The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-22
VOW NOT TO fLIRT
SURE CLERK TAKES OATH WITH
FIANcEE BEFORE HE GOES
A-SOLDIERING
NOW ENGAGED TILL 1908
Pledge Made Jointly and seyero1y
That Neither VIII ORer Court
to Another Nor Receive Any
Attentions, $50 Help U.s."

NEW YORK, March 20.-secret nIedees
ana whispered vows may be all right for
the ordinary run of engaged couDies but
II IS dlHerent with Lemuel Charles Noel.
II. ms and Miss Laura Amelia Morgenson
Ihey sWore to their promises this wool
before Justice of the peace.
lie is New York department. e+ora
clerk by day, and resident Of Fairyiew
py night; and she is a telegraph onera-
toF, and lives at Granton, N. ].
MI. MeekIns has martial instincts and
oelore ne settles down to the calm life
.! married man, he thinks it is due tn
i I 10 taste the dangers and distrac.
e,onS OF the held of battle. He has a
1riehd IN the recruiting office at Newark
whose tales of glory to be won in tbe far
Phlllpplnes swelled his desire until 10
toId ms hancee that he was bound tn oo
a-soldering. ''iiu - 70
Ahc what about me?" she asked
Inen ne explained that it only meant
pultlng Off the ceremony three wears.
IndI ne could easily save three-uua~tare
OF all the pay he received. as tho &C.
eminent supplies everything ana tI,a 9oa+
the expiration Of his term tbnv +,+o,I5
pe III financial condition to set nm IN
proper scale and basis, because IF his
savings use VI MS
moreover, he pointed out the onnor-
tunltles for distinction, the likeIihood
III new country he would strike
III. On q Inc Of prosperity apart from
go SUFFERING, and much more of the
a s Ihen he spoke of their voutb ana
thaL she particularly could afford -'l a.
ter the mat
Suddenly something she had read in +bo
paper suggested itself LIZ
You go over in one of those trans
p porCs' suppose, with 700 hundred pretty
a Ot
Pooh, school teachers,"
And If you We're wounded on the hat
tleheld you would be nursed BY soma
just know it, Sou' l
Never"
ana then he swore he'd pay no atten
.lon TO any woman, though every one
~ asa beset him, but would come back
at the end of his term to her.
Ii Miss Morgenson had been q +bir-
teehIn-century girl she would dol1bt1asg
nave said, like Juliet, Swear not a.
all put being particularly up-to-dato
she od not despise the binding effect ar
an oath She took LemueI Charles Mo-
klhs at his word, and the VOW recorded
was drawn up.
But how about you?'' said the sworn
-oIli,Is CAdrles' While L am out there,
SAVING my pay and standing off FiIininoe
ana sustaining from firtations with
school teachers and nurses. Won will H.
mere having fine time, going around
with this man and that, and forgettina
al ABOUT me off there fighting for nv
country ny
Her answer may be OWNED from the
oLner nan OF the contract made part
OF this presentation. pa
The preliminaries having been thus adj
1usted, and Dan Cupid having for oncA
oeen bound around and hedged .ahont
with legal forms, the twain hunted m
justice George F. Seymour, of No. f13
washington street, Hoboken In the
presence of the judge they signed the doc
uments,- each taking a copy. and then
the prospective soldier took his bride to
Def there is any virtue in a solemn
eontract-to her home and came over tn
New York to resign his place. after
e Mnlcn ne said he would hunt up his
friend, the recruiter, and get into bis
soldier clothes