Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-23

elopement. etc, etc" "All right, John.
DEAR" says Mabel, as she picks the
lint of her fathers coat and hands
him his hat, Il think we can shut poor
old dads eye this time," and the elope-
ment is executed or interrupted, ac-
sording to the feasibility Of Johns
scheme
A more commonplace and yet
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 inti-
mating that she would be delighted to
hear from the recipient II the re-
cipient should happen to be a make.
Now these buxom maids of the
healthy and hearty west often maAe
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 a 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.
Misslves Go Wrong.
Unhappily many of these little mis-
sives fall into the hands of the I'M
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, II all ac-
counts of the apple country are to be
credited.
This is terribly plebeian, compared
with the future wedding of a girl In
Chicago with an impatient lover in
Hongkong by wireless telephone and
such things as submarine Opponents,
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, a justice of the
peace in the next, and be married en-
route before the pursuers have run
| that, De 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 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 trans Atlantic liner to per
form the ceremony while the watchful
matron is congratulating herself on
her cleverness.
Results Discouragine to Others.
Everyone remembers that Lima Cav
alert 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 similar campaign upon the
heart of a maiden far removed.
Lawrence Critchell's success In his
| pursuit of Miss Leslie Miller Is more
wholesome example and in view of
this episode 1t would seem that there
are really no obstacles to true love
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.. Critchell
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
| they would 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 1t saved
time-enormously And then 1t dem
onstrated beyond refutation that love
is 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.
Likes American Golf.