St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-19
CAPTURED BY CUPID.
Dr.. ALBERT SHAW TO MARRY A PENN
SYLVANLA WOMAN.
KNEW HER BUT FIVE WEEKS.
The Story of a Church Sociable
and the Result-Who the Con-
tracing Parties Are We'd
ding to Occur in September
Next.

Next.
Dr.. Albert Shaw. editor of the Ameri-
can edition of the Review of Reviews,
is to be married in September TO Miss
Elizabeth Bacon. The Chicago Post of
Monday has the following spicy article
in regard to the cOurtship and the COM
ing nuptialS:
Dr.. Albert Shaw. editor of the Ameri-
can Review of Reviews,is very learned
and dreadfully scholastic gentleman.
but he has fallen under the assaults of
love, and is now engaged in signing like
furnace for the wedding day. He sits
up half the night writing, not dry dis
QUESTIONS upon the habits and customs
of the chinch bug of commerce, but
passionate sonnets to his mistress eye
brow. He walk solemnly up and down
the worlds fair grounds looking as if
he were considering the problem of the
universe. But he isn't. He looks very
wise and solemn, but it isn't the problem
OF the universe that is bothering him
just now. 1t is his heart, and all the
digltals in the world will not serve to
relieve him.
The fact is. DR.. Shaw is engaged to
marry Miss Elizabeth Bacon, of Read
ing, Pa, and as he has been so engaged
for only about one week he hasn't got
used to it yet. That is why he goes
around Evans avenue Gliding the
world; that is why belated pedestrians
in that neighborhood have been startled
by DR.. Shaw's eyeballs in fine frenzy
rolling. He is travelling in the same
class as the lunatic and the poet.
The Same Old Story.
1t happened IN the usual way. Five
weeks aUO ilr Shaw had
of Miss Bacon, and she thought OF him
only as famous literary man and
editor, in whose presence, if she
should ever be fortunate enough
TO meet him, she would learn lots
about everything but love. When she
went to Noblesville, Ind, she never
dreamed that DR.. Shaw would be there.
But he was. He was visiting bis sister.
One night there was a church social
in Noblesville. and DR.. Shaw's sister
insisted that DR.. Shaw should go. He
didn't want to; he much preferred to
stay at the house and read about the
progress of the world; he never did like
church socials, anyway. He even went
so Tar as to make sarcastic remarks
about the average church social's out
put OF strawberries, and limited that he
had heard that church social ice cream
was no better than it should be.
All this, however, was Of no use. His
sister had made up her mind that he
must go. and go he did-relIctant and
grumbling, perhaps, but still he went.
He is glad of it now, for he had not
reached his second plate of shortcake
before he saw the most beautiful girl in
the world. He got somebody to intro
dnce him, and in five minutes he dis
covered that she was not only the most
beautiful, but also the most charming,
the most intellectual, the most interest
ing and the most sympathetic girl in the
world. Indeed, she was a prodigy of
perfection.
Learning Didn't Save Him.
Now, when a man meets prodigy of
perfection his first impulse is to ask il
he may ''See her home" You might
suppose a literary man would be so
wrapped up in his learning that he
wouldn't notice his impulses, but if you
should you would make a tremendous
mistake. DR.. Shaw, like all others,
yielded when this particular impulse
arrived, and it wasn't long before the
rest of the people at the social were
very much disturbed by an apparently
dlStraught gentleman who wanted to
know if anybody had seen Miss Bacon's
shawl. She said she left it on that chair
over there. Of course this attracted
dlLeHtlOH, ana Wn6n lno shawl was
found at last and DR.. Shaw had put it
around Miss Bacon's shoulders and
Miss Bacon and DR.. Shaw disappeared
without the formality of a "good
night" the social resolved itself into
committee of the whole to consider the
matter.
That this action was iustifable is con-
clusiyely demonstrated by the fact that
when DIR. Shaw arrived at Mrs. William
{. Childs' residence, 4742 Evans avenue,
last night, young lady was observed to
burst unanimously from Mrs. Frank
TrissaPs next door, throw her arms
about his neck and kiss him in the sight
OF all men and squarely on the lips. 1t
was also observed that the kiss was the
result Of contract, which, as any law
yer will tell you, demands a conSidera-
ton.
And now. like Pyramus and Thisbe
these modern lovers are separated by a
wall, the party wall between Mrs. IRIS
sails and Mrs. Child's. but IN spite of
that they are perfectly happy. Life
seems to them perpetual Ferris wheel.
Marriage Day is Fixed.