Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-07-01
AROUND the GLOBE
FOR A WIFE.

wives, and all women from IL similar
period Of their lives are hunting for
husbands. Tell most of them this, and
they will either laugh or get angry at
you. Nevertheless the statement Is
true. Nature often fools us, but she
never relaxes the enforcement of her
laws.
As l was saying, lie Roy Remington
was crossing continents and oceans,
as he thought, to get rid Of being
bored. Had he been obliged to work
| for a living he would not have been
bored so much. Had he been married
he would not have been bored at all.
He might have suffered under many
| irritations and annoyances, he might
even have wished for return Of the
freedom of bachelorhood but he would
| not have been bored. Boredom does
not usually belong to the married
state.
One day Remington was crossing
''the plains" Of America somewhere
between Omaha and San Francisco
when the train stopped. The weather
was warm, and the windows were
open. A train from the opposite direc
ton came rolling along with diminish
ing speed. 1t brought the girl Reming-
ton was looking for and stopped with
her directly beside his window. Her
window, too, was raised, and the two
sat face to face within few feet of
each other Remington looked at the
girl, and the girl looked at Reming-
ton He made the most of the brief
time allotted him. The girl lowered
her eyes Then there was a toot-toot
ahead, and Remington's train moved
onward.
Remington was looking for this very
! girl. but he didn't know it till he was
on the Pacific ocean midway between
San Francisco and Hongkong.
BY the time he stood again on dry
land he had made up his mind that he
must find the girl on the other side Of
the globe.
He went to Paris and from Paris
started for London. On a railway train
some twenty miles west of Paris, while
stopping at station, a train pulled
past, and at window in this train
was the girl he had discovered he
wanted.
1t took Remington just thirty see
onds to gather up his belongings and
leave the train. During this brief in
terval it had occurred to him that the
girl might be going around the world
and he had better proceed westward
in the hope of meeting her once more
and at standstill. But he dismissed
the idea as ridiculous.
The train that had passed was bound
for Paris, and Remington took the next
one for the same place. His trunk
went ON to London. But he cared moth
ing for that He could buy trunks and
their contents. but he couldn't buy the
girl who was going to Paris, though he
could buy any one of dozens of other
girls. She was surely going to Paris.
All Americans who are approaching
Paris are going there. And ten to one
she would stay awhile there. So Rem
ington returned to Paris and when he
got there hunted through the registers
accustomed to stay. At the Hotel
Meurice he found the names Mr..
and Mrs Edgar d. Avery, San Fran
cisco. Cal, U. s. A.. and Miss Edith
Avery" The clerk told him that they
had arrived at a time that corresponded
with the arrival of the train Oh which
he had seen the girl he was hunting.
While he was racking his brains how
to secure an introduction he CHANGED
to meet his intimate friend Philpot.
| He asked Philpot to dine with him the
same evening. intending to talk the
matter over with him. No; Philpol's
friends, the .Averys of San Francisco,
had Just arrived and he was engaged
to drive with them. What luck!
Would rhilpot introduce him? Ger
! tainly. He would make an engage
ment TO take him TO call. They parted,
and the next morning Philpot told
Remington that he had made the en-
gagement for five days ahead, the first
evening the Avcrys were disengaged.
Remington passed five weary, waiting
days and on the afternoon of the fifth
received a note from Philpot to say
that the Averys had left Paris unex-
pectedly the day before.
Remington was crushed He found
Philpot, only to learn that the Averys
had gone eastward to Hongkong to
sail for San Francisco Immediately on
arrival at that port. Remington in
quired the date of sailing of the steam
err they would likely take and found
he would not have time to reach it
himself. He could go westward and
reach San Francisco earlier than the
party going eastward.
He left Paris that night for South
ampton, caught an outgoing steamer
and reached New York in six days.
/ In two weeks from his leaving France
he was in San Francisco waiting the
arrival of the girl he was chasing.
Whenever a steamer arrived from the
east he was at the dock watching. All
last he saw Miss Avery coming down
Il gangplank. That was enough for
the present. He waited for a reason
able time for the family to get settled,