Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-11-27
wooEp TWO WOMEN AT ONCE.
The Lively Experiences OF F~iue-Lookiug
Ohicagoan with . French Widow and .
Mexican Girl.


The Lively Experiences OF . Fiue-Lookiol
Dhicagoan with . French Widow and
Mexican Girl.
Chicago Tamts.
A pretty French widow, by name Mrs,
Josephine Sicotte, pine1 at 791 West Ohio
street. and in the intervals between lei
sg,nizsd "Mon D;eus!' mathematics in
the naive French way the hour when frs
her loVe-lit eyes gszsd into the perfdiou'
but ensnaring olbs of one John B. Merger,
whose whereabouts can not at present te
defined. Mrs. Sicotts is a disappointed
bride, and having had ons husband she ID
not easily reconcilsd 10 ths loss of the
prospective second. Mr.. Merger is the
bridegroom that was to have been. There
is now an awful chasm of resentment and
hatred between them which even the
builders of NisgirA's suspension bridge
could never span. 1t is fixed, yaWning,
impossible.
A queer and intricate love story is that
of Mrs Sicotte and her truant Me-. Mer-
ger. When they met each was gagged.
Mrs SicCtte had plighted her troth with q
Mr.. S .ifurt, who loved the pretty, brown
eyed, plump and pleasing widow to dis
traction. 1t would appear that she loved
him equally well, stree she c!uog to him
10 defiance of her relatives preference.
Mr. Merger was promised IN wedlock to
Dolorita Mszoray, o Mexican beauty, and
from sll appearances was quite convinced
that she was the dearest girl in the world.
But the whimsical love god changed all
this when Mr.. Merger and Mrs Sicotte
first met. They looked and loved. Me-
GERS fine six-fCOs, athletic form and hand
some face dove all visions of the absent
Seifurt from her fsrvent fancy, and the
petite figure aud enhancing visage of the
little Frenchwoman left Mr.. Merger with
no time to think of Mexican ssnoritss.
"LoVe finds q way" YVES e~xempliied in
their case, and they became acquainted.
Then they became friendly, afterwards
they became ardent admirers, and subse-
qRentIy the widows pretty black top
knot OF hair reposed on the third button OF
Mr.. Mergers coat as she Whispered to his
watch chain that she would b5 his ownest
OWL. The old ties were sundered, but 50
far as the Mexican beauty was CON-
cerned, the severance was imp3r-
feet. In other words Dolorita Mazursy
refused TO be put off. Tteu Mr.. Merger
did q foolish thing. Inthe f4cs oftha fact
that no man ever yet made q success of
counting two women simultaneously, he
esssysd that very thing. Both shifted
danger aud urged q speedy marriage. The
Mexican's appeals were given point by
quaint Spanish insinuations regarding
stilettos, dark alleys and abrupt corners,
and the French widows prayers were
punctuatei with polite French Caths ard
emphatic rsver getul promises. When Mt
Merger slept at night a Spanish dirk knife
waltzsd with q French small sword round
about his couch, while a vial marked
poison" insisted on sneaking from bs-
meath his pillow and siding up to his
lips. He walked and slept in a mental
chamber of horrors. But the Mexican
triumphtd ard Dolorita took her name to
the dressnaker's and had it fitted with a
troussaau. Thsn she sent out invitations,
engaged carriages and made ready TO swap
her ancestral name for q mess Of mstri-
mony.
About this time Mr.. Mergers mind uu-
derwent q change. He thought ne would
marry the widow. So he confessed his
oredicament to the widows brother and
tcgether they weat to Dolorous D0lorita
and got her to execute q legal document
before Justice Jarvis Blume aunulling the
engagement and smashing its pulsatiDg
bopas as with a pile.driver. This was a
grand coup for the widow and another
tcunkful of dresses were mapped out
and built. The wedding was announced to
take place last Sunday afternoon, but O
small link in the chain of requisites pre-
vented it. The bridegroom WAS not there.
The guests waited decorously until it be,
came as plain as the widows detected
couutenance was eloquent that he was
otherwise eogaged. Then they went away
and pretty Mrs. Sirotte sat down amid the
ruins of her r~iotous, rosy expectations and
wept.
The only clew to tbs sequel is in a mar
riage license issued Friday Last. 1t was
for John B Merger and Selorita Mszuray,
and it looks to the particularly interested
party 10 the Clse IS though Mr. Merger
was as much married by this time as be
has any light to be. It is believed thai
Dolorita dragged the gentleman with her
name and secured him before he recovered