Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — BLIGHTED HOPES. [ARTICLE]

BLIGHTED HOPES.

Young Woman’s Efforts to’tdptnre a Man's’ Did Not Have Desired’ Kesdlt. “You have a careworti look which is nevy to me,” rerfiarked the girl with the Ostrich feather boa. ‘“Can it be that you ate helping to, get up a;charitable entertainment?” ■ * “I£o, T am not,” replied the girl with the lorgnette; “I have woes enough of my own without that. I’ve beep having my photograph taken.” p “I don’t see any thing ’tavful in that, save the fact that you have to pay the photographer,” said the girl with lhe "ostrich feather boa. - ’’All you. have-fo-do is to sit. still for a moment, and it—” “1 can manage the sitting still well -enough, ’’said the. girl with the lorgnette; “I once stayed in the house with a female sufftagist until my own voice sounded strange to me. I never did like, to be photographed, but, you see, I promised Charley Toker ages ago that. I would send him a picture. I heard te» days ago that he has made quite a fortune in the far west, and my conscience began to prick me regarding ifiy broken promise. It would be sb sad if lie lost his faith in woman just now; I really felt it* my duty, however unpleasant it might be, to have that photograph taken at once." “Quite right, too. “But after all, you might as well have sent him a copy of the photograph you and I had taken together last summer. I shouldn’t have jnihded at all if you had,”—• — I “Thank you, dear, but that one is I much better of you than of me; itmight I hnve eansed him to think that Thaddc- ' velopcd a pair of cross-eyes in his abI sence. No, as I say, I really felt it my : duty, to sit. I lay awake for two nights j deciding whether it should, be a full ; face or three-quarterly iew.” - “And which did you decide on?” p“That made no difference, dear; the : .photographer merely glanced at me and i said: ‘Profile.’” i “Humph! He couldn’t have been more I despotic had he been a dresmaker.” “No. I wanted to year my .new I evening gown, but he decided on the I old silk waist I wore under my jacket. I He wouldn’t let me’ have the negative I > wanted, either.” I “Good gracious! You surely can’t be i well, dear. Was there anyone on wjiom i you wanted to make a good impression | in .the next room?” I “Not a soul; The truth is that those ; negatives showed me two wrinkles I did | not know that I possessed, and when I. the wrinkles begin to come it is time to i be amiable to everybody.” “Il’m. Perhaps you are quite right. But how did you like the photographs when they Were finished ?” ! “Very well; they had a yielding, amiable look, calculated to produce a great effect upon a man who has just made a fortune.” “Pshaw! Any girl would look amiable at such a man, unless—” “She wa s al re ad y. en gaged toone who had made a fortune some time ago; I know. Well, I sent the photograph to Charley, when I finally got it. What do you think he> wrote me in reply?” “Is it. possible that he didn’t like it?” “Oh, no; he liked it very much. Said that his wife thought that my style of hair-dressing perfectly lovely, and—” “But I didn’t know that he hada wife!” “Neither did I,” said the girl with the lorgnette. “Do you think I’d have taken all fha-t trouble if I had known it NY. Journal.