Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-04-26

Love levels ranks" said an old bach
elor clubman, stretching his feet out
comfortably until they touched the OPP
posite ledge OF his favorite curtained
window looking down the outside prom
enade; and when it comes to summer
divorces l find that it is not the moor
bookkeeper who suffers any more than
his millionaire kinsman. If lovely Wo-
man will desert her home as soon as the
air gets pleasant-why, poor man must
suffer for it, and there isn't any grada-
ton according to rank.
remember, continued he. smiling
with lightly yelled glee, dropping in to
see Millionaire George Gould one pleas
ant July day when his family. deserving
nm unceremoniously, had all fed to
the mountains.
MI Gould sat upon a rear verenda
OF his house, with his coat off. irving to
get cool. My call was a business one
put they showed me out to where no
toyed with the breezes with a paIm-leaf
fan.
GOULD'S BACHELOR DINNER
m glad to see YOU said he. and
| want you to stay to dinner. Yes'-as
l began to interrupt him-yes. I well
know that you come on business about
the railroad, but you are going to no
my guest all the same. Fact is 7 cant
eat in summer when my family is away.
II | stay home | nearly starve to death.
Can't eat opposite a figure painted on
the wall"
AT this instant trim maid announc-
ed dinner, and we went into the ponder
Gus dining room. Dinner was laid in
state for two, and I jumped Immediate
ly to the scheme. There was a stand
ing order in that house to serve dinner
the minute a caller happened in, and
thus save Mr.. Gould the horror of a
tete-a-tete with the Cupid over the fire.
place.
After dinner | asked Mr.. Gould
what he did when he was alone to
amuse himself. For answer he whis-
tied three times. There was a scram-
bling, a jumping, a series Of short yelps
and into the room rushed some of the
most splendid hounds I ever saw. They
sprang up to their master and leaped all
over him. One-I think he called her
Czarina-fawned upon his knee and re-
fused to leave his chair when the other
dogs were driven out. That is my
summer amusement when | stay in
town, said the master of the manse.
Hermann Oelrichs," said the old club
man, falling into the easy attitude OF
the man who is telling tales out of
school and doesn't care who hears them.
lis the funniest fellow | ever saw when
he is left in the city in midsummer.
with a million dollars worth of house
upon his hands and a dozen servants.
Instead of repining he sets to work to
have a good time. Hermann is the iol-
lest fellow about having good times.
anyway.
OELRICHS PLAYS BALL.
"Oelrichs is a born athlete. He takes
exercise because he loves to be active.
have known him to play handhall with
himself. ball and the side of the room
for an hour on the hottest day. He
throws thle ball as high as he can.
catches it, losses it again. and gets into
roaring perspiration. Then he takes
a sponge. and goes down town to have
people tell him how fresh and cool he
looks and how well groomed and hand
some he is.
When Oelrichs is at home alone
which isn't often, as he and his wife
are the most devoted married couple in
New York-he turns the whole house
into a gymnasium. Instead Of sulking
and repining like Could, he makes the
best of the situation. He gets up when
he wakens. enjoys his gymnastics. has
a friend in to breakfast. attends to
business. finds a roof garden at night
on top of his house, drinks, smokes and
makes himself think he is having a
good time. If you drop in to see him
before 10 o'clock you will find him in