The Sedalia Weekly Bazoo

Teddy's Revenge.

Albany (N. Y.) Evening Journal.

Two youths of tender years sat in row C of the orchestra chairs at Leland's opera house last night, making eyes at the charming young person who sustains the role of Teddy in "A Bunch of Keys." Miss Lena Merville she is called. It is not at all marvelous that so arch and piquant a little body should strike the fancy of susceptible adolescence. There is no doubt about her good looks. She appears pleasant, unaffected and congenial. The way she won the hearts of her audience last night proves this. But the joint admiration of the striplings in the front rows was marked. The elder one was little more than a rosy-cheeked boy. Both aped the extremity of fashion in height of collar, straightness of bang and snugness of fit. They were about as near an approach to the dude as the climate can produce. But their presence in the theater would have been unnoticed had they not insisted on availing themselves of the entrect to display their genre raiment. Both are students at the Troy polytechnic institute. It is learned that for a week or more past they have been in the wake of the company vainly endeavoring to find favor in the eyes of Miss Merville. Being a sensible young woman she has never minded the youthful impulse which made them guilty of the impropriety.

They have haunted the foyer of the theater during the overture in order to scrape acquaintance with the management. Sundry cigars and libations have finally placed them on easy terms with the male folk of the company. Last night the callow cavaliers, quite in despair at the inaccessibility of their lady love, proposed, in case Miss Merville would accept, to dine the ladies of the company with one or two of the leading performers of the other persuasion. The proposition was accepted. Overjoyed at the prospect of sitting at the table with the vision of their mature dreams, they ordered a supper which, in the theatrical parlance, was "food for the gods."

The curtain having fallen, they repaired to the appointed tryst, there to await the appearance of her whose fatal beauty had stung them. But what was their utter amazement to have eight or ten bearded men walk in upon their feast with the announcement that the ladies were very sorry, but they had been taken suddenly very ill, and would have to be excused. The supper was eaten up by the men, and two more disconsolate youths never paid a bill than those who took an early morning train for Troy.