Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-23
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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 q
few days ago young man accom-
plished the impossible and brought
his Heloise back from transatlantic
trip by wireless. We hear of mar
riages by telephone, proposals by pho.
nograph, elopements 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
Critchell of Chicago, but it 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
young man who eventually proved an
enterprising Lochinvar. Lawrence
Critchell saw Miss Miller in and about
town for nearly week. During this
brief period he unconsciously-or to
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 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 noncommfttal
A few more heated messages scorched
the ether and the proposal was &C.
copied, also by wireless. She prom
ised 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
ineffably 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 a thing happening abroad, and It
is of necessity characteristic of this
age. Not that, our grandfathers would
not have wooed by wireless II they
had had the facilities, for Of all things
ingenious 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 in his buggy was
left behind to feed upon gasoline
fumes and his own wrath. But all that
is antiquated now.
Opportunity for Thrilling Romance.
Aeroplanes are still in the hands of
demonstrators and experimentalists
but certainly the day is not far dis
tant when the outraged parent of an
clipping 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 thrilling Jules
Verne romance could be written right