Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1891 — Romance of a Photograph. [ARTICLE]

Romance of a Photograph.

Apropos of boarded doors and windows, there is a romance attached to one in Philadelphia. It seems that uftor reaching Bur Harbor, Madame remembered something which had been left behind in that durkened house. She wanted it, but her husband was travelling, so she could not ask him to go to the house for it. She hod a nephew from the South visiting her. Jlo offered to go to her home ami get it for her. His uuut lived in ouo of the row in which every house is like its neighbor He hod always recognized hers by its double row of black tiling across the bouse, and took but little notice of the number. Alas ! when he reached Philadelphia ho had forgotten the numbor, and there were two houses with painted bricks and next but one to each other. Which was the one for which he had the koys? He finally decided on one—his keys fitted, so he felt safe. He entered and went immediately to tho second floor. He now discovered that he w@,s not in the right house—it being furnished in a style entirely different from that which stamped his aunt’s apartments. 4s he looked around his eyes rested upon a portrait of a girl. He gazed I fascinated; was the face of his ideal

realized. He took it up, studied it, held it off at arm’s length, drew it near, and at last took his unknown from the dainty frame aud swore ho would find the original. Luokily, he got out of the house and no ono saw him. He returned to Bar Harbor; ho could get no information there; his aunt's neighbors wore travelling in Europe, but they had no daughter. Ho sought for her at all the summer resorts; ut last ho found her, and—well, the engagement is announcod.—[Philadelphia Music and Drama.