Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-30
PLAYING THE OLD LOTTERY.

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Ex-Congressman Vollmer's daush-
! ter eloped with a young fellow a short
time ago much 10 Congressman Noii-
mer,s rage and disappointment and the
newspapers have been printing stun
and pictures about it ever since Con-
sequently the vollmer family has been
/ IN print even more tnan il was enaoIeu
! TO SO appear when Congressman Voil-
mer was making those effiorescent
! speeches in congress.
/ An eiopement isn't uncommon. of
course it is always interesting in way
and attracts notice. Also it is natural
that Congressman volimer should grow
fussy over the moonlight fitting from
/ his house. But il isn't a nine days
wonder.
! CONGRESSMAN vollmer should comfort
himself with the thought that marriage
is the most democratic rite of all, that
/ it is a simple affair OF even more than
Jefersonian simplicity, that almost
everybody marries, that IL is a funda-
mental privilege and entirely constitu-
tional conferred by the natural law. He
should recall that age old assurance
that love laughs at locksniths. What
happened TO him has happened before
10 thousands OF stern parents and VIII
occur again time upon time as the
world proceeds under the force that
makes the world go round" Romance
and youth and fathers opposition lead
to elopement- II has always been SO.
II Congressman Vollmer had lived long
enough ago to have been one OF our
prominent and highly respected cave
dwellers the chances are that the eiope-
ment would have been conducted in
different fashion that the y-oung man
would have arrived with a hickory club
aid argued the matter =::eeh papa sass
that the loung lady under dispute
would have tripped gayly away with
the victor TO select the furniture for
a new cave dwelling. Perhaps the Daily
Stone Tablets would have mentioned
the affair il the wedding notices and
IN the obituary columns, once as a
pretty wedding" and in the other in
stance as an unfortunate but unavoid-
able affair which resulted in the demise
- : most worthy citizen" But that
wocl6 have been about all for the Hon.
Esc-y Cagenaa. Life would have
.--es oa the gas and opened the cut
o. a-5 nix Up the legal speed limit
zgaz- zza there he'd have been. And
a. -zza- things azvg1't changed much
L. =sserz-zzls s5-ca.
-E-vts=a CT Dfaah. Lady Clara or
-1= sao.:k- ~-ae coioaefs lady and Julia
CsE-z5y are sisters under their skins.
Z.=T Eas5s. 81 Tar as possible in select
zzg TT l=l they mean 20 live with all
-bs5- lives And Il seems Ike they
C1ga- 70 have something 10 say about
i ss they have 10 DO the living Some
1gT E0ec5g e eTs- able 10 tell them
anything. They either know il all or
" all - SATISFY themselves Dg ADcAnS
oaZ- There viii always De half as many
/ tooz marriages as fools and some OF
hose that a==n the toolest turn out to
+ 5= -he w.sss- and some Of those thai
oss- al tzs tag marks o. wisdom end
I x Calamity.
! Was1 al Aas bean said and done
-1-r. Gax s|---S- -aS bzr -.-rE-J as
-h4 lo.te-y and Unc' Henry has known
Z v@-y common fear and sorrow. Maybe
Il VII tu-a OFT all right anyway
r. 5.i3r'c NARY hira That's the way
/ Hama Thompson tsa. about Il when his
gt-! -so ~ with -h@ hired man