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by rich and poor alike all over the country. Sometimes it is taken up by rich and pow together, as in the ease of the Philadelpisi beirone who ran away a short time ago with a waiter from one of the lending hotels of that city.
An elopement isn't a safe corner stone for a home-and 'that somebody's happy home is built upon one is no criterion- but what can more distress a parent t that son or daughter has eloped, morely copied the example set by father and mother?
Now, when a pour young man runs away with a poor young woman, that is an olopament. When a rich young“ man runs away with a poor young woman, that is a development. When a poor young morous away with a rich young woman, that is an embezzlement. But inasmuch as a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. E refrain from intiate charac
erizations ned simply note horen few of he oddest elopements that inven inttyped in the last year for the delecta-1 4 of the public.
About ten months ago, a barnstorning theatrical company, then playing the various wace:tanks and clearings along the
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Kansas railrands, contained in its roster young actor who was desperately in love with the ingenue. The latter naturted the here's affection, although her mother, who was also a member of the organization, bad
expressed her disapproval of the whole
nfair in umerous concrete outbursts. When the young man, accordingly, dared 818 to ask the mother for the daughter's band, hu got, aos the hand, but the cold shoulder The lovers were in despair, but not for long.
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The next night, while going through their love scene in the second act of the comedy that was being presented, the young man whispered to his sweetheart the mystic The girl smiled
words.Lat's elope!" the audience was
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still applanding on their exit, the lovers were hurrying unnoticed from the stage door in their costumes to the town livery stable. ml while they sped in's buggy te the examlet six miles away, the third net was allowed to proceed as best it could, with the villain doubling as the young here and the mother forced by arimTMITTEE invites all candidates to iste to take the role just deserted by her daughter.
Not less caroless than these elopers was young man who, while playing in a game of baseball last year in a Richmond, Virginia, nine, disappeared during the first half of the 6th inning, while his side was at bat, and it was learned subsequently, eloped with his lady love. The young couple had agreed to deceive their parents in this summer. The man, by entering the game, three the girl's suspicious father off
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The girl with her father, was a spectator tained on application at the Office of the Company on and after MONDAY, 15thin the grand stand. When the nine of which her future husband was a member
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Mary So and So sitting over there! I'm ed to her parent, "Oh, look! There's going to run over and talk to her a minute. La., The father thought nothing more about it,
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until, as innings after innings paased, his 946 daughter failed to return.. Bs-looked for Hery So and Su, found her, and asked her! where his daughter had gone. Mary replied in surprise that she had not seen her all the afternoon. And then the father for the first time realized that Cupid had called his daughter out at home.
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During the last year there were chronicled any number of elopements in autos, only one of which, towerer, bore any particular marks of originality. The slopessent in question hid its setting in northern New Jersey during the Summer season. The young man in the case was an automobile enthusiast; but not more of one than was the father of the girl. The father liked the young fellow, but hardly regarded him in the Eight of a son-in-law
One evening the young man drove his
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At that ina ant two man jumped into be road with red lanterns, and waving them in circle in front of them, com manded the father to stop.
The father did stop, admitted that he was broking all sorts of speed laww, and accepted Til discoüßtare in good, graco,
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