NO MATCH.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 30, Issue 9186, 13 October 1899, Page 2

NO MATCH.

It was dark in the hall, her economical parcel haviag turned out tho ge», and tie late y.»ung man coald not find bis hat. " Give mn a matoh, dear," sbe whispered, and be felt vrilh his dl»«i#j'S" ,! band (or a match, aai«Jrir>£ her at thß same time that it was impossible be ooalJ And a match for her. <nd little imagining that ka was speakiag the bitter truth. N» flame followed her feeble attempt to strike a nsatsb. on the wall p*p<-r, aart the youog man pri.Kiuocd aoother, and inother, until it teemed as if he must bo a peripatetic match factory. But no glimmer of light ap!>earod. " Those matobea cannot be the kind they make in heaven," be said, and ju>t then a steu'.oiiau voice frcui tbo upper *tjry calle<l : "Mary Hi en ! What, idiot i« you up to this hour of tbe uignt ?" Aud U>e young man »aiu in the duicrt touf.i uf lore's yoaug rlrr-am that bp would tako the tlrat hat he oouid tlad, aad fortbwl'h ilopirted ii to lli« oold, hard world. And tbe BOf.t m»r»iag at brrakt'aat tbe old k 'votlrMnan said l.e'd be blamed if be wasted to ktoji op=ti bouse for o pair of idiots who didn't ki.ow tbe difforacco betwero a aulphur matob •»ilp. toolbpitk.