The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-10-08
TOO BASHFUL TO LIVE.
If Sardinia Hadn't Taken Pity on
Him, Archie Would Never
Have Gotten There.

A vivid blush dyed the cheek of the
young girl.
Archie Psoft was about to propose.
Sardinia" he said. ''may-may--"
swell, Archie?'
"I-I-was going to say. Sardinia--I was
going to say that"
ayes, you were going to say that
YES" he broke in, eagerly, Il was
going TO say that I-tnat r"
.'Well, what were you going to say?"
why, l was-I was-".
Young Mr.. Psoft clutched at his collar
to loosen ii, cleared his throat, and tried
it again.
"Why, the fact is"
Eyes, Archie. the fact is"
''That I-h'mi h'mi-I-I""
"Yes. You-you--"
Ill have forgotten what was going
to saw"
"Oh, Archiel How could you'll"
mo, 1 haven't" said the poor fellow,
desperately. 81 remember now, | was
"Yes. Archie, you were going to ask
sThat's it'll 1 was going to ask-Sar-
DINA, don't You know whatl was going
Il am not a mind reader, Mr.. Psoft.n
Don't mock me, Sardinial Try TO read
my hearth
"Y on want to ask me-
s.That's right" he said, e~ncouragingly.
$50 ahead"
YES; yes-'to bs'-go onl Go ont'
L be your"
"That's right" To be my"
"Your-your-"
Eyes. My my'-why don't You go
aheads You're the bashfulest girl !
IL can't say it, Archiep'
rest of it? Don't let a little thing like
that huster you. Be q brave girl, Sar-
dinial"
10 yes, you car. Speak it right ontl'
"You wanted to ask me to be your wife,
Archie"
'"Therel" he exclaimed in triumph.
You see how easily it is done" And he
patted her head majesrically. "All you
want is a little courage"
WAS that what you wished to ask
me?"
sOf course it wasp
'Then why don't you do it, sir?"
"Me? Great Christopher! You knoW
| what +"
yes, sir, 1 knew it all the time. I've
known it for six months. But you've got
to ask it. Get down on your kneesl'
why, Sardinia what's the use of
my"
'Down on your kneesi''
He Topped down and the imperious
young beauty made him repeat after her
the necessary question. She promised to
take it under advisement and give him a
favorable answer if she found upon in
quiry that he had always been good &c
his mother. And then she permitted him
to rise. the most thoroughly humbled
young man in America.-Chicdgo TIT
b1ne.
The Young Man Was His Daughter
An unusually large number of cases of
women passing for men have recently
been discovered in Great Britain and
France. The most remarkable for length
of time during which the deception wa
maintained was hat of a person who,
during a voyage from France to the
Island of Jersey, acted in a strange man
nea and finally fell unconscious. A doc
tor found that although dressed as a man
it was really a woman. After being sent
to a hospital in Jersey she told her story.
which was that at the age of thirteen she
had been left an orphan and had then
adopted male clothes, which she had ever
since worn without discovery. She was
hfty-ive years old and had therefore
worn trousers for forty-two years. She
had for the greater part of her life pur-
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ties of travellers over all parts of Europe,
under the name of Louis Herman Tobush.
She had done well at the business n
had q balance at her bankers. When
she was taken sick on the steamer she
wore a fur waistcoat, a long ~overcoat, q
stiff hat, and a turned down collar, and
smoked a pipe'or a strong cigar, as she
CHANGED to please. No one had any suS-
piclon she was not a man.
Among the witnesses in a suit at the
Palace of Justice in Paris was a person,
apparently a young man, dressed like a
student, who was accompanied by what
seemed to be an elderly gentleman of
grave aspect. When the lame Of Nine.
Libert was called the young man stepped
forward. II beg your pardon" said the
clerk, 81 am asking for a lady and not q
young man." but this young man is
my daughter" explained the scdate gen
tleman, stepping forward. The clerk de-
cided to let the judge see the witness and
settle the matter. The judge told the
proper clothes before she appeared to tes-
tify. But have not a single dress to
my name,' she exclaimed. 1t turned out
that the old Nine. Libert run a printing
office, and had for a long time worn male
clothing in order TO manage her business
better. She was bringing up her daugh-
ter to the same custom. "--B0ston Herald.
Wiser, But just as Innocent.
A fact which Mrs. Phelps Ward over
looks is that the conditions under which
our young women are reared today offer
so widely and so completely from the con-
ditions in which our grandmothers lived
that, surprising their standards of deli
cacy 10 be the real ones. they are utterly
impossible to the women OF today. Every
condition of woman's thought Il life