Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-03-03

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his inspiration he is really commit
ting no sin against convention by
transmitting his immortal question
through the medium of the impalpable
ether. A proposal by telepathy, If 1t
be properly directed and not permit
ted to wander astray and settle upon
the wrong recipient, should be quite
as proper and should be as impartial
Iy considered as kneeling petition
on the aforesaid parental rug.
What boon this same telepathy
will be to the separated lovers! The
young woman sits in the parental
homestead under a severe matronly
eye. Suddenly a message begins to
rattle upon the keys of her trained
and receptive mind. Hello, Mabel.
this is John / have a scheme for our
elopement, etc.. etc." "All right, John.
DEAR" says Mabel, as she picks the
lint of her fathers coat and hands
him his hat, 81 think we can shut poor
old dads eye this time" and the elope-
ment is, executed or interrupted, ac-
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 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 inti-
mating that she would be delighted to
hear from the recipient II 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 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 e 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.
Mlssives Go Wrong.
Unhappiiy many of these little mis-
sives fall into the hands of the UNI
available. But romaDces 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, II all ac-
counts Of the apple country are to be
credited.
This is terribly plebeian, 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
4 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 a
husband. but by taking fast train
to Dover OF Plymouth and running
out on a 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 Dlscouraging 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 Critchell's success in hi
pursuit of Miss Leslie Miller is more
wholesome example and in view o
,, this episode it would seem that ther'
are really no obstacles tc true low
any more. Every gain in speed o
transmission and transportation is I
gain of Cupid. Every obstacle over
come by science makes a breach foi
, the clever and willy little invader
, Now think what would happen II ther'
had been no wireless. Mr.. Criticized
would have had to wait for the mex
boat and continued his pursuit 4
. Paris. There he would, doubtless
. have found that the Millers had gon'
J to Italy. BY the time their stopping
J place had been discovered in Ital,
! they would have returned to Americ;
!. and whatever the optimistic may hav'
= to say about absence and the fond
|, ness of the heart, love in these day
!. of hurry and Impotence is not a
, everlasting as 1t was in pastoral Ar
!. cadia.
q Perhaps the wireless was who'll
> responsible for the success of rea
romance-perhaps there would hav
n been one anyway, but at least 1t save
: enormously And then 1t den
onstrated beyond refutation that Low
! is a god wide awake to advantages
! not so highly perched among tn
!. mists of Olympus that he cannot dc
!. scend to use the man made device:
. without which the gods manage to &c
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