Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-05-09
HE FLED FROM HONE.
The Maiden In the Boarding House was
Too Suggestive with Her Teacup.
Nan YOyE sun


NelO York sun.
"Pve had to change my boarding
house." said young Mr.. RusSetshoe,
land I'm sorry enough, for the Widow
Chophash'S house was good one and
felt altogether at home there. But l
had to leave for self-protecton. 1t all
came about through signs in teacup,
as read by that ardent Miss Gushley.
You know what romantic and impul-
sive young thing she is. Well, one day
at table she discovered piece OF tea
stem floating in her cup. With little
shrek and a gurglng giggle she ex-
claimed:
"'Oh! A lover! That's lover, Mr..
Russetshoe. Let me see II he is COM
ing soon.'
"She stirred her tea around quickly
with her spoon and then held the spoon
upright in the middle Of the little
whirlpool. The stem circled around
aud gradually drew near the spoon.
When the tea ceased whirllng the
stem chung to the handle OF the spoon.
Then Miss Gushley screamed and
giggled again:
"'Oh! Amt 1t too sweet for any
thing? He's coming soon, Mr.. Russell
shoe He clings so that [ know he Is
almost here nown
Now maybe I'm a little over-sensi-
tive, but Miss Gushley looked at me In
a way that / thought was expressly
personal, and l believe l felt scared.
"'Ohr she exclaimed again, with a
perceptible shiver. To think that the
lover mightn't have chung to the spoon,
but might have SHE'D of to one side OF
the cup and stayed there! Then it
would have meant that he wasn't CON-
ing soon, and maybe not at all! Oh,
Mr.. Russetshoe! Wouldn't that have
been too, too horrld"
"Now you must know that this i'm
pulSve and sanguine creature sat d.
rectly opposite to me at the table. and
when she looked at me at the close Of
this outbreak 1 give you my word that
it took my appetite away, and by and
by excused myself and went up stairs
and locked myself In my room.
THE next afternoon at tea | took up
the cream jug to pour cream in my cup
OF tea. Instantly Miss Gushley gave .
terrified little shrek and gasped:
"'Oh. Nj Russetshoe! Wait! Have
you put sugar in your tea yet?"
81 replied that had not, holding the
cream jug in the air. Then she screamed
In more terror than before and ex-
claimed:
"'Oh, Mr.. Russetshoel How horridl
Put your sugar in before you turn in
the cream! Oh! II hadn't discovered
1t in time how horrid it would have
beenn
"The ardent little thing seemed so
alarmed that l did as she requested and
then asked her what would have been
the result If had done otherwise.
"'Oh, Mr.. Russetshoel" she replied,
intensely. 1t would have crossed your
love! II you had put the cream In your
tea before you put in the sugar, some
thing would surely have come between
you and your sweetheart! oh! wouldn't
that have been too, too horrid? But
IL Is all right now, Mr.. Russetshoe.'
II may be wrong, but the glance Miss
Gushley sent across the table at me had
language In it. At any rate, IL IN
settled me so that / couldn't find my
tongue to tell her that had no sweet
heart, and when / got away from that
table left the house and didn't return
until everybody had gone to bed.
The very next day at supper time,
when Miss Gushley's cup OF tea was
passed to her, she shrieked again and
clapped her hands.
"'Oh, Mr.. Russetshoer she ex-
claimed, looking at me besmingiy,
amt it too lovely? Two spoons in my
saucer! Two spoons! The sign never
fA!ledl Oh. It's too lovely for any
thing. And oh, Mrs. Chophssh, and her
face fell and she looked at the landIadY
reproachfully, maybe you put them in
on purpose? Oh, did you, Mrs. Chop
hash? 1t will be too, too horrid IL you
did,
Mrs. Chophash assured her that the
extra spoon had got in her saucer by
eccident.
"'Ohr shrieked Miss Gushley, joyful
again, Then it's just too perfectly
sweet Tor anythingl II you had put
them inton purpose, Mrs. Chophash, 1t
would have been chi so hoirid, for then
it wouldn't have happened for two
years. lBut two spoons in the saucer
meansAhat It will surely be this year.