get up In
time for breakfast
What relief when he Is gone! The two
kindred souls again proceed to intercom-
munion, and no sounds are heard but the
barking of the pet seal out in the woodshed
and the suggestive ticking Of the well trained
clock as the weeks fly swiftly by. 1t seems
10 the twain that the night Is yet young,
when sound as Of two heavy boots falling
on the floor mean that adieux must be cut
short, and that there must be no banging
over the front gate for thirty-six or forty
eight hours The young lovers grapple each
other in eonvulsive embrace. 1t seems hard
that they should have to part, that he must
go so soon, but it must be. Fate Is against
them. Time waits for no man, and the
Spitz dog is united. They cling about each
others neck for three weeks, breathing vows
of fealty, and then kissing her again thine,
twenty -four hours he hurries TO the gate.
In some respects Greenland is the place to
live.-Eugene Field In Chicago News.