The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-04-28
On Their
Honeymoon
Funny Things Seen BY q Capitol
Guide

u
I Guide I
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
NEVER noticed such big lot of doves
~ as there are around here this year"
was the observation of capitol guide
the other day.
"Doves?' inquired the man to whom
the remark was made, involuntarl1y
gazing up into the cornices to see If any
of the white birds were visible.
Eyes, doves" repeated the guide.
"Cooers, hand-claspers, ear-Whisperers,
eye-searchers, dark-corner hunters"
"Oh, you mean newly married people
well, what did you think meant?'
said the guide. "Ihaven't seen anything
like 30 many of them in all the 20 years
I've been prowling around this build
ing.
Il took finely feathered pair of them
around the building the other day. They
were New York people, too, and you'd
naturally have thought that living in
that cold-blooded town would have put
enough frappe in them to enable them to
be chilly and naughty and self-contalned
when in the sight and hearing OF
whole lot of other folks.
!, But they weren't chilly and naughty
with each other by the whole size OF
these grounds. They didn't mind the
Little Brighteyes me, either. You'd have
thought that was the star pupil in
deaf, dumb and blind asylum if you had
been around and seen and heard them.
It was the most touching and tender
case of loves middle-aged dream that
ever I came into contact with.
Lucille, dream of my life, said he, 1T
YOU persist in standing in that cruel
draft your little boy will go stark, Staring
mad! OF what possible value would
your poor little bubbsy wubbsy s life be to
him if his 'ittie-bittie Lucille were to get
pneumonia and be carried away up to
the stars by the whitest angel that ever,
and so on-you can fill out the rest your
self. but that was the general line Of e.
Gaping steam that the old boy let out.
"'Never 90 mind, Oodzy-Woobzy,'
she replied 'Baby's not going to cave
her teeny-weeny Bubbsy-boy, and so
on, until, say, I'd have given 1913 to we
been alone in the woods for about min
ute, so that l could bust loose and howl
like a wild man of Borneo.
They're not all cooers, though. l
showed the scrappiest young couple
around the other day that l ever nudged
alongside of. There wasn't a COO In
either of them, and yet could tell by
their makeup that they hadn't been
married more than three days. You
know the way they're rugged: Man with
fearfully brand-new suit. hat, shoes,
gloves and cane, and that wriggly, un-
comfortable look that some fellows wear
when all of their toys are right on the
hook; and the girl, too, with everything
new. from hat to spats, and looking as If
she'd appreciate about ten minutes OF
house-wrapper and slippers whole lot:
well, this pair certainly carried the
brittle chip on their shoulders. They
seemed to be just a-hunting trouble with
each other, and came near spraining
my neck looking dreamily up into the
air while their scraps were In progress.
1T looked to me as If they'd got mar
ried on a bet or to get even with each
other for something.
"Let's go up to the DOME suggested
the girl.
"'Not much said the man. I'm too
strong
"'Well, I'll 60 up alone, then said
she, batting her eyes wickedly.
"'Not to-day you WON'T said he, with
mean man sticking out all over the way
he said it.
"'Oh, l don't know said the girl,
dreamily. Not that I haven't been up
before few times
"'Oh, you have, have your chopped
the man. You never told me that, did
you? Who with, I'd luke to know?'
"'You don't know, do your said she,
with one of those slow smiles some wo-
men use to work man into states pris-
on with.
well, then they had it out some
more, I'm a-telling you. went of into
a corner and pretended to be watching a
spider weaving a web while the battle
was on. Then heard gurgle or two
and it was all right-for while.
ABBOTT three minutes. later started
them for the sub-basement to show
them the machinery. The man made q
little stumble on the dark steps, and he
said d.
"'Do you know whom you ale with,
nray?' incurred the girl, stopping stock
still.
'Er-unfortunately,y yes, he replied,
and began to hunt around for another
| spider to take an interest in for SPELL
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