Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-07-09

$50 S+i "CoIlAS SuOIluOdS SlduU-up col
lars. l call that want of perception
if you like I wouldn't be personal for
the world, but l have seen men with
longer necks. When you want to speak
to your neighbor you have 10 twist YOUR
whole body. 1t makes me die with
. laughing to see you"
Delighted 70 afford you so much
amusement. Sorry 1 make myself 50
r1dlculousi You are excessively polite
I'm suren'
! You were a great deal worse YOUR
self. You said that l.
Nothing CT the kind! You misun-
derslcod me. I simply remarked"
Don't contradict. You said I was
an ugly thing. and that it exasperotod
you only to see me. You did. 1t makes
1t worse tc deny it. can't think how
you can look me in the facet
Why get excited? It's really not
worth while, and you will make your
self hot. It's not becoming to be hot
was about to say. when you So rudeIy
interrupted me, that you had misunder-
stood the meaning Of my remarks 7
simply Observed"
I don't care a little bit what Won OH
served. l am not going to talk to Won
any lorser. Good afternoon. CAPTAIN
May you needn't dance with me at
Lady Bottoms this evening. as nv hair
annoys you so muchr
l shall ask Miss Cunliffe instead
She is capital Walter. Your mother
IS waiting for you at the door. Fourth
and sixth, wasn't it, and the first en-
IRA! L must ask her at once, as she is
so much engaged Good afternoon
then, Miss Blanchard, if you will 60
and as the good little boys say, Thank
you so much for the pleasant after
n0Onr"
On the Way Home-Her SOlilouuy.
He never thought of such a thing
1t never occurred to him to think of her
in that light. Hateful creature! And
why not, should like to know? Doesn't
he think I'm nice? 4 < Il never cared
for him, but he has no business not to
like me. What hOrrid taste!
"And to talk of a dozen other girls!
That means Lucie Charvie, I suppose.
and Adeline Rowe. have noticed that
he dances with them. l don't see
why he should like them better than
me. I'm the prettiest, and | can be aw-
fully nice if | like. | have never seen /
really nice to him-not my very incest. !
or he wouldn't have talked as he aid
today. x :: x l might try the effect this /
evening. !
L meant to be offended, but perhaps !
the other would have more effect. II
believe I'll try it. No one can ever say
that l am a flirt, but there are occasions |
when it is girls duty TO teach a man |
9 lesson, and he had no business 10 gay !
that about my hair. = = | wonder ii !
he was right? He has awfully good !
taste, as a rule
Il believe, after all, it would be .
rather becoming. I'll get Elsie to .
try tonight. and wear my new dress,
and the pearls, and I'll say to him the
very first thing that I'm sorry, and ask
him to dance with me all the same.
Then, when he sees how nice I am ne |
will be veXed with himself for being
SO nasty. 1t will do him no end of
good.
I'D give worlds if he would only pro-
I'd refuse him, of course, but that |
wouldn't matter; it would be kind Of |
me to take the trouble, because it is
dreadful to see a man so cOnceited, and,
if it were not for that, he would be
quite charming I'll begin ;his
evening. How exciting! Poor Captain
May"
His SOliloquy.
"She looked disgracefully pretty,
like putting a girl in a good
rage to see what she's made
Of. [ never knew she had so much in
her before. And she would lust as
soon think of falling in love with the
man in the moon, would she? That's
pretty tall! Hang it, all! why do they
Put things in a fellows head? I was
happy enough before, and now this has
unsettled me altogether * 4: = A man
may not want to marry a girl, but that
no reason why she should be so precious
Indifferent.
Il always fancied that she had a Dc
cided weakness. = So she wants to
laugh at me, does she? Little wretch
She is always up to some mischief
'rI wouldn't object if it was at some
other fellow, for those dimples are un-
commonly fetching.
81 believe she is right about the col
lars, all the same-thought so myself
more than once If another shape
would suit me better, it seems absurd
to stick to these. Man in the moon
ch? Humph! Well, it doesn't do to
be too awfully sure, it's bad thing 10
get into the way of boasting. How
would it be if I took her in hand, and
tried to work cure? Do her all the
good in the world to be brought down
a peg or two, and lind her own level,
and the process would rot be unpleas-
ant. Hi, cabby! stop at the first decent
hosier's you come to, I want to get out"
Extract from the time of four months
later:
On the 2Sth instant, at st. Georges,
Hanover square, by Ri. Rev the bishop
Of OXbridge, assisted by Rev. Noel
the brother of the bride,
Cyril Aubrey May, captain of Royal
Horse guards, second son of James
Eaton May, Esq, of Brompton manor,
Hants, to Phyllis Mary Olivia, only
daughter of Major Blanchard of Bar
combe. County Wicklow, and FIoraire.
London Sketch