Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-08-13

it five minutes. You can never marry
Brown with my consent, and you
can never marry any man with the
tomfool name of Henri. You went
| to Vassar to be educated, not to fall
| in love with some sissy of young
! fellow. Write to him today that the
foolshness has passed"
"Oh, grandma, but we love each
otherr' walled the girl.
ITS only calf love-
'It's the awfullest lind of love.
We shall both commit suicide If we
can't marry. If only yor could see
him once-if you knew how noble he
Isl"
"And his name is BroNn-Henrl
Brown" mumured Grandma.
"But thousands of Browns nave
been great men. and the name OF
/, enri when you write 1T. looks dis
tinguished Mabe he'll change 1t.
though. il you don't like It. Made
he'll call himself Claude or some
thing"
Listen to ME. Ethel. When was
a girl of your age, had beau
named Brown. After winning my
heart he threw me over for widow.
vowed vengeance on the Browns
forever after. If you marry Brown
you must leave this house, and you
needn't expect dollar Of my money.
That's fiat.
h. grandma, it will kill melt
surely will" were the words that
came out between sops, but they had
no effect.
Fall in love with a White. Black,
Green. Smith or Perkins and may
not have ~nything to say against it.
replied the Old lady, out draw the
line at the Browns. +. was Tilted for
widow. and that widow had a broken
nose at that
Miss Ethel wept She went into a
decline. She thought OF suicide.
A Month later grandma and her
grand daughter were at hotel in the
Berkshire So was Henri Brown.
That is, he was at another hotel close
by. Henri had been tipped off. Miss
Ethels decline still prevailed, and
she had become very demure. Not a
Brown, whether Jacob, Moses, Aaron
or Henri. was being mentioned. There
was no talk Of love or matrimony.
Grandma had suspicious for week.
but when the girl refused to stir out
of the hotel unless in her company
she gave them up. She became a
little conscience stricken.
One hot afternoon, as the declining
girl was asleep on sofa and the
sat in her chair doing
and thinking Of that broken-nosed
widow, a man stepped in off the
vepanda and held the muzzle OF a
pistol to her nose and demanded her
cash and jewelry. ne was bewhis-
kered and fierce. He meant murder
if baked. Grandma looked at him
for a few seconds and then tackled
him. Notwithstanding the pistol and
his threats she GRABBED him by hair
and whiskers and yelled for help.
Miss Ethel awoke and yelled for the
whole fire department.
In response, Henri Brown came
dashing IN. He dashed upon the in
truder and dashed his head on the
floor and against the wall and all
over the room and he would have
kept on dashing If the fellow hadn't
by the window he came in at.
leaving knife and pistol on the floor.
Game old grandma was revived to
be introduced to Mr.. Henri Brown,
who had just arrived to say that he
would put an "e" on Brown and change
the Henri to Samuel in order to win
the hand of the charming grand
daughter. The matter was taken I'M
der advisement for two days and then
grandma reported:
''It was put-up job on me, and
Sherlock Holmes would say So but
if you. two young folks are smart
enough. to carry such thing through
I guess mabbe you'll make success
of marriage. Ethel. you get over that
decline at once, and Browne, you
think of some name not quite so silly
as Henri, and not quite so common
as Samuel"