The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-05-30
FALLING IN LOVE.

The first time I saw Mrs. Periwinkle
was when she was sweet TO-" 1t was at
party my sister gave to her schoolmates,
and Amelia Ann, for that was the dear
creatures name. was the divinity of the
evening. She wore a blue dress-I shall
never forget that dress-which was low
cut in the neck, showing pair of the
whifest, roundest and most polished shout
ders in the world, and she had long golden
Eingiets that flowed down her back-in
short thought had never seen anything
half so angelic
Perhaps she was as much impressed by
my appearance-she has often since told
me she was-for she allowed me to dance
with her almost every set, said yes to
everything 1 proposed and drank glass of
champagne at supper at my request,
though insisting that she had never done
such a wicked thing in her life before.
When Harry Hanson spoke to her and
asked her to eat a philOpena with him I
felt as if I could have Knocked him down.
Dear creaturel I heard her afterward re-
fuse to let him see her home and shall
mover forget how chopfallen he looked
when she said, with toss of the head;
emo, thank you. I'm engaged
It was I that escorted her to her fathers
door, and when she asked me in I didn't
know for minute whether 1 stood on my
head or on my feet. But declined, plead
ing the late hour. On my way home I
WUASl4GQ. sang anu 0CCdSlDL1AlY GHuC1l
Never had felt so happy 1t seemed as If
I could almost dy. Oh, Amelia Amp
I kept repeating, thinking what q pretty
name it was, and then I would break out
into Zip Coon" or perhaps Dan Tuck
er, till at last a watohman, tapping me
on the shoulder, told me not to ''cut them
shines. 3" or he'd take me up for being tip
sy. Frightened half out of my wits, I gave
him a dollar and had the satisfaction of
hearing him growl out in return that he
saw I was a gentleman, f'vich saved my
bacon.
reached home and began to undress
but had to stop, with a stocking half way
off, to try and recall how Amelia Ann
looked shut my eyes and leaned back
dreamingly in my chair to call up salts
factorily the image of her plump shoulders
and round white arms. 1t was bitter
cold night, but in spite of it I paused in
turning down the sheets, and when one
foot was already raised to get into bed
for it suddenly struck me that perhaps
Amelia Ann was thinking of me at that
very IN oments yes, sitting abstractedly be-
fore her chamber fire. all in virgin white
blushing and Illuminating tAh, dear
Amelia Ami" I calculated, clasping the
Dir and dropping the coverlid, and in that
ecstasy stood till the cold bit mo like a
pair of nippers in 10, 600 places at once
and then popped into bed, and, curling
up like "a whiplaRh, repeated, Lovely
Amelia Annp' till, falling asleep, I
dreamed of her all night.
called three times that week to see her.
She played on the piano divinely and sang
like q St. Cecilia. Her ''Last Rose of
Summer was enchanting, better than
Jenny Lind's, I thought. L have never
forgiven her two bOisterOus brothers, who
used to talk aloud while she sang, and
who, even when silent, never listened to
her The rude boorsl
The second week I knew Amelia Ann I
spent every evening but one with her, and
then she had headache and could SEQ no
body. How 1 walked up and down on the
other side of the way, looking up at the
windows which I knew to be hers, and
where a light was burningl Once or twice
q shadow was reflected on the curtain, and
that was almost as good as seeing her.
Dearest Amelia Annr' I said. Of I
could only have your headache for your
The next Sunday I proposed. Every
body but we two had COMO to church, and
we remained at homo to read "Lalla
Rookh" can still point out the exact
spot on the back parlor sofa where she sat
when she promised to be mine.
We have been married five years, but
somehow or other she doesn' caro- for dress
any more, and as for poetry she declares
It's trash" Her hair is worn plain and
often looks frouzy, but she says it's i'm
possible, with all her family, to be fixing
it forever In truth, our three darlings &C
cupy so much of her attention that she
has time for nothing. She never opens the
piano. ''She does not know the new
pieces, she says, and is tired of the old
ones"
She often tells mo it is a wonder she
looks as well as she does, considering the
troubles OF housekeeping, especially the
perversity Of children and the difficulty of
keeping servants. Her cares she declares
arc wearing out her life so THAI I CON
slider it q miracle she survives at all 1t is
true endeavor to tighten the load for her
by nursing the baby all the evening and
getting up at night to carry it if it cries
1 allow her, too, unlimited credit at the
milliner S, for she vows she could not be
happy without four new bonnets d year.
/ used to think, before we were married,
that she lived on air, perhaps like q cha
meleon or without eating But she has an
excellent appetite now. If it was not for
that, she says, she would long since have
sunk under her troubles
She was very fond of porter till she
joined a temperance society, since which
time she has found great benefit in drink
ing the strongest black tea She has cor
tain dishes which are quite favorites with
her for it was but yesterday she said:
BE sure you come home to dinner, love,
for we are going to have what I like above
all things - beefsteak smOthered in
onions
And thus I fell in love with a blue dress
and white shoulders, that beofsteak and
onions might come of 1t. - New York
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