Flads 11 la a IMetare.
i I 1 ' m quiLa a rflminra con-
I wctrt with the recent '.iinniago
1 Of lVun(U ItllTlr..i 4i
York, the bride being a young
woman belonging to a well
known Iiulslann. family. Mr. Hinton,
It la hiiI. I, fell In love with a picture, "The.
Bon'a IiHt Greeting," In the royal gallery
of Dresden.
The picture represents a mother nntl her
daughter listening to the la.t fonl mrssifo
of their loved one an tmrne to them by his
comrade. The devoted mother, prostrated
wltJi Brief. In sinking Into a chair, covering
her fare with a handkerchief. The comrade
of her deud boy stands, hat In hand and
with Iwwed head, having apparently Just
broken the Had new.
The young rlrl. reMing her hand on her
mother' chair, saxes wide-eyed and Immobile-
straight at the young man. 8he in nn
Old-world Rill, quaint a Hottlceil Madonna
type, with great norowful lips, eyes darkly
luminous, features classic in outline, her
hair hanging In braid over her shoulder.
Her utlitudo at onct sugests grief for the
dfiad brother nnd attentiveness to hla
friends. Her heuuty Is mill nnd unassum
ing. She would appeal to none but one of
a thoughtful temperament, careless of the
modern, unmoved by dash and hrillanry.
Becking happiness In understanding and
tranquillity.
The young man lost his heart completely
to the maiden In the fine old painting and,
being endowed wlUi patience, resolved never
to marry until he could encounter at leant
an approximation of her In the actual,
every-day world. He walled In vain for
several yearn, but last Hummer he met the
living presentment In Minn Kdith Dupre of
Jjoulalana. They were married and their
honeymoon was a romantic an their
cnurlahlp, for they went to Dresden to nee
"The Bon's Iit Greeting."
Iong Dlatanfe Courtship.
A romanoe that had Its resinning in Phila
delphia, Iwo yearn ago recently ended In
Honolulu with the marriage of Dr. RaJph
tlardlner Curtis and Mian Jane Mae Blair,
both of whom or well known In that city.
Mian Malr la the daughter of Henry W.
lUalr a prominent buslnpnn man of Byracusa.
Much agulnat the will of her parents Mtsa
Jtlalr deserted society In Syracuse and New
York and went on the stage. It wan while a
etiow girl In "Miss Bob White," playing at
the f'heatnut Street theater, Philadelphia,
hat she met Dr. Curtis. He pressed hla
tilt nnd was accepted.
A lover' quarrel, ensued and Dr. Curtla
Went to the Hawaiian Island, where he
Boon built up a lucrative practice. Mtaa
Blair spent the last summer at Baratoga
and Asbury park, where she was a
recognised belie, with many suitors for her
hand,
Karly in November, after a long silence,
aha received a letter from Dr. Curtis. It
a!d(
t'e forget our little quarrel. I lova
you more (ban ever, Won't you come and
be my wife?"
A few letters passed between them, arvd
then Mlaa Iltalr left New York alone and
Bailed from Ban Krnnrtnco for Honolulu.
. A) .
All Mrs Mast Marry.
Kanana has always I een notorious aa a
breeding place for eraitka of every tl tertp
(Ion, Perhaps It was this fart that In
duced V California womar, Krnrsttna
(Stlimimn -whether she l.i entitled lo lha
prefixing designation of "Mrs." or "Mlas"
does not apear to write a drpatch to a
San Francisco official declaring that all
lMM'tielora In that city must get marriel
during the year or ho expelled from the
town, which has already had Its. effects In
that city. A few days ao there was fl e l
With the clerk of the Hoard of Supervlt.s
thrt following communication:
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.. Jan. Ift.-To the
Honorable Itoard of Supervisor. City and
t'ounty of Ban Francisco: Oentlomeiv I
beg leave to call the attention of your hon
orable board to the fact that now in Km
ra they have already taken action with
rlrn to the single men who reside in
the town of Severance, lnrloanl you will
tlnd the extract to which I refer. In this
city It Is a notorious fact that there are
hundreds of single men In all walks of life
of marriageable age. well quaitfled to Uka
unto themselves a wife.
I think that there ehould be a Taw in thU
city making It a misdemeanor for any man
to refune lo marry a young woman who
propose ta him. o long as It does not in
terfere with the principles of his rerition.
Ar.d I think It is in accordance with God's
ordinance that every man should be mar
ried. Tins hetng leap year, a young woman
would have the excuse to make the pro
posal. I beg leave to request you pan the
following ordinance:
"He it ordained by the people of the lty
and county of San Francieco as follows:
"That any male person over the age of 21
years, unmarried, who shsll, upon being
proponed to hy an unmarried female, over
the age of U years, and who In of the name
religion and in not engaged or prohibited
by law from Intermarrying, refune to ac
cept such proposal and to marry said
female shall be guilty of a misdemeanor."
Hoping that your honorable tmard will
nee the Justice of rnv request. I am, very
truly yours, KHNKSTINA SCHMINDT.
Itomance Knda In Weddlntc.
The termination to a romance which
bgan In Chicago last summer took place
at Muncle, Ind., when David Tarrant, the
eas'ern pololst, was united in marriage to
Mlsa Martraret Heuchans, daughter of Mrn.
Kmma Ileuchamn of Muncle City.
Tarrant wan with the Muncle roller polo
team enroute to Haclne, Wis., when he ac
cidentally met Miss Heuehans. then of Chi
cago, on a crowded train. The gallant
young man waa successful In securing a
Beat for the yuung woman and her mother,
and showed them other courtesies. When
the girl's mother learned that her daugh
ter and the Muncle pololst were carrying
on a correspondence, she objected, but
Tarrant, not to le outdone, went to Chi
cago and manfully asked for the pleasure
of writing. Thin was finally given, with
the result that Mrs. lleurhans and daugh
ter later left Chicago and moved to Muncle.
Mr. and Mrs. Tarrant will reside in An
derson, tha groom being a representative
of the Anderson team In the Western
Itoller Polo league. He wan formerly from
Balem, Mass.
For a time It looked aa If the well laid
matrimonial plans of Mlaa Freda Welts and
Charlea Rrorhl of Bt. Louis would "gang
aglee' owing to the strike of the carriage
drivers of the World's fair city, but the
couple, after surmounting many obstacles,
were married at Bt. Manna' Presbyterian
church. Third and Soulard streets, last
week, Itev. Ells performing the ceremony,
and now think their difficulties are over.
The only change made In the arrange
ment waa to postpone the reception to
their many friends announced for Bohon
btu'a drove club house Immediately after
the raremony for a month and substitute
a reeeptlon to the relatives at the home of
the bride for tha evening.
Ona dlftlrulty waa tlie carriages. Mlsa
Welti and her mother conduct a store In
an Intenaely union neighborhood and they
did not care to ofTend their patrons by
having nonunion carriages brought Into the
neighborhood nnd Miss Welt nnd Mv.
Rroehl were determined not to postpone the
ceremony. They had decided to use horses
used for their store and such conveyances
as they could lorrow. when they learned
that carriages could lie obtained from tlx
strike headquarters and that difficulty was
settled.
Fear that the street car Hncu would not
have clear tracks to the distant club house
caused the postponement of the reception.
The wedding is the culmination of a two
years' acquaintance.
Tald Mas
by Telephone.
Two young people of Brooklyn have been
hunting for the same article of parental
forgiveness, with prospects of having it
extended to them. Sterling Tomes, aged
18 years, and Miss Laura Williams, aged
IT. a school girl, ran away to be married
without taking the trouble to And out
what their parents thought about the mat
te". Miss Wllljan: left home ostensibly to go
to dancing school. That waa the last time
that Mrn. Williams saw Miss Laura Wil
liams. The next morning the mother was
railed to the telephone and waa told the
startling news that it was her daughter at
the other end of the wire, but that she was
no longer Mlsa Laura Williams. It was
Mrs. Sterling Tomes.
The two had slipped away to New Jersey,
where they had been married. Now they
are hutniug the parental forgiveness Willi
every prospect that It will be given theuj.
Suitor Talka IluaineNii.
The young man Invaded the olJ niurt ;J
ofttec btiskly, relates the Brooklyn Kaslc.
"Mr. Ballings," he said, "I have come'
"Oh, I can guess what you've come for,"
broke in the old man, warmly. . .
"That's good," said the young man. "II
naves time. I was never much good on
those rigmarole speeches about trying to
give her a happy home and all that. I'll '
do It, of course, to the best of my ability, '
but I'm more of a business man when it '
comes to talking with men. Do I get her?"
"As a business man, sir, I will give you
a direct reply. You do not."
"That's what I expected you to say," re
marked the young man.
"Then why did you come to me?" de
manded the old man.
"Well, I thought we might talk It over aa
business men and get together figuratively
speaking, of course. When It comes to
getting together In reality I prefer your
daughter to you every time, and I'm not
saying anything against you at that."
"That's nothing to talk over, sir," In
sisted tha old man. "You have my answer."
"Then you must taka the consequences,"
aald the young man.
"Do you mean to threaten an elope
ment?" "Certainly not. But I suppose you know
that I'm an oculist?"
"What has that to do with It?"
"I've been looking Into your daughter's
eyes on an average of three nights a week
for nine months."
The old man grew pale.
"Lovers are proverbially reckleea In tha
matter of eye examination," the youth
went on. "Of course, If I am accepted aa a
' lover I can roake no charge; if not well,
sir, other poople pay mc good fees for
doing that, and I don't see why you
shouldn't I can get 15 for a five-minute
examination In some cases, but even al
lowing ten or fifteen minutes, I can run up
a pretty g(id bill In nn evening."
"I never engaged you, sir," protested tha
old man.
"But your daughter did," returned tha
youth, calmly, "and she is prepared to pay
with herself, und if you Interfere with that
payment, of course you'll have to assume
the bills. But I give you fair warning of
ona thlrg."
"What's that?" asked tho old man,
weakly.
"I'll tako her In payment, but I won't
tako you not In a thousand years. With
you it's cash at the top rate."
Tho old man well, what else could he do
when he had a chance to get such a son-in-law?
The ForKlvltiK Father.
Recent elopements and what a lot of
them there have been disclose the Ameri
can father In his favorite role of check
signer, bill payer and general forgiver,
comments the New York Mall and Kxpress.
It may not be a glorious role, but It gives
the daughters of his household who havo
run over him all their days, with the doting
old creature's enthusiastic assent, a last
chance to hold him up before the com
munity as un easy nnd ridiculous mark.
Without his consent he In thrust Into tha
post of a "stern father," a practical, un
sentimental, dollar-worshiping, but easily
outwitted proposition, while his spoiled
child cinches public sympathy and carrier
,oway all the laurels as a romantic young
woman who travels whither her true heart
Ustelh-
We submit, It is rather hard on the old
'man, who Is u very good sort despite hla
weaknesses. Why make him look like 311
cents by tt runaway match, whf n his "tstern.
nesa" never reaches beyond the expostulary
ndmonltion: "Better wait, Mamie, until
you get dry behind the ears and that white
haired boy you call your 'young man' paya
1:1a laundry bills with money he makes
himself." Is that a thing to sulk about
or a, reason to plot secretly under his nosa
and, by a runaway declaration of inde
pendence, announce in effect that "a long
train of abuses and usurpations" from that
old skinflint, your dad, has driven you to
fly from the nest that through all your
young life had shielded and kept you
warm?
"Youth will have its way," of course,
but really marriage Is more serious than
a cakewalk, and if the old man baa
right to a look-in anywhere In a glrl'a
life, It is when she is repeating before a
minister, with aa near an approach to seri
ousness as she has ever got, "until death
do us part." But let that point go. What
we maintain Is that Inasmuch aa the young
lady counts on more than forgiveness, and
fully expects the old man to set her hus
band up In business, shelter both under his
roof and enter them In the society of hla
friends under the prestige of his own ven
erable and honored name, she ought not to
go out of her way to offend him. He has
further possibilities as an easy mark. Why,
then, whisk her heels skittishly In his
face?
Why give him no notice of her Intentions
mora formal than a telegram from a winter
resort begging forgiveness feigned "Mrs."
and sent "collect," followed by a letter ear
closing an unreceipted hotel bill?
