The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-03-15

fellow finds red ear he is entitled to
kiss the girl he happens to be nearest
Witridge had noticed the vermilion lips
of Rose Anderson, and, hungry for q
kiss, he was eagerly watching for the
red ear that would give him one. The
moment he saw the dark kernels he
took the kiss, and 1t seemed to him
that he was in heaven.
AS it needs only one electric spark
to send message around the globe,
so with two young people it needs but
a kiss to start a home. The couple
spent several hours together, at the
end of which time Witridge, who
had driven to the husking in a buggy,
handed the girl into 1t and drove to
town. 1t was the old story. Swayed
by impulse, he had dared her to marry
him, and, swayed by impulse, she had
taken him up.
On reaching the town Witridge pro-
cured marriage license and took Rose
Anderson to a parson for the purpose
of marriage. Knowing nothing about
the age required to enable a clergyman
to legally marry girl, she replied that
she was fifteen. The clergyman de-
clined to perform the ceremony and be-
rated the young man soundly for
bringing so young girl to him to be
married. The two went out and stood
for few moments on the sidewalk,
the young man irresolute. Then, put
10 i,.l ~, kho hv1o, 11a n hor
to her home.
The next day the marriage license
was returned unused.
Whether or no Rose Anderson's par
ents knew of how near their daughter
had come to being married | did not
learn, but the fact remains that within
a week after she went to the parsons
she was packed off to boarding school,
where she remained, vacations except
ed, for three years. During this period
she never met the man who had come
so near to being her husband.
When the fates have destined end
In view they arrange situations to
meet the case. In the first place they
knew perfectly well the dispositions
Of the couple they had decreed should
eventually marry. They did not bring
them together again in conventional
way. They took care that the next
meeting should be calculated in ac-
cordance with the impulsive natures
Of the young couple, especially the
girls. Not only this, they sent Cupid
to shoot few more arrows into their
hearts.
Mr.. Witridge and Miss Anderson
three years older than they were al
the husking, came together for the sec
the managers Of their destinies ar
ranged that they should sit side by
side Witridge began by apologizing
for having ever asked a girl so young
as she had been at the time to marry
him and ended by saying that he was
very sorry she had not been of the re-
quired age.
Something. she knew not what. NOV
ed the girl to discover whether or no
he was bluffing giving taffy-in short.
that to express which no correct Eng
lish word has ever been coined. She
dropped her lids, and he felt for her
hand He found it, and it was not
withdrawn. When they separated she
had intimated to him that II he would
call on her the next afternoon she
would complete what had been intend
ed after the husking party.
The next morning Mr.. Witridge took
out the marriage license for the Sec
ond time and in the afternoon called
upon Miss Anderson. He found her
arrayed for the bridal in a plain
walking suit, and they started at once
for the clergyman who had declined
to marry them before. Miss Ander-
son went to the very door, but when
she saw Mr.. Witridge's thumb about
to press the button she turned and
fed. She had discovered that he was
not bluffing, and he had discovered
that she was doing that very thing.
For the second time the marriage
license was returned. The clock OF
destiny for those concerned struck 2.
When the couple met for the third
time it would not have awaited the
fates to bring them together that they
might act on impulse, for their Inn
pulses had faded before maturity. II
was twelve years before they met the
| third time. It is singular that, really
loving each other, they should have
! been separated for SO long a period