Orange County observer., 1891-07-25
The Broal Street Turn.
BT NYM CRISKLE.

: Burt Cliny Na!ate1, broker, Broad
street, turned over new leaf on a New
Year met him at Dr. Halls church
in the mornlng He hal reformed
look in the corner of his eyes 81 am
through, : he said in !. calm, business
like manner
Everything that Cline did was done in
TO get off car and chase newsDov for
two blocks to get cent change, because
sWindcd, and / have known him to
write note to Ned Harrigan to get
free box and then spend $500 on flowers
and supper before the night was over.
With a Broad street popularity he in
sisted that that was business too.
believe that anywhere Cline would
be called good fellow He held strict
ly to the business principle Of SHINING
his fellow man alive on Broad street and
blowing in a pile when the boys were
not on that financial warpath.
One day Cline, as said, turned leaf.
He did it methodicaliy calculatingiy ard
firmly. He was polishing his dome be-
fore the glass, and as he laid the brush
down he said ~ must get married."
Very punctiliousI aud discreet was
Cline. He proposed to get married just
as he proposed to buy Nashville aud
Tennessee. 1t was good investment at
that time.
Then he set about it in tle most ex-
traordinary Broad street manner II
don't want, said he, "any giddy beau
ties around. They've been around till
I'm tired. want a mature, sensible,
sober, economical, tidy, level-headed,
modest, healthy, good tempered, pru-
dent, affectionate, sagacious, lovable,
motherly, gentecl, sterling woman. Girls
make me weary, and I'm going TO organ
iza the business of getting what | want.
| can give an hour q day for the next
year to the finding Of what | want, and
I'm too old a business hand to have what
/ don't want.
SO Cline at forty four organized him
self. Set up matrimonial bureau iu
that private office with cathedral win
| dows. Put his number eleven gaiter on
sentiment Chucked the forget M no.s
en-. OF his soul and came down to hard
| pan.
He would advertise. Yes, he would.
| NJ nonsensica rot about cultured gent
! desiring to meet cultured lady, but
| straight business proposition. 1t would
! involve immense clerical svstem--very
well, would get typewriter, dictate an
swcrs for an hour every morning. "Firs'
thing to do-get typewriter; must be
business girl.
Ii.
One morning there came to Cline
general office iu Broad street girl IN
baby waist, with pearl gray pelisse over
her shoulders and n cornelian ring on
her tinrer. One of Clne's young men
first noticed her standing by the door
lie told me afterwards that what ht
noticed wa( the absurd chip sailor BIS
with a blue ribbon and an anchor on 1t.
and he wondered II she hadn't borrowed
it from her little brother to come dowt
town in; j. set up SO perky and sauc II.
on top Of her ridiculous aad of brow
ha,r rs if she might be lieutenant IL
the Salvation Army.
It's astonishing what things thes
Young idiots notice.
He went round and said, "Whas cal
we do for you, madam
Madam is q kind of official squelche
kept for girls who venture away from
their proper salesrooms to where youn
men can oct back at them aud pay then
off in their own com.
II am typewriter, said Cnip HAT
very meek}y Il came to answer an ao
! yertsement.'