Show HER OWN ROMANCE florence compton marries student swains swain as in her school girl story the many friends ot of miss florence Conw ton ot of chicago who lived in this city during the years 1908 9 10 and was a teacher in the high school will be pleased to read the following which was clipped from the chicago papers the ladys many friends in this city extend to her all good wishes for foi a long and happy wedded life A romantic bit of fiction concerning fl a college wooing was re enacted in real life and reached its happy denouement Janu january aryS 3 when the author of the story miss florence compton a graduate of chicago university was married to henry A danforth a former fellow student at the residence of the brides parents mr air and mrs airs charles L compton madison avenue miss comptons comptois Com story which was about a coed co ed and a college youth who loved her two years before he be ventured to propose was written while she was a student at englewood high school ani an i b tore fore she met her present husband chicago tribune mrs airs henry albert danforth graan ate of the university of chicago and a settlement worker is speeding toward a new home sn in missouri as a brido bride in a romance of real life that parallels one she had con conjured jurld up in in her imagination a year before she ever heard of the wooer five years have passed since miss florence compton daughter of mr air and mrs airs charles L compton madison avenue a scholarship winning graduate of the englewood higi school painted a pen picture of her hero in a fanciful tale she is now the bride of a judges son who tell fell in love at sight when the two met at the university ver sity after graduation miss aliss compton accepted an offer to teach german in the little mormon town of brigham utah her wooer returned to his home alone the he 1 next meeting ot of the two was at t e ad all by y ac accident c dent chicago is a nice place said miss aliss compton after an exchange of greetings but its difficult to find a suitable house houed to live in the remark was almost a duplicate of one the heroine of her story had made lets build a home suggested young danforth the girl smiled remembered the ardent wooer ot of her fiction and replied lets do the missourian who was once a page in the legislature at jefferson city and later in congress was happy he and his bride to be mide made little journeys together in doing settlement work under the auspices of the united charities after the marriage jan 3 the location of the cottage to be was changed from chicago to charleston whither they are bound here is the fiction written by miss aliss compton in her girlish dream in the years before she knew her husband by miss florence compton 1 I will ask her to marry me tonight or will leave the varsity tomorrow why am I 1 so bashful in her presence I 1 have tried a dozen times to say what I 1 wish but each time I 1 have been paralyzed par in ili speech and have run away just at the opportune time tonight or never the young man who talked thus to himself while his textbooks te books on german lay ignored on a table in cobb hall was the son eon of a judge and a student at the varsity lie he was looking forward to the keeping of an engagement to call on miss emily rogers a coed who dwelt in foster hall across the campus that she loved him he felt certain why lie he had never been able to ask her to say so or deny it was a mystery to himself but soon doubt would end robert ainslie kept the appointment after an hour of animated conversation he stopped suddenly and said emily the girl waited for him to finish 1 I leave tor for home tomorrow he said bald 1 I must say goodby good by when they next met in was s unexpectedly in los angeles where each cacti without the knowledge ot of the other had gone to inspect a cottage for sale passing from room to room the young woman pointed out the nooks and comforts provided by the builder and furnisher here was an ideal place to read there a perfect den tor for a man to smoke in and so on at the end ot of half an hour emily and robert passed out onto the gravel walk turned in the midst or of a vista of flowers and surveyed the cottage beautiful place it said miss hiss rogers magnificent cent replied robert lets buy it lets do she said and the man who had been able vet last to speak seized her arm and led her to the mini minister mrs danforth never wrote but the one fiction story that in which she unconsciously outlined her own romance in advance of its dawning she may have hoped to be an author but an editor returned the manuscript L chicago journal I 1 |