The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-07-12
INGRY'S BEAU.

You see all the servan. girls in III
neighborhood except Ingry had thei
friends" as one little maid quaint
called the respectable lads who woYke,
hard all tho week and came on Sundu
afternoons 10 walk out with their sweet
hearts.
And poor 1ngry, having none OF he
own, either moped alone in her littli
kitchen or tagged" along with som,
other couple.
don't know whether the old sayin,
Wwo's q company, thsee's none" L
taken from the Swedish-but surel,
those Svenski lads understood it pretty
we'll, and many we're tho meaning
glanccs aud broad hints that lngry 60,
to that effect.
Had she been younger or prettier Il
might have been different. Then somt
one or other Of those rosy.cheekeG
maids might have moped alone in hel
kitchen while Ingry walked Of with hel
young man-for We know the way o
the world-but she was neither pretty
nor young.
She was n great raw.boned creature
with yellow skin and a deep voice, buI
she was IN honest, good soul, and l fell
sorry for her.
One day our maid told nc with q
bright face that the girls would no
longer be bothered with Ingry, for she
was to have n friend soon now; she had
sent the money to Sweden to bring him
over.
think that 1t was not alone the ser.
wants or our little street who were in
terested in "[ngry's BEAU" as we called
him. Agood many ladies had heard OF
him too, for in a small town the relations
between mistress aud maid are apt to
be a little confidential.
On Al afternoon out Ingry bad looked
up a aituation for her expected friend,
and it was understood that he was to bs
man.o!.all. work for a family in an ad-
adjoining street.
/ don't know whether this case would
come under the law against contract
labor, but anyhow the immigration com-
mittee, or whatever they call it, didn't
modest him, ind he came duly to hand.
l have said that Iugry was big and
yellow and l%oud.voiced, but We never
realized how very large and how awfully
yellow and how terribly loud.voiced
until we saw her beside her beau.
He WAS q mere boy AID at least 4 head
shorter than she; his cheeks were pink
and his voice q little tinid squeak. l
no phrenologist or physiognomist
but if there is anything III the theory
that q small, narrow head, with retreat.
forehead and chin, denote a weak
intellect, his must have been feeble
indeed.
His face wore IN expression between
q shipper and u grin and he was extreme.
~ stupid, but 1ngry seemed to think
him the perfection Of manly beauty and
intelligence, and when he was near her
her face beancd with such pride and
tondness that you almost iorgo. how
plain she was.
lie did not keep his first place long
and after that he worked at first one
thing, then another, coming always be-
tween lines to Ipgry for money.
The most Of her Thursday afternoons
were spent in finding him places and all
her money went for dresoiHg and
him, while he grew lszier and
until finally he didn't pretend to
work at ail except at an occasional odd
job for Il meal OF an old coat or hat.
1t was really pathetic to see poor lngry
working and saving for him and receiv-
ing not even thaaks, in leturn. She
grew thin aud worrid.looking and the
maids began to whisper that Insry
found her beau an expensive luxury;
and we ladies' were wondering il her
love and patience would stand the strain
much longer, when the climaS came.
After living upon her labor and earn
inss for a year he told her that he
thought she was too old for him to mar
ny aud that he was going to look for 4
younger apd prettie- vile.
This was More than she could bear,
and az her mistress was away at the
time, she came to me in her trouble.
With tears rolling down the homeiy
checks that hsd grown wriuklod in
working for him, she told me what the
fellow had said.
was indignant. knew that Ingry
was as soft-hear;ed as 4 child, aud that
he would work on her sympathies and
continue 10 impose upon her just rs he
had done, and | determined to get rid OF
him at once.
"lugry," said I, "why don't you send
him back 10 Sweden?"
"Oh, Good Ay do dat9"
l told her that she could, and I even
tered to loan her the money for his
ticket.
she had an interview with him and
he seemed just as will < TO go rs he
had been to come, and so the arrange
ments were Don made for his return
passage.
When Inery took him to the depot
she brought him in 10 say good.by to
me. She had fitted him with q new suit
throughout, and in some way had tied in
his button.hole a bit OF gay ribbon bear.
ing the name "McGinty" in large black
letters.
I was half.provoked, halt-amused, aud
| told Ingry to take it oil, but lie waved
her away, demonstrating in Swedish.
mo, he say he like 1t; he will wear it
to show them in the old country" said
lnGry. So l let the matter drop, and,
beaming With vanity, he strutted away,
For q few days l think Ingry feared
that he might return, but when a week
had passed without signs OF him she be.
gan TO look relieved and happy.
In the COURSE OF a month n letter came
to Ineryiirom Sweden, bearing tho sad
news that her protege had died upon