The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-04-23
SCHEMES OF LOVERS.
How an Artist Won His -Elopt
 ment in 8 Balloon.


 ment in a Balloon. It was by this clever method that 0 good looking young artist, whose home Is on the Worcestershire Avon, gained his wife. Four years ago, says the London Tit-Bits, he was living in Chel- | tenham, when an elderly colonel, a wid- over with one daughter, came to reside close by. The young man fell in love with the daughter, who was very pretty girl, but as he did not move in the same circle of society an introduce tion seemed impossible.
 One winter day he saw the girl sthop in the street and pick up a poor little kitten lost in the snow and slush. She wiped the muddy fur with her lace bordered handkerchief and tucked the shiverlng creature into her warm huff. The incident made such an impression upon the artst that he went straight home and made a sketch of it.
 This he worked up into a picture, a task inspired by love, and so good that it was well hung at London exhibi- tion. Naturally, the colonel heard of it and its wonderful likeness to his daughter, and wished to buy it. It's painter immediately sent it to hm as a present. So he obtained the much de- | sired introduction, which has ended in an ideally happy marriage
 Stern parents are the most frequent obstacles to welded bliss. Sno foud young Irishman who got engaged two summers ago to the daughter of the over of fine old country place near ] Southampton. At last the Irishman, whose business demanded his presence in Brazil, got despetrate and induced | his sweetheart to make a runaway match. They reached Liverpool in i safety, took their tickets in vessel that was to sail next morning, and had | just returned to their hotel when a de- l tectve arrived with warrant to arr rest the young lady, she being under ! age and her fathers consent not ob- l tained.
 Arguments were useless, the pair re- l signed themselves, and the lady went ] to change her costume while the young husband arranged about putting his | luggage on board. Business, he said, made it absolutely necessary that he should not miss this boat. He tore himself away at last, telling the officer that the lady would be ready in few minutes,
 Half an hour later the detective, be- coming impatient, knocked at the door l of the lady's room. No reply. He knocked again. Still no answer He broke in. The place was bare. The ingenious Irishman had packed his | bride in trunk and so carried her out under the very nose of the officer. l Every bit as ingenious and far more hisky was the device of young naval 1 lieutenant who although he had not a ! penny to bless himself with fell in love with the daughter of millionaire ron | master, His suit prospered with the lady, but her father refused to hear or it. What was worse, suspecting elope- 1 ment, the latter refused to let his daughter out of heofrloPi is-spG- -ongL daughter out of his sight for a single 1 moment.
 But the sailor was not at the end of | his resources. He knew well that the I IlODpy Ol lll6 OIQEt llldll was UdliOOllliB, and the dea came to him of making use of his knowledge. A friend of his, an | amateur aeronaut, was taken into his ! confidence and soon the millionaire re- ceived a letter from the latter, asking him to attend the first trial of new steering apparatus for balloons. As expected he fell into the trap, and, much flattered, asked that the exper- iment might take place in his own l grounds.
 The proposal was accepted, the bal loon arrived, and, with 1t the lieuten- ant disguised as assistant to his friend, The girl, who was in the plot, asked that she might make the ascent. Her father, pleased at her interest in hih pursuit. allowed this and very shortly the whole party of four were in the air.
 The steering apparatus was not a great success, but all enjoyed the as- cent, and were sorry when the time came to descend. The millionaire got out of the car first and then turned to help his daughter. The aeronaut jumped to give her hand, and in the momentary confusion the cable sudden |
 lily slipped, and with a bound the bal loon sprang a thousand feet into the air. Even then the father had no sus- picions and was not even specially anx- ious when a strong air current swept the balloon way knowing as he did that two skilled balloonists were with his daughter.
 But he ragged terribly when late that evening a telegram from a town forty miles away announced to him how cleverly he had been duped.
 Lack of rortune on both sides holds back many a happy couple from get ting married. Hans Wachter and Ella Schwab, who live in the big German city of Hamburg, are a case in point. IRath young and good looking, they had