The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-05-19
UNIQUE PROPOSALS.
SOME RATHER CURIOUS METHODS
OF POPPING THE QUESTION.
Writing an Order Of Marriage With
. ShOtgun-1nditing a Love Letter
With u Waterfall-Firewor and
Vegetables Pressed Into Service.

With u observation-disclosures and
Vegetables Pressed Into Service.
Miss Annie Oakley, the champion
riae shot, was practicing in London
Shooting gallery one day, firing at the
regulation cardboard target, when
stranger happened along and, picking
up spare rifle, fired 100 shots thereat,
the whole spelling out the following
message: "Will you marry me?"
The lady was naturally somewhat
surprised; but, not to be outdohe, she
promptly replied after similar fashion
with her own match rifle, "Certainly
not"
This is probably unique as an offer
of marriage, but it is fact that
young matron living in a south London
suburb has in her possession at this
present moment several rifle written
love letters.
The lady in question was formerly
an attendant at Il shooting gallery in
a certain popular place of amusement
(sOon, alas, to be closed forever which
is clown Westminster way" and her
sweetheart that was and husband that
is used to drop in of an evening to
practice. lie became so expert after
awhile that he could place the shots
where he liked to within q fraction of
TN inch, and he frequently used his
| skill when no inconycnient onlookers
We're around in the manner indicated.
! Needless to say that as soon rs he had
| finished the little perforated squares
of cartridge paper were carefully re-
moved and preserved by her for whom
alone the messages so curiously writ
| ten thereon We're intended.
| The most farfamed feature Of the
mia, is the Bridal Veil fall. 1t descends
| from the plateau, nearly 5000 feet
above, in a single ribbon of silyery
water limned luminously against the
dark vertical face of the precpice.
Perhaps it was it's romantic name
which suggested to Charles Evelyn, a
young and wealthy San Franciscan, to
utilize the falling streamlet in an alto
gether novel fashion. Anyhow he spent
|
ing at the summit of the cliff, just
where the water gathers itself together
for its final terrific leap into the abyss
below. a sort Of vertically sliding
sluice door which worked so smoothly
and so perfectly that it could be low
cred and raised several times in the
course Of single minute.
Then when his preparations were
tcomplete he brought to the valley from
her far eastern home the young lady to
whom he was engaged, and by alter.
nately raising and lowering the sluice
gates above for longer or shorter inter-
walls, as the case might be, he caused
the cascade to tell her in spurts and
Jets, corresponding to the dots and
dashes Of the Morse alphabet, Of the
love he bore her. Whether the lady ex-
actly approved of this blazoning abroad
Of what should have been n message
sacred to her eyes alone is not record.
ed, but she has. at all events, the SUI
preme satisfaction Of rejecting that
she is the only woman in the world to
whon-a love letter has been indited by
harnessed waterfall.
Love letters spelled out in fireworks
are of course common. One such writ
ten aloft in particOlored globes Of flame
and addressed by Magyar noble t.
his attianced bride at Herrmannstadt
Is said to have cost $500.
In a Sussex garden lovelOrn but
bashful swain sowed in mustard ani
cress marriage proposal to the daugh
ter Of his next door neighbor, and thu
fair one, not to be outdone, answered
"Yes," in radishes. They were mar
ried without delay. and both the pro
posal and the answer were served anl
eaten at the wedding breakfast.
After all. however, it Is doubtful
. whether the modern lover has, on tn
. whole, progressed very far in the mat
ter Of invepting novelties, either II