Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-04
The Girl That Clones.

Girls have been in the habit of =,
ing on occasions as long as Girls hsopp-
been. 1t is a practice that can not Se
recommended in general. Commouoe
able or not, however, girls will dn
The reasons for leaving tho pat aul II;
roof between two days in compana.
with . young man appear to be varr;aSyl
Sometimes a cruel parent selects :
husband without asking the dauehter,as
consent. Oftener some would-be bnss
baud selects the daughter and the os
man won't consent, thus necessitat;na.
an elopement for the double purnnss
of getting married and ESCAPING tbo
paternal boot. On occasions the elona
menti is necessary to avoid the reyolve,
or shotgun of another fellow who has
taken q notion to the girl. Ordinarlv
elopements do not take place if ths
course of true love meets with no oh
stacle in the home of either member ~
the seeking-to-be-wedded couple.
Girls are freakish. however, ann
sometimes run away to be married for
no apparent cause whatever. It will
be remembered that a daughter OF .la
immortal Mr.. Wardle was gettino
ready to run away with a famous
Pickw ckian without so much as sup.
costing to her adorable Snodgrass
the propriety of asking her father
whether he had any objections to The
wedding taking place at home in the
usual way. The sixteen year-o]I
daughter of late ex-Alderman of Long
Island City has made herself famous BY
an actual elopement of this kim.
She was pretty and rich, and an.
swered to the charming name of Fan.
ny. Her brother had a friend by the
name of Walter, who was also rich,
g~ood-looking, and twenty-five. Walt I
visited the brother and fell in love with
Fanny, which, underline circumstance.
was natural enough. Nobody had anv
objection to Walter or the match, and
if Walter had asked for Fanny she
would have been given to him.
But Walter and Fanny concluded to
be romantic, and run away to get mar.
ried: Fanny spent the day kissing her
mother, and wondering what in the
living world she would wear to get
married in. She kissed her mother
goodnight at ten o'clock, went to h r
room, packed her satchel, met her lover,
! and posted to the city of New York,
where they were married, after which
q note was sent home, and the mater
nal blessing, which they might have
had by word of mouth for the asking,
was telegraphed to them, and they
went on their wedding tour rejoicing.
The only exclamation that can be
given for this highly gratuitous ebpc-
ment is that 1t runs in the family. Two
older sisters of Miss Fanny have Sc.
cured husbands by this method.
Whether the mother of these clipping
daughters set the example by clipping
herself is not reported, but as the elop-
ing tendency appears to be irresistible
in the blood, it is not at all improbable.
If Fanny's mother has any more I'M
married daughters. however, who de-
velop an alarming inclination to kiss
her on any particular day, she should
employ detectives at once to shadow the
over-atlectionate girl, unless she wants
the clopcment to succeed. The clipping
tendency is too strong in that family to
be checked by anything short of the
most rigorous Observation-Disclosures
Times.