Show Hover Too Late for Cupids Dart Cupid Is not like opportunity Onco missed he can be caught again He is not like Father Time with his forelock who cannot be captured if he gets past you Cupid travels in circles lie may miss you on one trip but he will be around gain on another and probably on a third and fourth call Or If Cupid has neglected you ho may repent at the eleventh hour and look you up I lie does not look in tho family Bible to discover the maidens age not even If by looking at her ho cnn discover l that she Is an extremely old maiden There are n number o English Illuslra tons of this fact and no doubt an equally large irwnber of American but no one baa akon tutu trouble to collect the facts regarding re-garding the case In this country In ono ease the brldo was Miss Jane lodgson of Stephnoy Once she had been noted for her beauty and during her ouiigei days she had refused lovers by ho score After she had reached her ilnetybccond year shu relented am be stowed her hand on a suitor who had asked for It seventy years before Ho was Henry hutton aged DI I years Thon there is the cairn of John Jackson 1 and Annie Bates The wedding was celebrated cele-brated on tho bridegrooms 101st birthday birth-day the bride being three years his junior The happy couple were escorted to ho church by at least 10000 people Miss Jates was the fourth bride whom the aged bridegroom had led lo tho altar within ho last twentytwo months Scarcely any irthor Illustrations of Limo fnct that Cupid and Father Time do not compare notes is needed but there are there A lUtlo romance cornea from ono of the Yorkshire villages Half a century ago one of the most courted girls In the own was Miss Mary Vlllars the daughter o f the village vicar She had as many lovers as the old woman In time nursery hymu had children so many that she didnt know wlmt to do One of them was 1 persistent that she finally said to ilm In mischief If I you ask me again In fifty years I wl consent Fifty years passed away and the vlcnra laughter was Btlll unmarried On thu fiftieth anniversary nf that proposal the loyal lover again asked her to become his wife Remembering her old promise she proved true to It and accepted him A similar story of lovo and loyalty Is old of one of the greatest living French artists Ho fell In love with a > oung girl who admitted her affection for I him but old him she could not marry while her mother lived Ho raid ho would wait and lie 111 The mother lived for forty ycara and after her death Limo two were marled mar-led Once In a while when a woman who hums loficd Cupid for years at last hauls down hem colors she omU her maiden life by narryinw a youthful l clergyman or sol ller These two professions seem en lowed with tho charms which win the omen of mature years Only recently in old Englinh maiden surprised her par sh by marrying the curate who was six l y years her Junior The bride as 1 oung girl had been engaged to the grand father of the groom Chicago Tribune |