Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1894 — STICKS TO A MAIMED HUSBAND. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

STICKS TO A MAIMED HUSBAND.

A Good-Looking; Street Singer Who Earns a Comfortable Living. A comfortably constructed invalid carriage, pushed by a sweet-faced young woman who would have been taken for a daughter of the occupant of the carriage, rolled up on the pavement in front of the Sixth street entrance to the Palace Hotel, Cincinnati, the other evening. The corridor of the hotel and the pavement were thronged with guests of the hotel. All were watching this curious couple. The carriage stopped and the young woman took a position alongside it. The occupant of the carriage unstrapped a mandolin from his back. Soon the great crowd was listening to “Summer Will Come Again,” which the young woman sang with all the grace of a professional, being accompanied by the occupant of the carriage on the mandolin, which he handled in really excellent style. Several songs followed, the

couple being handsomely repaid by the hotel guests. The sweet-faced young woman and the invalid carriage with its burden then proceeded on. Few who saw the couple knew that they were husband and wife. Harry L. Blake is the name of the mandolin player, says the Enquirer. He is about 40 years old, while his wife is at least twenty years his junior. lie was a brakeman for the Oregon Navigation Railroad Company, and lost a leg while employed by that company, besides sustaining other injuries. They have traveled all over the country, he and his wife entertaining thousands in their travels.

A PRETTY PICTURE.