Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-06
A TALE OF TWO LOVERS.
Awkward Predicament of Two Young
People Who We're Very
Ncar.Siphted,

Ncar-Sighted.
In a cozy flat on One Hundred and
Twenty-fifth street, says the New York
Graphic, lives a plump and rosy young
woman, who, like most young women Of
her age, has a cavalier who calls upon
her at regular intervals during the
week.
The young man is honest, industrious,
and is a trusted clerk in a large store on
White street. He is about twenty-five
years of age, has red hair, and is so near.
sighted that without spectacles he
would be unable to tell the difference
between an elephant and q barn door at
a distance of ten feet. He wears q pair
OF strong convex glasses, which are
thicker than a pane of French plate
glass, and as long as the specs are
astride of his NOSE he is perfectly conf
dent-without them he is a helpless, de-
pendent child.
Strangely enough the plump and rosy
young woman in One Hundred and
Twenty-fifth street is near-sighted, too.
She has an ~astigmatism which obliges
her to wear a pair of glasses of peculiar
construction, and which are suited to
no other eyes but hers.
The father of this damsel is a very
stern and peculiar man and he posses
ses an intense dislike for the young
clerk, because he says, when his daugh-
ter gets on the street with her lover
they look like two walking advertise
ments for on %optician. The young man
has been forbidden to enter the house,
but his love is strong and he makes
clandestine visits despite the parental
warning.
Anybody who has had any experience
knows that it is impossible to read tho
soul in tho eyes with Q pair of thick
Goggles in the way, and these young
lovers know it we'll. 1t is their custom
therefore, to remove the glasses when
enjoying each others society, and to
put them on again when good night is
kissed at the door.
The billing and cooling was proceed
ing, as usual last night without tho
specs when a heavy, and unexpected
tread was heard in the hall. The lover
OWNED at once that papa had unox-
pectedly returned ard grabbing his
glasses stood in the shadow of the
Kitchen door until papa passed through
and then stole silently down stairs and
into the street.
He had not taken ten steps when he
discovered, to his horror, that he had on
his girls glasses. IL was absolutely i'm
possible for him to see even his hand.
He was more helpless than q blind msn,
but he dared not return TO get his "
property. He stumbled Gloig until no
fell down q cellar. When he got out he
fell in the gutter, and from that muddy
predicnment ho was arrested by a
policeman for in~toxication. When ar
raigned before The justice he made an
effort to make "a k:ivate explanation,
and was at once set Gown rs maudl!n.
Justice in this instance YVES not b.ind,
Or even near-sighted, and could not ar
p~reciate the agOly the yoGn? man SUI
fered. 'Ten dollars or Ter days" would
have been enforced had not by the meI-
est accidents former porter nj the White
street store, now a policeman, come to
the rescue.
Mean time the young woman was no.
faIing much better. She wen blunder-
ing from II room to another, net ddr-
ing to remove her speatacles, for that
would excite comment, and fearing TO
confess the truth to her father. 1t had
to come at last, however. The poor girl
could not attend to her household du-'
tiss and was forced TO tell what had hap
pesed D..
The glasses have since been "a.
changed, but The engagement IS oil.