Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-01-07
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A pooa GIRLS ROMANCE.

r.. ps,ap Smiling on Her When
n ry.asured Veil Had Been PHwned'
ga Young woman was married last
weak tn a man who is known favoraDly
all over this country, and who has some,
tbino Of a fortune and two homes, and
who is in all respects a man OF tne
world said another man OF the world
70 the writer after a general talk about
the pranks of the whirligig OF time.
ain her case" was the continuation,
al will venture to say that there was a
time in her life when the flicker OF the
fame of hope was as sicllly end ftful as
any that ever threw ghostly shadows on
the wall Not to go into details whicn
would make her known, her mother had
senarated from her husband. The moth
er and daughter were left not only home
less. but practically penniless. Their
prior station had been such as to enable
them to enjoy some social privileges.
"When the separation came the
mother moved out of the fashionable
ouarters where she had lived and with
her daughter took lodging in one OF the
cheapest boarding houses on an un-
freouented street. In spite of effort to
gain some livelihood none came. Then
they had to give up the back room in the
back street boarding house and OBJ
tained a smaller room in a squalid sec
ton of Chicago. do not know that the
word squalid is the one to be used. The
section is one even now where few men
or women who have any self respect
care to be seen.
"To the credit of the mother in this
story will say that she did not know
this. They bought their own food. They
did not go out to any restaurant or cafe.
Their means did not permit this One
day the mother, heavily veiled, would 90
to some little grocery store with tin
pail and purchase ten cents worth of
oysters, few cents worth of crackers
and bit of cheese. The next day the
daughter, heavily veiled, would do the
marketing at some other grocery. Sew
eral times garment of other days was
taken to a pawnshop, and thus the sickly
fame of hope was replenished-I had
almost said with blood money. The lit
tie rent was paid and enough food OBJ
tanned to keep up existence.
zone day. have this story from the
mother herself-they pawned the veil
for meal That removed the mask,
and a few days after, when the daughter
went for another supply, the beauty of |
her face, its refined touches, and her
attracted the attention of man
who was in the grocery to which the |
girl came. Without her knowledge he
her to her lodging Then he |
made some inquiries concerning the
mother and daughter and eventually un-
raveled the story of their lives. would
like to tell you some more, but cannot,
lest the identity of the two should be
81 can say this much, think, without
the world knowing any more: The man
who had interested himself in the case
married the mother, and the mating, so
far as any one knows, has been sue
cess. The daughter was placed in line
where she soon, by her talent and pluck
and good looks, obtained recognition,
and this put her in position where she
was sought and won by the man who
she married few days ago.
There you have story, without the
highest coloring, absolutely correct. If
you came across it in novel you would
probably accuse the author of adding a
little paint to the picture. The day the
mother told me their story she had no
dea what was in store for her. Her
leart was full of that unspeakable
rouble which comes only to those who
lave lived in sunbursts and then drifted
nto impenetrable night How true it is
hat with some the depths of darkness
lang upon the breaking of the light
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