The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-01
courtship in a Flat.

It was at a meeting Of the Young Wo-
mans Progressive Political Association,
says the Chicago Tribune. They greeted
each other with an explosive kiss.
L haven't seen you for ages, you dear
thing. said a girl with the poppies in her
hat. II m so glad you came to-day-this
is 10 be a perfectly ideal meeting. Are
you married yet2'
No; and I'm not likely to be as long as
the ostrich boa I'D like to have, Let
all who enter here leave all hope be
hind, carved over the entrance to our
building
II you want a responsive shoulder to
weep on here is mine. 1, too, live in a
fiat, and when our landlord wanted new
name for +Ae building I suggested the
Anu Matrimoniai-he declined tt,though,
said it might affect the popularity of 'em.
| JUST nate nat O.. yes, We have steam
heat, gas. range
Hardwood mantels, porcelain bath
llled hearths, electric bells, and all
modern conVenlences, grOaned the girl
with the peoples. "Oh, don't you make
Our fiat has no doors at all. only por-
tieries moaned the girl with the feather
boa, 'and only the man who doesn't
mean anything by It is bold enough to
make love TO girl when a member of
her family may be in ambush behind each
curtain"
Il know. And the awful things that
happen 10 one when one is temporarily
Isolated from ones best clothes 1 was once
caught IN the bedroom which opens OF
the parlor with all my decent gowns in
a wardrobe at the back Of the fiat and a
swell New Yorker, who had only one
DAY IN town, waiting in the parlor to see
me. 1 QOn know what would have hap
pened If Minnie hadn't gone up TO the
nat above and lowered my tea gown out of
the window in a basket"
That's nothing. j had been washing
my hair in the bathroom one day, and
had left part Of il there to dry. I fled to
my own room, which also opens off the
paflor, at a sound of the door bell. 1t
was Jim, and mamma had to bring me
my hair in hand sachel before could
go IN &c.,,
down my back while Burt was waiting
for me in the next room. and dared not
scream lest he find out what 1 was do
ing.
That comes Of. a man having no sister
to familiarize-"
Nothing of the sort. 1t is the fault
We'll. maybe so. Alma has made her
rather move to the suburbs and take a
whole house"
married"
quite likely. Did you hear how she lost
NiCtOr2''
NO; do tell me-"
He was calling on her the very evening
before she left on that trip to Kansas,
and she had strong hopes that he would
commit himself. just about as il was time
Tor him to go, a great hubbub of voices
arose in the next room, and, under cover
Of IL he said: All. Miss Alma-could-
could-could YOU"
Yes, yes; go Onu
Just then her fathers voice rose loud
and clear I tell you now he was say
ing, this thing has got to stop! Alma s
extravaganza is enough to ruin any man.
NO wonder she is "a and can't Her
mother stopped him there, but it was too
late. Alma asked Victor what he was GO
ing to say, and he stammered out: Could
could you tell me what time it is2''
"Porr Almai And know that by the
time she got back from Kansas he was
engaged to that little school teacher, who
makes over her dresses twice and puts
her money in the bank"
Yes. O. my goodnessi They are all
going, and We haven't heard a word they
said; They were going to discuss the most
vital question of the day, and"
For my part, the question we have been
discussing is vital enough for me-" re-
Piled the girl with peoples in her hat
and there We're tears in her eyes as she
said it.