The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1891-07-09
,, n Al le.,ennr pova-U s Govt Report. Aug III 1882
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ABSOLUTELY PURE
THE BROAD STREET TURN.

log. He bad . reformed look 10 the cor
psr Of bis eyes. II an through be said
10 calm, business.like msnDer
Everything that Cline did was done 10
a business like msnner. I've known him
TO get off . car aud chase newsboy for
two blocks TO &c. . cent change. because
il was business and be would not be
swindIed. and have known him to write
a note to Ned Hsrrigsn TO get free box
aad then spend 500 on flowers and sup
per before the night Was over. With :
broad street peculisrity be insisted that
that was business too.
l believe that any where Cline would be
called 9 good fellow. He held strictly to
the business principle Of skinning bis fei'
low man siive on Broad street and blowing
10 pile when the boys we're not on that
financial wArpath.
One day Cline, as l said. turned leaf.
He did il methodically, calculstingly and
firmly. He was polisbiosly his dome be
fore the glass, and as he laid the brush
down he said, Il mush get married :
Very punctilious and discreet was Chine
He proposed to get married just as be pro
posed to buy Nashville aud Tennessee. IL
was a good investment at that time.
Then he sat about it in the most extra
ordinary Broad street manner don't
wsut, said he. any giddy beauties around.
They've been round till I'm tired. want
a mature sensible, sober, economical, tidy,
level beaded, modest. healthy. good,tem
pered. prudent, affsctionste. ssgacious,
lovable, motherly gen.eel, sterling woman.
Girls make me wes-y, and I'm going to
organize the business OF getting what l
want. can give an houra day for the
next year to the finding Of what | want,
and I'm too old business hand to have
what don't want
SO Cline at forty'four organized himself
Set mp matrimonial bureau 10 that pri
yste Office with cathedral windows. Put
his number eleven gsiter on sentiment.
Chucked the forget'me nots out Of bis soul
aud came down TO hard pan
He would advertise. Yes. he would.
No nousensical rot about cultured gent
desiring 10 m eet cultured lady, ,butstraight
business proposition. 1t would involve
immense clerical system very. well, would
! get typewriter, dictate answers for an hour
every morning. First thing to do-get
typewriter; must be business girl.
One morning there came TO Cline's geo.
ersl Office in Broad street girl 10 baby
waist, with pearl gray pelisse over her
shoulder and q csrnelian ring on her fin
ger. One OF Cliue's young men first no
t;ced her standing by the door. he told
me afterwards that what be noticed was
the absurd chip sailor hat with blue rib.
bon and an anchor on it. and be wondered
il she hadn't borrowed it from her little
brother to come down town in, it set up
so perky snd saucily on top OF her ridi'
culous wad OF brown hair a. II she might
be lieutenant 10 the Salvation Army.
It's astonishing what things these young
idiots notice.
He went round aud said, What can We
do for you msdsu?
Madam is kind OF official squelcher
kept for girls who venture away from
their proper sslesrooms TO where young
men can get back at them spd pay them
of in their own coin.
lam typewriter, said Chip Hat yer,
meekly. 1 came to answer an advertise
ment'
They directed her into the little offic'
With cathedral windows. Then they sav
the chip hat go through the fatal glass
door on The other side Of which Cline KEEP
his grim official severity.
He was signing checks. II was one 0
the mos, serious moments OF bis life. Il
looked up and saw the chip hat cooked oI
TOP OF The brown hair. He leaned bscl
iu his cathedral chair aud fastened hi
com mercial eye on the check book.
Well young woman, wan, discree
confidential secretary TO suswer CORES
poudents. She's got to be here at tel
O'Clock every morning. attend to bushes
strictly, and she don't get swsy, TIL tv'
or three. The salary 10 sl2 = week. D.
you think you can get down to that kint
Of drudgery for that pittsnce and keep th
business in thi. room.
Allthst Cline ever b-srd w9s demnr
little Yes, err" tbat had the ssme sus
ses,ion Of iremolo 10 II that one gets iron
raspberry jelly.
All right. LIANT bother With you to
dsy; come to morrow. aud Cline fell
sixpius checks, ard Chip H.t vent sssl
AID the youpgmsn ontside Poked bis nos
through the crystal portal OF bis barrier
puckerei bis lips and dipped iso or tbre
bars OF The Maid and the Milking Pail
after ber.
TIE little { flee Win the cathedral win
dous took on nex feature. There VI
40 tns,rument under the sssh. With blsc
TN roof over il. spd little ssiler ha
With blue ribbon on II. hung 90 u
: bror zs peg opposite The door.
Nos. then. raid Glue putiins on . no
. iorbiading air Of stric, business. fon
ders,sud that the msiser for which ! e
gagged you Is entirely aside from the rel
ulsr business Of this rtice. By The w.