Show CUPID IN MERRY MOOD mischievous and impractical little god of love seems never to take a vacation from his pleasing duties hi latest victims are an american mining engineer and a grecian countess john bull shown how love laughs at law hospital ward made the scene of a pretty romance new york within the space of a riel few days cupid has played pranks than the most romantic school girt could ever conjure up in her wildest dreams he has brought together an amer lean mining engineer and a grecian countess at the mouth ot a mexican he has married off a rich oung fellow to the nurse who pulled him through appendicitis he has pre bided at a midnight wedding at which a dashing young naval officer and a pretty chorus girl were the principals ahe has hired a special train so that new york millionaire s son could imarri a divorcee in another state and last ol 01 all but not least he has arranged a wedding on the high seas outside the international three mile limit so that an impatient young cou pie wouldn t have to wait two weeks or the banns to je published thus tingle banded aside the stern and implacable majesty of the british common law it has been left tor miss alice wayte and M hall cowan to show john bull bow love laughs at law they just wait two weeks longer so they were married accord ing to the rites of the church ot eng land far out at sea that saved the two weeks banns and made happy two young persons very much in love bays the world the two young people come from windsor ont the young man popped the question four years ago and got his whispered yes sweetest word in the world but they coulden couldn t be married then for the fact that the young man been graduated a the university of michigan and haan hadn t established himself in busl ness sent for promised wife he was graduated in 1904 soon aft a stear nei chair on the deck 0 the good ship just before she sailed from the brooklyn dock recently her mother and father were there to bid her godspeed on her strange wedding journey and so were several friends you see she explained mr cowan coulden couldn t get away and it came down to a point of my going to trini dad we had been engaged tor tour and we dian didn t want to wait any longer but at first everything seemed to go wrong when mr cowan sent tor me first I 1 was too ill to go the second time I 1 coulden couldn t make the malaval maraval then he sent for me to come on the ath of august but that made it too long so at last we arranged for this trip of the malaval maraval and capt hunter is boing soing to give me away well all WIT plans were made for this voyage continued miss whyte when suddenly mr cowan discovered that we would have to wait tor two weeks until the banns could be pub dished here I 1 was all ready to sail without any chaperon except the stewardess and 1 must wait two weeks before I 1 could be married we expect to reach granada on monday and we plan to be married while the ship is tar out at sea at eight clock that evening now you know the sea belongs to everybody and marriage laws stupid things dont concern father neptune so when we land at trinidad on the next morning it is miles from granada we shall be legally married and the norald old banns can t bother us it all came out as they planned three cheers and a tiger tor cupid this time blindly led by cupid what s a trip to mexico where love Is concerned 9 how could the count ess de hilly a charming young widow or george A schroeder a handsome young mining engineer guess that it was cupid who was leading them to the mouth of the ventura mine in mr schroeder Is engineer tor the ventura corporation of london and also for the rich stratton In depend ence mine in colorado his corpora alon sent him to the mine in mexico lust as the handsome young countess er be got a position with hiram walk er sons oil interests in port of spain trinidad he went away and did well he sent for miss whyte fine was too to take the journey 80 the impatient bridegroom tobe to be had to wall but let mass whyte tell her own atory just as she told it reclining in went there on a business trip they met in that far off land under sunny skies and the romance of the place perhaps cupid had a hand drew them to one another the widow was rich and among her properties were mines in 1 thither she journeyed a tew months ago to inspect them and there she met the american the rest was easy because cupid had his mind made up mr schroeder pleaded his case and the greek countess agreed to become the plain american mrs so they came back to brooklyn to be married there a few days ago they were wed but this dian didn t end the ceremonial part ol 01 the wedding the counte aa wanted also a wedding in the faith ot her fathers so all the party jumped into automobiles and were whisked over to manhattan and up to the little greek church seventy second street near lexington aenne where there was another wedding according to the full ritual of the orthodox greek church there was a crowd of the couple s friends to see the beautiful ceremony which included hymns and chants by a full vested choir the ceremonies ended with the crowning ol 01 the couple with flowers and cupid had come out victor again bove god it work in hospital the doctors shook their heads the lad that lay on the operating table be fore them was pretty far gone he had gangrenous appendicitis and the poison had already set in one chance in a hundred said the operating surgeon as he prepared the instruments and motioned to his as si stants to administer the an aesthetic and now miss vanhorn it you please he said turning to a pretty trained nurse who stood ready to help soon the ether had done its work and the knives began an hour later carl A jaeger the patient was back in bed slowly coming out of the in fluence of the an aesthetic at his side sat the trained nurse miss van horn with a look of concern upon her fair face tor the case was very grave would the young man s temperature slowly fall and recovery set in or would his heart give out under the tremendous strain of the ether and the shock and he pass away as a tale that is tolda the young man stirred and moaned the nurse fanned his forehead bead ed with cold drops ol 01 sweat he moaned again she watched him as closely as a cat watches a mouse he slowly came back to conscious ness I 1 m thirsty he moaned the nurse gave him a spoonful of hot water A full drink of the cold water be craved might have meant death just then when he asked for food he got a sip 0 milk nothing more the daye went by and the young man slowly improved finally the surgeon made his last visit young man said he you owe your life to our nurse not to me that was a year ago cupid the cunning rogue got in his work at once young mr jaeger dian didn t want to give up the acquaintance of miss vanhorn when he was discharged cured he asked permission to call and got it it doean doesn t take the wisdom of a solomon to guess the rest they were married the other day at the manse hackenback hackensack Hacken sack by rev rudolph kuebler dr david st john head at tb hackba sack hospitals corps of anil the young man a father gusmai I 1 jaeger a rich new york faau tac were the only miss margaret vanhorn came tron mahwah and young mr jaeger hai a home in maywood N J they ar now away on a wedding trip to hall fax cupid even presides when the sw geons use their knives cupid behind the scenes up the bay several weeks ago came admiral evans fleet and the big in diana one of ancle sams crack bat they cast anchor in the north river where admiral avans dl erected and soon officers and men were ashore stretching their legs now some of those gay young tel lows of the fleet haan hadn t seen a pretty girl toi so long that they just ached to go to some show so what coir be better than the social whirl at the casino no sooner said than done all hands took a box and the on closest to the stage chanced to bt ensign freeman hall paymaster all of a sudden cupid took a hand en sign hall spied dashing miss eleanoa lund on the stage and promptly lost his heart he secured an introduction and paid ardent court the rest ot the story was told before rev dr henry marsh warren the hotel chaplain when a cat drove up before his home no 48 west ninety fourth street a lev nights ago or rather morning be cause it was well after midnight in the cab were the yo i g naval office and miss lund now in common with most clergy men rev dr warren retires at an early hour this particular night was no exception but the furious jang ling of the bell awoke him and mrs warren we want to get married an bounced ensign hall not so fast cautioned dr warren have to ask a few questions but he was soon satisfied he found that the officer was 35 years old and his bride 22 then mrs war ren was summoned as a witness and the knot was tied |