The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-07
ROMANCE ON TIE WATERS
LOVE PROVES TOO STRONG A PRIs-
ONER FOR SODA
BOTTLE
WAS NOVEL WEDDING SCHEME
MisehievOus Young Maiden Casts
Her Love Upon the Waters
and Receives 1t Back
TWofOId.

1t all came about through joke. But
this joke had such happy ending that
everybody was pleased when pretty Grace
Newhausen and Harold Truax were
married the other day; all except the
bright young man who had hoped to
make her Mrs. Norton. and who was
disappointed. says the Philadelphia
Times correspondent, of Council Bluffs,
10. Never again will he lift up his voice
In gladness when an excursion is pro-
posed, for it was an excursion which
routed his hopes and made possible the
romance which eliminated in the wedding
of his betrothed to another man.
This is a romance of three states
Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri. 1t was
one afternoon last June that a, merry
party of eight-four couples-including
Mr. Norton and Miss 4whausen, left
the Omaha wharf, across the Missouri
river from Council Bluffs, on the excurs-
Ion steamer Jacob Ritchman for a trip
down the river. It was a short ride and
a merry one but the results were dis
astrous to the hopes of one young man
in Nebraska, though they brought SUI
preme happiness to another in Missouri.
While the merry couples were on the
boat one of the young men picked up an
empty soda water bottle. Laughingly,
and with no thought weightier than any
thought which comes to the mind of any
young man on an excursion, he wrote
the name and address of Miss New
hansen on a slip of paper. This he
pushed through the neck of the bottle
and then forced the rubber cork back
into place.
Throw it into the rlver"' shouted
somebody Throw it In, and let's see
who will find it.
Everybody laughed at this suggestion.
Yes, throw it tni'' shouted young Nor
ton playfully pushing Miss Newhausen' S
arm.
A white hand swung backward, there
was enc movement forward and in
twinkling the bottle was diving in the
current of the Missouri river.
The double quartette of laughing young
people watched it bobbing up and down
for minute or two. Then it disap-
peared and the current of their thoughts
changed
Did she ever think of it again? Very
probably she did, for she. like most girls
of manageable age, had within her the
spirit of romance; and had not romance
grown out of bottles before her time,
when they were picked up from their
Watery bed by young men with heart
free musings and romantic ideas?
Anyway, this particular bottle kept
winding it's way down the Missouri river
until it neared the city of ST. Joseph,
Mo. There it was found and opened by
Harold TruaX, a young travelling man,
while he was out rowing with some
friends.
Did he cast it carelessIy aside? Not he
The very next mail carried delicately
worded note to Council Bluffs. Would
Miss NeWhausen be pleased to CORE
spend? Indeed she would. Photographs
were exchanged, and each was so pleased
with the appearance of the other-on pa
per-that they become good friends in
letters called forth feeling epistles from
young TruaX, and it was not long before
he obtained permission to call at her ia
theirs house. This experience so delighted
them both that they fell in love and be-
fore long they We're engaged. Mr.. Truax
visited the city frequently. The wedding
was set for Sept s. and, though there
parents of Miss Newhausen, it took place.