The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-21

with loves wings did o'er-perch these For stony limits cannot hold love out; And what love can do that dares love A,acE there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords; look thou And I am proof against their enmity.
 Romeo and Juliet.
 What A sorry world this would be were one to believe that all romance is dead! We hear everywhere that the marriages of today-and in the phrase are included those that have been made within the last half dozen years, since we have &C., knowledged ourselves to be truly modern we hear that without exception such alliances are the result of cold blooded calculation, and adjustment of dollars and cents, a gain in social position. And if all this be true what is there left in Hfe really worth while?
 \ yThe twentieth century is not medieval The knight of today does not tilt lance in defence of his lady love. but he shows his devotion in quite as effective man. ner as his armored predecessor. Perhaps he is a trifie less impulsive and rash about assuming responsibilities which he may not be able to meet properly. Our young women have grown a little wiser in their own generation. but in the face of all this hue and cry about loveless marriages, the bewailing of romances death. those who know the inner facts of New York's prominent social set are able to point to several instances in which the good old time passion figured, when heads ran away with hearts, and the lit- tie love plays possessed all the attributes of as thrilling a romance where love triumphed over parental opposition as was ever penned by a Shakespeare or a Balzac. Triumphs of True Love.
 It is unnecessary to search the west for young Lochinvars. There are dozens of romantic heroes, and heroines. too. right here among us. Whether their mar riages will turn out happily time alone will tell but reason speaks more in their favor than in that of the marriage of con- venience.
 The latest. and one of the most in- teresting love stories to be chroneied under the head of romantic ones. is that of Miss Marguerite Wall to MT. Jules Blanc Nelson. Both of these young folk had opposition to face, for neither the girls father nor the young mans parents approved of the match. and when their engagement was announced at the end of a summer at Lenox it was promptly and publicly denied. in the hope that one or the other would realize the mistake according to the judgment of older heads.
 That the two were finally married and without the knowledge of either family only goes to prove how utterly useless 1t is to try to interfere where headstrong youth has made up its mind to have what it wants. There was very little chance for love making for either of these two. though both were spending the winter in New York and living not far apart so they decided to be secretly married, and soon after the first day of the year they stole away to a little chapel and were made man and wife.
 The bride went to her home and young Nelson took up his abode with his moth CT as though nothing had happened. This was all very well-at least, some advan- tage had been gained, for now his sweet heart really belonged to him; but still the barrier to hapiness remained, and, not liking this enforced separation, it Is said that the young man demanded his wife. which demand was fatly refused by her parents.
 Determined then to possess her, he set about it, but met with insurmountab ble difficulties, and she might just as well have been confined in lonely castle the walls of which were too steep and high for even an agile limbed lover to scale by means of a rope ladder. After de- mands and pleading his wife of a month was given into his keeping. and they set off on a delayed honeymoon. forget ting for the while the disagreable feat ures of their little romance and hoping that, on their return all would be for given and both families try to make the best of it..
 Looking back a few years at the TO- mantle marriages that have become city history. we naturally select the most notable and one that is to all appear ances the pleasantest and most success full love match. in which parental op- position, dfsinheritance, flight and all the recognized attributes of an affair of this