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

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
now with the latest scientific devices
as the nucleus to the plot
Take this as a pattern romance.
Father objects to Rerinald's presence
about the house. He is forbidden to
call and Gwendolyn pines alone.
Reginald is for a time frantic, then
respondent, and then an inspiration
is born of his dependency. Gwen
doIyn owns a photograph. Acting on
the inspiration Reginald invests In an
outfit and breathes passion into the
tin horn after this fashion:
Darling Gwendolyn, do you recog-
nize this voice? I know 1t is strange
in your ears, for sorrow has clouded
my soul and the tones that were once
merry, which vibrated with the joy
that l felt in iife"-and so forth for
three-fourths of the record; then the
following In hurried. dramatic whis-
pers: "Gwennie. dear. be at your win
dow Wednesday night at $3.50 and
we'll put one over on the old man.
Slide out into my six cylinder and
Wen beat It to my aero shed, where
the boys will have the biplane ready
for US. Mind you. Gwennie. no
trunks" This is not exactly amorous
diction. but under the pressure OF
emotional excitement the best lover
will lapse into tho vernacular.
cwendoIyn, the Unsuspectine One.
Gwendolyn in the privacy Of her
rooms to which she has retired to
pine receives the record with the next
| consignment from the dealer and after
playing few ragtimers and reproduc-
lions of Caruso and Melba she slips
Reginald's record on the machine and
faints at the first words, just recov-
ering in time to hear the elopement
plans. They elope. Father pursues in
his aeroplane. They capture "a par
son and embark with him on a sub
marine and come to the surface Just
| in time to see fathers specially char
tered turbine liner bearing down up
on them. The news OF the wedding Is
transmitted by wireless telephone and
forgiveness is forthcoming by the
same medium, whereupon they all re
turn by transatlantic dirigible which
happens to be passing.
/ Even this scheme of affairs-or
which. by the way, no rights are pre-
| 80 A. Inc Ind a
by telepathy and a marriage over the
wireless telephone. There have actu
ally been proposals by phonograpl
with strange complications. There Il
one instance on record where the OBJ
streperous parents received tn,
canned message first, ran 1t off on thu
photograph. and intercepted all tn,
plans. There have been marriages
over the telephone where the run
away couple we're besieged In such
fashion that they could not reach
parson or magistrate to tie the bow
line knot so they just called one OF
the phone and had him read the sery
ice over the wire, they making tn,
responses and transferring the RIM
in the most approved fashion.
The marital bureau was novelty ii
its day, radical departure from tn
conventions of wooing, proposing
clipping and wedding. but the telephone
wedding. the wireless proposal ami
the aeroplane fight in no wise con
fiict with the sacred formulas Of mat
ing: they simply use new instrument
to facilitate the most ancient an
time honored ceremonies: