Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-12-03
IN ENGAGEMENT broken.
How the WOuld-Be Bride Attended
the Wedding = The Fa.al
Boot.

As I sit writing in my study, I can
hear our Jane humping her way down
stairs with brush and dustpan.
She used in the old days to sing hymn
tunes. or the British national song for
the time being, 10 these instruments,
but laJterly she has been silent and
even careful over her work.
Indeed | would rejoice secretly,
though it may be unmanly weakness
| 10 admit it, even to hear Jane sins
Daisy. TO learn that the period OF
( broOding has come TO an end.
Yet how we longed to hear the last
OF James young man before we heard
! the last of him.
The engagement lasted altogether
three years; yet how she got introduced
/ TO William, and so became thus satur-
/ ated with him. was always a secret.
| For my part. 1 believe it was at the
street corner where the Rev. Barnabus
( BauX used to hold an open air service
after evensOng on Sundays
/ AS Mariana has q reprehensible way
| of letting servants talk 10 her, she soon
heard of him. "He is such a respect
! able young man, ma'am,' said Jane,
/ you don't know
Ignoring the slur cast on her ac-
/ Quaintance, my wife inquired further
/ about this William.
He is second porter at Maynard's,
/ the diapers" said Jane, "and gets
/ eighteen hillings-nearly i've dollars
/ "A week. IN m, and when the head por-
! ter leaves he viii be head porter. His
| relatives are quite superior people,
| MN. His father was greengrosher,
/ MN, and had a chumor, and he was
| bankIup' twice. And one OF his sisters
/ is i'm q home for the dying. Ii viii be a
very good match for me- ma'am, said
| Jane. me being an orphan girl.
"Then you are engaged to him,
/ asked my wife.
Not engaged Fam, but he is say
/ ing money to buy ring -hammyhst.'
Presently the amethyistine rims was
/ being worn about the house, even with
] was evident
william. ma'am. said Jane, one
! ostentatiOn and developed o new way
of bringing the Joint so that this gage
day. suddenly with ill-concealed conf
J placcncy. as she counted out the beer
bottles William, ma'am, is q tee
/ tOtaller Yes. MN; and he don't
smoke. Smoking. ma'am,' said Jane,
! as one who reads the heart, do make
such dust about. Besides the waste
of money. And the smell. However
/ l suppose its necessary to some.
William AT first was rather shabby
/ young man Of the ready made black
D Of had
gray eyes and complexion 2pproDri-
ate TO the brother of one in home
for the dying.
HE goes to chapel said Jane. His
/ papa, ma'am'-
Ills what, Jane?'
His papa. ma'am, was Church; but
Mr.. Maynard is q Plymouth brother
and William thinks it policy. ma'am,
10 so there. too Mrs Maynard comes
and talks to him quite friendly, when
/ they amt busy about using up all the
ends OF string and about his soul. lie
takes q lot of notice. do Mr.. Maynard,
/ OF William. and the way ne saves string
and his soul, ma am.
Presently we heard that the head por-
ter at Maynard's lad LETT and that VIII
liam was head porter, at i've dollars
and seVenjy-tiya cents week.
She promised in the pride CT her
heart 10 make interest for us with Viii
liam to favor us 50 that we might get
our parcels OF drapery from Maynard S
with exceptional promptitude
One Sunday afternoon about that
time I was sitting ut my writing desk
possibly / was reading @ good book
when a something weat by the window.
l heard a startled exclamation be
hind me. and saw Mariana with her
hands clasped together and her eyes
diia-ed.
George. 80 she said in an awe-stricken
whisper. did Won see?'
Then we both spoke TO one another at
the same moment, slowly and solemn
ly:-
A silk hat! Yellow gloves. A new
! umbrella"
1T may be ny fancy, dear said
| Mariana. "hut his tie was very Like
vours. believe Jane keeps him in ties.
She told me a little while ago, in way
that implied volumes, about the rest Of
vOur costume. That master do wear
pretty ties. maam And he echoes all
your novelties.
They were arm in arm. Jane locked
| exouisitely proud, happy, and uncom-
fortabip with new white cotton gloves,
and William. in the silk hat singularly
genteel
That was the elimination Of James
bappiness. When she returned. Mr.
MAYNARD had been talking to William.
| -,,s'er, " she said. "aud he is to serve
! customers. just like the young shop gen
/ tlemen. during the next sale. And II
he re+s ON he is TO be made an assist
amt ma'am. at the first opportunity.
MIR MAYNARD has took great fancy TO
him.
That next Sunday. as drank my TEA
I interrogated my wife.
GLOW is this Sunday different from
all other Sundays. little woman? what
has happened? Are you wearing your
/ hair I'm new way without warning me
= clearly perceiye a change in my en-
vir9nment. and / cannot for the lie oil
me say what it is.
Then nv wife answered in her most
tragic voice: George, she said. that
that William has not come near the
Mace to-day, And Jane is crying her
heart ont upstairs.
There followed a period of silence.
lane. as 1 have said. stopped singing
9bout The house. and began 10 care for
onr brittle possessions, which struck
INV wife as being a very sad sign IN
deed. 1oro
asl[sd tn 90 out. TO walk with William,
and INV wife. who never attempts to