The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-12-25

On unwrapping my package | found it contained
handsome green plush album for photogra phs. with
portrait OF Johanna the front and in very large
handwriting inscribed the words prom Johanna
10 Her Hero"
was rather embarrassed by this mark Of attention.
for somehow seemed to have gone OF Johanna.
to speak.
The ornamental fruit which / he'd bought as a pres
ent for her had been sent to the hospital the day
after the accident quite uninjured. and decided -
send it TO Nette.
Just as l had got the nurse to neatly wrap and
address it, and had arranged with myself 10
the mumpy cherup she much admired New
Years gift for her she entered-ttIo Neie. looking
but her.
She advanced timidly
"Oh, Mr.. Grappler' she cried. What | %.
or give or say to thank you?'
Then it that the supreme heights.
Never on the stage have seen more dramatic sit
uauon than would have been presented onlooker
at that time if any had been present.
"Antoinette." l exclaimed. give Your heart and
hand not in payment, dear, but as Christmas gift.
Antonette love you"
She dropped her knees beside my bed: and thyh
she told me shyy and sweetly that she had alwaSs-
been interested in since her broer told her of the
loan made him. She had alwh avg known / a IA
vorite at Office, and whenl she met she liked
me, but-here she hid her face-"what of Johanna"
Oh, woman! Capricious, loving lovely woman!
Forget Johanna" | said "as / have What kind
OF ring will get you, Nette -
Would you believe it, the thoughtlcss girl an
swered. Il like pearls and diamonds"
| was amazed. but women all like squaws ever
eager to bedeck themselves with shining beads and
tails of animals and feathers for their hair
Then Nettie produced parcel. This Is for you.
will please you she said
l thought hex sentiments we'll expressed
Thanking her opened the gift and discovered big
purple grapes apples and bananas exact duplicate
of my fruit piece
was delighted, although very much surprised at
Nettie spending so much money, and then Tium-
phantly handed her my offering.
When she received 1t she tried to thank me- but
bad attack of neuralgia came
l put my uninjured arm around her II certainly
do think love Horatio. she said. and laughed
right in my face.
I do not think l altogether understand women
but like them just as we'll as IL did
l found the foregoing in a memorandum book OF
mine to-day. 1t was written just three years
and a month later. with arm still in sling, I
married my little Nettie.
Our firm has raised my salary year Fortune
smiles upon us, and We are very happy.
/ seem to have changed someway lately for ! like
comedies now; and this Christmas | gave my wife
seaskin sack. fear that rather extrayagant on
my part, though Nettie thinks otherwise
Nettie sho asenever more pleased in her life
than when she heard me after the Christmas din
yesterday that was satisfied up where Mary
tied the beads" i rather ashamed of myself
learned that remark from Curly suppose
Neither do seem to admire that fruit piece much
now. l wanted to remove ii from our sdeboard but
Nette said. NO, dear let 1t stay ii shows really
loved you
I should have thought it showed I loved her: but
woman! woman!-who fathom the strange say
ings that emanate from their fair lips.
asked Nettie about that sample of the genus homo
OF which the reading OF interesting little memoirs
reminded
am sorry to say she had slight touch OF her old
enemy, from which she seldom suffers nowadays:
when she recovered she uttered these engmac words
Il got sample for myself after that. Horatio.
liked it we'll and want other"
Then she kissed
Thou art the man. - she said
Now l wonder what she meant