The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1914-01-02
BALTIMORE. Romance dead

a lew days afterward. Baltimore
doctor led to the altar woman wear
ING a veil. After the ceremony, when
She llfted it, for the first time did he
behold the woman he had married.
Romance dead?
whoever reads the papers knows
mat romance lives joyous and I'M
bounded, triumphing over space, over
convention, over bigoted prejudices.
1t 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 Of
IS convictions. Romance has its
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
he officiates and does business as the
agent of a Cuban land company But
having an active and aspiring mind he
took up medicine some time ago,
passed his examinations and practices
under the name Of Or. Francis W.
Hartley, He is twice widower and
is fifty-six years of age,
| Not Beyond Age Of Romance.
| StoD You thing that twice wild
over of fifty-six and romance are in
compatible?
You do not know life, then.
4 II you have lived right and youi
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, we'll over the meridian before
he entered fully into the kingdom OF
steel?
Our DR.. Hartley is just fifty-six and
has faith Faith is far more necessary
than bread, for one never needs bread
who has faith. He is vital, this DR..
Hartley, genial and generous, exlber'
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
Crban land company. He is good
fellow and a proper man, but it's a
Il nely life off there among Cubans
So he confided tc the Doctor
he Doctor prescribed wife. Fine
But how is one to get wife out OF
| land like that-a wife means cam
paign. How is one to prosecute q
campaign living far off in Cuba?
There's woman, your woman
your soul-mate in the world" says
the Doctor. Advertise for her-ad
vertising is good. Only foolish, mar
row-minded people object to it. Ad
vertise, mani"
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 moi
7ay what the Cuban responded. The
doctor took the burden on his own
shoulders. In his vivid way he adver
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 certain Miles Standish ant
John Alden.)
1t appeared-this fateful advertise
ment-in matrimonial paper that |;
published in Boston,.
There were replies. Unsatisfactory
The Cuban intendant having finished
his leave of absence, returned to Cuba
More replies came.
At last letter.
1t was Observation-Disclosures in
terested-a personality, rare, differen
to the Doctor, compelling, pierced
"ough the traced signs on the white
paper.
Now, DR.. Hartley has imagination
which includes intuition-perhap'
! clairvoyance-a great many things WI
all use some time or other and know
J nothing Ioout Commonly. the feeling
he had is called "hunch."
When DR.. Hartley read this particu
lar letter he realized that the woman
who wrote it was not meant for nj
Cuban friend, but for him. She wa
his soul mate. II you had found hin
at that particular moment and hat