Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-19

tellectual, magnetic, attractive, and yet
who had weathered many storms of
impending matrimony, whom Cupid
had successfully designed for the wife
of two diplomats, NJ. Padella of the
Chilean legation, and Baron Robido-
Zichy of the Austrian embassy.
Cupid knitted his brows as he looked
at her as she turned laughing face
up in the moonlight while she listened
to the words of the grave senator from
Massachusetts. She had laughed at
Cupid so often. Would she never cease
laughing? Could it be that she was
one of that strange new race of Wo-
men who were said not to want to
marry? Josephine Boardman puzzled
him. An admirer who had sworn that
he would do everything for her, she
had laughingly hidden ride his horse
into banquet hall, and that he had
done, but Miss Boardman only laughed
and Cupid swore that one day she
should laugh no longer.
Miss Annie Ide was the high hearted
laughter loving daughter of the present
governor general of the Philippines.
Bourke Cochran's tongue for sweet
ness knows no rival.
Mrs. Mabel Nagle was beautiful and
rich. She was half millionairess.
She had married George Nagle, a min
ing operator, and when they decided
that marriage, for them at least, was
failure, he gave to the girl who
had been poor when she married him
five hundred thousand dollars. There
were romances of the mountains clus-
terng about Mrs. Nagle. She was the
first white child born in Cheyenne,
and the Indians had gathered about
her cradle and named her the lily
papoose.
All these traditions were pleasing to
the man who represented the mountain
state in the senate. Cupid reflected
warmly at that instant, whatever the
bill of his advocacy.
At Honolulu there were some inter-
ruptions in the progress of Cupid's af-
fairs For instance, there were other
tourists of the globe who welcomed the
beautiful and distinguished young wo-
men OF the Taft expedition They
danced with them at the hotel hops
by moonlight and swan with them to
the early morning sunshine on the
beach, and rode with them on the long
horseback excursions to the mountains
and groves in the heart of the island.
So assiduous We're these tourists in
their attentions that two congressman,
one from Ohio and one from Kentucky,
and the senators from Massac achusetts
and Wyoming, were openly glad when
the ship swung about, and followed
by the garlands and "Alohas" of the
natives, set forth to Japan. Up aloft,
as he sailed, Cupid was also glad. He
had seen so many auricular complica-
tions smOothed out on so long a Voy-
age OH the peaceful ocean.
Secretary Taft, in shameless collu
sion with the little winged god, con-
tinued to give toasts that would re-
quire after -elucidation on deck. And
when the party reached Japan the ele-
ments seemed to conspire with the
sly god. Japan has been called the
garden of romance. The guides, as
they take the travellers about among
the palaces and gardens, tell stories of
love. They recite poems and sing songs
of the grand passion. Gradually these
five young women, who, when they
sailed, talked of athletics, began to
translate amorous Japanese verse into
English. From the clear-eyed, singu-
larly unsentimental gaze of the aver
age American girl they developed
coquetry of Japan. What the voyage,
aided by Secretary Taft. had begun,
the sojourn in Japan fostered the
homeward voyage completed. on that
homeward journey five questions were
put by five grave statesmen, and four
replies, after some consideration and
debate, We're: "If papa is willing"
Love Sat at the Helm
Fortunately. each papa was willing.
Hence the marriage of Miss Alice
Roosevelt, the first girl in the land of
America, i'm February. In April there
followed on Staten island the mar
riage of Congressman Swager Sherley
to Miss Mignon Critten. In May was
rumored the engagement of Senator
Warren of Wyoming and Mrs. Mabel
Nagle. This month occurred the mar
riage of Miss Josephine Boardman,
she who had puzzled Cupid most, to
Senator winthrop Murray Crane, whom
no one believed would ever marry
again, since for so long he had mourn-
ed the death of his young wife twenty
two years ago.
And as the latest of Cupid's triumphs
comes the news of still another betroth-
al growing out Of the amorous expedi-
ton TO the Philippines, From Manila
! comes the announcement Of the EN-