The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-02-26
BLESSING
after The WEDDING
1t is Desirable and Is Sought
After Earnestly by Most
EIopers.
NOW LOOKING FOR IT
One Couple En- Route to France to Re-.
move Resentment Because of Their
Marriage-"Ma" Told of Elope-
ment by Telephone.

The parental blessing is an object
much sought by certain victims Of Gu
pid who have been beguiled into acting
without maternal and paternal consent,
remarks the Chicago Tribune.
There are now crossing the Atlantic
two persons who are sailing to France
to obtain this last requisite to domestic
McComb Of Larchmont and Ferdinand
Despecher, the New York and Paris
banker.
Their marriage was a runaway
match. 1t looks now as If more would
be heard of it in a short time. The
mother Of the bridegroom threatened
20 ~dlsinherit him If he married against
her wishes. and her wish was not that
ne should marry an American. She
tried to prevent this particular we'd
ding, and so did the father, he cross
ing the ocean in November in an at
tempt to stop It.
The efforts Of the parents were I'M
successful, and for that reason the
bride n bridegroom are or their way
to France to see if the parental for
giveness cannot be secured.
Despecher came to this country about
six months 6 with a delegation of
French bankers who wanted to study
American financial methods. They re-
turned some time. He had met Miss
McComb at a summe party and told
his friends that he wanted to stay here
some time to finish up a few deals.
One Of the things he finished was his
Courtship.
He is a tall, handsome young man Of
fine education, and he won the consent
of Miss McComb early in November.
A short time later his mother and her
father heard Of the affair and became
angry at their children for proposing
to make such an alliance. Mrs. Des-
nrhn NI,yntn . 1,,n, ~ %i II, - l-u --
and Mr.. McComb took the first boat
that left Paris, where he had been on
business.
Told Mamma by Telephone.
Two young people of Brooklyn have
been hunting for the same article of
parental forgiveness, with prospects Of
having 1t extended to them. Sterling
Tones, aged IS years, and Miss Laura
Williams, aged II, a schoolgirl, ran
away to be married without taking
trouble to find out what their parents
thought about the matter.
Miss Williams left home ostensibly
to go to dancing school,. That was the
last time that Mrs. Williams saw Miss
Laura Williams. The lex morning
The mother was called to the telephone
Pnd was told the startling news that it
WAS her daughter at the other end of
he wire, but that she was no longer
Miss Laura Williams. 1t was Mrs.
Sterling Tones.
The two had slipped away to New
Jersey, where they had been married.
Now they are hunting the parental for
Giveness with every prospect that 1t
will be given them.
In Fairfield, Ia, another boy and girl
couple ran away for a wedding that
they feared they could not have at
Fome. Roy Price, the son Of a Wealthy
farmer near Libertyville, and Miss Ella
EleaSby were The young people.
The son told his father that he in
Tended TO seek his fortune farther west,
tnd the father generously provided him
with $500 to use until he had started
lhe said fortune on it's way.
With this money the boy, who is only
IS, carried out his matrimonial plans.
Long Distance Courtship.
A romance that had it's beginning in
Philadelphia two years ago recently
Ended in Honolulu with the marriage
bf DR.. Ralph Gardiner Curtis and Miss
lane Mae Blair, both of whom are
yell known in that city. Miss Blair is
the daughter Of Henry w. Blair, a
prominent business man Of Syracuse.
Much against the will of her parents
Miss Blair deserted society in Syracuse
Ind New York and went on the stage.
It was while a show girl in Miss Bob
White" playing at the Chestnut street
:heater, Philadelphia, hat she met DR..
curtis. He pressed his suit and was
accepted.
A lovers quarrel ensued and DR.. Cur
lis went to the Hawaiian islands, where
ae soon built up a lucrative practice.
Hiss Blair spent the last summer at
Saratoga and Asbury Park, where she
Kas a recognized belle, with many suit
ors for her hand.
Early In November, after a long 81
ence, she received a letter from DR..
Curtis. 1t said:
Lets forget our little quarrel. Hove
Tou more than ever. Won't you come
and be my wife?"
A few letters passed between them.
hnd then Miss Blair left New York
elone and sailed from San Francisco
Tor Honolulu.