The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-09
HER UNCLE'S JOKE.
From the Boston Post. ]


mo. Kitty; you must never marry
without my consent You are not in
love now, are you?'
why. no, uncle. How could I be
when don't know any one?"
That's so. You didn't have much
chance to fall in love at school and
your vacations were spent with me.
Now, Katy, the man want you to
marry is Mr.. Right.
Mr.. Wright?"
yes. You have never seen him?" he
asked, his eyes twinkling.
mo. 1 don't know any Mr.. Wright
We'll, he's the man I want you to
marry, and if you do you shall have ev-
cry cent of my money"
But, uncle, I have never seen him
and might not care for him. and if I
did perhaps he wouldn't want me-
20, you'll fall in love with him fast
enough, and as for him not wanting
you-why, I'd like to find the man who
couldn't want Kitty Clinton, even if
she didn't have nice pocketful Of
money. But don't worry your pretty
head about him, for there's lots of time.
Charlie Emery is coming here next
week and you can have a good time
with him and we will see about Mr..
Right later on. You remember Charlie,
don't you2"
Yes. indeed, I remember Charlie.
haven't seen him since I was IA and he
was 20. How nice he was to me, al
though was so much younger. But do
you know, uncle, he was in love with
some one, for one day a picture of a
young lady fell from his pocket and
ran away with it" She laughed as she
thought how he had chased her through
the fields, and when worn out she had
dropped down under a tree to have a
look at the picture until he came up,
tired and cross, to claim it. He had
blushed as she handed it back, asking,
rs that the future Mrs. Emery?"
mo, it is Miss Emery, my cousin"
'WelI, you needn't blush so. I'm a
sort of a cousin, too, but you never car
ry my picture with you,' Sc said, get
ting up and going quickly towards the
house. why, Kitty he said, follow
ing her, Il think
70, 1 don't care what you Think she
said, as she started to run. You can
marry her for all I care and she had
gone in the house and never appeared
until after dinner, when she was her
old mischievous self again. He had left
the next morning and she had never
seen him since, but she had heard of
him frequently After graduating from
college he had gone abroad an% but
lately returned Miss Emery had mar
ried a college friend of his. Where did
he keep that picture now?
Now, Kitty" said her uncle, run
away and don't worry about Mr.. Right.
He'll be your ideal, I promise you"
well, well,' he said as she left the
room 4 thought she'd see through the
joke. Guess III let it go now. My ex-
perience is that if you want a couple to
marry, make them think it impossible,
and then nothing can prevent them. Bet
she'll go and fall in love with the man
want her to, thinking Mr.. Right really
exists"
But Kitty did let it worry her, and
again and again she questioned her
uncle about Mr.. Wright (as she believed
his name to be), but his answers gave
her little or no satisfaction. Finally
she determined she would forget him
while Charlie was with them, anyway
When she saw Charlie she said she
would never have taken that bearded
man for the smOoth-faced boy she had
known four summers before. She her
self was the same little sprite, with her
sparkling eyes and mass of dark brown
hair. When she inquired after his fair
cousin" he laughingly replied that he
had spent the last Sunday with her and
Tom. What a chase you led me that
day, and I never told you, but that
night received a letter from home tell
ing me of her marriage, and I was so
cross 1 tore the picture up"
Thus they talked of the past and the