Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-10-09
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Miss Matilda Cartes is d young
lady 20 years Of age, living i'll the
little village of Pomme dc Terre,
Grant County, Minnesota. She is d
girl Of excellent parts-but first We
would say that few people fully APP
pr%eciate the worth of q trip on$the
railroad as a developer OF tho true
character of q man. No woman
knows a man until she has taken a
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 q woman
takes with tho MAJ 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 tho car, or going 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 do Terro, does away with
this annoyance.
AS wo 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 go Over into Wiscon-
sin and have matters arranged before
some obliging minister or magistrate,
and return to their home triumphant.
1t early occurred to Miss Carter that
tho V hour railroad journey be-
tween Pomme dc Tcrrc and Sunrise
City, the nearest Wisconsin point,
would be an excellent opportunity to
got acquainted with a man, there
fore, when George Brown "proposcd"
three years ago she told him that
they mnst clopc to Sunrise City, as
her stern father would never give
his consent. She half suspected
that Georges temper would not hold
out for a 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 Pommc dc Tcrrc, 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 a in the company of poor
cigars, while the latter pulled his hat
down over his eyes and went to sleep
and snored, something she abhorrcd,
lIigly Al she esteemed this plan of
teasing her lovers with n railroad
journey before marriage, she could
still recognize that it had one serious
dcfcct-namcly, the lonely and cx-
pcnsive journey back from Sunrise
City.
Six months ago, when William
Carr sought tho 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 frccklc-noscd
girl from Sank Rapids, and when
they reached Sunrise Miss Carter
turned him adrift. But she deter
mined not to waste the return trip.
She decided that it was a poor elopc-
mert, which would not work both
ways. 10 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 clopcd
back to Pomme 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 that she
has kept it up. Three times she had
clopcd to Sunrise City and the same
number Of times has she clipped back