Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-06-18

he knows you are here every day 1t
is so romantic, too, to ask a girls
father for her in typewriter letter.
1T doesn't have TO be typewritten,'
l responded, gloomily
Do you suppose pa would give up
his evening paper to worry over your
handwriting?
THAT was facer, but it was de-
served. l had to give up the letter
writing scheme.
Couldn't just drop into the office
casually, hand him a good cigar and
ask him them
She sighed YEARLY.
PA would just look over his spec
tacles at you and growl out: Well.
young man, I'm very busy. What can
do for you?" You'd run. know you-
Besides he always has three clerks in
the Office with him: you don't want to
ask him before them, do your
Couldn't meet him on a corners'
this was the desperation of weak
ness and / showed ii in my voice and
manner.
He doesn't wait on corners, as a
general thing, for young men to come
up and ask him for his only daughter
Thought the Matter Over
Then / meditated a little. As long
as it had to come it seemed to me,
that perhaps it might inst as we'll
come then.
Il had not slept for two or three
nights worrying over it, so said with
assumed courage: Where is hep She
pointed toward the door that led into
the library. Then she turned away
and buried her head in the sofa cnsh-
ions.
Il thought at the time she was lit
tie worried herself, Notwithstanding
her apparent surety, but believe that
confided to me that she never saw any
one with such woebegone face as I
had, and her sense of humor is won
derfully acute.
1T Is easy to imagine that a man
who has lived through his days of SEN
timent and is busted with money-get-
ting and the rise and fall of stocks
only must find it little ridiculous to-
have young man speak of his daugh-
ter, with whose shortcomings he has
been acquainted for many years, as the
fireside angel, the only comforter, the
JOY of the home and similar compli-
mentary terms.
But so long as it was incumbent
upon me to do as Fan wished 1 had
determined to do it in style. l would
make just as flowery a speech as ii
was possible-one that / would not be
ashamed to repeat 20 Fan when l re-
turned. l had practically tabuIated il
in the night watches, but in the trip
from drawin-room to library went ALI
over 1t again. 1t ran, as near as I
can remember, something like this-
Have sowed my wild oats; not an
oat since ! met your lovely daughseE-
Attracted many times; susceutEnaG
to beauty in its various phases Per
haps, sir, you can understand this.
having been-sh!
Never really loved but one-her
Bright star of hope; the only girl-
"A dutiful, loving son-to be-
Income, $4,000.
=" 'Prospe grandfather, 81, feeble
'Family-simply delightful. She
will be daughter,
I'VE love each other
Now, don't think that was bad for
starter; of course, intended to am
plify it little and make it less STAG
cato in style.
But someway when / looked in the
den and saw him sitting there reading
a book, his feet in his slippers and the
evening paper by his side, my new
found eloquence simply dried up.
couldn't think Of thing to say.
Il felt in my pocket for cigar.
remembered all at once that Nip had
gone down two shares and remem-
bered that Fan in burst of confidence
one day told me that pa was deeply.
interested in Nip
He had his pipe in his mouth and
he was biting it hard. | ratified the
curtain little, but he apparently did
not hear.
Then I coughed, still he did not
hear
AT last ! mustered my few flicker
ing CLEANS of courage
Would you be so good?' / STAN
mered.
He looked up and then glanced at
me over his spectacles-you know the
way an older man does when he wants
to make a younger one feel as if he
were as green as pickles. He gazed at
me fully minute and / stood there.
turning at least three different colors..
Then he yawned a little.
You want FAM? he said. Her
mother told me. ! hope you'll be hap
py Make yourself perfectly at home
He shook me by the hand, keeping
MS other in its place in the book.
THAT was all.
Then | went back to Fan. don't
MINK ! ever felt smaller. | deter
mined to get even with him some time
when We ruara haiti.