Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-02
HOSPITAL MEETINGS
BIG AID TO CUPID
RELIGIOUS GATHERINGS PROVE
TO BE ROMANTIC
Nine Weddings in a Little Over One
Year Said to Have Resulted from
EvangeIistic Work at the
County Institution

Nine weddings in little over one
year are declared at the county hospl :
tai to have resulted from the Sunday
religious meetings held in the halls
there by young folks representing the
various Los Angeles churches.
Nearly all of the big churches send
one or two people to the county hospi-
tai and other Institutions to pray and
sing for the inmates on Sunday after
Moons. These meetings afford the
gloomy wards about the only sunshine
that ever creeps into them, and Incl
dentally the members of the various
churches there meet for the first time,
get acquainted and not infrequently, as
the past has proven, fall in love and
are married.
Verify. Cupid resorts to unexpected
means in his work of uniting affinities.
The story of the first inception of some
of the love affairs at the county hospi-
tai would fill a volume of large dimen-
sions.
Sometimes. as the leaders of the re-
ligious meetings are kneeling in prayer,
the patients observe one of the girls
playing peek-a-boo, while the older
folks have their heads down, at one of
the handsome male Worshipers who
also is frequently caught ogling the
girl.
During the singing, too, they can be
! seen watching one another very IN
/ terestedly and after few Sundays OF
this kind they are paired off" The
| young man takes the girl home, and
| the next thing heard of at the county
! hospital is a wedding.
Crank Gets to Kicking
And it's jest this fool love business, y
! said a rheumatic crank at the hospital
recently, that takes away some of the
| best singers. l rec'lect here d few
weeks ago there was a young girl that
| could Jest sing better'n any / ever
| heard, and by jingo it wasn't month
! till one o them young proselyters had
copped on TO her, and now she's mar
ried him. It's my opinion they oughtn't
| to be allowed to fall in love, Tor II
| spois their religion
! Not infrequently, too, romances have
! eliminated in weddings between pa
| tients and pretty nurses. About the
| first thing noticed is "A nurses s partial
| ity for certain conValescent patient
| and the next thing the patient is well
! gets good job somewhere, and the
! nurse confides in her friends that she
! is going to marry him. Every time a
pretty nurse is married off at the hos
| pital the chronic invalids wheel theil
! chairs together and indulge in cynica
! gossip about the foolishness of WomeI
and the cussedness of men.
/ You ought TO hear some OF tnose
wheel-chair caucuses," observed ply
sician at the hospital They woulc
make a vaudeville show of themselves
if rightly staged. Some of the old fel
lows, you see, have been sick SO Ions
that they really forget everything abou
their youths, and the way they go fol
lovers, politics religion and everythinf
in general would make just about th'
sourest book that was ever written.
But Cupid is apparently blind to al
| objections raised by the inmates ant
every time he gets a good chance there
is sure to be a wedding. The religion;
meetings go on just the same, for az
fast as one couple are married off there
is another to take their place.