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Show Gretna Green Unlike Town of Olden Days The big increase in the surplus of English women, as .indicated In re oeiit census returns, has robbed (Iretiin (Iroon (Scotland) of hopes "f staging a comeback. The good old days of romance are gone forever, aver the townsfolk. Daughters were far more scarce a Hundred years or so ago than now when parents so rarely try to shoot My young sports who purloin them. Gretna Green did most of Its rushing marriage business between lTol and isr,o. One of the popular paintings Is that of romantic passengers In a post-chaise post-chaise hurrying to Hie town ou the boundary line between England and Scotland and showing the pursuing father's vehicle In a ditch with the wheel broken down. This picture is more In demand than the village blacksmith himself wlio used to lend a helping hand to parties bent on clandestine marriage to avoid the English law. |