WHY HE WEARS ARNICA UNDER HIS LEFT EYE.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 312, 12 June 1875, Page 3

WHY HE WEARS ARNICA UNDER HIS LEFT EYE.

[Chicago Tribune.} The clerk of a prominent South Side jeweller wears arnica under his left eye; there is a handsome gold locket for sale at Lipman’s below cost; the fashionable wedding which was to have taken place between a young lady on Ashland avenue and a young man on Peoria street is off 1 , and the jeweller’s clerk has taken out a warrant against the young man on Peoria street for assault and 'battery. This is how it happened: Tire young man on Peoria street had arranged to give the young woman on Ashland avenue a gold locket for a New Year’s gift. On consulation, his betrothed declined to have anything inscribed on the token but her Christian name. “You see,” she said, “I expect to change my other name, ducky, before next year, and if anything were to happen, like a death or a divorce, it would still suit me, you see. Just put simple ‘Alice’ on it, pretty.” The young man from Peoria street went to the prominent jeweller and bought a 200dol locket. “Want any inscription on it?” said the clerk, “ Yes, I want simple * Alice’ cut on it in very deep, plain letters.” “ Want what?” “ Want it inscribed simple ‘ Alice.’ ” “ ‘ Simple Alice?”’ returned the clerk, who said subsequently that he couldn’t believe his ears. “Yes, simple ‘Alice,’” replied the young man from Peoria street. ‘ ‘ All right, sir,” said the clerk, adding, sotto voce, “simple idiot.” On New Year’s eve the young man from Peoria street got the locket in a neat casket, and at once forwarded it to the young lady on Ashland Avenue, On New Year’s day he called at her residence, and was astonished to discover that the young lady was not at home. As he was, in thunder-stricken amazement, standing on the rug, the colored coachman approached him and handed him a package with the remark: “Now, then, young feller, yo’ clah out of hyah!” and, as the young feller slowly went down the steps, he beheld the young lady in the bay window, leaning on the arm of his hate laughing heartily, and pointing the finger of scorn at him. On opening the parcel, the young man from Peoria street found in it his letters and a casket, wherein was a 200dol locket, whereon was cut in plain, deep letters, “Simple Alice.” And this is why the clerk of a South Side jeweller wears arnica under his left eye. There is a handsome locket for sale at Lipman’s below cost; the fashionable wedding which was to have taken place between a young lady on Ashland avenue and a young man on Peoria is off, and the jeweller’s clerk has taken out a warrant for assault and battery agaiut the young man on Peoria street.