Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-04-06
TABLES TURNED
ON THE GIRLS, BUT THEY DON'T
KNOW IT.
Planned to April Fool Young Man
and He Fooled Them
Nicelv

Nicely.
With the advent of April ! that day
of all days when levity and mlschiel
are in the air, two charming young Ia
dies of this city conceived what they
thought to be a rare April 1901 joke
upon popular young business man.
who among other writings, writes IN
surance. The idea is said to have or
iginated by them one evening pre-
yious to April /, when the young man
in question called on the two young
ladies. In the course OF the evening
the name of Little Rock social ia
vorite. with whom the young man Is
much enamored, was mentioned. AS
soon as her name was brought INTO
the conversation, the young man IS
said to have given full sway to me-
choice vocabulary until the lateness CT
the hour compelled his departure he
described her beauty and chafms III
glowing terms. He poured forth sueh
a rhapsody of words expressive OF his
!
trancod. They had never in lyric
verse read anything SO touching or
expressive.
But when he had bade goodnight to
them they resolved to do something
which would take him down few
The 1st of April was approaching and
their time was near at hand. Bright
and early they were about that morn
ing making preparations for their
coup.
The first thing on the program was
the formulation of note. 1t read
something like this: Dear -: l
will come to Pine Bluff tonight on the
1928 train.
(Signed) g..
The note was then transferred to a
sheet of Western Union Telegraph
stationery and messenger boy was
called in and given directions as to
where the message was to go.
It was received and perused in due
time. On first reading the young
mans countenance became radiant
with smiles, and so delighted was he
that he began to sing. Then he looked
again. The expression on his face
fell fiat to zero. Then he recovered
and presently there was a knowing
twinkle in his eyes. Being accus-
toned to the use of telegraph station
cry. he had discovered something. 1t
was written on sender's paper. in.
stead of receivers. and his careful eye
had detected the error. And then it
was gotten up crudely. He held his
arm to his face and for several min
utes laughed in his sleeve. The iden-
tity was at once apparent to him and
he determined to have little amuse.
ment himself over the affair
That same evening he telephoned
the two young ladies, and, after talk
ing with them for several minutes, he
told them in very casual way of the
telegram, and invited them to accom-.
pany hi INTO the train to meet his in
amorata. Plausible excuses were pre-
sented by the young ladies, and that
ended the telegram episode as far as
the young man was concerned.
But the deluded girls are still of the
opinion that he met the 1928 train
that night, as will be observed from
the following epistle, written by therl
to the Graphic.
eve have recently learned that {
certain young insurance man got his
business in a jam on April l. II
seems that he expected his fair one
from the City of Roses on the night
train, and, having been notified she
was coming he became so bumfuZzled
that he broke an engagement with
one of Pine Bluffs fair damsels and
rushed to the station in the best ri;'
the city afforded, only to return by
his lonesome We traced it up. old
boy. only to find you were April
fooled
J The young man has all these days
chuckled over the affair whenever he
+ thought of it, and the girls have
laughed, too. He was wise and they
l were unsuspecting, and there the ST :,
! lends. r f.:
I If yn,, advorfico porc}c%o~&1Ra,