Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-12-11
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WISE AT LAST.

lie had run through some ESQ.,
900 or 5000. He had dropped
money on the turf, at the tables,
aud made a fool of himself 10 Va
rious ways; but the fellows who
knew hun best were all OF mind
thAt dear old Harry had never
before made such = fool of hlmsel'
as be did in cOnYertiug little
M>Ia Bromely INTO Mrs. Henry
CApel.
Nevertheless, it was matter OF
opinion. In the theater, in the
dressing r0Oms, there we've not
wanting ladies OF Miss BropIey'S
owu profession Who considered
that the girl was getting a goa 4.
deal he worse Of the barg III.
My DEAR said the glrl who LAY
I'd the Amazon chief lu the highly
successful bHrlesque which had
lust eutered the second year of Its
run. 'Dy dear, take my advice aud
never marry a gentleman! Marry d
nummer for choice or shOpkeeper
or a shOeblack, or best oil all, dOu't
marry anyone, But gentleman's
fatal, aud gentleman without
any money-gocd.Lordv
Words tailed her; she threw up
ner hands warningly, aOd a small
chorus of approval showed that
the house was with her.
All the same little Myra Bromley
did marry her Harry Capel. For
one thing he was the ftst man who
had ever asked her to be his wifi;
aud tor another, she was very
genuinely in lOYe with him, IN
deed.
She migrated from her combined
room' in the Remington quarter to
furnished apartments in Maddox
ST. eet, aud here, oa Lhe hrst door
of a lodging-house, the ill-assorted
couple started Housekeeping.
1t ls scarcely necessary to say
she left the stage. Some things
are inevitable, and one of them Is
that an actress always leaves the
stage when she msrries, and as
| Invariably returns TO it sooner ol
later.
She did not want to leave it, fol
she knew her husbands position
and understood that the ES
week salary that she was drawing
would be very useful to them, but
Mr. Cspel insisted.
MY dear chlld,' he said, lis i
likely l would allow you to re
maini We may not be very husl
just at present, but | am sure VI
shall be comfortable, and 1 shoul'
not know Q moments peace II yo'
continued at the Audacitv a. N.
wife. No, no; we'll i've Quietl'
here for awhile until drop mt
something, and presently, take ~
word TOR it, you will forget yo'
we're an actress at sll.'
AS a matter of fact, the concln
sion was somewhat irrelevant, TO
her desire had been prompted IA
less by any yearnIngs for hlstrlonl
trlumphs thau by the Wish u
augment their slender iDcomt
But she Obeyed, as a wife shoul
and for six months or more he
only visits to the thsater wer'
made IN the dress circle or th
stalls. Sometimes she got orders
and sometimes Mr.. Cspel paid. A
first it was very good tun, the III
accustomed position on the Othe
SIDE Of the foot lights. She OF
K Joy ed the novelty of 1t, her glove
d hands folded and the lorgnstte b
her aide, but by degrees both
the pair began to sigh for the pal
they had relInqulsbsd. The girl
thoughts followed the players
r the dressing.roOms between ii
, acts and the man began to refie'
o moOdjIy that the matrimOnl
bIisses we're 8 shade slow cor
pared with the bachelor frolics
old lang syne.
And be did not drop into an
u thing and their capital ran vel
low. The gingerbread began
70 show through the gilt, and 10 "
stale gingerbread, moreover,
10 least to the man.
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