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Show FIREMEN OUTWIT FAIR SENORITA CRAZED BY LOVE Catch Cave Girl in Jump Too Much for Her Sweetheart. Mexico City, Mexico. Ines Vargas, a sixteen-year-old senorita as determined deter-mined as site is romantic, recently served an ultimatum on her parents to the effect that, unless they gave their consent to her marriage with Isidro Covarublas within ten minutes, she would throw herself from the roof of the four-story apartment building In which the Vargas family lived. Whereupon she fled upstairs, locked the door leading to the roof and poised herself on a cornice overlooking Nuevo Mexico street. Clriaco Vargas, the father, tore his hair in desperation for a few seconds as he reflected that his daughter had Inherited the firm character of her mother, and the latter, he felt sure from past experience, would never recede re-cede from her stand that Isidro, as a son-in-law, was impossible. Then he dashed to the nearest police station, only a block away, to seek disinterested disinterest-ed counsel. Firemen Hurry to Rescue. A few hurried sentences explained the situation to a eomlsarlo. That official offi-cial had an inspiration. Next to the police station were the firemen. He called out a hook and ladder company and the fire laddies, all dressed up In There Ensued a Lively Game of Tag. huge helmets and light blue uniforms, clanged to the scene of the Impending tragedy, unfurling a life net as they went. They arrived about nine minutes and fifty-five seconds after Ines had Issued her ultimatum and was about to launch herself Into space. Tli ere ensued a lively game of tag between Ines on the roof and the firemen, fire-men, with their net, down In the street, while a gathering crowd cheered and Ciriaco attacked the locked door with an ax. Catch Her In Fire Net. Just as the door gave way Ines thought she had outwitted the net holders and Jumped. By a supreme effort ef-fort and overturning a couple of urchins, the firemen managed to interpose in-terpose enough of the net between Ines and the pavement to break her fall. But she achieved her purpose, for the sight of her daughter whirling through the air destroyed the last of Mamma Vargas' opposition. She did not, however, win Isidro. That youth faded from the scene after witnessing Ills sweetheart's leap. The papers quoted him the next day as Etating that he did not think he possessed pos-sessed enough of the cave man stuff to live happily witti such a woman as Ines promised to become. |