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Show HOW SHONT3 WON HIS WIFE. Father and Son-ln-Law Fiddled Themselves Them-selves Into Matrimony. Dos Moines, la. Tho romanco which led to tho wedding a fow days ago of Miss Theodorn Shonts In New York to Duo do Chaulnes Is n dupllcato of ono enacted nt Centorvlllo, la., when tho girl's father won tho hand of tho mother, Miss Mlla Drake, a good many venrs ago. Mr. Shonts wns then a poor law student stu-dent nt Drake university In Dos Moines. Hero ho mot Miss Drako, daughter of him who was later to bo-como bo-como governor of Iowa. Ho paid court to her, but won llttlo fnvor with her father until ho produced a violin and began to piny ducts, with Miss Drake at tho piano. Ho becamo a frequent corner to tho Drnko homo and ho won his brldo. It Is said thnt Theodore Shonta wns opposed to tho marrlago of his daughter daugh-ter to a foreign noblomnn and took no Interest In tho courtship of tho due until the due repeated his own expert-Dnco expert-Dnco and appeared with a violin. Tho accomplishment, It Is said, won him. So through n violin ho won his wife and lost his daughter. At that tlmo tho wedding of Mr. Shonts and Miss Drako was a qulto n protontlous affair for the llttlo town of Contorvllle, but, of course, It could not compare with tho now Shonts wedding. wed-ding. Thoso In Iown who know tho romanco of tho violin nnd how tho present railway magnate fiddled himself him-self n wlfo smiled when they heard thnt his opposition to tho marrlago of his daughter had softened under tho soothing tones of a violin. |