The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-10-09
AN INGENIOUS MINNESOTA GIRL
She is a Believer in Reversible EIon.-
mentS
New York Tribune.7


New \ 1ork Tribune.7
Matilda Carter is young lady 20
years OF age, living in the little village
OF Pomme de Terre, Grant County,
Minnesota. She is girl of excellent
parts, but first we would say that few
people fully appreciate the worth of q
trip on the rail road as developer Of
the true character of man. No wo-
man knows man until she has taken
Journey OF several hours duration
with him On rail road train. But
how often it happens, alas, that the
fIrst trip o. this kind that a woman
takes with the man of her choice is the
wedding tour. She may find that she
Goes not Ike his way of going into the
smoking car and indulging in strong
cigars and drinking out of friends
pocket flask, Or his little way of spread
ing his feet over the next seat, or flirt-
ing with the girl in the front of the car.
or going to sleep and snoring, or getting
cross because she asks foolish questions,
or dozen other things, but it is too
late then. Miss Matilda Carter of Pom
me de Terre does away with this an
noyance.
AS we said before, Miss Carter is but
twenty years Of age. The Minnesota.
law requires license to marry, and
where either the man or the woman is
under age, the consent of his or her
parents. The laws of Wisconsin do
not require any such foolishness, there
fore it is the most natural thing in the
world that Minnesota young people
with obstinate parents should 90 over
into Wisconsin and have matters ar
ranged before some obliging minister
or magistrate and return to their home
triumphant.
1t early occurred to Miss Carter that
theseven hour railway journey between
Pomme de Terre and Sunrise CITY, the
nearest Wisconsin point, would be an
excellent opportunity to get acquainted
with a man; therefore, when George
Brown proposed" three years ago, she
told him that they must elope to Sun
rise City, as her stern father would
never give his consent. She half sus-
pected that Georges temper would not
hold out fora railro; trip of that length
and, sure enough, when they were still
an hour from their destination, he cot
cross because she wanted him to ex-
plain what kept the cars On the track.
Accordingly, when they reached Sun
rise City she told him she had con-
cluded that she had made a mistake,
and took the first train back to Pom
me dc Terre, leaving George Brown
stranded in Sunrise city with only 81 50
III his pocket. Later she repeated this
experience with Charles Fessenden and
Frank Harris, her objection to the for
mer being 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 ab-
horred. Highly as she esteemed this
plan Of teasing her lovers with a rail
road journey before marriage, she could
still recognize that it had one serious
defect-the lonely and expensive jour-
ney back from Sunrise City.
Six months ago: when William Carr
sought the lovely Matilda for his wife,
she told him her usual terms-a trip to
Sunrise City. On the way William
tried to strike upan acquaintance with
a freckle-nosed girl from Sank rapids,
and when they reached Sunrise Miss
Carter turned him adrift. But she de-
termined not to waste the return trip.
She decided that it was a poor elope-
mentz that would not work both ways.
To make long story short, the hotel
clerk in Sunrise proposed marriage two
Lours after her arrival. She coyly told
him that she could not think of being
married away from home, and accord
ingly eloped back to Pomme de Terre
with him. He played cards half of the
way with stranger and was promptly
dismissed at the end of the journey.
But the plan worked so smoothly that
she has kept it up.
Three times now she had eloped to
Sunrise City and the same number of
times has she eloped back to Pomme de
Terre. Each of the men has been
found wanting for some respect. Miss
Carter is Of cheerful disposition, hope
being her most strongly developed fac
ulty, so she is not yet discouraged. She
has, it is said, just agreed to elope from
Pomme de Terre with young Jesse
Bartlett October /, and it is thought
that she is arranging by letter to elope
back with Sunrise City young man
named Parrot if Jesse develops any
bad traits on the out-trip, as she sus-
poets he may. Whether or not Miss
Matilda Carter, Of Pomme de Terre,
Mimi, ard Sunrise City, Wis, will
ever marry seem questionable, but that
she will be satisfied if she ever does is
certain. Marriage is a serious thing,
and should not be entered into lightly.
The reversible clopement comes to fill
4 want long felt.