LOVE TOKENS

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1516, 22 January 1886, Page 3

LOVE TOKENS

The gossips tell a funny story, in which two Russian noblemen and a favourite Parisian actress play the principal parts. Both of the Bayards were suitors for the fair lady's smiles, and both seemed to be rqualley esteemed by her. It would appear that in Russia, as well many other countries, a lock of hair is considered a signal pledge of the tender passion : but, if the truth must be j tnld, few of our theatrical divinities are i endowed with profuse chtcelures, and ! if they were, the incessant demand would soon exhaust the supply. Mdlle. Alice glories in the possession of auburn riuglets, and wouldn't part with one Ur less than a duchy. Her Russian admirers, the Count de L *nd the Baron de M , both happened to have hair of the same golden | hue as that of their mutual Dulcinea. Eich begged for a trees of her hair in exchange for a lock of his own, to which the charming creature readily assented, and without touching a single | curl of her head, cunningly managed |to effect an exchange of parcels, by i which each gentleman received a tuft ;of his rival's capillaiies. The count i now wc ars the baron's " wool " next I his heart, and the baron sleeps with ; the count's scalp-lock under his pillow.