Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-10-09
An Insonions minnesota Girl.
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EIoeEMENGs.
Miss Matilda. Carter is q young
LADY, years Of age, living inthe
#little Village of Fomme do Terre,
Grant County, Minnesota. She is q
girl Of excellent psrts-but first we
would say that few people fully ap-
preciate the worth of a trip on the
railroad as a developer Of tho true
character OF o man. No woman
knows a man until she has taken
journey of several hours duration
with him on q railroad train. But
how often it happens, alas, that the
first trip of this kind that a woman
takes with tho man of her choice is
tho wedding tour. She may find
that she docs not like his way Of go
ing into the smoking car and indulg-
ing in strong cigars and drinking out
of a friends pocket flask, or his little
way of spreading his feet over the
next scat, or flirting with the girl in
the front Of the car, or gcing to
sleep and snoring, or getting cross
because she asks foolish questions, or
a dozen other things, but it is too
late then. Miss Matilda Carter, of
Pommo dc Tcrre, does away with
this annoyance.
AS we said before, Miss Carter is
but twenty years of age. The Min
ncsota law requires a license to
marry, and where either the man or
tho woman is under age, the consent
Of his or her parents. The laws of
Wisconsin do not require any such
foolishncss, therefore it is the most
natural thing in the world that Min
nesota young people with obstinate
parents should 60 vcr into Wiscon-
sin and have matters arranged before
some obliging minister or magistrate,
and return to their home triumphant.
1t carly occurred to Miss Carter that
tho even hour railroad journey be-
tween Pomme de Terrc and Sunrise
City, the nearest Wisconsin point,
would be an excellent opportunity to
got acquainted with q man, there
fore, when George Brown "proposed'
three years ago she told him that
they mnst elopc to Sunrise City, as
her stern father would never give
his consent. She half suspected
that Georges temper would not hold
out for q railroad trip of that length,
and, sure enough, when they were
still al hour from their destination,
he got because she wanted him
to explain what kept the ars on the
track. Accordingly, when they
reached Sunrise City she told him
she had concluded that she had made
a mistake, and took the first train
back to Pommc dc Terrc, leaving
George Brown stranded in Sunrise
with only $3.50 in his pocket. Later
she repeated this experience with
Charles Fcsscndcn and Frank Har-
ris, her objection to the former be-
ing that he spent his time in the
smoking car in the company of poor
cigars, while the latter pulled his hat
down over his eyes and went to sleep
and snorcd, something she abhorred
1Iigly as she esteemed this plan OF
teasing her lovers with a railroad
journey before marriage, she could
still recognize that it had one serious
dcfcct-namcly, the lonely and OK
pensivc journey back from Sunrise
City,
Six months ago, when William
Carr sought the lovely Matilda fol
his wife, she told him her usual terms
u trip to Sunrise City. On tho
way William tried to strike up an
acquaintance with a frccklc-noscd
girl from Sank Rapids, and when
they reached Sunrise Miss Carte,
turned him adrift. But she deter.
mined not to waste the return trip
She decided that it was a poor clopc-
mcnt which would not work both
ways. TO make a long story short:
the hotel clerk in Sunrise proposed
marriage two hours after her arrival
She coyly told him that she could
not think of being married away
from home, and accordingly elopcd
back to Pommc dc Tcrrc with him
lie played cards half OF the way with
a strangcrand was promptly dismissed
at the end Of the journey. But the
plan worked so smoothly hat she
has kept it up. Three times she had
clopcd to Sunrise City and the same
number of times has she clopcd back
to Pommc dc Tcrrc. Each of tho
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