The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-10-14
MANY STRANGE MEETINGS.
Old Acquaintance Unexpectedly Renewed
at the Worlds Fair.

Old Acquaintance Unexpectedly Renewed
at the Worlds Fair.
With the worlds fair as a focus to
which the lines of many lives have con-
verged this summer, there has been
much curious crossing of paths that
would otherwise probably never have
touched.
A New York woman reached her
home on one of Chicago's at a
late dinner hour on the evening of her
arrival in the city. Inquiring of her
hostess for board in the vicinity, she
was directed to either of two houses
about equally distant across the street
from where she was. Some persons
coming out from one turned the scale
in its favor as indicating the dining
hour not yet over. Crossing and secur-
ing an audience with the lady of the
house, she was told that there were no
further permanent accommodations at
her table, buff they would put up with
the end of a dinner she and her party
could have that meal and then seek
board elsewhere.
Tired and hungry, the travellers glad
ly acquiesced, and in the course of the
meal the hostess commented on the
fact that the strangers were from New
York, saying: 81 was born and brought
up to young womanhood in a little
town in the interior of that state,
though for thirty years / have lived
west"
A casual inquiry as to the name of
the place disclosed it to be the boyhood
home of the newcomers husband and
the summer staying place for many
years of the family.
Eager questions and answers brought
out further hat the Chicago landlady
had been a teacher in the village school
and had taught her guests husband his
letters at Eve years of age 1t is need
less almost to add that these discoveries
changed the former dictim of no room
and delightfully."- quartered the party
by means known to ingenious landla-
dies at a private table for their stay in
Chicago-all through the merest thread
of chance.
A similar development of another
Chicago trip relates to a New Yorker
and his wife who were fellow-guests at
a White mountain hotel ten years ago
with a st. Paul banker and his wife. A
pleasant acquaintance was formed, and
on parting the ladies exchanged cards,
mutually expressing a warm desire
that they might meet again, though
fearing that it might be only another
case of congenial persons drifting to-
gether by accident and never seeing
each other afterward.
A few weeks ago the Oldest son of the
New York family, who had beer with
his parents in the White mountains.
then a boy, now a young man just en-
tering Yale. went to visit friends in the
Red River valley of North Dakota. His
mother thought it would be pleasant
for him to call and pay his respects to
the st. Paul long-ago acquaintance as
ne passed through their city.
She accordingly wrote to inquire if
they were at home. and just as she her.
self was starting for the fair she re-
ceived a reply from the lady. dated in a
New England town where she had been
spending the summer saying she was
about returning west and would be in
Chicago the next week She gave her
Chicago address, and the house proved
to be directly in the rear of the one
where the New York woman had en-
gagged rooms-N. Y Times