The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-01-16
B0YCE GETS NOTICE
IN CHICAGO
THE TRIBUNE TELLS OF THE
TRIALS AND TRieuLATIoNs
or WooDsIDE MAN.

Hamilton, Jan. 16.-(Special.)-Resi-
dents Of this city were much Interested
this morning in ssthesspress disps7ches
from Chicago, appearing in today's
Missoulian, (which. told of the roupie-
some courtshp of James L. Boyce OF
Woodside, who secured a license IN
Chicago to wed Misss.Yirginia Brooks,
reformer and s~uffragette. Boyce Is
well known here, having spent much
OF his time for the ptst two years at
the Ravalli hotel. He left supposedly
for the Panama. canal about two weeks
ago. Commenting on Boyce's tempes-
tuous but fruitless courtship of Miss
Brooks, the Chicago Tribune of jan
uary IL talks as follows:
Just because James L. Boyce shaved
off his Van Dyke beard was 40 reason
why Miss Virginia Brooks, reformer
and suffragette, should consent to have
her name linked with his on a mar
riage license.
And she did not consent, but Jim"
Boyce apparently did not care. for he
bravely entered the marriage license
bureau yesterday morning and left
with a license issued to him and Miss
Brooks.
When asked if he was going to
marry the West Hammond Joan of
Arc he replied:
"All l have to say is that I'm marry
ing a suffragist."
Miss Brooks was informed by a
friend thatthe license had been issued,
and she Immediately sent out a denial
of a possible marriage.
n..A >s ALL MAJ a. a.h;nx~.
Boyce is 33 years old, and lives at
1885 Grand boulevard. He is the son
of s.. Leonard Boyce, a well-knoWn at
torney. During the last year Boyce
has spent his time in the west, where
he is said to have large interests. He
returned to Chicago just before Christ
mas to seek the hand Of Miss Brooks.
Fol several years he is said to have
Wooed her, but it is declared all his
love overtures were s%purned.
When Boyce returned to this city he
wore a. heavy Van Dyke beard, and
finding that this did not affect the
GOODNESS of Miss Brooks he proceeded
to have it removed. Then he took a
daily swim in the Central Y. M. C. "A.
tank, combined with other "~beautify-
ing exercises.
1t is said Boyce called the young
Woman's attention to the fact a he
was trying to please her and win favor
in her heart, but she utterly ignored
him. Il, -ia Nh -
II know him in a general way said
Miss Brooks. ."He always has Inter-
ested himself in my work at West
Hammond. Like a great many others
nrh~ nxyo ,xrft%o~ -o~ ~ H.
marry me
There is nothing to it, and that set
ties the whole matter. Perhaps some
day I may have a real affair of the
heart. and then 1 will be perfectly will
ing to say so. lam. not going to be
married to Mr.. Boyce, never thought of
such a thing, and never will. What
more can l say?"
Against Rough Tactics in Love.
Miss Brooks. declared she did not
like rough tactics in love. She cilal :
acterized Boyce's methods as "crude
and harsh" with not even an atom of
romance. Her work at West Ham
mond, she said, had kept her SO busy
that she considered matrimony.
This rush to capture a girls heart
by storm is ludicrous,'' she declared.
when the right man comes along l
suppose he will know enough not to
attempt to get me with a mad DASH
Miss Brooks has received about so
proposals by mail, some in prose and
some in poetry. Several months ago
a Wisconsin doctor said he loved her
because she looked so much like his
mother. and that he believed she could
cook perfectly good pies. Others have