The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-05
love AND BUTTONS
The Delightful Romance OF ia.ii""
Ridley and Howard v. Brutiee.

Ridley and Howard v. bruhee'
The maidens who are members OF the
New Century Guild are in the full ENJOY
roapt of little romance. which has sprung
from the advertisement which the guild
recently inserted in the papers to inform
the great army of bachelors and other
upfortunates'' that buttons would be
strongly sewed on, and the various gar
ments of the masculine portion OF the
community repaired and kept in good order
for a very trifling fee. The charge for mem
bcrship in the guild being so low and the
attractions of the homeike establishment
so numerous. a great many women and
Girls have taken advantage OF the oppor-
tunity to enjoy the pleasure and instruction
to be found there, and among the number
is Miss Matilda J. Ridley of Salem, N. j.
About two weeks ago, as she was leaving
to 90 home, shortly after q O'Clock, she
met on the step young man carrying
small parcel. He was good looking and
well dressed, and touching his hat, asked
with blush if it was the place where he
could have some buttons sewed on vest
Miss Ridley replied that he had come to the
right address, and that she would be de-
lighted to serve him, vest buttons being
her particular branch of the business.
So they went into the reception room,
and Miss Ridley quickly procured work
basket. and, seated before the CHEEKY open
fireplace they chatted as she dextrously
sewed on seven buttons and repaired
little break in the binding. Once the
matron looked in but Judging them to be
old friends, did not intrude. When the
vest was quite itself again and had been
once more tied up in its brown paper wrap
per- the young man arose to 90, and ~
quired the cost of the repairs.
"Twenty-five cents, if you please, was
Miss Ridley's smiling reply.
Three ten-cent pieces were produced, but
the young lady had no change.
'Wait moment and | will get it for
you, she said, starting toward the door
"Oh, please don't bother; let me have
this for the change remarked the young
man, picking up the spool of cotton which
had been used in sewing on the buttons.
Miss Ridley laughingly agreed, and he
went away.
The very next evening the same young
man returned with another vest on which
there was not the vestige Of a button, and
inquired for the young lady who had so
skilfully served him on the previous night.
After a moments inquiry in the library,
where group of girls were reading, the
matron reappeared with Miss Ridley, and
the young man modestly requested her to
again undertake the rcbuttoning of his
vest She did so, and used the same spool
of cotton which had done duty before, the
young man producing it from the left
breast pocket of his coat.
When he went away he said that he had
still another vest to be furnished with new
buttons, would she do it for him the next
evening?
Certainly, with pleasure"
From that time on it was as good as
settled, for the young man fell deeper and
deeper in love. Miss Ridley reciprocated
his affection, and three days ago he told
her of his position and prospects, proposed,
and was accepted. She wrote to her
parents telling them that she world bring
her fianee to Salem to spend Sunday, and
the happy pair yesterday took one of the
early evening trains for. that place. The
young mans name is Howard Nenning
Brullec, and he is an expert shorthand
writer well known in the law courts of
this city and Pittsburgh. where he lived
until last March. The young lady who
related this little romance TO the writer
last evening added: "Thcy'rc going To be
married at Easter, and are going To keep
house in the cutest little sugar-plum box
you ever saw ont in West Philadelphia,
and I'm to be 4 bridesmaid, and. altogether,
amt it just perfectly delightful ?"-Pa-
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