The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1902-06-05
A ROMANCE OF THE SEA.
Cupid's Strategy, Once Fooled, Final
Iy scores Complete
victory

Il had the opportunity remarked
a young lady prominent in Baltimore
society, says the Baltimore Sun, 'son
my way back from Europe this sum
mer, to be a interested witness of IL
extremely queer love affair. We re-
turned on the Deut schland, and among
the passengers were couple of Ger
man university students, who were
coming over to study Anne rican polit:~
cal con editions and incidentany'' (this
with an arch sm;ie) ''to discover
whet Their American girls deserved their
reputation for charm. Among the
Americans was a party of six bright
and pretty girls from a Boston acad-
envy, who had made tour of inspec
ton and conquest under the guidance
of mature and forbidding chaperon,
one of the senior professors of the
dead languages in the institution.
1.-THE hairy professoren,' as the stu
dents were called because of their
cherished little ustaches, beca me inn
media te1y enamored of the Boston
beauties and devised the most unlike
" schemes to attract their a attention
Or to secure an introduction. How
ever, all their neatly laid plots failed
for the girls were well brought up and
disc ourag ed all adTances. The situa-
ton began to look blue for the young
men, who showed such unmist aka bic
signs of heart anguish to afford gen
era1 amusement.
2Ono night one OF the girls, d6S1T1ESs
to get a book which she had Left in
another stateroom, started to get it.
She was comforta bly, attired in loose
wrapper, and her beautiful hair was
gathered in Psyche knot. fastened
with single hairpin. Trusting to the
darkness to escape without attract
ing -attent ton, she rushed through the
passa geway and, as will sometimes
happen, bolted into cabin occupied
by one of her German admirers
T.,4 L. L L
portunity to renew the conquest, but
the resourceful maiden promptly
pulled out the single hairpin and let
fall her 1uxuriant tresses in ripple
over her face, thus effectuany con-
cealing her identity The admirer,
sent 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,
pinched her cheek, hoping by this
means to leave a mark whereby she
mi ght be recognized.
lima CINE his chagrin next morning
to 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 of
IN scu1ine lovers, he selected the fair
est and most attractive of the party
as his nocturnal visitor He redou-
bled all his efforts for an introduce
ton, but all his attempts were fruit
less until he hit upon the exPedient OF
interest ting the chaperon by simu1at-
ing deep interest in the dead lam
guages. After that the courtship pro-
ceeded rapidly. and before the party
had set foot on American soil vows
had been exchanged. 1t should be
added that the fancee was really the
girl who had blundered into the incest
fellow in the world as the young lady
expressed it,
ssThe volume which turned the scale
in the young mans favor has been
superbly bound and placed in the most
honored portion of his den, next to the
picture of the girl who stumbled into
a husband