The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-05-18
A GAY BALTIMORE ELIRT.
He Was Engaged to Two Girls at Home and
One in This City nt the Same Time.

He Was Engaged to Two Girls at Home and
One in This City at the Same Time.
a young society man of Baltimore recently
developed a wonderful capacity for loving,
which has got him into good deal of trouble.
For some time he has been engaged to a young
lady residing in that city. He was the most at
tentive of lovers for long time But evidently
one was not enough for his expansive affections,
so a furtiye eye was cast about for another
sweetheart. AS he is handsome, pleasant, and
wealthy young man, it proved an easy task to
discover what he sought, and accordingly
wel.known society belle residing in North Bal
tlmore was installed as his Beloved No. .. The
young man went every night to see one or other
of the ladies, and was formally engaged to both,
neither, of course, knowing of his relations with
the other. Thus the course of love drfted for
months, during which the limit of his heart capac
ity seemed to have been reached. But as time
passed on, and with the regular exercise he took
in love-making, his capacity increased, and with
conquer. Motives of prudence and love of va
riety impelled him to seek his Beloved No.
outside of Baltimore, and he CAME to Washing
ton, where he became acquainted with the
comely daughter of a retired naval officer. To
her he Immediately began to pay his devotions
with true Baltmorean ardor, and in the course
of a couple of weeks proposed to her and was ac
cepted, thus completing his third engagement
Meanwhile the Washington girl was playing a
similar game to his own. She was engaged to
another gentleman, who was fastening toward
death with consumption. The Baltimore lover
objects of his alteration. Alternate nights dur
| ing the week he devoted to his Baltimore girls.
| When Saturday arrived he hied him to Washing
| ton to spend that evening and Sunday with his
| local inamorata. The young lady invariably met
| him at the depot and escorted him to her resi-
dence, where he partools of dinner, afterward
| spending the evening with her until time to seek
| his hotel. Sunday the entire day was given up
| to the sweet interchange of mushy nothinRs
until evening, when the Baltimore man bid her q
fond farewell and hurried home on the fast ex-
press in time to be with one OF his sweethearts in
| that city.
But the gentleman to whom the Washington
gagement to the Baltimore young man. The
shock to her nerves was so great that she was
| forced to take to her bed with a severe case of
| prostration. When next the youth came over he
found her still extremely ill., and was told by her
self, after much hesitation, the cause of her ill
ness. Humiliated and angered at this wound to
his vanity, highly dramatic scene was enacted
formed by the young man. To ease the excess OF
his pain he returned to Baltimore at once. and
sought consolation from one of his tiances there
But ill.luck followed. He called on Love No. l
and on being shown into the drawing room wa,
met face to face by both of the Baltimore gir
one of them had discovered by some accident hi
relations with the other. A conference was held
which rapidly became an indignation meeting
and into this it was the young man stumbled OF
his return from Washington. scathing tongue
lashing was administered to him by both irat
maidens. in the midst of which he fled from tn
house. Shortly after this he left Baltimore wit
in this city. But the story gained quick circula
tion here and so embarrassed the large-hearte
youth that he fled to parts unknown. No doub
he will fetch up in Utah.