A ROMANCE OF SOUTH CHICAGO.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2626, 2 November 1894, Page 1 (Supplement)

A ROMANCE OF SOUTH CHICAGO.

Or Why Gladys Gertrude Alice Vere Rejected Him. ' '~ : :!/ y '-"i <:(■ Athwart the dark midautumn sky the moon was riding cold and drear. It shone upon the haughty face of Gladys Gertrude Alice Vere. As cold and dreary as the moon that lace patrician seemed to be to one who clasped her icy hand— a stalwart form on bendedknee. - On South Chicago's metel roof s^jhe damp ~ and dismal raindrops fell. The night wincf bore upon its wings a specimen of stock-

-. A STALWART FORM ON BENDED KNEE, yards' smell. It was a rather sickly night, and . yet the only night on file, and grown up men who couldn't laugh were known -to go andltake b, smile. But ah, ah me! Why thus digress? Our tale is one of love ahd woe, and little boofs it if the rain falls on the- roofs or floors below.

"My darling," cried the lovet'theh, "you promised once that you'd be mine. Why stand aloof and spurn me thus? Oh, you are mine, and I am thine!"

She viewed him with a scornful eye. The moon in grandeur rode the while. A peeler struck a slippery place and fell about a half a mile. The smoke from distant chimneys rose— it hadn't sense enough to : fall— and silence deep and dense and dark just lay and brooded overall. She viewed him with a scornful eye. She viewed. him with two scornful eyes, and then she cried: "Avauntl Avoort! Go help thy mother making pies! On you and-me as plighted ones this moon must never, never shine, The man who bets on Anson's Colts can't register as hub of minel" "'""'

Exeunt omnes.— Chicago Tribune;