From Best to Matrimony.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 206, 11 June 1887, Page 2

From Best to Matrimony.

Maiuu.wi:s arc often the re -gilt of accident. It sccib>; strange, but the p-josb pmdenb persons "will sometimes conce've an irresistible i\tt:>t:lv,nent ab tlio suggestion ox a word or a look. When once uncle* 1 - the spell of frhe verb. '-' To love," they i^o through all the , forms andvfinish the dec ftn&ion of the verb before the altar. IV.-few may give the i übject the consideral 'On it deserves, but i;ho many. there is rea&^a to fear, arc guided < by impulse. A skipper of a coasting vessel called at' the village inn and isked the landlady, a^ young widow : " T<u you know wheie 1 can.. get a mate ? T ha-v $ lost my mate." " I Mil hurry foi you, — /' she Said 5 . smiling. " I war:e a male too, and cannofe get one. A3 wo a,re in tho same position,, I'll tell you w ha.- I'll do : if you'll be mineI'll be yours." He closed with the bargain,, and the widow keeping to her word, tie is. now supplied with two mates. A young v&in at a church bazaar was button-holed by a lady ; she would, not let him go unH he bought something. He looked at hor stall, which contained fancy work of vftvious kind-. "Why," he said, " I see nothing here that would be of tho least use to me, a bachelor, excepij yourself. The rest would be dear at any pvise." " I will be cheap enough/ &hs> s&id. "If you could be clear enough x perhaps—' " Oh, come ! you are just the person I want," baking him by the arm,. She sold Kirn one article after another, keeping up an agreeable conversation the while, "and before all was don© he had purchased everything on tho stall. Then, afc settling up, there was something said about discount. " I cannot return any money," she said, blushing, " but if you think roe dear enough there's mamma ; she may give you my hand." The bargain was accordingly concluded. An eminent doctor 1 , who had saved the life of a lady, a personal friend, was asked his charge. He said he gencially allowed his patient friends to remunerate him as they thought befitting. " Bub don't you often geb disappointed on those terms ?" she inquired. " T may say, never." "As you are so easily pleased, here," and she playfully gave him hor empty hand, while in tho other was concealed a cheque for ft handsome sum. " How easily I could have taken you in ! ' she added producing the cheque. " But you have only succeeded in drawing me oub," he said, declining to relinquish her hand. " Don'b insult me with a check ; I am most generously rewarded." Perhaps she understood the doctor's difficulty and wished to help him out of it ; at any rate the giving of her hand led him to offer his hearb. This was how a gentleman got his wife when, in a tobacconist shop, ho asked a girl behind tho counter, who happened to have red hair, if she would oblige him with a match : " With pleasure, sir, if you will have a red-headed one," she promptly replied, with such a suggestive, demure smile that eventually the red-headed match was handed over. A lady with a fine figure having taken a fancy to a valuable ring which she saw ticketed in a shop window went inside to examine it. "It is exceedingly lovely,- I wish ib were mine," she said. " What smaller figure could tempt you ? %) " No other figure than the figure before me," he said, giving her an admiring look at tho same time. "It is exceeding lovely. I I wish I could tempt you with the ring." j ' 'I think I'll take it," she said, laying down i tho money amidst blushes. Of course he accepted the niouey ; but getting her address, ho made such good use of the hint) that the next ring which she got was given by him in church. A lady in a railway train kepb looking out of bhe window, with her head forward, until she remembered thab the gentleman opposite might possibly object. " Do I cut off the view ?" she asked. " Merely of all I do nob wish to see I" he replied, gallantly. The ice having been thus broken, they enbered into conversation, found they were te geb out »b the same station, and knew each other's friends The resb was plain sailing in bo what somebody calls the " matrimonial haven." " Are you married yet, Kitty ?" said a sailor on meeting an old acquainbance afler reburning from a long voyago. " No ; thab somebody has never come. "Ah, then, I have brought him after a deal of bobher," he said, throwing his arms around her ; and tha matter was then and there settled.