The record-union., 1895-05-11
BOBBY GAYLARK'O sore HEART.
Il Has Been Cured by One of the
Other Boarders.
'Beselena's' Gossip About the People
at the Hotel and Bobby's Love
Affairs Particularly.

Especial Correspondence of RECoRD-UNIoN.l
PORTLAND Orr, May lobby Gay
lark is married. and this is how it all
happened. But before go into details 1
must ask if you remember Bobby, whom
told you about few months ago? ? But
ii you do not. then TA freshen your
memory little by saying that Bobby is the
young man who fell so desperately in love
with the pretty typewriter who proved
to be married. This was great shock
to poor Bobby's feelings. as he had run
almost frightfully into debt on her &C
count, buying her flowers and gum and
all such delicacies After she left with
her great red bearded husband everyone
thought Bobby would certainly get moth
ing short of brain fever. He didn't eat
anything for a week, and didn't even
have energy enough to write the senti-
mental doggerel, or poetry. as he called
it, or even write wretched melancholy
epitaph.
Miss Gaylark noted these symptoms
with growing alarm. Something must
be- done, and that quickly. The women
in the house were looking at Bobby and
even at Miss Gaylark in that "I-told-
you-so" manner which only women can
the woman who has to bear the look.
Mrs. De We're, who showed her feelings
on her somewhat too expressive face,
didn't say anything; words were not
needed in her case, but her looks spoke
such volumes that Bobby's sister con-
fided to her bosom friend that she just
longed TO pinch Mrs. De We're. The tall,
angular woman, who really oughtn't to
have been married at ALL took every oc-
casion to lecture Bobby on the fckleness
of the fair sex, especially those who were
doomed" by prettiness. The tall, an
gular woman used The word doomed"
and seemed to gloat over 1t In posi-
lively fiendiSh manner. She said that
women who were doomed with pretty
faces' were quite unstable and not to be
relied upon at all, and lectured against
typewriters in general, and pretty women
in particular, until Bobby got SO desper-
ate that he fed at her approach.
Then the bride began TO tell Bobby in
a sweetly sympathetic way how very
soary she was that he could not be as
happy as she and her Fred. but instead
of being consoled Bobby only found her
conversation maddening.
And then the men; if the women were
provoking, the men were worse, lnfin-
itely worse. They would clap Bobby on
the back, a proceeding which he resented
with all his heart, and tell him to cheer
up and not look so down in the mouth;
that there were other women in the world
beside pretty and alluring typewriters.
Then they would laugh and walk
away leaving Bobby speechless with
indignation. He didn't see why the
people in the house should med
die in his affairs anyway. What
right had they to be glad or sorry for him?
Suppose he had fallen in love with Fiji
Island girl, or kanaka, or an Egyptian
dancing girl, what business would it be
of theirs?
Bobby worked himself into fine
frenzy over his grievances. and this was
the only thing that kept him from getting
downright i'll. He Stunned the boarders
of the house and fled precipitately at the
rustic Of a feminine petticoat or the sound
of a manly tread. He was gradually
becoming a veritable hermit, and might
have developed into no end of misan-
thrope if the little woman with the rings
hadn't taken pity on his forlorn condi-
tion and been very sweet and very SYM
pathetic to him. She didn't extend her
sympathy in the intensely aggravating
way the bride did, but hers was more
subtle than open and was felt more than
seen. Thus it came about that Bobby
gave up his wild ideas of marrying can