San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-01-10
THAT MIsTLEroE BoUGH.
All the Spoosey Couples Know Eek.
actiy Where it Is. Many Of the
Girls Pass Under 1t Late in
the Evening or Very Early
In the Mornfuo
In the Morning.

In the Morning.
The busy throng who hurry to and
fro along Houston street and in and out
or the poStOffice are too much engroSsed
with the cares and business affairs of
lie to notice a stunted oak tree that
grows on the edge of the confines of the
old Gallagher mansion and whose branch
eS overriding the cement sidewalk on
Houston street by the banks OF the Alamo
acequia. Not 50 is it however with the
youth and beauty who have passed that
way for to them the old tree has an ir.
ristable attraction. On one of its branch
eS ana directly above the OauqueLJe is a
cluster Of magnetic and paroysmal mySt-
letoe that has chung to it for the past
decade and like lode stone has attract
ed beneath it those either Smitten, stricken
Or afflicted with desire for OSCILLATION
and weakness for each other.
or course they pass in pairs and should
not for the world have any one believe
that their passing beneath the bough was
anything but accidental and would have
none see them as they stop for an instant
for the world. They always, however.
carefully survey the surroundings so as to
be sure that no one Sees them and when
there is no one in view they pause and
she looks upward at the Dough to which
he calls her attention, while he bends for
ward and then their lips do the rest. II
any one is about they walk around the
block until the coast is clear. When the
moon is beaming above or the heavens,
gemmed with stars they can see the myS-
tlet0e bOugh, but when it is sOmbre and
Overhung with clouds SO she can not SEE
it she always takes his word for it being
there because she knows that he would
rot deceive her in snCh serious matter
Many are the couples that pause beneath
the branches of that oak. All OF
them are not youthful. At least
one of the twain that made up pair that
paused there last night is not if her age is
determined by the method that is in vogue
for arriving at the age of the equine.
This couple, however, acted in very
singular manner. After they had paused
long enough to enjoy a lingering kiss the
linked sweetness long drawn out was sud
denly interrupted by feminine cry of
confusion. She seemed to be badly wor-
ri ID about something. All of sudden
she stopped down to tie her shoe. He
wanted to assist her. She Indignantly
Spurned the prOlrered assistance but
Searchingly looked all about her feet on
the pavement spending SO much time in
tying her shoe that he began to grow i'm
patient and she had To finish the knot.
They then walked on. The above in
cident has no correction with the follow
ing advertisement handed in by a middle
aged red headed woman at the counter of
tn of Ce lis morning.
Lost near the post Office sci of teeth
with enamel and gold setting. The i'm
der will be suitably rewarded by leaving
the same at The Daily LIGHT office.
However one o! the reporters for the
LIGHT found a set of false teeth near the
spot where heSaw the couple last mention
ed Just after they walked on last night
and will cheerfnlly return them TO the fair
owner if she will call at this Off e be-
tween one aud three o'clock D. m, and
prove her property. But the burning
question of the hour is will she do so If
she reads this?