The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-12-26
A ROMANCE OF THE SEA.
Cupid's strategy. Once Foiled. Final
~ scores . Complete
Victory,

81 had the opportunity" remarked
a young lady prominent in Baltimore
society, says the Baltimore Sun, ION
my way back from Europe this sum.
mer, to be an interested witness Of an
extremely queer love affair. We re-
turned on the Deut chIand. and among
the passengers were a couple Of Ger
man university students. who were
coming over to study American politi-
cal conditions and incidentally" (this
with an arch SMILEY ito discover
whether American girls deserved their
reputation for charm. Among the
Americans was party of six bright
and pretty girls from a Boston acad-
emy, who had made a tour Of inspec-
tion and conquest under the guidance
Of mature and forbidding chaperon.
one of the senior professors of the
dead languages in the institution.
"The hairy professoren.' as the stu
dents were called because of their
cherished little mustaches. beca me i'm.
mediately enamored Of the Boston
beauties and devised the most unlike.
ly schemes to attract their attention
or to secure an introduction. How
ever. all their neatly laid plots failed,
for the girls were well brought up and
discouraged all advances. The situa-
tion began to look blue for the young
men. who showed such unmistaka bic
signs of heart anguish as to afford gen
eral amusement.
Zone night one OF the girls. desiring
to get book which she had left in
another stateroom, started to get IT..
She was comfortably attired in loose
wrapper, and her beautiful hair was
gathered in a Psyche knot, fastened
with a single hairpin. Trusting to the
darkness to escape without attract
ing attention. she rushed through the
passageway and, as will sometimes
happen, bolted into a cabin occupied
by one of her German admirers.
"The latter thought he saw his op-
portunity to renew the conquest. but
the resourceful maiden promptly
pulled out the single hairpin and let
fall her luxuriant tresses in a ripple
over her face, thus effectuauy con.
cealing her identity. The admirer
bent on finding out which of the three
girls stood before him and yet not
daring to pull away the hair, which
she held tightly drawn over the face
pihched her cheek, hoping by this
means to leave mark whereby she
might be recognized
Imagine his chagrin next morning
10 find all of the girls with precisely
similar marks on their faces. They
had all pinched their cheeks in the
same way to defeat his design. How
ever, with the proverbial conceit o.
masculine lovers. he selected the fair
est and most attractive of the party
as his nocturnal visitor. He redou
bled all his efforts for an introduc
ton. but all his attempts were fruit
less until he hit upon the expe dent O.
interesting the chaperon by sfmulat
ing a deep interest in the dead Ian
guages. After that the court ship pro
ceeded rapidly, and before the part,
had set foot on American soil vowi
had been exchanged. 1t should b'
added that the Hancee was really tn,
girl who had blundered into the nices
fellow in the world as the young lad,
expressed 1t.
"The volume which turned the scal'
in the young mans favor has beer
superbly bound and placed in the mos
honored portion of his den, next to th'
picture of the girl who stumbled int
| a husband"