Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-19
Cupid sat aloft!

Cupid sat aloft!
AS they sailed, as they sailed
The marriage of United States Sem
ator Winthrop Murray Crane and MISS
Josephine Boardman points again to
the fact that the famous Taft eXpedi-
ton, whatever it's diplomatic object,
was, in it's results, voyage into the
honeyed land of romance. For out of
the happy band of nine young maids
and matrons who embarked on ship
with Alice Roosevelt, five of them are,
in this brief space of time brides or
finances.
Surely Cupid was a busy, although
unregistered passenger on the Taft ex-
pediton to the Orient. Five successful
campaigns he waged as the ship sailed
the broad bosom of the placid Pacific.
Five young women have plghted their
troth because Cupid shipped with them
on the voyage. In Washington they
paraphrase the reply of the beautiful
woman who. when asked whether she
was in love, answered: mo, but l
have never been in Venice" Washing
worthy targets of Cupid's shafts, when
asked whether they are engaged, re-
ply: mo, but, then, you know, L was
not on the Taft expedition"
A powerful ally had Cupid in the
ponderous and benevolent secretary
himself For the secretary believes in
marriage in youth preferably, but at
some time surely. He practiced mat
rimony. He preached it. Guests of the
Taft expedition say he almost COM
PEELED it.
At dinner one night before their
landing at Honolulu, under the guise
of toast, he gave an eXhortation on
love-
Life is a Landscape that is rosy
or gray, according to whether a man
is loved or not" he said. "The man
who is not loved is a miserable atom
in "a teeming world. The man who is
loved is a god among his fellows. OF
course, all women are goddeSses,
whether they are loved or not. but
the woman who is, is goddess that
is crowned"
Pleasure Ship of Captain Cupid
Such reasoning as this, when per-
sons are already under the spell OF
the Paradise of the Pacific, famed by
the warm and fragrant Hawaiian airs,
under the tropical moon, with the mate
calls of tropical birds in their ears,
sinks into respective minds.
Congressman Nicholas LongWorth
and Miss Alice Roosevelt, sitting side
by side as was already their habit
listened attentiVely and with asserting
smiles. And as soon as coffee had
been served they stole away to the
stern of the vessel, and, in gazing at
the path of the moon in the waters,
agreed with the dictum of their host.
Almost at the same moment Miss
Mignon Critten and Congressman
Swager Sherley, anxious to continue
the discussion of so momentous a ques-
tion, sought the stern of the vessel,
and finding it thus occupied, took in
stead seats in the shadow of an avn
ing at the bow.
Singularly moved by the same i'm
pulse, Miss Josephine Boardman, at
tended by United States Senator Crane,
sought the stern, then the bow. and
at last the side of the vessel, where
they leaned and talked until the path
of the moon was no longer in the wake
of the vessel.
Finding other quarters occupied for
purposes of further consideration of
Secretary Taft's proposed measure,
Senator Warren guided Mrs, Mabel
Nagle to the opposite side of the Ves-
sell there to invite her opinion of Sec
retary Taft's views,
Bourke Cochran, the congressman,
whispered sweet nothngs into the ears
of Miss Annie Ide, amidships.
Cupid poised aloft, smiled under his
wing He knew that given the con-
NlnclnB WOruS OF an aItef-ulnner orator
on subject of vital interest as be-
ginning, the propinquity of a long
ocean voyage and the fragrant airs
and soft skies of nights in the tropics
as encouraging and fostering influences
and with leisure for other than
thought Of national measures, the
gravest statesmen down below were
targets worthy his sharpest shafts.
Cargo of Sweet Young Girls
There was the daughter OF the
president of the United States, twenty
two. self-reiant, not at all sentimental
other wooers had thought the girl
more prominently in the eye of the
public than any other young woman in
the world. There was her friend. Mig
non Critten. pretty, vivacious, just CO.
quettish enough to be charming. a ia
Yorite only second to the president's
daughter on board. There was her
other friend. Josephine Boardman. in