Show LIPID LA YS MERRY PRANKS ON CAPTIVES i E Retains Faith in Young Lover t t y rl 1 t rlg1 g1 I A ACE In a while love cant find away f l o a-way but gropes about blindly am I for a time In the darkness and m J then changes his mind Of course I this Is not tho real kind of love but I that spurious passion which mistakes i Itself When a young man wants to marry i woman old enough to be his grandmother j grand-mother Cupid regards the affair as a is j mere joke and feels justified in interfering inter-fering to stop the match Frank r j Beckman of Cincinnati 0 is only 21 j years old but he got a romantic streak and decided that ho wanted to I marry Mrs Hagenbnck a widow of 7 55 5At At least that is what the widow I thought She put on her wedding y I gown < < and repaired to St Pauls Catholic j Cath-olic church where the ceremony was I to be performed The wedding guests i were there and the bride was smiling r happily r1 But the smile changed from naturalness natural-ness Into a set mechanical grin The widow resplendent in her wedding R Cnery plainly showed signs of uneasl ness ra nessDo Do you think he Is coming ques j tlcied her friends She was gamers game-rs Certainly she answered serenely ret Frank would not disappoint me He i is the soul of honor and I am sure j that he loves me Gut at least he could have sent you word if he was going to be delayed Insisted her friends posing In the i light of Jobs comforters The widow however smiled on She was In love and love is ever ready to find excuses She only grew Indignant when her friends exchanged h meaning smiles and openly expressed r their somewhat scornful pity e But the bridegroom came not Messengers Mes-sengers were dispatched to seek him but they could not find him They hinted that his heart had failed him at the last moment perhaps But Mrs Hagenback was full of confidence She could not believe that Frank would lilt her at the last moment and she waited e At last the wedding had to be put ol sine die for lack of a brldgegroom hut the aged bride expressed her belief be-lief that Frank was kidnaped and hidden hid-den by his relatives who objected to the marriage She declares that when he gets out of the toils ho will l flee to her side and that the marriage will take place yet |