The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-30
"FRESH FISH"
A RAILWAY TRIP IN COMPANY OF A
NEWL.Y-MADE WIFE.

NEwLY-MADE WIFE.
Now, what's the use of it? When O.
couple get married and 60 off on bridal
tour, why so misbehave themselves as
to be "spotted" by every man, woman
and child on the train for fresh fish ?"
How silly the thing must appear to
them when they look back after period
of six months Are we fools when in
love, and are we idiots when we marry {?
The couple / have in mind had seat
in the middle of the car. She was his'n
and he was hers. All the tomfoolery Of
courtship days was over. The preacher
had made them one, and her father
would no longer set the dog on him nor
place torpedoes around the gate. She
didn't show the least disposition to Jump
out of the car window, but all Of sud-
deu he grabbed her by the paw. She
grabbed back. Then he leaned over
an angle of forly-fve degrees, and she
fell towards him. 1t was very uncom-
Portable position, but they maintained it
with scarcely any change for hours.
Her hat got skewed around almost hind
side before, but she would not release
her clutch for fear he'd go through the
roof. His collar wilted and his necktie
worked around under his ear, but if he
let 60 of her paw she'd think he was
mad.
Darlingw said he, in a bull-frog
whisper, doesn't it seem funny ?"
/ can't realize it," she answered, as
she raked one of her back hair-pins
acrass his nose.
"All mine?
eyes, lovey."
Never get mad"
"Never, sweetly."
The man on the seat behind them
folded up his paper, picked up his grip,
and changed to a seat across the aisle.
AS he sat down motherly-l looking
woman inquired
care they married p
/ think so, madam"
"And can nothing be done to stop
it,"
81 think not"
For two or three minutes the newly
welded We're silent. She was probably
thinking of the sights in Chicago, and
he was wondering why he hadn't taken
that porus plaster off his back before
starting.
Darlingp' she suddenly sighed.
"What is it, my angelo"
Darling"
"What IS it? If any base hyena has
dared to cause you moments unhap-
piness I'll murder him Pint out the
animal p
1t inst that"
"Then what?''
"Im-Tm afraid you'll be-be mad"
Ono, won't. How could be mad
at you? What is it, Dolly?'
Why, l wish you'd wipe the sweat
out of that left ear. Now, you love me
| ust the same, don't your"
"Of course"
| Sand you amt mad ?"
"Why no. There, now-who cares
who's looking? It's nobody's business,
anyhow"
There was another interval of silence
during which she tried to remember
whether they were engaged the week
before her father gave Henry the boot,
or whether it was the next Sunday after,
and he was figuring whether he washed
his feet and cut his toe-nails, or only
washed his feet the night before.
Henwy !"
"What, angelo"
Are we weally married ?"
i " Yes, love-"
/ "And you love me?"
"With all my heart"
"And you amt mad ?"
No, dearest"
"Then I'm so happy! Henwy
squeeze my hand"
He squoze. We held an indignation
meeting and appointed committee to
see if something could not be done, but
he squoze the harder.
Three or four women got together
and passed resolution to the effect
i that if railroad company could mol
protect its passengers the legislature
| should be appealed to, but that couple
| had a death-grip on each other anc
| wouldn't let go.
The baggageman came in when sen
for, but, ne said, he was helpless. liz
knew Just how we must feel, but the
road wasn't to blame. The conductor
came back to the car and asked us no
to lay it up against him. He was poo
man, had been out of job severa
months, and this was his first run.
Well, the long and short of the matte
was that eighteen or twenty OF Us rode |
hundred and fifty miles with that PIANO
rama, but such thing will never hap
, pen again-neverl We shook hands OF
that and agreed we'd walk first .-Detro'
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