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Show I ARMLESS MAN WEDS PASTOR'S DAUGHTER Pretty Eomancs Comes Prom Philadelphia Phila-delphia "With Marriage of Jplm Huber and Caroline Wilson, i ' -g-v HIDADELPHIA, April" 2. Fato sent John JIuber Into the -world f under a handicap. Huber's mother moth-er never felt the pressure of. dimpled baby arms about her neck. The baby never knew what It meant to nestle up against her throat like the other children and drift off, into dreamland dream-land from that haven. ' Then one day, when the armless child was about S years old, a circus came to Dayton, O., where the Hubors dwelt. On a broad seat in the biff arena th , boy peeped into Fairyland and sighed as he saw the wonderful things the lucky world that possessed hands could do with thorn. "The Armless Wonder, ladies and gentlemen," announced the ringmaster. Little boy Huber watched the Armless Wonder eagerly.' He was in the same plight as himself, but he didn't seem to ' mind it. He shot rifles, painicd plc-,.aI plc-,.aI A nil Villi VL-tfVl fOOt. IB LUi O, IWUli kliu Uil tutM ,.,.. - I "If he can do all that, I ought to be I , able to," soliloquized tho boy as he I trudged homeward. I And Just about this time in Phlla- I dclphia a little girl entered the world. I She was duly christened Caroline Wil- I eon by her father, Albert Wilson, a. I Methodist evangelist. , I Cupid, looking over the general sltu- I ntlon, smiled and marked down under I their names, "for future reference." I Years passed and Huber became a I celebrity. Like the man he had seen I in the dim boyhood days, he could I shoot, paint, draw, handle a hammer I and nails everything the normal man does with his hands he could do with his toes. But he had not yet met the i crucial test of whether he was equal in all things to his brothers. ; Could he court a girl? He wondered. I Cupid Takes a Foot, About this time Cupid began to look ; through his betting book and search u round for Fate. Huber was self-sup-! porting. ! But Huber had" taken up the gage and he played his-foot-alonc. His pictures-i pictures-i " found a ready sale, He developed a pretty wit and audiences listened to him with Interest. He made a 'tour of the world. Through China, Japan, Alaska he wandered. He paid Ills way by making and selling pictures to the Europeans at foreign ports. During this trip he changed hl9 method. meth-od. The paint soiled his feet, and, obviously, ob-viously, it was difficult for him to . acknowlcdgo introductions in such plight. So. he. learned to paint and to write with his mouth brush or pen clenched flrmly .between his teeth. After flvc.y;ears he returned to America. Amer-ica. ' Coming to Philadelphia he appeared ap-peared at one of the playhouses. . Enter then the girl. Caroline Wilson was a much-courted young lady. Tall, slender, with big wistful gray eyes and a crown of blackish hair, many beaux dangled at her skirts. Miss Wilson's father was preaching that night in her uncle's church in I Brooklyn. Her mother was away, A girl chum was visiting her. "We'll go to the theater, just for fun," said, the chum. The minister's I daughter Acquiesced fearfully for she is a good Methodist. Huber, explaining his work, suddenly saw a pair of gray eyes looking at him. - There was something in them that he had seen in no other woman's eyes, t save those of his mother. The Maid and thi Man. "He's beckoning to, you," said the chum to the minister's daughter. "Nonsense," said the girl, and fled to the door. Not so the chum. MIschevIously she approached Huber. 'Til tell you who she Is," she said. And sho did. fMIss Wilson the next day smiled and bluBhed over a letter written In curious curi-ous square characters and which was signed John Huber. Something in the letter appealed to the girl. There was a courtesy, a helpless help-less touch that dwarfed the unconven-tionalky unconven-tionalky of Its sending. But she didn't answer It, The next day brought two letters. These, after much hesitation, f-he unswered. Then came three letters, and the bombardment of the girl's heart began in earnest. The bllle.1 doux had progressed from "Dear friend" to "Dearest little woman," wom-an," but during all this time she had not a&aln seen Huber. Her letters, she confesses, passed through the same stogca, Five weeks after the first meeting a letter came to her that asked the great question. Cupid and Fate gripped" their seats and wulted tenuely. And tho Girl Said Yes. The minister's daughter searched through her heart and llnally answered , that she would. For a woman's reason, perhaps, she stipulated that they must ' first bo lormally Introduced.' Mutual frlendM were discovered In Orange, N. J,, and there tho girl and her mother Journeyed, There, too, went Huber. For two days the armless Othello pressed his sujt. Perhaps before (his the pity that dwells In woman's heart and is akin to love had swayed tho minister's daughter. But now she felt that love and pity had become -- one. Huber sued for an early marriage, and the girl consented. Two days seemed long enough for the man, and the min- isrter's daughter did not demur, x'hey planned to be wedded by her futher at her uncle's church. Huber k was callPd back to Philadelphia sud-denly, sud-denly, however, and the party stopped off at Trenton, went before the Row Dr. Hender3on and were made man and wire. This was only two weeks ago. The courtship had taken less than six weeks. Cupid laughed, clapped dls-consolate dls-consolate Fate upon the shoulder, made rK another entry In his book of victories .. and took flight. "But how did you court your wlfo without using your arras?" Huber wao asked. "My method was satisfactory, wasn't it?" laughed Huber, turning to his bride. |
