The St. Louis Republic., 1902-10-05
Cupid Chooses
Strange Aids.
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The agencies which pick a man out OF
the crowd in one direction and a woman
from the multitude in another. bring them
together and finally unite them for better
or worse or the divorce courts. are various.
but balloon Is a novelty. Packing boxes
are strange aides-de-eamp for Cupid, and
the Humane Society for the Protection Of
Animals is another.
But these three agencies have accom-
plished three marriages In different parts Of
the country. and their value as matrimonial
auxitiRries Is thereby established
Mss Mamie Zercrosa OF Dorchester Coun-
=, Maryland. Is the young woman who
consigned her hopes to the winds and they
brought her back = husband. It is too early
to decide whether Miss Zercross will re-
Sret that she looked 20 the breezes for a
husband or not The romanticany inclined
VIII pray that she does not. and will hope
that they win live happily ever after
wards" rust for the sake OF the romance.
II VIII Be agreed that the young woman
got her husband In . strange way. On the
Fourth Of July M1ss Zercross secured .
mail nsh-shaped balloon as her contribu-
ton 70 the patriotic demonstrations There
was . hidden reason for the fish shape
which her friends did not understand untl
they saw what she had caught"
TIED PHOTOGRAPH TO BALLOON.
To the dsh-shaped balloon she tied her
photograph and a letter. When the toy was
loosed II was carried far across country and
lost TO view. Miss Zercross watched Il 60
cut OF sight and then forgot her experiment.
shs was reminded II It three days later,
however. on the receipt OF a letter from
Ocean City. Nd. many miles distant from
her home.
The letter was from Ralph Messick a
grain dealer In Ocean City. He said that be
had found the 6sh-shaped balloon and had
read the letter. Would he be permitted to
Wrfte to the young woman whose photo,
graph he had found attached to the string
Mss Zercross thought II over for as many
as three seconds and decided that he might.
After some Interchange OF letters. Mr.. Mes
SICK Sot himself Up In his prettiest RtylS
and sat for his photograph. which he sent
70 the young woman OF the balloon
The work OF the nsh-shaped toy was COM
Dleted the minute Miss Zercross undia the
wrapping around the picture. She was his
the young man decided that they ought TO
have look at each other. and Mr.. Messick
departed for Cambridge, the home Of Miss
ZercrosS- She met him at the station and
drove him to her home The home Is said
70 oe handsome one and Miss Zercross IL
AA--A-IS-A1
Three days were consumed IN eourtshIn.
Just TO give the affair = little forrnaiIty, ana
then they drove to the minister They are
now In the CAtskills On their HONEYMOON.
The motto which VIII be hung I'D alongside
the traditional GOD Bless Our Home win
It's an III Wind That Blows. Nobody
Good"
UNITED By PACKING BOXES.
Probably II it had not been for packiuu
boxes william +. Cochran would nor -
about to marry Miss Nina Lorraine GHf OF
S2lsimore. but there 70 every evidence that
such Is the case When William Cochran
was graduated from college ds father, the
late William ,. Cochran. the YonksrS n.
=, millionaire, turned him out % the world
70 make his own livelihood Il was parental
kindEess. and noe unkindneza that dictaenA
this step. Mr.. Cochran sr-. had an IdeA
that Mr.. Cochran, Jr., would amount u
eomething II this course Wsrs pursusd ana
might not otherWfsA
With no business training young Cochra1
realized that Il was impossible for him e
secure clerical position and hops 70
amount to anything He used his brains, as
bis father wished him to do, and discovernH
An opening. He found that merchants wers
wasting their packing boxes He secured =
small shop IN q Eolsy stres9 In 3alss.
more. and horse and cart he drove IRON
one establishment 20 another. buying the
packing boxes which were littsring up tAa
premises of merchants and manufacturer
He drove hard bargains with them, SnG
most OF them were amused at the aEtar~
prise OF the young business man A. tha
boxes were an fncumhranee to thar places
they parted with them at prices which en-
abled Cochran to carry out bis schens with
pront
He carted the boxes TO his shop ana
blamed. sandpapere5 and mended them until
they were turned out new boxss again
Then they were resold Tha venture proved
profitable. II grew and q company was
formed Ths company went into other IN
Btill retaining the packing box
from which Il started.
All this time the son had said nothing to
his father concerning his business undertake
ngs, and did not realize that his father
was aware OF his success But the father
had kept track Of the young man, and he
nade Il known suddenly by making the son
director OF the Seaboard Air Line.
II was while Cochran was building I'D the
foundation Of bis business success cartsng
packing boxes to his shop that he met Mise
eli, q daughter Of one Of Baltimore'S beat
'ocial families Miss Gil Is described az
college girl who likes to do things and likes
nen who can do them She was attracted
% Mr.. Cochran because he. the son OF
had started in life for
linsef and had made 3 competence by de-
Teloping an idea
II was the packfng-box Idea that eStao-
ished him In Miss GiTs regard. and he
ound time to conduct q courtship while he
sathered boxes They became engaged and
will be married this fall. His father died
md all his interests were inherited By him
de Is now doubly rich-by virtue OF his own
inorts as well as 81 inheritance.
HUMANE SOCIETY STEPS IN
The humane society Is = strange aid for
Supid. but in the following case II was not
'nly an aid but was the salvation OF the
ride. II ives young Italian girl who was
most deeply concerned Her mother had sold
Ter TO a Webster. Pa. barber for So and
he barber intended 10 marry her. notwith-
tandiug that Josephine-Josephine Reggeo
vas her name-was inclined TO a young
Italian, who would have been willing TO
lay much more than so II II had been q
question OF currency.
Josephine was employed at the residences
Z L. l.. Love Of Asplnwall, Pa. as q serv-
mt. One night a determined effort was
made to kidnao her. The man in the case
ras found to be the barber who had bought
er The barber failed. but he went to the
humane Society with a complaint that the
irl was being Illegally detained IN the Lovs
ousehoid. and that he as her fiance de-
handed her
The Humane Society officials became In
crested and mace an investigation Then It
Tas learned that the mother had sold the
aughter and that the barber was endeavor-
* 20 carry home an UNIV ling purchase.
y further investigation the society found
he young italian who was Miss Josephine's
hoice and arrangements were made at once
1r the wedding