| Show Ilf If Unexpected Its a Romance When the unexpected occurs in a nmtrlmonial affair It becomes a romance ro-mance That seems to be thc commonly common-ly accepted way of looking at love and marriage W hen the young people la BUC cauls and ul that It Is simply a < weddjug When they do things they t arc not expected TO do It is a romance The romance depends on deviation t from the ordinary it seems For that reason marriage In which are Included i l Includ-ed consent of parents knowledge of friends Issuing of Invitations and the like there Is I no romance That is i the popular I version Now no one has any great desire to lie Jlo I everyone pin Especially in thuS 1 thu-S Steal event of their lives young people are extremely ant to want to be different differ-ent That maybe the solution for so many romances There are other reasons of course i Once in a while conditions force the oveis lo adopt strange methods t There is l the story of the fat mer front North Dakota who went to Bismarck to marry the girl of his cholcf He thought hews he-ws her choice until he went to herS her-S residence with the 1 marriage license rind she told him site had thought it over I and had decided she would rather lie a deter to him TOOK ONLY ONT 71F COULD GET Adam GrolFher thefarmer concerned was not the style nf man who postpones a wedding merely bncaute the bride has backed down lie took his dismissal with Rood elate and started away from the house Near I the jallroad station ho stopped a citizen of Bismarck and asked 1 Do you know of a woman around hero who wants to got married Theres only onew replied the I stranger and 1 shes Just taking a train to leave town I Tho farmer sought her out lie had ten minutes fOt lovmakJng but he proved eloquent She left the train with him They had the name in the marriage license changed and they were married They left JJismavck that evening behind Che farmers palrol horses bound for his farm Whats the name of your new wife he was asked as hAwas leaving Her name Iswhat did you say your name was he asked turning to herShe laughed and said It was Marion Hershbcrger Its now Marion Greshler They drove away happily and are expected ex-pected to live happily ever after ward1 MARRIED AT FIRST MEETING Closer at home at Taylorville Ill Is another story of a wedding without great formality Nineteenyearold I Daisy Touts recently told her parents that she was going out to make a call r leaving her home late In the afternoon Tho parents had no suspicions and f Daisy was permitted to go without I questioning She went to the railroad station and met an Incoming train A stranger stepped up to her and asked I If she were Miss Touts She replied by I asking him If he were George A Cooper Coop-er He replied that he was They went r to Anhland and were married t Neither had seen the other until they C met at the railroad station They had been writing to each other for two I years It was at the suggestion of a friend of Cooper who was engaged to marry an older sister of Daisy that he wrote his llrst letter to the girl She answered it and after a year of letter writing he mailed a proposal of marriage mar-riage It was accepted by letter anal arrangements were made for the runaway run-away marriage STARTLING CASE OF FICKLENESS In Missouri there Is a bride who has upheld womanstltle to fickleness In a startling fashion She Is or was Miss Lizzie Bradley She should have been made Mrs Robert Kastln but she now is 1 Mrs Charles Lyons Enstin went to Salisbury last week to keep his wedding wed-ding alignment with the young girl He found that she had changed her mind She was prepared for the wedding with BuMIn when a new suitor ap pealed In the Held 1 He was a late entry en-try but Miss Bradley listened to his suit and came to the conclusion that she preferred him TO her fiances It was not considered necessary to Inform the bridegroom of the change of heart Probably no one thought of him lie was allowed to proceed with his wedding wed-ding preparations while the young girl and the new suitor wcrp married quietly quiet-ly I and left town When Eubtla came to keep the appointment ap-pointment with his fiancee there was r no bride to be found An Inquiry was started and It was finally discovered that situ had changed her mind and was already the wife of another man PHYSICIAN WEDS NURSE The circumstances of the following story which comes from Indianapolis Indicate that it Is unusual enough to be classed as a romance Miss Margaret McCarthy and C A May wore nurseti In the smallpox hospital In that city An epidemic of the disease broke out recently and the two nurses with the other attaches of the pesthouse were busy day and night May and Miss McCarthy working together to-gether In the labor of nursing the patients pa-tients formed a strong friendship I which grew Into stronger feelings rapidly While still acting as nurses In the hospital they decided to be married As both were under quarantine the method meth-od of securing a minister and a license and of having the ceremony performed seemed to be Involved In doubt It was decided that If the two were thoroughly thorough-ly fumigated they might leave the hospital hos-pital In search of the minister and license f li-cense They were fumigated they secured the license and were married Then they returned to the hospital and are spending their honeymoon nursing the smallpox patients MARRIED IN COUNTY TAIL To match this story there is one from Muskogee I T elating that Miss Hattie Hat-tie Bennett married William Wright In the county jail and then went on her honeymoon alone leaving the bridegroom bride-groom to serve ou this sentence upon which he was entering as she took the train Just before the wedding the groom was unfortunate enough to be caught In the act of removing valuables which did not belong to him from a house which was not his The United States Marshal took possession of him and he found that he was in closer proximity to a courtroom than he was to the altar Miss Bennett however Is a young woman with decided Ideas She had no intention of abandoning her bridegroom because he was In the grip of the law and she found a way by which the marriage could be performed in the jailThe The Marshal and the bridegroom consented con-sented and after the ceremony had been performed she left on her solitary wedding trip Chicago Tribune |
