The St. Louis Republic., 1900-11-04
CUPID PLAYS FRANKS
IN A HIGH SCHOOL
Girls and Boys Who Have Learned
the Lesson of Love Along With
Those of Their Books.

REPuBLIC SPECIAL.
Bristol. Conn, Nov. 8-While the NAM
| mas and papas of the girls and boys Of
Bristol have smiiinsly watched their "chil-
dren'' trip away to the High School in TIE
morning. they have been all unaware that
sly Dan Cupid lurlled within the pages of
the books that they conned so industriously
or was hiding In some other equally cor
vcDient spot. That is, the mammas and
papaS regarded the thought of matrimony
as a thing apart from their school daugh-
ters and sons until short time ago, when
the epidemic Of love broke out I'm the High
School which just now threatens to depop-
ulate that temple OF learning. Now there is
an alertness about the parents Of young
sons and daughters In Bristol that was not
noticed up to a year ago.
The latest elopement-for all the High
School romances have been Of the elopemsnt
variety-was that CT Miss Ethel Dutton, a
few months past IL. and a Junior In the
school. She. however. did not wed one of the
pupils. as her husband. Frank Wasley, is
an electrician In the employ Of the Bristol
Foundry.
year ago this youthful couple met and
became engaged without parental knowl-
edge or consent. Finally Miss buttons par
ents We're informed, and objected because
Of the youth Of the girl. Then her lover en-
treated her To flee with him to New York
,A'itt, "utIe TIE Incense Is a thing
Unknown ana age does not matter. Accom-
panied by several friends. Mr.. Wasley and
Miss Datton left town. were married and
sent back the usual telegram asking for
siveness.
Clarence Mallory is the dean Of High
Schooi eiopers. year ago he and Miss
Bernice Atkin studied together and took
part i'll the theatricaiS which run to the.
immortal Shakespeare. In the Bristo, High
schooi During rehe:trsals the young couple
STOOD apart from the other players white
WAITING; for their cues. And Cupid from the
wings smiled.
Miss Atkin was musical, and she intended
| to go to Germany after her graduation. TIE
| graduation day was looked forward to by
her as on important event. one reason of
which was that she would don on that da-
,ler hrst long dress. But one morning ne
Iore the end OF the school term, the am
tiious little student and musician was miss
ing, and SO was MIR. Mallory. That afternoon
| 1t was learned that the- had eloped They
returned promptly TO Bristol and have lived
happy ever since.
After the Mallory-Atkins eiopement Miss
itebd Sheldon. a Junior. II. fled with Frank
| S. White. her fathers milkman
White used to leave milk at her house
every morning when the sun was not hich
! in the east. Miss Sheldon met MIN one even
Ing at his boarding place, where her dear
est school chum lived.
1t was love at first sight. Her father was
well-to-do business man: her future Il,is-
band was but humble milkman, but that
made no difference to her
Hardly had the gossip of this elopement
@aned when the good people of the town
We're startled by the report that Miss Ifie.
BrlghtInan. junior in the same class with
NiSs Wasley. and Fred Barrows IS had
elopeG via the trolley route 10 Brewster
| They Travelled thirty hours. retracing their
steps several times before their circuitous
IMP ended In the New York town where
they We're married.
After making the telegraph wires warm
with pleas for forgiveness. they too, came
| home, to live happily ever afier.''
Ihe ciopement of Miss F'lossie Woodford
and Howard Goodale last spring has re-
| suited sadly for two families The young
couple We're neighbors on Summer Street
| Sne was a year older than he Both came
from the best of good Connecticut stock
IoOdale was q Junior ut the High School
| Miss WOodford left school las. wear To dc.
vote herself to the study of music, for
l which she has shown remarkable talent
Suddenly, like the crash of a thunder
| bolt through the roof of the Woodford
| house. came the news that their only mn
! Old Howard Goodale
Mr.. Woodford and Mr.. Goodale. Sr. con-
| suited, and 1t was agreed that when TN.
! couple returned the girl could como tn nor
| fathers home and the boy husband ,youII
| be received at his. But they must sseparare
Then they came back. They went tn
| Gocdales house and there they Stopped nm
| interrupted for week. This fact caused
| Mr.. Woodford to complain bitterly to Mr.
| Gocdale for what the former considered 3,
| breach of verbal contract -
| One week after the runawaYs returned
] the young wife was invited to seek the
home she first deserted. So she crent
penitent, into her parents protecting arms