Show POPPING THE QUESTION Adleature at a 1inx lAdy with a Iod Kirk Janitor I once received a proposil of mar rlnge under rather extraordinary rir fiitnstince Mid a young lady to the Washington Star It wa at a hotel In Chicago I had always heard that In the windy city they were accustomed 1111 do thing In a good I deal of n burry but the experience of which 1 nm about to tell you rather startled me nevertheless neverthe-less I patr1fors d strayed Into one of the small t parlor of the hotel quite Idly and was looking out of a window when Hidden i nn i ly a man rushed In Hit I manner And appearance wero somewhat disordered and I confeM thai I fell just n llttlt alarmed Inanmiich oil I wax alone lit I at once addreMcd tile excitedly saying log For the last I time I Ask you will you be my wlfeT The train roe In five minute If you refuse me now and finally fin-ally I will take U My bag II packed and I am nil ready lo atari What It year replyr Sow I call that rather Hidden I had never seen the man before I In my life Yet be Insisted on marrying me Hit It WAS evidently a cane of mistaken Identity Sir I sold you are laboring iimlet a mistake I am very sorry He did not wall for mo to finish but with a gesture of despair lie 1 from the room Much relieved I nank back Into a chair and pondered upon vital had ocurreil wondering who the man wan whether or not he had fulfilled 1 his threat of departing by rail brcaux of my refusal to return hit affection and who the young woman for whom he 11 I I mistook me could have been While 1 I wall still engaged In these conltitloni I I Inhclil I I heard n noise Looking up once more my lovenick adorer 110 1 liad his bind bg In late hand And his hal I wai Jammed upon the back of hla head Wan that your last word he laid hoarsely AI I MM before I begin lorI lor-I deilred lo explain to him his mistake Spurned ho cried clerically I Really you aro mlitakon I attempted at-tempted to expostulate I No Im noil bo replied Im purned tpurned again Curse It all Im always gelling ipurneJ And now I I Its too late for my Irnln With this bo began lo career madly about the room clutching at file halt with ono hand and swinging hit handbag hand-bag with the other fly this tlmo I was to alarmed tint I would l have tried 1C mako my escape but for tho fact that ho was between me and the door Hut suddenly my rather ocrnrdent wooer made a rush for the window which opened on the plizi Ibo cash being I up Thai wa the last I ever aaw of him lAter on however I learned Dial ho wan an unfortunate penileman who being on all extended spree wn confined con-fined to a room In an outoftlioway corner of Oil hotel Ho wo Buffering from n mild l form of manlaapotu and somebody wa hired to take care of him Hut the keeper went lo lunch and forgot lo lock the door co that hit charge escaped Tho proposal of marriage re ceheJ by mo wa nothing moro or Icii I than bit frenzy |