The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-09-03
Loves DREAM IS
SADLY SHATTERED
"Kids" Elope TO Windsor and Wed,
Now They're Starving-Ask
Aid From Police.

II has taken just two snort months
OF welded bliss to prove conclusively
to Mrs. Hazel Butler, sweet miss OF
Is summers, that loves young dream
is q horrible nightmare, and that after
all, the high cost of living Is no idle
myth.
Purley Butler il the young mans
name. To Mrs. Butler, 1t seems years
ago that Purley's lips framed sweet
message OF love back in that dear old
Wellsville, N. Y. Together they
swung in the hammock back OF the
village blacksmith shop-her father
is the village smithy--and held hands.
Rapturous moonlit evenings did the
rest. Hazel was his till death or the
ire of the village smithy would them
part.
Hazel's father. whose name Is Free
man, has been blowing the bellows
and knocking sparks out Of the anvil
long enough to understand that puppy
love Is all right in It's place, but Its
place 10 the garden gate. Wherefore
he frowned nightly on any sugges-
ton of church bells and orange bios
SONS.
Purley had heard OF Windsor's fame
as n Gretna Green. He saved enough
coin to bring the couple here and they
crossed the Rubicon to find the ever
ready marriage license purveyor and
the convenient Windsor parson, who
winked at Hazel's 16 summers and
spoke the fatal words.
Life hasn't been sweet-scented
rose path since. Big tears coursed
down Hazeps cheeks--cheeks from
which the roses have flown, when she
thought It all over In police headquar-
ters, Saturday morning. She came to
the station Friday night and begged
for q place to sleep. She found a
warm sympathizer In the matron.
who gently kissed the tears away and
told Hazel that everything would be
all right.
It appears that In Purley, Hazel has
discovered a young man whose wish
bone Is located In the vicinity OF
where his backbone ought to be. Pur-
ley was filed with brave thoughts and
high ideals when the two started out
on life's long journey together. Those
brave thoughts got an awful jolt and
loves young dream received swift
kick in the solar plexus when the
young man discovered that there
weren't good jobs enough In Detroit
to 20 around. He soon found that
everybody hereabouts doesn't ride in
an automobile. The discovery that
life is a pay-as-you-enter proposition
didn't quite appeal to him.
They struggled along as best they
could and asked no mans help until
Thursday. There was no money then
and no bread. Pnrley had worked In
a lumber yard, but II was too much
for him. The pace was too strenu-
GUS.
The two came to the police station,
Thursday night, and were given lodg-
ing. Lieut.. walpole heard their story
and took steps to see IL they could
not be helped. The Associated Chart
ties were interested. They succeeded
in getting work for the young man,
but he declared the work was too
hard and the pay woefully small.
Lieut.. Breault has decided to write
to Hazel's parents to see what they
want done about It. The prospect OF
Hazel's father being acquainted with
the sad state of affairs 10 not alluring
to Purley. He remembers always that
the elder Freeman Is the village
smithy.
Purley's home Is in Bath, Me. He
is 10 years old.