The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-28
AN INGENIOUS MINNESOTA GIRL.
She Is a Believer in Reversible
Elopements.

From the Ne1o York Tribune.
Miss Matilda Carter is young lady 90
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 a trip ON the railroad as de-
veloper of the true character of man. No
woman knows a man until she has taken a
journey of several hours duration with him
on a railroad train. But how often it hap
pens, alas, that the first trip of this
kind that woman takes with the
| man of her choice is the
wedding tour. She may find that she does
not like his way of going into the smoking
car and indulgiug in strong cigars and
drinking out of friends pocket flask, or
his little way of spreading mis- feet over the
next seat, or flirting with the girl in the
front of the car, or going to sleep aud
snoring, or getting cross because she asks
foolish questions, or a dozen other things,
of Pomme de Terre does away with this
annoyance.
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 fool
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in the world that Minnesota young people
with obstinate parents should go over
into Wisconsin and have matters ar
ranged before some Obllglng minister
or magistrate, and re urn to their home
triumphant. 1t early occurred to Miss
Garter that the seven-hour railway journey
between Pomme de Terre and Sunrise City,
the nearest Wisconsin point, would be an
excellent opportunity to get acquainted
with man, therefore, when George Brown
proposed" three years ago she told him
that they must elope to Sunrise City, as her
stern father would never give
his consent. She half suspected tnat
Georges temper would not hold
out for railroad trip of that length, and,
sure enough, when they were still an hour
from their destination, he got cross because
she wanted him to explain what kept the
| cars 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 Pomme de Terre,
leaving George Brown stranded in Sunrise
with only 81 so in his pocket Later she re-
peated this experience with Charles Fessen-
| den and Frank Harris, her objection to the
| former 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 snored,
something she abhorred. Highly as she
esteemed this plan of testing her lovers with a
railroad Journey before marriage, she could
still recognize that it had one serious de-
fect-namelv, the lonely and expensive
Journey 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
up an acquaintance with a freckle-noSed girl
from Sank Rapids, and when they reached
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she determined not owaste the return trip.
She decided that it was a poor elopement
| which would not work both WAYS To make
a long story short, the hotel clerk in Sun
| rise proposed marriage two hours after her
arrival. She coyly told him that she could
not think of being married away from
| home, and accordingly eloped back to
| Pomme de Terre with him. He played
| cards half of the way with a 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 has 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
in some respect. Miss Carter is of cheer
| full disposition, hope being her most strongly
developed faculty, so she is not yet discour-
| aged. She has, 1t is said, just agreed to
elupe from Pomme de Terre with young
Jesse Bartlett Oct L, ana IL Is
thought that she is arranging by
letter to elope back with
Sunrise City young man named Parrott If
Jesse develops any bad traits on the out
trip, as she suspects ne may. Whether or
not Miss Matilda Carter, of Ponlme de
Terre, Mimi, and Sunrise City, Wis, will
ever marry seems questionable, but that she
will be satisfied if she ever does is tolerably
certain. Marriage is a serious thing and
should not be catered into lightly. The
reversible elopement comes to fill want
long felt.
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