St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-05
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Was the Very Unconventional An
swer of the Anglo-Indian Bride.
Exchange.
III all young women were like Miss
Amy Lambert, it would be training TO
parents in the way they should go. Mr..
Lambert, the father OF Miss Amy, was
a signaler in the government telegraph
office at Allahabad, India. Probably he
had been influenced by what he saw Of
life III India. At any rate, he regarded
his daughter much as he did the tele-
graph instruments in his office, With
those he pressed button and it re-
corded whatever he wanted it to. He
expected Miss Amy to do the same.
Finally Mr.. Passana, a dusky gentle
man In the employ or native prince,
iRet the daughter of the SigIaler, and
she pleased him. She was SO emiuently
satisfactory to his fancy that he forth
with announced to her father that lie
wished To marry her.
! The telegraph operator thought it
ever. Court gentlemen, even Ii rather
swarthy ones, were not TO be had every
day, and it behooved the father of u
family Of daughters to allow possible
woOers to come early and often. So ne
announced 10 Miss Amy that her future
was arranged for, and to prepare for the
wedding OLE such and such day.
When the aStoniShed young woman re-
covered from her surprise she assured
! her father that she liked not the rajah's
| brunette courier, and that 10 the best of
| her knowledge the wedding would not
come of. Her father pooh pOOhcd this
| outDurst, told her to draw on him for all
she needed for suitable rousseau, and
! took himself off to drink with his future
! son-in-law.
| Then it was that Miss Amy Lambert
made up her mind as to a course of
| action. During the succeeding weeks,
| although She repeatedly and ~deciSively
told her father that she could not and
would not be happy with MIR. Passana,
she nevertheless, finding that no heed
was paid to her remOnstrances, joined
with Interest in the preparations for the
wedding. At last the day of the
ceremony arrived. Miss Amy Lambert,
! dressed in beautiful new gown, anu
! had more new clothes at home than she
had ever dreamed of possessing all at
once, rode to the church in company with
| her father, who. behOlding her placid
and satisfied face, told himself what
wise father he had been.
"Ali one needs" said the telegraph
operator to himself. lis a little tirmness.
| Silly girls should never be allowed TO
have their own way in these matters"
And all the time the bride-elect smiled
/ softly to herself. as if her thoughts were
| peculiarly pleasant. The clergyman,
Rev. Brook Decides. thought he had
never seen happier-looking couple,
and began the ceremony with the warm
expectation Of a goodly fee. He Dowled
merrily along until he reached the ques-
ton: Twill you have this man to be
! your welded husband?" He expected
ii faint ~ WILL" but was almost
paralyZed to receive an emphatic mega
tive from the young woman, who at the
, same time handed him document
! setting forth some of her objections.
| Of course, the wedding did not come
,, off. The guests dispersed in various
directions, some of them going to condole
with the determined young woman's
| father. who was expected TO be much
dewncast. Strange to say. however,
| he was so delighted with his daughters
strategy that he was quite hilarious
ever the affair. and did not even be-
grudge her the new wardrobe she had
acquired. What became of the bride
gruom, history Gn the shape of the
! AlIahabad News does not record, but
after this he will probably not attempt
to marry an English girl against her
Will.