Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-06-26
A FAREWELL TO THE
 ELOPEMENT CLUB.

The Elopement club was in session and the president said:
 Girls, since our last meeting one Q our number has accomplished wha we all pledge ourselves to accomplish and is present to take leave of us. The secretary will read that part of oui constitution bearing on the case"
 The secretary then read:
 ARTICLE II.
 Recognizing the wrong committed by men (who by nature have an advantage over women in active fields) in selfishlJ supporting themselves alone and depriv- ing women of the home and children, vt each agree to capture some man ior husband and carry him of by persuasion or force, by hook or by crook. to the matrimonial altar.
 ARTICLE III.
 When a member has been successful in this praiseworthy object she shall be- fore retiring from the club narrate the methods she has used.
 The president then called on the sue cessful member to comply with the requirements of the last named article She arose and said:
 ''Girls, must say that have found my object more easily accomplished than l supposed-not that the man ] have captured had in the beginning any especial fancy for me; indeed, he was rather inclined to avoid me. He created in me an antagonism which spurred me on in my work, thus help, ing me amazingly. What do you sup pose he had the brutality to say? Why, he said. "A man is fool to marry un- til he is too old to have any fun.
 "I didn't scold him bit for that. l just said: I think so too. Let's have q lot of fun
 How! he asked.
 "'We'll spin around together till We get tired of each other-go to theaters. drive, and all that My uncle gave me d check last Christmas, and I'm dying to spend it.
 He assented to all except my spend ing any money, proposing to do that himself. l let him do it and put my check aside for rousseau. He took me out to drive the next day and when we were in a lonely place put his arm around my waist. I didn't object in the least; indeed, l encouraged him Then we went to the theater together and he held my hand under a fold of my dress most of the time during the performance. Then we went boating and, pulling the boat in under over: hanging trees, he sat down at my feet and held my hand some more. On this occasion he offered to kiss me, but one must have a limit, and I drew the lne there.
 'I had been fishing for him a month when l got bad scare. Another girl set her cap for him. If had thought she could get him 1 wouldn't have stood ill her way, but she was stupid creature-didn't know men at all. Il had a sharp hook at the end of my line, and don't believe she had any thing but bait. She would only divert him from me. So made up my mind that I must put the steel through his gills and land him.
 "I laid desperate plan. 1 got time table of trains to and from Eged lake who had said "A man is fool to marry till he's too old to have any fun to take me out to the lake on Satur- day afternoon. He did. We got out there just in time for dinner and dined on the hotel porch overlooking. the lake. It was growing dark when we finished, and he proposed a boat ride told him feared it was too late. Re insisted, and I yielded with pretended reluctance. In the boat l offered to be; him kiss against pound of candy that he couldn't pull across the lake in given time.
 Here comes in the beauty of DO. going too far with a man. If I'd givcn him kisses he would have been tirc,. of them by this time. AS it was. he was crazy to get one. l asked for his watch to keep the time and when he wasn't looking turned the hands back nearly an hour.
 He won the bet.
 'I had noticed by the time table th;, the last train left at H. no other train till Monday morning. When it got too dark to stay on the water longer we landed and went up to the hotel saw several people 1 knew and took pains to pass directly under their noses that they should see that l was there. had my watch in my belt and when my fish was not looking took note of the time. At quarter past II l sug gested that we go to the station. He looked at his own timepiece and said 1t was only half past 10. l told him he must be wrong and insisted on going When we got to the station, the train had been gone half an hour.
 "I fell over In his arms in faint.
 When came to myself again looked up at him with all the reproach I could summon.
 My reputation" l gasped. It's gone forever. I'll be cut by every body I "I'll drive you hOme.' "'Drive home fifty miles and at night! We couldn't get there till morn ing Oh, heavens! What shall do:'
 "1'll stand by you.' he said. I'll kili any man who says you're not pure as an angel "'Man! I retorted. Men have noth- ing to do with Snroading scandals It's