Show A Romance tlmc ODidnt Pan Out Her father was a millionaire whose life hud been devoted to candle making Ho was practical naturally butall tho poetry of the family was found in her She was beloved by another millionaires son and when he proposed to her she declared that he must do something for her Dearest what can I doF Become a poor artist I couldnt bo any other kind of an artist I mean you must pretend to be a poor artist Pa does not know you You must como and make love to me and I will fall in love with you Pa will object and make a row We will elope and get married and when it is all over well tell him and it will be delightful So he became a poor artist and took a poor studio and daubed on canvas and protended to paint pictures And there was another millionaires daughter who began to come to his studio and sit for her picture He forgot all about the romantic maiden and when the romantic maiden came one night in peasant costume as a sweofi surprise to run away with him she found tlat ho was married to the other girl and had gone off on his honeymoon She thinks that romances are all moonshine moon-shine now and that nothing happens in real life as it happens in books She is right Denver Tribune |