The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-05
By SEWELL FORD
Copyrighted y the ASSOCIATED Sunday Magazines incorporated

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old man said Rosy knew.
IF she was an actorine." says /,
shed be apt to steer him to the place
where they has most OF their splicin'
| done. Why not try there?"
Good idea," says he. and we lights
out hot foot for the Little Church
Around the Corner.
And say. Talk about your long
shots. AS we piles out what should
see but the carrotty topped night
hawk that'd' had Rosy and me for
fares earlier in the evenin'.
You're a winner" says I to the
old man. ITS case of waitin' at
the church Ten to one you'll find Ros-
sitter inside"
1t wigs scinch. Rosy was the first
! one we saw asNYe got into the ante
room.
1t want what you'd call a real af-
fectionate meetin'. The old man steps
up and eyes him for a minute. like
dyspeptic lookin' at a piece of overdone
steak in a restaurant, and then he re-
marks: What blasted nonsense is
this. sir?"
why" says Rosy. shiftin' from one
foot to the other. and GRIMM fool
isher'n / ever saw him grin before
why, / just thought I'd get married,
that's ALL
That's all, eh?" says the old man.
and you could have filed a saw with
his voice. Sort of a happy inspiration
of the moment, was it,"
We'll" says Rosy, "not-not exact
ly that.s I'd been thinking OF it for
sometime. sir
1.-THE deuce you says!" says the old
man.
II didn't think you'd object" says
Rossy-
"Wowi" says the old man. He'd
been holdin' in a long spell, for him,
but then he just boiled over.
See here, you young rascaT" says
he. What do you mean by talking
that way to me? Didn't think I'd OBJ
Ject. Dye suppose I'm anxious TO
have all New York know that my sons
been made a fool Sof? Think your
mother and / are aching to have one
of these bleached hair chorus girls in
the family? Got her inside there, have
your"
Eyes. SIR" says Rosy.
| well, bring her out here" says the
old man. I've got something to say TO
| her"
"All right. SIR" says Rosy. If there
ever was time for THROWN the hooks
into a parent, it was then. But he's
| as good humored and quiet about ii as
| though he'd just been handed a piece
of peach pie. ''I'll bring her right out
| SAYS he.
When he comes i'm with the lady. the
old man takes one look at her and al .,
most loses his breath for good.
"Eunice May Ogden.' says he. why
why on earth didn't you say so be-
fore. Rossy?'
"Oh. hush." says the lady. DO be
still, Can't you see that we're right in
| the middle of an elopement?
Never saw Eunice May. did you?
Well. that's what you miss as ne /
| had seen Der And say, she's some
| thin of a sight, too, She's kind of
a female Machnow. Eunice is. Maybe
she's some less'n seven feet in her Isle
threads. but she looks every inch OF
| il: and when il comes 20 curves. she
has Lillian Russell pared TO a lamp
post Shed be good enough fooiler
is she want such whale. As twins.
she'd be a pair of beauts, but the way
she stands she's most too much of
good thing.
| Pinckney says they call her the Og-
1den sinking fund among his crowd. I've
heard 'em say that old man Ogden.
who's little. dried up runt of about
FIVE feet nothin. has never got over
bein' surprised at the size Eunice has
growed to. When she was about four-
teen and weighed only hundred and
ninety odd, he and Mother Ogden fig
ured a lot on marryin' Eunice into
the house of lords, Ike they did her
sister, but they gave all that up when
she topped the two hundred mark
Standin' there with Rossiter, they
doomed up like a dime museum couple;
but they was lookin' happy, and gain
at each other in that mushy way-you
know now.
Say" says Rossiter's old man, siz-
in 'em up careful. lis IL all true? Do
/ you think as much of one another as
all THAR"
There want any need of their say
in so: but Rosy speaks up prompt
for the only time in his life He told
how they'd been spoons on each other
for more'n a year. but hadn't dared
let on because they was afraid of Dein'
7 kidded 1t was the same way about
gettin' married. Course, their bein,
. neighbors on the avenue, and all that,
: he must have known that the folks
: on either side wouldn't kick, but
: neither one of 'em had the nerve to
stand for a church weddin'. so they
lust made I'D their minds to slide OF
easy and have it all through before
anyone had a chance to give 'em the
o jolly.
but now that you've found it out"
saws Rossiter, II suppose you'll want
us to wait and
"Wait nothing" says the old man.
iammin on his hat. Don't you wait
minute on my account Go ahead
A, with your elcpement. I'll clear out I'll
= go up to the club and find Ogden, and
/. when you have had the knot tied good
I and fast you come horne and receive a
= double barreled blessing
About that time the minister that
! thev'd been waitin' for shows up. and
before I knows it I've been rung in.
. Well say, it was my first whack ple---
in back stop at a weddin'. and per-
haps | put Up a punk performance:
: but inside OF half an hour the job
q was done. And of all the happy re-
unions ] was ever lugged, into, ii was
e when Rossiter's folks and the Ogdens
d got together afterwards They were
: so tickle6 to get thee two freak left
overs off their hands = ut they almost
: adopted me into bot families. lust for
e the little stunt l & = in bllkin' them
p. DIS.
WHERE TO STAND.
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