Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-02-25


and receptive mind Hello, Mabel,
this is John 1 have scheme for our
elopement, etc, etc. -tAn right, John.
DEAR says Mabel. as she picks the
lint of her fathers coat and hands
him his hat, It think we can shut poor
old dads eye this time and the elope--
ment is executed or interrupted, &C
cording to the feasibility of Johns
scheme
A more commonplace and yet a
most modern and effective medium for
romance has been discovered by the
apple packing girls of the fruit grow
ing west The young woman who
slips red apples into a crate wearies
of the society in which she has been
placed So she secretly ties tags to
the stems of several handsome apples,
giving her name, address and init
mating that she would be delighted to
hear from the recipient If the re-
cipient should happen to be male
Now these buxom maids of the
healthy and hearty west often make
good wives and the lonely bachelor
who eventually purchases the apples
is delighted with the prospect of COM
ing in touch with a pretty girl, differ
ent from the staid and conventional
maidens of his acquaintance. He
writes a breezy letter and receives a
CHEEKY response and a picture. He
packs shirt and two collars into his
grip and starts west They meet,
blush, giggle and talk through meal
A week or so later they start east
together-the happy elimination of an
apple romance. OF course, they do
not all end this way
Missives Go Wrong.
Unhappily many of these little mis-
sives fall into the hands of the. un.
available. But romances have come
from them and such affairs are not
confined to apples, but apples are the
latest and the girls behind the apples
need little recommendation, if all ac-
counts of the apple country are to be-
credited.
This is terribly p1ebeian, compared
with the future wedding of girl in
Chicago with an impatient lover in
Hongkong by wireless telephone and
such things as submarine elopements.
In this age of special trains and scores
of gilded SWANS who can afford to
ride in them, man can pick up his
beloved in one town. justice of the
peace in the next, and be married en-
route before the pursuers have run
their automobile out of the shed A
troubled mother may endeavor to rush
her daughter away from London to
evade the attentions of a sutton who
does not fit into the family ideals of
husband, but by taking fast train
to Dover or Plymouth and running
out on lighter, the energetic Lochin-
var can get aboard and persuade one
of the numerous pastors always to be
POUNDS on a trans Atlantic liner to per-
form the ceremony while the watchful
matron is congratulating herself on
her cleverness-
Results Discouraging to Others.
Everyone remembers that Lima Cav
alieri was captured by cable, but this
must not be dwelt upon, for the re-
suits of the Chanler wooing might be
discouraging to those who contem-
plate a similar campaign upon the
heart of a maiden far removed
Lawrence Critchelrs success In his
pursuit of Miss Leslie Miller Is a more
wholesome example and In view of
this episode it would seem that there
are really no obstacles to true love
any more. Every gain in speed of
transmission and transportation is
gain of Cupid. Every obstacle over
come by science makes a breach for
the clever and willy little invader
Now think what would happen If there
had been no wireless. Mr.. CritcheI
would have had to wait for the next
boat and continued his pursuit to
Paris There he would, doubtless,
have found that the Millers had gone
to Italy By the time their stopping
place had been discovered in Italy
theyswould have returned to America
and whatever the optimistic may have
to say about absence and the fond
ness of the heart, love in these days
of hurry and impotence is not as
everlasting as it was in pastoral Ar
cadia.
Perhaps the wireless was wholly
responsible for the success of a real
romance-perhaps there would have
been one anyway, but at least it saved
time-enormously. And then 1t dem
onstrated beyond refutation that love
is a god wide awake to advantages,
not SO highly perched among the
mists of Olympus that he cannot de-
scend to use the man made devices,
without which the gods manage to get
along somehow in their own relations,
if tradition is worth anything.