The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-19
TAUGHT A LESSON.
A Story of a Prankish Chicago Man
and Daring Windy City Girl
FIODi ne CHICAGO Mail

| Nom The ChtcGQO Man
snow and then man gets the conceit
taken out of him in fine fashion, said a
friend Yesterday. 81 was just thinking Of
one experience of a West Side family man
recently. He has been connected with one
of the local theaters in a managerial
| position, but Just now he is cut of
| it [ don't know what he is doing,
but know that he has a wife and babies,
| and that's what gives point to the incident
! suppose there's something in the theat-
rical atmosphere that affects men, for
/ everybody who dips into the profession
seems to develop a prankishne-s and a
| hankering for escapades with pretty
women, no matter what they may have
| been before that The gentle / speak
| of vas no exception, and when he spied a
couple Of pretty girls walking on the blule-
ward as he drove along in his buggy, few
weeks ago. he obeyed his first impulse to en-
gage in a Irritation. lt was pretty well out
| beyond Western avenue, and the gay
pranker pretended to be ignorant of the
names of cross streets, and made this an ex-
cuse for speaking TO the girls.
They evidently Thought it right Jolly
lark. and ans wered him in such friendly
fashion that ne chatted with them for
| few minutes, when he asked one of them
| the prettiest, you may be sure-if she didn't
hduL 10 Jake a SHUT rue Win MN WQllo
| he showed her his horses PAGES. The girls
laughed at this, but finally the invitation
was accepted, and the family man and the
pretty girl sped westward, while the other
girl sauntered home. OF course it was a
daring thing for the girl to do, for she was
of the utmost respsc ability, but she was
particularly self-reliant girl, with a great
store of confidence in her ability to take
care Of herself, and she liked the excitement
of it.
LAS they drove along toward Garfield
park the family man, who thought he had
made great impres,io on the girl, be-
came very affectionate, and went about as
far as he could in the way of passionate
love-making. He urged her to fly with
him. and all that sort of thing, ringing in
all the extravagancies of the lovers in plays
that he could remember; but the girl didn't.
seem to respond very soulfully. She laughed
at him good-naturedly, and when he at
tempted to put his arm around her and
kiss her she brought him up standing, as it
were.
"When they reached the park she told
him she wanted a drink of the mineral
water, and he left the buggy to procure it
for her. AS soon as he had gone to the well
the girl seized the lines gave the horse a cut
with the whip and clattered away, leaving
the family man standing dumbfounded by
the well with the tin cup in his hand. There
was nothing for him to do. Several people
standing by noticed the trick and made
some comment, but he recognized the fact
that he must accept the situation gracefully
if he didn't want to make it worse, so he
laughed and said it was one of his wife'S
jokes and walked to street car.
The girl drove away to the east, and the
last the pranker saw of his rig his horse
was getting down TO beautiful work and
white handkerchief was waving from the
side in tue baud of his fair friend. | don't
know what tale the man told his wife in
explanation of the absence Of his horse and
buggy, but l suppose it was one of the
gauzy romances which satisfy the curiosity
of dutiful wives. Any way a week passed
and he hadn't seen or heard from his
missing rig and the more he thought it
over the more knotty the problem appeared.
he didn't know the girl and the girl didn't
know him. He couldn't 60 to her and ask
for his property because he couldn't find
her, and she couldn't return it because she
couldn't find him.
after two weeks of uneasiness the fam
lily man wrote an advertisement and
printed 1t in the papers. 1t had to be
couched in the subtlest terms, because it
had to convey the proper meaning to the
girl who ran away with the buggy and vet
not expose the truth of the matter to the
family mans wife. A ream or two of paper
was used up, but the advertisement was
finally completed, and after spending some
thing over $40 in getting it printed several
days in the papers, the horse and buggy
were returned to their owner by man
servant. The young lady in the case be
longs to a prominent West Side family.
You may rest assured the ex-theatrical
man will be better husband in future as
long as he has his horse and buggy with
him.