The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-12-23
CUPID FALLS DOWN
IF PITTEO AGAINST
ONE PHONOGRAPH
lanes STONE SMITHS AND MISS
MINNIE EVANS PLANS
FAIL THEM.
The RECORD GAVt THEN AWAY
they Sent Love Messages BY a Novel
Method and Got cOusht at Il. A.
though Scheme Worked spIsndIdIy
at start OF the Game.

NEW YORK. Dec. 11.-When cupid
Tipped up on the Job In this case
which has for its chief figures Misl
Minnie Evans, James Stone Smith
and phonograph, one OF the prettiest
Z romances went, like many another
welllaid plan, "agley."
There won't be any elopement next
Tuesday night from the Elizabeth, N.
J., home of Miss Minnie, who is sew
aeen and nightly good looking. Mr..
James Stone Smith won't be able to
chuckle at the irate parents of the
youthful inamorata. The photograph
won't be set up as household god
In the Evons-Smith home.
This is the story from the begin
ming. The young man, who Is a Phil
adelphian, aged twenty-five was for
hidden last summer either to call up
on the girl or to write to her. She
was too young her folks said.
The situation looked hopeless for
a time. But young Mr.. Smiths brain
evolved brilliant scheme. He sent
a mutual friend over to Elizabeth, and
the friend explained the plan thus:
Your parents know that you are
awfully fond of your monograph,
don't they? Well, Jim has one, too,
and he suggests that he will speak a
whole record full of talk to you each
week and then send the record to
our local photograph shop. You get
Iome blank records and talk on them
o him. Then every time you go to
he photograph shop you can get. one
which he will send, and the people in
he shop will send yours to him
The scheme worked splendidly.
livery night In the Evans homestead
be ordinary monograph records car
oiled merrily about Kelly" and
UGH subjects, while the elders listen
d approvingly, and then later, In
Tiss Minnie's room, behind closed
oors, the special records breathed s
lie tenderest of love fonoIogues. t
At last, in September, came a rec b
d bearing just one sentence: win p
,u be my wife?" In return there d
urneyed to Philadelphia record Of Ii
lily one word: yes" fl
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cord and hurried to her room. SIZE CT
d not notice her father behind her. lct
ne monograph started tt
Let fe hear your new song, Min
g." asked Mr.. Evans genially. Is,
Miss Minnie looked the two rec w
DIS over, gambled on which was NJ
itch, and then put one on. After a hi
" preliminary whirs. this emerged m
I'm the funnel: II,
Ever since we have been engaged, ii,
nnie, dearest, have been trying a.
get a chance :
What's that?" demanded Papa Ev- A
>. Minnie switched OF the machine a
1 tried to get the record out. ~Oh
is a little love sketch or some
n.y." she stammered :,
rGo on with it," ordered papa.
-"for us to elope," continued the
chine. SNOW everything's ready.
1t Tuesday night at 1890 I'll have
auto a block down the street. Wi
III run to Railway and take a train. thu
in couple Of hours you'll be Mrs. lor
nes Stone Smith ma
here were all kinds Of Evans {
works and Evans tears, then a rer
,plete confession, the production bef
Ill the other records, and lastly a La
rching letter to James Stone Smith Mil
ing that everything was over. ma