Salt Lake Tribune | 1900-01-21 | Page 21 | A Russian Love Story

L A RUSSIAN LOVE STORY The Mishap that Befell the Youth who Loved the Dyers Daughter Let all subalterns take warning bs t the misadventure which befell a young Russian 1 Lieutenant who loved < J young woman the daughter of a dyer not Insensible to the assiduous courg I i which tho young officer paid her But I the father proposed for a soninlaw one of his own elaas forbade his daughter having anything to do with the young man and warned him off the premises says Army and Navy Jour 1 nel But the bravo and passionate soldier sol-dier took no heed of prohibition though had he hem aware of the rod the dyer had In pickle for him he might lIlt YO hesitated l The gay young mllilalro came then to visit his sweetheart when the dyer who was lying In ambush am-bush rushed on him seized him by the shoulders and pitched him headlong into the dyeing vat The wretched follow fol-low got out as best he could but covered cov-ered from head to foot In a coating oC deepest crimson He ran to a well toW to-W S1 but the Inc was sound and declined de-clined to part The Lieutenant went home spent hours in soaping himself brushing himself and getting himself scrubbed by his orderly But all to no purpose The carmine did not pale In despair ho swallowed his pride and took counsel of the author of his condition 1 can advise no remedy said thc th-c er that lac was Invented by me and I flatter myself is Immovable lie then went to the chemist who under the application qf certain various f metamorphosos not however of an altogether sallsfaolory character Although Al-though the officer has not recovered his original color he Is progressing Ire has already passed from erlmsor to violet and from violet to green So like the statue of Lclblg it is hoped after ringing the changes of the rainbow rain-bow he will revert to his natural complexion com-plexion With that Jloklenoss and Ingratitude In-gratitude which characterizes the fair sex his wellbclVed far from sympathizing sympa-thizing with her lover I In his misfortune i only laughs I afhlrn