The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-08-28
HOW SHE COMPROMISED.

HOW SHE COMPROMISED.
The Beanville Belle and Her Long
Tailed Steed.
Romance is pretty nearly played out
In this last quarter OF the prosaic, nine
teenth century, but once in. awhile
there viii be found love-sick youth or
sentimental maiden who fairly lives
upon it. Jessamine Rose was OF this
latter class.
-.--~ NoM-Jessie- Mas--only- a- farmers
daughter. but she was unusually pretty,
and had been brought up like lady.
So she came to believe that she must
have been built out OF finer dirt than
the majority Of the country people
around Beanville. TO her they were
..of the earth, earthly. y
This fair and aristocratic scion of a
common country stock fairly devoured
every romance that came in her way.
Love stories were her constant diet. "
pursuing them she came to feel that she
was fitted for something higher and
better than any thing she had yet
!. known, and anxiously waited FOR the
time when dark handsome young
prince with. -erewH-lilse the King Of
Spades should come dashing up to her
fathers door on prancing steed whose
flowing tail swept the ground, to woo
and bear her away to a life of royal
splendor. That was the way it always
happened in her fayorite novels, and
a "a fa1f fbat che r,nt,uf 10 ua Lord a,
lover, with title and coronet at the
very least
She made no secret of her expected
sutton. Every body for miles around
knew all about him, and many we're the
noses which turned up like that of a
coffee-pot on his account.
.'Just as if real live prince, with a
hatful of gold crowns, would run his
long-tailed horse through old Jim Roses
potato patch on purpose to marry his
good sfor-nnthing- daughter, fer the sole
reason that she happens to have a
pretty faee!@snifed many Beanvifle
gossip in disgust. 1sss
But Jessimine still. chung to her inn
Rginary royal wooer, though she had
long waited in vain for sight of him.
She thought of him by day and dreamed
of him by night; but, as yet, her waking
eyes had never beheld his face.
Many good, steady young farmer,
allured by Jessie's pihk-and white pret-
tiness, had laid his heart and his pater-
nal acres, figuratively speaking, IN her
soft little palm, only to have them
tossed back at him like so much rubbish.
Not one of them possessed a crown, or
even a long-tailed steed to prapce on,
and so she would none of them.
OF course such proceedings did not
tend tormake the-s silly girl popular
among the Beanville people, but for
awhile she did not mind that. She
didn't care to associate much with the
country folks, for her destiny was far
higher one than theirs. And so the
years rolled on.
At last Jessie reached her twenty-fifth
birthday. She was still unmarried,
though nearly all of her schoolmates
were comfortably settled down in happy
homes OF their own, with growing
families around them. She still cher
ished her fond dreams of something
better, but her faith in tho prince
coming began to waver little Such
WAS the state ~ affairs whom Herman
Mention fell head over heels in love
with her.
He was only farmer, but he was
handsome and welt-to-do. and Jessie
couldn't hello liking him. When he
proposed there was a curious sensation
in her bosom, as of something hopping
around there. She began to think that
her heart had moved al last. buf NAV he
IL was only her pizzard: or uerhaps She
was a little bilious. and that was ali
It was a big come down for her to 40.
cent common farmer for a husband
instead Of the kings son, to whom she
had SO long looked forward. but she
was tired Of waiting and felt half in
clined 20 do it, She thought that 70,
Herman,s sake she could EXCHANGE no,
inasinary royal palace for the substan
tial farm house at the crossroads with
only q passing regret Besides IL was
getting TO be high time for her to MARI,
something or other if she ever intend,
ed to do 10. and the prince mioM neye,
come.
But the fiery charger. whose tail sven,
the ground. Could she give that up, too,
No. never. She could bid adieu TO tho
prince with his ieweled crown and COR
geous palace-if she ever got tn,