The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-10-18

understood at once that all this talk
about her was meant for me to hear
we were expected to shake her also.
So 1 skilfuliy put few questions to
find out if the girls knew anything OBJ
jectionable about her character. All
they knew againso her was that her
father was only workman in Cramps
shipyard (he Was we'll paid foreman)
and that she had only two plain dresses,
etc. The only serious crime they could
accuse her of, was that she wore
black stockings in tan shoes. went
to dreaming about the matter, and
thought what would do if now were
a dashing young bachelor. Wouldn't l
take the Camden girl out boat and
buggy riding, get her lovely La France
roses, and. ..... Just here my beau
tiful castle-in-the-air was rudely shat
tered into atoms; a little hand was
placed on my shoulder, and the only
person who owns me stood at my side
and wanted to know if we were going
to the concert OF course, we were
half of US. told my owner that ] had
an engagement, but would get her
three tickets, and she should invite the
Camden lady and Hazel Upham to go
with her, and would come to take the
ladies home. phoned for three seats,
and then l hurried out and intercepted
the three officers, with whom / had be-
come acquainted previously, on their
way to our hotel. Then l took them
with me to Schaupler's Rathskeller
where we had, besides other things. a
game of duplicate whist, which made
last till it was time to call at the "Har-
mony" for the ladies. Well, we men
first bought some line roses and then
escorted the ladies in triumph to the
hotel, where we had table for us
seven brought out on the crowded YER
anda, which table we quickly loaded
with ices, tarts and other good things
from a nearby confectionery, and ther
we commenced to enjoy ourselves in 6
harmless, tho somewhat boisterous
manner, which must have sounded
highly pleasant to the twenty odd lon'
ladies who sat near us. After that, th'
"horrid Camden girl' did not suffer fo
want of friends and admirers. 1t wa
a petty, almost contemplate reveng
for one to take on the slanderous girls
and ought to have felt as mean abou
i. it, as if had saved from drowning
my best friends mother-in-law. Blu
, didn't.
At one of the swell hotels stopped
+. noble Englishman, just over from tn
other side. He would soon be lore
as soon as his sickly old uncle woul
D depart for a better world. It's a
r straight about the title, etc. He told
himself. This green lordling had tw
d girls at our hotel; or rather the gir
Q had him-thought they did. To coul
u two ladies who live under the sam
g roof, is a dangerous undertaking II
{ the courtier; but very amusing to tt
+ onlookers. l found it so. The lor'
9 ling called one of his inamoratas ''m
Dovey" and the other "my Lollipop
t, Real English, dont'cher know? Ever
o time he visited Dewey, Lollipop was
= . jealous frenzy, and vice versa. Whe
n he met both of them together in Il
s. parlor, there was sure to be trouble, |
70 matter how hard Lordling tried to di
tribute his favors in equal shares.
10 was too big job for any man, and o.
u Englishman, on such occasions, did n
% look like a lord, but like the fly in Il
d buttermilk-could not extricate hil
rs self with good grace. No wonder t
sr Door man became distracted-sO d
le tracted that he disappeared one Fl
It, day, even forgetting to pay his hot
le bill. He also forgot to refund a hu
at dred dollar bill, which he had borrow
ht of Lollipop's mama, on the plea that
in remittance from England had been Sc
Ill to Montreal-by mistake of his unc
the lord. He had tried to get a Ii
w amount of Dovey's mama; but got or
m fifty dollars she had with her
lie the time. Mama Lollipop and maj
th Dovey raised big fuss about t
i" money, and the girls cried q great de
el Poor souls! They were not sprl
/ chickens any more snd-it is so hard
u catch e lord nowadays. AS far as