Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-01-18

w getting married
last Spring, and IN tell you how it
happened.
am 30, aud not absolutely ugly.
II least, when look in the glass !
see reflected there good fresh com
pleaion, sparkling hazel eyes aud nm
abundance oi brown hair. might
have married two or three times.
only ! wasn't really in love. dare
say you don't believe this. but can
show the letters OF declaration up in
nay Writing.desk now-old Squire
i'ease, Rex Mt Poppelthorne and
DF Richinrd. So there!
But when lnwnce Raymond, bar.
'istcr came down 10 spend The vaca-
ton with his aunt. Mrs. Riehiord--
you see, the doctor married. after all,
4 wife much more suitable in
point Of mature years than
could have been, and | didn't care,
not III must confess To aliiile WON.
anly tiniter around the hcart--tor he
was tall aud handsome, and, in
short. Just the hero Of romance that
had always dreamed about
"liutty,' said Mrs. Richfuri--we
were quite confidential friends. Won
scc. and called one another Hatty
and Pamela, aud borrowed cucn
Others books, and nll that sort Of
thing liatty. lthinkt larcnce rnth.
r. tancics you.
"lpo YOU" said I. feeling the tell
tnlr bluslcs come into my face, and
ms heart begin 10 thump beneath
The pretty lace Observation-Disclosures
aud pink ribbon that | had taken To
wearing every day
II am certain OF It, snid Mrs.
Richford. saud how nice il viii be 10
have you for a cousin.
That evening Clarence asked me II
would marry him, and OF course !
said "lcs.
II was very nice 10 he engaged.
lie gave mo a lovely cameo ring,
rhoicer md more antique than any
diamond could have been-it had
brcn his mothers ring, he said-and
hc repeated the most delicious poetry,
and vowed TINT iteNprcssed the very
continents OF his heart. And we had
wnndrrings in the cool, fern.sccnted
woods. and moonlight tulks on the
yprnndah, and began To wonder
whether | should he married in white
satin or doye.colored dress.
One evening, iustaiterC larnce had
returned to his unavoidable engage
ments in town. Uncle Nathan came
to visit me.
Uncle Nathan was one Of those
poople. az whom we are apt to ASK,
IN common with mosquitoes and flies:
"Why we're they ever created
He WINS a venerable old gentleman
with long, silver hair that fell over
tho collar OF his bottle-green coat,
and cloth CATERS that irrcsistibly
reminded one of a black pussy eat,
and he took snnifand talked through
his nose. ~
this true" =,
afa what true. Uncle Nathan"
AN this fol.de-rol about your be-
ivo engaged to a man ten years,
.nnnoer than Yourself Harriet!
Harriet thought you had better
aIt's only five years, Uncle Nathan
.aid i pouting. "And ! suppose
cnn pet engaged without sending 70
INV relations for n permit.
aIIarriet, this Is not subject 70
bc tlippnnt about" said Uncle ia.
Than 'you may dependupon u, tnat
ala vonnp man is u mere fortune
hunter. You hnveproperty, HARRIET
and he has found L out 81
"Iinelep / cried, starting, up,
will NOT listen tamely to such sPs''
sions ON the character OF one VINO
" -. - ~.
uAtv dear, my denr, don't get eN'
.,.aaS mid thcintolerable oldgentl.ee-
mnn. tapping upon the I'D o. l'l ,s, M
,."r snuff.box. "You are not chliI'
n, nor web sentimental school ,''1i.
,.;,I Iet,s talk the matter calmly
over So. Il sir , was
my dignilied reply NY e.a n,,L
,,,aarierenee will ever induce me to at
ter il. x.,,,,n w.nt awny,