Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-02-25
LOVE UP TO DATE.

LOVE UP TO DATE.
Post Dispatch. The same old thing,
harkee. 1t had been going on for two
months. She answered to all the re-
quirements Of tradition Her thirty six
points We're unimpeachable. She was
us lovely as a dream. Rich father;
had every social advantage; stood :
feet inches in her French slippers.
Her hair was the color of a hickory
nut just out of the shell; her eyes were
Ike a rich turquoise and had delicious
ghosts in them. When she was dressed
in a close-ht.'ng suit and had her leather
belt on, yc-l arm began to describe in
voluntary curves. Succincdy, she was
a beauty and a belle, and she lived On
Murray Hill.
Parents, conservative, bnignant, eX-
empIary. Income about $4,000. Be
longed to an meXcepionable set.
Brought up the beauty guardedly, al
most scrupulously, and, withal, indul-
gently. They really thought it would
do better for her to marry happily than
brilliantly. They let on the available
and impressionable men as soon as she
was 10.
Let me see, there was De Huyster OF
the yacht club. He went all to pieces
at that rendezvous ut Newport. He saw
her from his own yacht She was
standing on the deck of the comm0-
dore's vessel in a blue suit with a
jaunty little navy cap on, and she seem
ed to focus all the bright elements OF
oxygen and sea air and sunshine that
were loose that day. De Huyster Laid
formal and formidable siege. A lot of
fellows fell back at his approach and
said sayagely that they had no show.
De Huyster was worth $350,000 and
had large expectations Besides he was
a swell, and had jet-black mustache
that matched his stallion. There was
nothing on the record better than the
De Huysters, and when Paul De Huys
ter danced with the beauty a lot of
people said it was the handsomest cou-
Pile ON the floor
Then there was De LeOnnay, who
gave her finishing lessons on the harp
for six months, and wound up by fall
ing ON his knees and tearing his hair,
and upsctting the musicrack
Lucille was touched by his dementia.
She lifted him up tenderly, gave him
her cologne and stopped taking lessons
ON the harp
Snogglesou came later lie wrote
her letters with "SnoEglcson * Snoggle.
son, Importers printed across the top.
Snogglesou was bald-headed and a bach
elor He had some excellent character.
istics He remembered when the Astor
house was built and he read the able
editorials on tin plate manufacture
every day in the year He was what
the boys call solid ana safe and he
could play backgammon with the
beauty's father in the library long after
the beauty had gone to bed. She could
MT help respecting him. he was SO con
siderate and conscientious There was,
too, a sense Of security in his presence,
Something told her that he would 50
on playing backgammon, and wouldn
throw himself on his knees and upset
the music rack, and when he was alb
sent, she had deep and abiding faith
that he was reading the articles ON tin
plate and was thus serencly removed
above all the distractions and petty
issues of the hour.
ought not to forget Pulgne-Cyril
Pulgue- because he was rather promi-
nent in the affair. Old wood Pulgne,
his father. was worth about S5.0oo,0Oo.
Young Pulgue was the only heir. He
put Lucille on his reserved list Of avail
able women to marry when he rot
through sowing his wild oats Tie had q
mine in Colorado and horse in New
Jersey named after her. He paid her
attention mt q watering place. and had
his sister send her father invitations
for all the Pulgne receptions. He sue
ceeded In creating an impression in his
club that he would marry Lucille when
ever he got his oats disposed Of.
In addition to these avowd admir-
ers there was Dr. Meredith Mellentone
Of ST. Sophia's. and Charley Dartover