Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1892 — Woke Him Up and Accepted, [ARTICLE]

Woke Him Up and Accepted,

She was a convalescent from la grippe and as she leaned back in the depths of her easy-chair she played with the roses in her lap, which had been brought to her by the first caller she had been able to receive, and smiled over some stories he was telling her of a summer aW-well, we’ll only say at a fashionable watering place on . Yarragansett Bay, 6ays the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette. “One of the beauties whom I used to see at the Casino,” said he, “was a young married belle about 23 or 24, J should think, and her husband wka about 60, and it was great fun watching them. “There was such a good story, bona fide truth it was, too, about their engagement. He called at her home one evening, and offered his heart, hand and fortune in correct style. Pretty Miss Budd said: 'She must ask mamma,’ and coyly tripped upstairs to mamma, who told herfth'at every girl did not get such a chdhce as that, and of course she was to accept him. “Down she went, picturing the ardent lover awaiting her return with anxious, throbbing heart, and found the old gentleman comfortably asleep in the biggest armchair, while an occasional snore attested to the depth of his slumbers.” “I hope she didn’t wake the poor old thing up,” said the convalescent, when she got her breath again after her laugh. “Oh, yes, she did. Catch her losing that chance! She woke him up and told him it was all right and she’d have him. *