Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-02-23

She lifted him up tenderly, gave hin
her cologne and stopped taking lesson:
on the harp.
Snoggleson came later. He wrote
her letters with 'Snoggleson x Snosgle
son, Importers, printed across the top
SnoSgleSon was bald-leaded and u bach
elor. He had some excellent characteI.
isucs. He remembered when the Aston
/ house was built, and he read the able
/ editorials on tin-pIate manufacture
every day in the year. He was what
the boys call solid and 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, u sense OF security III his presence.
Something told her that he would 60
on playing backgammon, and wouldn t
throw himself on his knees and upset
the music-rack, and when he was au-
sent, she had a deep and abiding faith
that he was reading the articles on tin
plate and was thus Serenely removed
above all the distractions and petty
ISSUES OF the hour.
L ought not TO forget Pulgne-Cyril
PuIgne-because he was rather pronli-
nent i'll the affair. Old Wood Pulgne,
his father, was worth about So.OUO,UUU.
Young Pulgne was the only heir. He
put Lucille on his reserved list OF avail
able women &c marry when he got
through sowing his wild oats. He had i
mine i'll Colorado and a horse in New
Jersey named after her. He paid her
attention ut Il watering place, and had
his sister send her father Invitations
for al the Pulgne receptions. He sue
ceeded III creating an impression in his
club that he would marry Lucille when
ever he got his oats disposed of.
III addition to these avoWed admir-
ers there was Dr.. Meredith Mellentone
OF ST. SUphia's, and Charley Dartoyer
OF Amherst, and the brilliant cosmO-
polite, Ben Huying, who could make
Il Welsh rarebit and play on the cornet,
and called his den a studio" and dab
bled III oils, and had worked up piqu-
amt little scandal in home circles that he
had even painted nude from life IN
that den.
1t must be acknowledged, therefore,
that Lucille entered upon the woman
career with all modern improvements.
The purely feminine part OF her eXis-
tence, was largely a matter OF adjuncts
She carried half u score hearts on her
sleeve. Some Of them representa- great
wealth, others great resectability and
others great social distinction, and still
others great talents.
1t was difficult to determine what
her own feelings We're. She exercised a
most judiciOus impartiality. She had
her fathers Gberality and liked them ALL
each one after his kind. She had her
mothers Sex and didn't love one OF
them after her own kind. They came
and We're well treated and Went away
with clear prospects. 1t was gravely
minated to her by her father that tile
time had come when she should begin
to think of her future prospects and
duties; that the attention OF half a score
OF gentlemen was no doubt tiattering
and agreeable, but it was not business.
She turned the subject; it had no special
interest for her in Il serious way.
One day her mother made a discov-
cry and communicated it to the father.
Father" she said, cautiously, have
you noticed anything unusual about
LucilleY'
The old gentleman was deep in that
article on tin-plate which Mr. Snoggle
son had left for him, and he came down
to the trivial details Of life with Il
little shock.
God bless me-" he said, how you
startle me! What's the matter with
Lucille?"
''She has taken Mr. Snoggleson's ear
rings off?'
Has she? Well, she'll put them on
''She didn't wear Mr.. Palgraves ring"
Good taste, I'm sure. It's too big"
''She went to church without Mr.. Mel
lowstone's prayer-book yesterday"
Under this circumstantial evidence
the father laid down his paper and be-
gan to look serious. "Who is it? Huy-
ing?"
NO"
''Dartover?"
mo"
'You don't mean to say De Leonnay
has come back?"
NO"
THE father became solemn and push
ed the paper away Is there somebody
else?
Must be-
"Why?"
Different expression to her eye.
Sings in her own room. Keeps her bu-
reau drawers locked. Never did it be-
FORE Listens over the stair rail when
the postman whistles. Something l
never saw her do in all her life. Hasn't
she chucked you under the chin yet?'
"Chucked me under the chin? No.
What does that mean?"
Means that she knows something
that you don't and feels sorry for you
Does she chuck you under the chin?"
"She did, but it didn't work. Shes
in love- I've noticed it in her hair!"
Good gracious. Is love like tobacco
smoker"
mo, it's like a butter mold. Some
body has told her he didn't like hair
frizzled."
HE must be young and impudent.
Why, Snoggleson never presumed to do
such a thing as that, and she thinks a