HOW HE GOT HER NAME. Making an Acquaintance Under Many. Difficulties.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 179, 20 November 1886, Page 6

HOW HE GOT HER NAME. Making an Acquaintance Under Many. Difficulties.

" Every time I go on a railroad journey,'' said a - gentleman in the smoking-room of a. sleeping-car, within the alleged hearing ©f_ a Chicago " Herald" man, ,"I can't help but think of the peculiar manner in which L met th lady who is now iry wife. I was traveling from Chicago to Milwaukee some years ago, and in the car was a young woman whose face attracted me to an un--usual degree. In fact, 1 so admired herthat I waa all eagerness to make her acquaintance and impatiently awaited aaopportunity to do so. But no opportunity,, came, and as she attended strictly to her novel and the scenery, never once lookingat me, or ineffectually trying to raise or - lower the window, or dropping her hand- - kerchief or anything like that, I had to sit still and admiro and hold my peace.> Finally, as we approached Milwaukee and I thought of her impending disappearance^ in the city, never to be seen by my eyee again, I became desperate and resolved, upon taking desperate measures. The. next time the train boy came through the. car I purchased a book, and tendered a bilL in payment. The boy gave me the right change and was about to pasa on, when L stopped him and said I had given him a $10 bill and he had only given me change for $5. Of course he denied this, and presently our argument became ratherwarm. I happened to know that he had a $10 bill in his pocket, for I had seen him take it from a man in a Binoking-car.. After the argument had continued some, minutes, I became excited and jumped up, and, declaring that I would havemy rights if I had to go to law about it, I took out my notebook., and pencil and asked two or three of the other passengers for their names in caseI should want to send for their affidavits.. The sympathy of the passengers waa evi- . dentlv with me, for they gave me their names without objection, among them the young lady whose identity I was bo eager to discover. Then I called the train-boy into the smoking-car, told him I had made a miatake,. gave him the wink and a $2 note and hugged my notebook with all the pride and delight of a man who thinks he has done something smart. The young lady was a resident of the West Side, Chicago, and knowing her name and address, it was nofc. many weeks before I contrived to gain an introduction. A year later she became my wife."