Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-14
IT WAS VERY SUDDEN.
Hut the Man nt the Telephone Got the An
 swer Ho Wanted

But the Man nt the Telephone Got the Am
 swcr Ho Wanted
 An event has occurred in Michigan, near Detroit, which appears to confirm the idea that courtship as we'll as most other things will hereafter be greatly facilitated by recent inventions. It seems that there is a young lady residing in Detroit who for some time has been the recipient of the attentions of two young men-one a young professor at the Michigan state university at Ann Ar bor and the other a travelling salesman for New York wholesale hardware house, whose route extends through Michigan and parts of Canada
 One day recently the New Yorker ar rived in Detroit late in the afternoon, and of course immediately started to make the rounds of the retail hardware dealers, with the laudable purpose of selling each a good stock for the winter before the representative of any rival concern should put in an appearance. He had hoped to visit the object of his affections in the evenings but business was brisk, and at 6 o'clock found him very busy trying to induce Q prominent dealer to take six dozen axes, four dozen grindstones and Q half carload of wood- en pails. At this stage of tho proceed ings a younger brother of the young lady dropped in to get new jackknife and accidentally mentioned that the Ann Arbor professor was up at the house.
 It instantly occurred to the progress i've hardware and cutlery drummer that the college man came for no other purpose than to lay his heart at the feet of the young lady he himself adored. For a moment there was a struggle in hs heart, but he speedily got control of himself and decided that he could not possibly leave the store, as the dealer was just on tho point of deciding to take the pails.
 But the thought of giving up the lady, who had been for months con stantly in his mind, waking and sleep ing, was unbearable. Light suddenly dawned on him. Handing the merchant a circular explaining the merits of his now double bladed chopping knives, he requested the use of the dealers tele- phone for five minutes, stepped to it and rang up the central office.
 A moment later the telephone bell at the residence of tho young lady rang. sharp and decisive. The professor had been there for an hour talking pleasant ly of tho grand educational work they were doing in the department of fos- silogy at Ann Arbor. When the bell rang, the lady's father being absent he is a physician-she excused herself and proceeded to the adjoining room to answer it. The professor heard her step to the telephone and say "Yes, mako n short pausC and say "Scs" again. Then there was a longer pause, and he heard her reply. "Why-why-real this is very sudden" Then there was n still | longer pause, and he heard her say "Yes, " very softly, and then ''Goudby, :" and then E! . hung up the receiver and came into the back room. Thc college man moved closer to the lady and re- mal kcd that il was n warm evening, l and he thought it was going to rain and then resumed his talk about the great | work at tho university. Fifteen minutes later there was n ling at the front door bell. Thc lady responded to it, and n district messenger boy handed her a plain gold ring, which she slipped on her finger and returned to the parlur. | Miss -" said the professor five minutes later, II want to ask you a very important question this evening Excuse me for putting it bluntly, but will you be my wife?' But we need go no further with this Two minutes later the professor went down the front steps and shook his fist at the telephone wire and took the first train for Ann | Arbor.