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

by wireless; you can't
plead with your eyes. when words
fail, with a calloused operator in
Cupid's role-yet the thing has been
done and successfully done. Only
few days ago a young man accom-
plished the impossible and brought
his Heloise back from a transatlantic
trip by wireless. We hear of mar
riages by telephone, proposals by pho
nograph, Opponents by special trains,
and aeroplane romances-now what, in
the name of things old-fashioned, has
become of the lad who used to call
for a year. recite on his knees from
the poets, and ask fathers permission
and blessing?
The most recent and fragrant viola
ton of the staid old formulas was this
wireless wooing of young Lawrence
Critchen of Chicago, but 1t is simply
an omen of what one may expect in
the future. This is the story.
Miss Leslie Miller of Chicago went
to San Francisco some months ago
with her mother and there met a
young man who eventually proved an
enterprising Lochinvar Lawrence
Critchell saw Miss Miller In and about
town for nearly a week During this
be more psychologically exact-sub-
consciously became enamOred of the
young lady. For some reason this did
not dawn upon him until she who had
inspired the unwonted tremors had
gone. Mrs. George Miller and her
daughter were bound for Chicago and
New York en- route for Paris. When
Miss Miller disappeared from his sight
Critchell for the first time realized
that something was lacking in his
life.
Wireless the Last Resource.
He boarded the next train east and
held up the special at half dozen
stations to send burning kilograms
after the mother and daughter All
his haste was of no avail. for when
he reached New York Miss Miller had
already sailed for Europe. There was
nothing left but wireless. 1t was too
late to pursue her with a tug or any
thing OF that sort, so the wireless had
to serve His first message was re
warded with an answer. Yes-she
liked him, but she was noncommittal
A few more heated messages scorched
the ether and the proposal was ac-
copied. also by wireless. She prom
Used to return by the next boat and
she kept her word.
She arrived In New York the first
week of the new year and, of course,
as the best sellers have 1t, they were
meffably happy in their reunion. They
were married at the Chicago home in
Prairie avenue with all dispatch and
proceeded on their honeymoon accord
ing to the accepted conventions.
This, of course, Is typically Amer
lean, for no one could conceive of
such thing happening abroad, and 1t
is of necessity characteristic of this
age Not that our grandfathers would
not have wooed by wireless IL they
had. had the facilities, for of all things
angenious there is nothing so In
,genious as love. When automobiles
first appeared the clippers were the
first to- prove the merits of the inno-
walton and father I'm his buggy was
left behind to feed upon gasoline
fumes and his own wrath But all that
As antiquated now
/ Opportunity for Thrilling Romance.
Aeroplanes are still in the hands of
demonstrators and experimentalists
hut certainly the day is not far dis
itant when the outraged parent of-an
.eiopfhg daughter will rumble down
upon the escaping couple in his eighty
horsepower car only to see them rise
before him and soar aloft as on a
magic carpet. What a thrilling Jules
Verne -r-4 aDce could be written right