The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-07
LOVERS WHO ARE UNSEEN.
courtships Carried On Through the
Mails by Means of Singular
Missives.

No doubt there have been many cases
where hearts have become heavy blam-
ing the postal officials for delay in re-
| ceivine letters from loved ones ana
where lost letters have been the means
of parting lovers. yet this is in large
measure offset by those instances whefe
the post Office department has ass1steo
| in uniting couples and bringing ABOUT
marriage ceremonies, says the Chicago
| Tribune.
Here. for instance, is quite pretty
romance due entirely to a packet OF HOW
! er seeds and a postage stamp. A Ilttle
over a year ago Mrs. Roehr semitic one
of the big Michigan nurseries Tor a
packet of begonia seed, and the httle
parcel was duly delivered through the
| medium of the postal service. When she
| opened it she was much amused to hnd
| inside not only a generous supply OIL the
| minute seeds. but also three scraps OF
paper on which were written the name
and address of q girl. One Of the names
was Bessie Smith.
| Mrs. Roehr showed these mysterious
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| in a, spirit of mischief wrote to MISS
| Bessie Smith. and the young woman
promptly replied. The correspondence
was kept up for more than a year, when
the Young man made the suggestion that
photographs should be exchanged,
/ Then. when Fred Roehr gazed on the
| features of his unseen correspondent,
| ! tr,f III 1rrc
up. and wrote by return, asking Miss
| Smith to marry him, and back came the
answer: eyes
A fortnight later the wedding took
place, when the bride carried pretty
| bouquet of pink begonias, in memory
| of the circumstances under which she
| first made the acquaintance OF her hus-
| band. It may perhaps be as we'll to state
/ that Miss Smith, now Mrs. Frederick
Roehr. was formerly engaged in a big
| horticultural warehouse, making UP
| packets of flower seeds, and it was by
way of a joke that she and two other
girls wrote their names on slips of pa
| per and inserted them in a packet Of
| begonia seed.
| Perhaps the most extraordinary mar
rage on record is one which recently
was brought about by means of the
| postal service and a stick of dynamite.
4 The facts of this remarkable case have
been verified, and one husband atleast
/ can truthfully state that he was sought
by means of a substance which might
easily have blown him to atoms.
Here is the story: Miss Lulu Lunn, a
young girl of 90 was last year working
| in a powder factory at Greenup, Conn,
/ at a salary the reverse of extravagant
She had no lover, and, as she considered
the acquisition Of one necessary to every
/ girls happiness, she wrote her name and
address, together with short message,
on a stick of dynamite, hoping that be-
fore it blew up the silent appeal would
have done its duty
One of the workmen employed by
George Jubb, a Missouri quarry owner.
| showed his master the stick of dyna-
/ mite bearing the writing, and the Mis-
sourian made a note of it and a little
later wrote to Miss Lunn. In reply the
| girl stated that she was employed in a
| powder factory and that she was not
happy, and would Mr.. Jubb write to her
occasionally? The courteous Mis-
sourian cheerfully agreed to do so, and
the correspondence SO euriously begun
| lasted for many months, when one day,
| by arrangement, the two met. Then the
acquaintance ripened into something
warmer than friendship, and in the end
Mr.. Jubb laid his heart and quarry at
the feet of Miss Lunn and was duly ac-
cepted. A month later the marriage
took place.