The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-03-03
THAT CORSET.

The announcement that the Ell.
gagemenl of Teddy ON ara 10 The
rich widow McDona.hue would
have caused less surprise in social
circles il the circumstances which
brought the coult>hip to close
had been more generally known.
Bnt both The lianceS had been dis
Greet. 1t was known that Ted had
been Keeping company with the
wealthy widow. hul what had in
duced her TO depart from her oft
expressed determination never TO
give Pat McDonaghue a successor
was my stery.
If Ted had been young and
handsome her choice might have
been accounted for. But he was
fifty il he was a quarlerol an hour,
and when he dropped a nickel in
the slot the arrow did not stay in
lis motion ill ii had passed the
point of 2GO. His circumference
was longest at The equator. FROM
that llne it tapered up and down
Like many oiher San Franciscans,
Ted had once been rich, bnt hav
ing in an i'll advised moment re-
solved TO get even with that grasp
ing bonanza firm lie had left most
Of his coin on the bleak shore ol
Pine street, and was eking ou' {
small remainder OF his fortune bS
precarious jobs as zeal estate and
insurance broker His symptoms
as the homepathists say, indicated
marriage with a woman of means
And Teddy, who was jovlal, goo'
tempered and full Of fun, did 10
despair Of Carrying conviction tc
the nine Of one of he many Cali
lornia widows whose husbands hat
been judicious enough to die be
fore they lost their money.
After much reconnoitering h'
had fixed his eliltering eye on Mrs
McDonaghue, whose husband hat
been killed in The Bloody Boot
jack mine jus, after he had strucl
rav IRE the widow sold her inter
est in ihe mine for a round NIL
-, lion, and had lived sumptuousl,
on The interest ever since IN
roomy house IN the Mission. Sh
had not children, but she could al
ways find girls TO accompany he
S to ihe park, or 10 the lheater, or [
r the watering places in The season
Like Ted, she had run to adipos(
' None but the descendants Of Long
ilharm could clasp her waist. Fey
chair, could sustain her weigh
Her favorite seal was sofa.
e When she became aware tina
y Teddy was paying her allenlio
G with a view to matrimony she tol
: him that h. was ridiculous.
! "Mislher O'Mara,' sad sh'
s. "there is no carriage bull, in whlc
Is we two could sill side by side.
we walked tie streets arrnm an
S arrum, we'd push every one int
IL the gutter"
IN "Mislhress McDonaghue," sal
i he, "av could hold your warruu
g plump hand in mone, the who
ID worruld might pitch into The gu
nl ter for anything I'd care"
But The widow had been so Ion
er weaned from thoughts of love lhi
er she laughed at Teddy's eush, al
er he made but little progress. |.
he brought her flowers, which 81
on shifted without the least sense
a gratitude to the donor. II
ey brought her candies, which 81
gave to her girl friends. |
~ bough, her lheater tickets, whi'
o. % she accepted on condition that
,e- was not 10 accompany her. "D'.
nd want she would say, 40 have
Ike taken for freaks from the circus
he the fat couple from Oireland il
nd ported n, great eXpinse."
in, She was always glad TO see hil
W. asked him to dinner, and gave hi
h old sherry which The late McDo
aghue had laid in--a sound WI
in which that rogue Ted loved, b
uel when he tried to broach the su
ed .jecl OF his hopes, she made lun
ity him. After a long campaign
on, succeeded in obtaining The pri
E. lege If holding her hand. 1t v
cir u pudgy hand, with short, stub
zen fingers; his own was fat, very I
an so that when he held hers I
'ief clasped hands looked like I
an obese mollusks glued together.
on on There were times when lie
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