The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-01-02
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ALTIMoRE.-Romance dead?

IS Some one said so recently, and
few days afteTward, Baltimore
doctor led TO the altar a woman wear
ing a veil After the ceremony, when
she lifted it, for the first time did he
behold the woman he had married
Romance dead?
Whoever reads the papers knows
that romance lives joyous and un-
bounded, triumphing over space, over
convention, over bigoted prejudices.
Ii is the very age Of romance. A
dark day it is that fails to record
some new invention, some fresh story
Of success achieved over insurmount-
able difficulties; the victory Of some
bold lover who has snatched his lass
from parents deaf to the appeal of
youth that must be served.
Today romance has the courage C
it's convictions. Romance has it's
rights Judges, juries, public opinion
bow before it, rejoice in it. Romance
is the pearl in the oyster, the half OBJ
liberated masterpiece in the second
hand store, the yellow tint in the pros
pector's pan, the golden note in the
amateurs voice. In every phase of
human activity romance has its place
and its turn. And the best and most
gracious of it's qualities is that you
never know when or where it may
manifest itself
Take the story of the doctor and his
yelled bride
Doubtless he is known to thousands
Of people in Baltimore. An English
man, BY birth, as James w. Hellyer
lie oficiates and does business as the
agent of a Cuban land company. But
having an active and aspiring mind he
took up medicine some slime ago,
passed his examinations and practices
under the name Of DR.. Francis w.
Hartley. He is twice a widower and
is fifty-six years Of age.
Not Beyond Age of Romance.
Stop, You thing that a twice wild
over of fifty-six and romance are in
compatible?
You do not know life, then.
If you have lived right and your
veins are young, you begin at fifty to
realize the possibilities of the splendid
and wonderful game that life is. Just
remember. please, that Hartman was
over fifty before he saw the Promised
Land of the Union Pacific. And was
not that perennial youth, Andrew Car
negie, well over the meridian before
he entered fully into the kingdom of
steel?
Our Dr. Hartley is just fifty-six and
has faith. Faiths far more necessary
than bread, for one never needs bread
who has faith. He is vital, this DR..
Hartley, genial and generous, exuber-
ant. Over-zealous, perhaps, if you
don't understand that he has rather
more vividness of Imagination than
the average person.
There came to visit him in Balti-
more friend of his, an officer of the
Cuban land company. He is a good
fellow and a proper man. but it's
lonely life off there among Cubans.
So he confded to the Doctor
The Doctor prescribed a wife. Fine.
But how is one TO get wife out of
land like that-a wife means a cam
paign. How is one to prosecute q
campaign living far off in Cuba?
There's a woman, your woman,
your soul-mate in the world" says
the Doctor. Advertise for her-ad-
vertising is good. Only, foolish, mar
rowminded people object to it. Ad-
vertise. man.
Sometimes Well to Take Advice.
There are others of DR.. Hartley's
type, and when one of them gives you
advice you might as we'll succumb, be-
cause they'll take it themselves if you
don't.
In this instance deponent does not
say what the Cuban responded The
doctor took the burden on his own
shoulders. In his vivid way he adyer-
tised. He explains the facts of his
friends case and the kind of woman
his friend chez should have to make
him happy. Zone is prone here to re-
member a certain Miles Standish and
John AIden.)
II Appendicitis Hateful advertise.
ment-in matrimonial paper that is
published in Boston
There were replies. Unsatisfactory.
The Cuban intendant having finished
his leave of absence, returned to Cuba.
More replies came
At last a letter.
1t was guarded-inquiring in
terested-a personality. rare, different
10 the Doctor. compelling. pierced
through the traced signs on the white
paper
Now, DR.. Hartley has imagination
which includes intuition-perhap
clairvoyance-a great many things we
all use some time or other and know
nothing about Commonlx the feeling
he had is called q "huncx
When Dr. Hartley read this particu-
lar letter he realized that the woman
VINO wrote it was not meant for his
Cuban friend but for him She was
his soul mate IL you had found him
at that particular moment and had
asked him 10 explain just why a
Public Opinion.