The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-02-24
How ] Got Mixed
In = Love Affair.


Len hlebm9aQ down on d Visit aud III.
troduced hhu to my cousin. Myra
Ducher haYe regretted having done
So Len is 40 excellent fellow. rather
inclined 70 leqk upon every incident or
episode seriously and in matter Of
fact light. would as soon think or
cracking j9lze to an owl Myra is a
good girl, bit nature did not endow
her with avsfage beauty Indeed, she
is homely.
lost my parents early aud was
brought up By my aunt. Eliza Ducher.
being Deholden to her and her family
for everything had till came Of age.
Therefore when brought Richmond
home and saw what were at least TO
me unmistaksble signs that Myra had
fallen IA love with him and that be
was not likely to return her devotion
felt As * | had committed a crime
True, there was nothing against her
but her homellness, for she was a ane
character and had a winning way with
her, Len. too was not handsome lie
was lean. Fed headed. freekled chap.
With long neck and sioping shoulders.
But nobody lpoks for beauty 10 man
lie was conscientious as mule. One
day be came 10 me with a long face
and said he wished to consult me about
very important matter. We were sit
ting on the porch. the doors aud win
dows all open, and he spoke IN a low
tone. He told me that he had reason
to suspect, what considered a fore
gone conclusion, that he had nninicii-
tionally won Myras heart and that be
could not possibly return that love for
the sole reasen Of her homelIness.
What was ! to do? The only course
for me was to convince him that his
reason was no reason at all. Then IL
his inclination moved him toward the
girl all would come out right
Len" said. Il have heard that the
best marriages follow from diyersities
between the man and the woman. A
quick tempered woman should have
long suffering husband, an fmpulsiye
man woman Of self control, home
Iy wife, paused Dare utter the /
thought had in mind7 Then / blurt
ed. "A good looking husband"
Len said nothing for several minutes.
Nor did !. / was waiting to see II he I
would swallow the dose.
"You mean be said modestiy. that
! should not marry beautiful wo-
man.
That's exactly what l mean"
Then he cut me to the quick. Il have
always felt perfect confidence he
said, "that anything coming from you
is absolute truth. No other being could
make me believe that am anything
more as to LOOKS than an average man.
WINGED, but the happiness of two
people was at stake.
Average / said. Average by no
means expresses it. / took conscious
comfort IN the fact that his appearance
was far below the average
Len intimated to me that my cousins
homelinegs should not stand III hls way
If he felt inclaned to make her his
wife. He did not speak to her, how
ever. at the time, and fancied be was
waiting for the spirit to move him He
came down again IN a month and made
his proposal. He came to me immedi-
ately after having done SO and sur
prised me by telling me that he had
been refused
And what do you suppose. he add
ed, Els her reason9'
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'She says that have every require
ment to please her fancy save one i
begged her to tell me what that one
deficiency is, and she at last said that ,
she had always faneied homely men. |
wouldn't do
"You don't mean iti7 exclaimed.
aghast {
YES. and she added: Now, there's
my cousin. For looks he'd suit me ex-
actIy'r
The hot blood rushed into my cheeks, /
then suddenly rushed out again. Then I
/ wanted to laugh 1t didn't take me
long to discover reason for this sin
gular apparent coincidence. While Len
and / had been talking on the porch
the mink had been listening at an up
per window
Richmond stood looking at me rue
fully, giving no evidence whatever that
he had even The faintest glimpse Of the
ruth.
Len" | said, IF | we're sou I'd 20
home and think 10 more about it. ATT
II all. 1t would be rather hard for you
q pass your life with d honelg WON
III. Besides. every body nowadays says 4
hat marriage is a failure. 1t doubles +
,ur sorrows aud halves our joys
/ didn't succeed IN getting any com Il
.oft into him, but be went home all 4
liz same. and turned my attention to II
sfyfa isl
nm one Of the fellows who marched =
II sen Juan hill tn Cuba. bnt' II was q
lothlng 70 going to my cousin e try to 4
indo what had done. For every word =
smoke she sent baek AZ answer Hike +
Mauser bullet. At last losing my
emper. + said: es
aTousd beiter take me. You say I'm b
lonely enor = to suit you =
what did she do but turn her head =
way from DE and stare az the door, =
Great haayens Had | been bark 4,
ne up the wrong trees Had she been +,
,sing Rlchndad FOR a foilg Anyway 81
,ere was leautlful broad road out Of 81
be dilemma i brought np q regiment hi
i Cupids ana poured q rafting volley
y love pelles at her that broke her
Town entirely