Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-07

read it, he lifted it to his face. Then he
started as though surprised
cit is not perfuned, he muttered;
and he pressed il to his face again and
repeated his observation. 'Not per-
fumed; by Jove, this little one is diff
ferent from the others. She may have
character. | wonder if she uses any
scent on her toilets.
That same evening the two met, and
there was an opportunity for the young
u an to lead the girl away to secluded
nook. There, as he took her hand and
she dropped her head, he spoke words
that meant everything to the nearer OF
them, and after he had spoken he bent
down and kissed the daZzled girl.
As he was walking home an hour later
he said TO himself: "For all the world
like an infant. She's the first woman
ever kissed who was not perfumed. III
bet she's worth marrying.
And these two are engaged.
-.
Strange complications and serious MIS-
Understandings may easily arise quite
accidentally from the natural conditions
of life in New York. The apartment
house, as it is constructed, is fruitful of
many peculiar aud aggravating episodes,
one of which that has come under my
observation recently being especially
UNIQUE. A usually we'll behaved young
man had been indulging in an annual
spree at college dinner, and had re-
turned to his fiat up in Harlem at the
over ripe hour Of In the morning. He
had enjoyed the symposium of wine and
wit with his old chums, and possibly the
aouteuess of his intelligence was the
13fap
He lived on the fifth floor of the apart
meut house and as the elevator had
stopped running he was compelled to as
cend TO his rooms on foot. To the best
of his recollection he distinctly counted
five flights of stairs. Every story OF the
house being precisely alike in design,
he could not be expected to note that
he only went as far "a the fourth floor,
when he was peacefully confident he had
gone to the fifth. He found his door
KEY and inserted it in the lock. The
door opened, and he entered the hall.
All was dark and he tiptoed lightly about
in order not to awaken his mother.
Being well acquainted with the plan of
the Hat, he CROPPED quietly through the
gloom of the halls to his own room. He
had expected TO find q taper burning for
him there, but was disappointed, and to
his surprise he could not find the match
safe in its accustomed place. Fumblin2
in his pockets he secured a match and
struck it on his boot.
AS the flame snapped the room was
filed with piercing scream and upon
getting the gas lighted the young nan
discovered young woman huddled in q
heap among the blankets of the bed,
gazing upon him with frenzied eyes.
He could only beg her pardon, but she
kept up her screaming, and presently a
host of white draped figures came hurry
ing in from the other rooms, and the
young man found himself an object of
Mortified wrath IN the center of group
of blinking, aggressive strangers. The
girl in the bed cried out that he was q
burglar. but an old gentleman whose
feet looked very uncomfortable, and
whose hair stood up over his head like
poroupine quilts, seemed to recognize
him as a resident in the house, and de-
manded in laundering tones why he had
entered his daughter bedroom. To the
best of his ability the youth made an ex-
PLANTATION, but the effect of the wine he
had drunk, together with the surprise of
his position had rendered him almost
speeShless, and he left the fiat an object
of suspicion, scorn and vltuperatiou.
For weeks he suffered keeuls from the