Cream Colour.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1823, 18 December 1875, Page 5 (Supplement)

Cream Colour.

A Bomance of Manhattan with a

Pleasant Ending. Jennie June writes as follows to the Baltimore American: A rathe* interesting denoibement to a little romance occurred the other day, which may be deemed worth relating. Last season, during the latter part of the Winter and Spring, the neighbourhood of one of our most populous and recently fashionable thoroughfares watched with interest the daily comings and goings of a carriage, or rather coupe, drawn by one very beautiful creamcoloured horse, and driven by a creamcoloured driver; at least that was what he was called, for his creamcoloured suit, always the same, and his peculiar cream-coloured, soft felt hat mad,e him look all of a piece with the horse. Twice daily the little coupe stopped before the doors of a well-known uptGwn restaurant, and then a young and.rather distinguished-looking man handed out a pretty, elegant-looking girl, very richly dressed, but not apparently as blithe and gay as a pretty young girl ought to be. Late in the Spring, a young girl, dressed with seemingly studious plainness, applied for work at the house of two sisters who carry on together a prosperous, though private dress-making establishment She was told that the lateness of the season rendered it undesirable to take on fresh hands, but her evident distress at the prospective failure of her application, and the temporary illness of one of the young la<dies at a time when there was a press of orders, induced the kind-hearted woman (the general superintendent) to whom she was referred to reconsider her determination, and the young girl was taken on with the understanding that the, engagement could only last a short time. But her grace, her sweetness, the quiet gentleness of her manner and fidelity in executing her work, not to mention a certain deftness and taste in arranging trimmings very unusual in an or- , dinary hand, endeared her to her employers, and early in the Summer they admitted her as an inmate of their 'house, and, had it not been for her

obstinate reserve and deep and constant depression, would have desired to look upon her as a daughter. In the meantime, through the Summer, the coupe, with its cream-coloured appendages disappeared—went no one knew whither. About three weeks ago, however, they suddenly resumed their diurnal visits at the restaurant before mentioned, but this time with only one occupant, the distinguishedlooking man before referred to; and it was this same coupe, its horse, its driver, and its master, which, ten days later, stopped at the door of the private dress-makers' in place, to tho no small curiosity of every inmate of the somewhat staid and highly respectable concern. A request on the part of the gentleman to see Miss P. sesulted in that young lady being sent for, and also in a reactionary shock, which caused her to drop to the floor in a deathly swoon. She was laid upon a sofa, and recovered to find the gentleman of the cream-coloured coupe applying to her every term of endearment. To be brief, a marriage took place then and there, to the immense astonishment of the maiden sisters, who had so kindly cared for the hapless girl, and though they received a very rich token of remembrance from the bridegroom, they learned very little of the persons in whose welfare they had so strangely become interested, except that the young girl was not originally a resident in this city, but had become acquainted with the gentleman at a Summer watering-place; that his refusal to fulfil his solemn promise had induced her to leave him, and seek to earn a livelihood among strangers; that he had repented, and finally found her through his cream-coloured driver, who had seen her enter the house of her employers.

The following advertisement recently appeared in the London Times : ' A married lady of position wishes to find a young lady as companion and friend who would accompany her into society. Age about twentyeight. She must be thoroughly competent to dress hair a la mode, and to undertake the care of chignons, and to be a good needlewoman. N« other duties whatever. A lady of affectionate disposition would meet with much kindjpeas and a happy home. Salary £2Q a year, with £4 for beec or wioe/