Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-10
Federal Aid for Romance.
By Frederic ]. Haskin.

Cupid puts on many guises. but few
people know that he gets in some or
Ibis most effective work when he wears
a government uniform. There are hum
dreds of happy families in the United
States for whose bliss Uncle Sam,
through his immigration bureau, is
directly responsible.
Rapid-fire affairs of the heart run
ming over with sentiment, humor and
pathos are commonplace to the immi-
grafton agents The other day shy
Italian girl landed at Ellis Island.
Three years before the man she was en-
gagged to had left sunny Italy to seek
his fortune in America. Now part
of that fortune was made, and Giuseppi
had sent for his fiancee. The three
years engagement was TO be happiiE
capped by an American marriage.
Giuseppe was waiting at the dock.
with a license and his brother for IA
witness The course of true love
seemed for once to be running smooth
but tragedy impended.
Giuseppi had lived in the land OF the
free too long. He had taken too many
walks up Broadway. looked too often
on dazzling visions of American
femininity. He surveyed MS brlde-to-
be and calmly announced that she did
not come up to his new standard of
good looks. He opined that she had
deteriorated in the three years since
they parted. At any rate. he refused
to marry her. The authorities argued
in vain. The girl had no other friends,
and deportation stared her in the face
after. three years of waiting and the
long steerage voyage.
But here the brother took hand
/ ness. His chiv-
Brother Then airous d
boiled at such
| Proposes to Girl. conduct toward
lady. In good. round Italian he told
Giuseppi what he thought of him. To
! emphasize his point of view. he hauled
off and knocked the bridegroom down.
| Then he proposed to the girl himself.
| She accepted. SO the marriage was
| solemnized after all groom and wit
ness exchanging places. aud the i'm
| migration authorities. with one more
knotty problem off their hands. de
| voutly hope they will live happily ever
! after.
| Hundreds of immigrant girls have to
| men who were to marry them fail &c
! appear. and they have not enough money
| to permit them to enter the United
| States. A pathetic case was, that of a
| certain hungarian girl The same day
| she landed the man who planned to meet
\ and marry her was being taken from
! the emergency hospital to the buria
| ground in potter's field. He had beer
! fatally injured on the construction work
of the famous He'll Gate bridge. This
| particular girl was not sent back to
/ Hungary. The case was brought to the
/ attention of some phianthropic women.
! who made themselves responsible foi
| her. She worked as kitchen maid fol-
| several months and then married the
! man who had been working next to hei
| fiance at the time Of the accident
| The governments work as matri
| monal promoter in cases such as this
comes when the whereabouts of the man
| are mystery Uncle Sam prosecutes
a vigorous search for the missing bride,
| groom. In the meantime the girl is
lodged at the expense of the steamship
company that brought her over always
under the kindly supervision Of woman
agents who look to her moral and plIysi
cal welfare generally.