Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-06-21

pany without knowing somethine about them. However, the manager had faith in this junior, and Bigelow and Miss Reise met.
 Fear Family's Disapproval.
 Whether it was love at first sight on her part as we'll as his nobody knows now. At any rate 1t was not long before the girl found herself growing fond of the handsome young student. She knew little about him Ehe refrained from telling her of his fathers great wealth or his family connections. When she did learn all these things, however. Mary Reise was properly staggered, and, when he besought her to be his she re- belled, fearing the consequences when his family should hear that the scion had made such mesalliance.
 Horatio Bigelow, though was not to be put off in this way, for he loved Mary Reise. He told his family about 1t, and his family was beautifully, magnificently shocked, and when a Boston family, backed up with $30,000.- 900, gets shocked, it is something worth seeing.
 It should not be! said the family Never! It was a foolish idea on the part of the hoy. He must be sent around the world to see other places, other faces, and forget the pretty daughter of the humble arsenal ma- chinist. A shopgirl! Ugh!
 Young Bigelow was no fool He loved Mary Reise, she loved him. and he preferred her, only too wisely, to any of the spectacled, erudite, blue blooded Back Bay young persons who, in his family's estimation, would make the sort of a bride he should have. He knew his family thorough ly, and was aware of the fact that to cross them would be disagreeable. So he agreed to the trip around the world, but he had trick up his sleeve all the time.
 To Mary Reise alone he confided 1t. They would be married on the sly and go on the round-the-world trip together. It would be fine honey moon!
 At first the young woman objected, but love finally conquered, and, on the Sd of August, 1899, in a little Episcopal mission church out in Ruxbury, they were wed by Rev. Edward L. Atkinson. You see, even to the name of the clergy man this was true Boston romance, for Rev. MT. Atkinson is of the family of the great Boston statistician who tells you how to live on two cents day and solves the Philippine problem weekly in the Transcript.
 The bride was on her vacation from the store, and went to Newport to spend 1t. So did young Bigelow. On Septem- Der it was time for him to start on his trip around the world, and off to San Francisco he went From there he and his bride telegraphed the Bigelows in Boston that the wedding had taken place and also informed the brides parents. Then they went aboard the vessel to Japan and let the families do all the worrying.
 Of course there was something ter rible in the way of worrying around the Back Bay Also out in Watertown. But by the time MT and Mrs. Bigelow Jr., got home the tempest had died down, the Bigelows and the Reises were so glad to get the youngsters home that they forgot all about being angry, and the matter was settled.
 MT. and Mrs. Bigelow went to Nor wich, Conn.,, to live, happy and content ed, and the brides twin sister, Ellen Gertrude, was invited to pay them a visit.
 This was the beginning of the second romance. the one that at present has Boston upside down.
 Around the corner from the Bigelow dovecot at Norwich lived Samuel c. Adams, rich Bostonian. member of the big wool firm and very -blooded. He had married. as a second wife. Mrs. Clapp, wealthy Boston widow. who had one son, fine, handsome young fellow, William F. Clapp, freshman at Harvard.
 Young Clapp knew young Bigelow. and went around to see him. He also saw Mrs Bigelow's twin sister-and- well, here was scion of Boston fam fly and Jordan & Marsh shopgirl. The result could have been only what it
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