New Britain herald., 1925-12-15
CIGARETTE CASE IS
 START OF 1T ALL
Man Buys It Here, Sees ''Girl"
 Show, Marries

Waterbury, Dec. 15 PI--Iove will Iind a way, says the old adage. There are two persons in Waterbury today who will not deny the truth or this time -honored saw They arc Charles F. Stewart, 52, of Torrington and Miss Marion o. St. Pierre. 53. or 20 Abbot avenue, this city, whose paths crossed for the first time yes terday and who two hours later had plighted their troth in the home of friends on Baldwin street
 The whlrlwind romance of this couple IS remarkable in itself. but 1t Is doubly interesting because fl ts the sequel of another romantic story Tn the last chapter of which the nero was left solitary and for. Iorn figure. Mr. Stewart, dubbed the rejected Romeo" at the conclu. sion of the first story, has returned to be the protagonist trlumDhant Of q romance which for breath-tak- ing spontancity makes it's forcrunncr seem tame John Aldcn-priscilla courtship.
 Flash Back
 In the flash back" to the first episode, we See Mir. Stewart q lonely figure sitting in the Kitchen of his Baldwin street friends, breeding over the loss of his intended bride, who In the front parlor is being mar ricd to Q stranger from the Bay State. Mir, Stewart had arrived at 6 o'clock that Saturday afternoon, his heart happy with anticipations of marrying Mrs. Bessie Tavor, CS, of Il Laurel street, with whom he had been corresponding through q matrimonial bureau in Bridgeport, only 10 discover that she had plight ed her troth to Frederick Nichols G3, of Hancock, Mass, who had ar rived few hours earlier. At $ o'clock Mrs. Taylor was forever lost to Mr. Stewart She had become Mrs, Nichols, She still is, and is ltv- ing in Waterbury. It is reported however, that her husband, in the Is minutes in which he had wooud her that Saturday afternoon, had nc glcCtcd to tell her that he had seven children by his first marriage in Massachusetts. Mir Stewart drspcr- ate at having lost his prospective bride, told The Republican that he would have a wife from this city be- fore he would return 10 his farm in Torrington. He disappeared a few days later, however, and it seemed that the episode had closed with AIr Stewart an ingloTious and de- featcd hero.
 In q small flat on Abbott avenue, however, a.littlo woman who had lived q lonely life in her few roolps for 22 years, read in The Republi- can of Mr. Stewards blasted TO- nance and her heart went out to him. She, like Mr. Stewart. know the painful cnnui Of solitude, for she. like AIr. Stewart, had never married. She knew that the express sion, single blesscdness" was a missioner. To her there was noth, ing blessed in living a life of spin sterhood. E did not crave an ex- istcncc of wild merrimcnt, however, for only the day before she was told of Mr. Stewards plight she can fcsscd yesterday, she had refused the offer of a suitor to travel With him to California, She wanted quiet comfortable home life.
 Yesterday Mir, Stewart returned to He had neglected his farm and had traveled in an effort to bauish from his mind the mem ory of his disappointment in loyp. He had gone to Walingford, to New Britain and 10 Hartford. In New Britain he had bought q cigaret caso on which was printed q female fig. urc which maniGests Freulilu com~ plcNps in our hero and in Hartford he had seen Artists and Modr,r," which action also might he consi1- cred u sublimation of crotic tenden- cicS
 When Mr. stewart appeared, h'S Baldwin street friends tclerhonc1 to Miss St, Pierre. When a reporter arrived, tho couple had decided that they would ho mar ricd soon after Christmas Miss St. Pierre desires to live in Waterbury. Atr. Stewart is willing, though h. life on the farm is much more healthful.