Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-29

old schoolmates smile, and say:
BESSIE klTr.oN's MARRIED.
Why the idea-she's only n girl
The commodore has parted with
three of his children by mar
riage within few months. Last
fall the eldest daughter welded
Mr.. Louis Baker, a brother Of the pres
ent bridegroom. and went off to Europe
for the honeymoon. She had also been
"a school girl in New York. Then his
son. l.. c. Kittson. took unto himself II
beautiful bride. The kittson family in
one way and another. have become
pretty well known in the metropolis,
and Mrs. Kittson resided at n hotel for
some time while her girls were in the
hands Of the teachers. About the same o.
time, it will be remembered. young
kittson was enjoying rapid time about
town. and became involved with an ad-
ventures old enough to be his mother.
His escapade resulted in II marriage
ceremony. while he was irresponsibly
under the influence of stimulants, and
subsequently in II suit for divorce and
alimony brought by the woman. The
testimony filed columns of the daily
press but the jury threw her case out
of court by declaring the marriage
fraudulent. The youth got out Of a big
blackmailing plot at the cost of much
scandal. When he appeared here last
fall with his young wife. they looked
like pair of young lovers just escaped
from the parental eye.
Who says that the rich do not have to
clean the snow off their own sidewalks?
a young lady of Senator Evarts' house,
household had n hard job of it yester-
day. OF course, she didn't handle
shovel. But let us see. The snow of
the day before lay frozen on the walk.
Two ragged-looking men rang the
front-door bell about s o'clock in the
morning. One carried battered iron
shovel and the other had none. The
young lady responded to the summons
from the bell, but appeared averse to
employing these callers. She stepped
out from the storm doors and saw that
the negro manOf-all-work was busy
shoveling the snow from the roof. The
two men fingered after she had gone in
and then one of them went away. The
one who remained rang the door bell
again ten minutes later and this time he
was more successful, as was shown by his
Immediately starting in to scrape the
snow from in front of the door. He had
worked about three minutes when he
threw down his shovel and ran off in the
direction of Fifteenth street. He re-
former companion. The latter had no
shovel. but rang the bell leading to the
kitchen and secured one from the
cook.
1t was n long stretch of sidewalk
around the senator's house, and the
shovels were both of them poorly
adapted for the work. The snow was
frozen hard, and the wind was sharp
and biting. The men had neither
gloves nor mittens. and stopped every
few minutes and slapped their hands
vigorously to get II little warmth into
them. All the time they were at work,
the young lady stood at the window
watching them. and seeing that they
did it properly. Several times she APP
peared at the door, and called to them
to go back and attend to something that
they had shirked.
When they were all finished and
came for their money, she went
out with them and looked into the
street. Sure enough her suspicious
were verified. They had not cleaned
out the snow from the gutter so as to
allow passage for the water when the
snow should melt. 1t took at least a
minute and a half of argument before
the men agreed to attend to this part of
the work. Even when they had fin
ished it she did not appear to be salts
fled.
On each of the Otner occasions when
snow lay on the sidewalk, she had some
similar trouble. Once her man of all
work started to remove the snow and
left it half finished. She walked up and
down the avenue and around into Fiji
tccnth street in search of him. Another
servant was busy removing the snow
from the house north of the senator's
where one of the Fish family resides.
The young lady was apparently near
sighted, rs she at first mistooli this man
for her own servant. She
walked up quite close to him and bend
ing down,
PEERED INTO HIS FACE.
This she repeated several times
before she was convinced that she
had been mistaken. When the
man came back, it was evident
from the motions of his hands
and the shrugs of his shoulders
that he was attempting to explain his
absence, but from the way the young
lady shook her head, it was also evident
that his explanation was not accepted
as n good one.
The cheeky woman whom | have now
in mind is self-possessed, smiling and
well-dressed. She is the terror of store
keepers. Recently u specimen OF this
class had piece of fine needlework
that her own sewing machine could not
do. She knew Of one in the market
that could, and so she went to the office,
talked prices and quality, asked permis-
sion to try it on the spot, took a roll
from her shopping-bag, and stitched an
hour till the job was done, expressed
| entire satisfaction with the machine
| and price. gave her name, street and
| number, with an order for one Of.the
| best, and goes her way. The agent
never saw her again, and found no ma
chine was wanted at the street and
| number designated.
She would be Mortified at the hint of
shoplifting. Her little game is differ
ent.
This same woman was invited
| to an out-of-town reception. She
wanted more elegant outside
| garment than her own for the
occasion, and she got it. Going to one
of the largest establishments, she tried
on and tried on wraps, trying at the
same time the patience Of the sales
woman rs she always came back to one,
the most elegant of the lot, and seemed
just on the point of choosing it. Finally
she begged permission to take it home
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