Judge — November 19, 1881 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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A STORY FOR BACHELORS. BY “BRICKTOL. Ir will be remembered that Mrs. Wax had more than an ordinary landlady’s interest in her bachelor boarder, To MeGudgcon. had smiled upon him and saved for him the tenderest cuts of meat for years, and when sh saw that he was not inclined that way so much as she was, she unwittingly answered his mat- rimonial advertisement, which almost caused a disruption between them, But perhaps the dear widow only allowed her heart to wander from its home object just to let him see that there m of his losing her, provided he could but know that some other man was paying her atten: tion; and perhaps, also, it might have been that she actually wanted to get tirst candidate that might be Of course, however, the motiv are past finding out, but the viol that MeGu her heart that Sunday evening nearly burst her corset stri ‘Ton w he not. goin; ght hea possibility of widows on's appearance gave dressed like a very swell, for was to call upon Clara Queen, the bright and entertaining young lady who had 1 hi and who had found the » enjoyment of the fortune she had i ted such a bore to her? OF course he was. And of course—too—Mrs, Wax knew it. Her woman's instinct told her that he had called once before to make her acquaintance, and this wild array in “bib and tucke vinced her that he bad found favor in her eyes. Oh, ajo-ny! iswer uid account for it? real What but ation of his matrimonial ul curl th that was almost el could shape new a thin lips of his into a armin Ww hide the natural irregularities? Wh prospect of winning a fortune by sacri th and mak presence aromatic with rare perfam As befor t but the wrinkles from his fi his very ted, his appearance \ utitied, nearly made her anxions heart leap out, but, thanks to ments in corsets, it didn't wholly get awa from her. But she lost no time in getting her things on, including a veil, and following him, Her palpitating valvular blood ve her which way he had gone, of course, before he had time to reach her rival's house, she caught sight of him, ambling along like coltish young beau. But when the door closed upon him its thud found a dull echo in her bosom, and a man just passing thought she was going to faint. Half an hour later Toft McGudgeon and Clara Queen came out for a walk. She w arrayed like a gladiolus, and had the satisfac- tion of knowing that every woman she passed would turn around to look at her, a thing ver dear to the female heart. True, “louder” she was dressed a tritle She | INCLINED THAT WAY. | than MeGudgcou would have liked | laughter hetween that and her next speech wa on his part would smooth nearly all | ent improve: | | had always entertained a most supreme con- | place his glossy Knox, he was obliged to litt | he kept books, THE JUDGE. but he re- was a spoiled child of f nd that she would undot lown a few after Hymen had set t upon he “Which way, ple some tones, Heeted that sh and fashion, ton “7” he asked, in hed the sidewalk. | “Oh, let's go down Fifth avenue past the People always look so jolly around tid she, and the little interlude of | win- s they re 1 hotel hotels, mu: uC much r > to his hungry ea rtainly,” he replied, and yet he would ther have gone in almost any other He would most likely meet , Which, under the cireumstanc embarrassing, since he had never with even a quietly direction. quain would by been seen on the street dressed lady before. And why did she re around the entrance to hotels as jolly? people standit Me tempt for the emer little more than attitndin “ Poor girl!” thought he ps and the w wz tocatch a mash,” *fashion’s frivol- it spoiled ys of the world have pwever, would ‘have recogmzed Me. Gudgeon in his new array and as the 1 such a buttertly, for he was not hitnsel Bat he did his best to be tertaiaing, smiling all the whil tent asto look wholly unnatural, and st iy that he almost tor tentive tered on so merri self. Presently they reached the Hotel Bruns: wick, and there in front of it stood Tom Trip- per. He raised his hat politely noticed him, but before Me. had time to yet she never it again in answer to the salute of Dick Chubb, one of the salesmen in the store where MeGndgeon blushed like the sunny side of a ripe peach, and then Billy Buleom raised his hat to him, and he was obliged to reply in like manne je she kept up her rattle of conversatic alt of whieh he did not un- derstand, so confused was many of li he at seeing so acquaintances Indeed, the fates seemed to be against him, for he encountered so many of his friends on that single block that he was out from under his hat more than half of the time. For goodness sake, what did it mean? “You appear to have a large number of acquaintances hereabouts, Mr, Met n,” said she, as they crossed over by the Worth onument to continue down on the right hand the avenue. “Yes,” replied he, and thetone of his voice convinced her that he suspected what she her- self knew, that Tom Tripper had gotten said acquaintances together for the express pur- pose of giving the old man a benetit, make him show his bald head in public as much as possible. In front of the Hoffinan House they came upon George McCoy, a drummer for the house of J. Tripper, and ofcourse he was obliged to come out from under his tile again, and a rod or so further on there stood Jim Lukens, another emp Tripper, calmly ste ing a cigar, and so on, every rod or so he would either meet or come upon people whom he knew, Indeed, so almost continuously was his head uncovered that he began to sneeze before he reached the Fifth Avenue Hotel, where he re- ceived polite salutations from three more quaintances, yet standing so far apart that a | single uncovering would not do for all of them. Now this was not a thing to be sneezed at, for he had frequently thrown out his false teeth by these acts of sternutation, and what if such an accident should befall him now ! ‘The thought was maddening, and he wished that all his acquaintances were together in so warm a latitude that sneezing from catching cold would never trouble them, On the next block they encountered no one demanded a lifting of the hat on account of acquaintaneeship, but on the block below, who should he meet face to face but old Mr. and Mrs. Tripper, who were just going out for a little walk. And so it was all the way down and back, for on his return the fellows had rearranged themselves, and he certainly would have lost his temper and used explosive language had not bright and charmi ‘a Queen chatted ssantly in his ear, She evidently saw nee, and made up her mind to give yper a good talking to for what he had done, the very next time she saw him. However, some mand a further chat at Millard’s restored his spirits consider: and bythe time they reached home he v tling as well as eve of the parle him, completing her eu so ine hi nnoy course she now ded him as pany,” and took him right into ‘There she played and sang for est in the most ale. old stand it-no longer. ed that und in graceful manner MeGudg ineli was, nagins Ie min thousand times more ned he should be, ‘True, L said nothing about her property du pbably nothing about it, was way” quite as she than he ever dr as a she hi ing this session, but that was y » she thought little ¢ pampered child that she w mm So he wiped up the carpet with the knees of his new trousers in front of her, when he looked longingly into her eyes and gave hin. away t she was equal to the occasion, and said es, she would have him ; that she liked hin and that she was tired of living alone; and then they swapped kisses to bind the bargain, zeon went home that night at twelve the happiest. man in New York. had been settled, and even the wedding day had been appointed. Indecd, she had worked it so that not a moment Five minutes after he entered his boarding- house Mrs, Wax also entered it with firm, set lips and molars. [To BE CC of course, but ed candidates—don't they ¥ themselves at the present time? how about de! feel a little comicbooks.com