Omaha daily bee., 1891-01-01
PROPOSED TO THE WRONG GIRL
sad Plight i'm Which Nervous Young
Man Found Himself.

Man Found Himself
Rudyard Kiping, in one of the series
of tales that brought that gifted and
breezy young man into the sunlight OF
fame and fortune, tells the story OF an
unlucky Anglo-lndian who proposed in
the gloom of an Indian dust storm to tho
wrong girl, whom he took for her sister,
says the New York Press Right up In
stald, sober, unromantic old Bridgeport
there has recently occurred case Of tho
same sort
Among tho bellies of Bridgeport arc n
pair of mighty pretty twin sisters, whose
attractions, as they should have done,
have secured for them host of admirers
among the Bridgeport swains One OF
the two is named Mary. The others
name is Martha. 1t is an embarrassing
popularity of the two that at the age
when American girls are most charm
ing, they retain in a striking degree the
perfect resemblance to each other that
in their infantile days compelled their
mother TO tie a blue ribbon on Marys
arm to tell her from Martha.
SO close is this resemblance that the
near relatives of these young women are
often deceived by it. Sturdy Sam
Rogers, the faithful young man who has
been the steady company" of Miss
Mary for year past congratulated
himself on the fact that he never got
fooled in the identity of the damsels.
He will plume himself on this no longer.
His pride got a sore fall the other night,
when his confidence led him into q fix
calculated to throw the average young
man into the depths of humiliation and
despair.
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Rogers has been as securely in Miss
Mary's possession asif that Young woman
had had that useful organ locked up in
safe, of which she only knew the COM
binetion. But Mr.. Rogers is very
modest young man. Not until the other
night dared he avow his passion. And
the circumstances that followed nearly
deprived him of his reason. 1t was on a
Sunday evening, of course. The short
October day had faded, though it was
not quite dark, wheA Mr.. Rogers lifted
the brass knocker on the door of Miss
Mary's home.
Her youthful brother opened it and
ushered him into the parlOr, with the
suppressed and aggravating grin that
young brothers are prone to indulge in
under such circumstances. Presently
another door opened, and Miss Mary, rs
Mr.. Rogers supposed, walked in. To
her remark that the room needed
light, Mr., Rogers interposed n decided
negative. He had come fully deter
mined to ask the momentous question
then and there, and he felt that the dim
ness of semi-twilight would lend him
courage.
The all important question was put.
The young lady hesitated, seemed con-
fused, surprised, and finally faltered out
trembling yes. But the JOY of poor
Mr.. Rogers was short For the door
opened again, and in there walked,
bearing "a lamp, not Miss Martha or any
other member of the family, but Miss
Mary herself That wicked younger
brother had sent the wrong sister into
the room. Mr.. Rogers had proposed to
the wrong girl. And she had accepted
him. We draw the curtaing over the
scene that followed. The anguish OF
Mr. Rogers was far beyond the power OF
print to portray. The dilemma into
which he had plunged himself was too
awful to be described Let it stand as a
warning to all American young men TO
beware of dimly lighted parlors on Sun
day evening.