Pretty Romance.

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 6, 3 April 1914, Page 1

Pretty Romance.

Not long ag >, a Tra: i ;a liner, which plies but: i France and the River Plate, reached Bor.l i cl i behind its schedule ! time. N<> storms or icebergs or treacherous j reefs had been the cause of this 1 delay, but a lady's conquering 1 eyes. On the first day out of port (says the Paris corrcsponde il of the “Daily Telegraph”) the, captain fell fathoms deep in love! with the youngest member of a returning theatrical Irutipe. On I the second, in snilor-liko yin, ihe proposed, but “ No!” was 1 the answer he received from the little actress, who did not- relish j such hurricane wnoi ng. 1 “Very well,” quoth the cap- j tain, “if you think my proposal j too tulden, 3 will time to get accustomed to an . ; I And he yelled down !e the duel : engineer to slow the engines ] down lo half-speed and keep ! them there till further orders. I So the liner dawdled on j : through the tropics, a day he was rejected. ! The little actress radio r cm-, | joyed the situation, hut the rest', iof the passengers -nuromantic ! business folk, to whom time was I money —began to grumble, j Finally a deputation of them up , preached her, and implor l her ' ! name of their children and cheque-boeks to accept the < n I tain provisionally. | “La donna e mobile," they ! reminded her, and she could cry ! off again as soon as she landed. I The little actress consented, and | the order was full steam ahead ; again till the fair land oi k reueo ; was reached, after a voyage of lover a month instead of the i regulation si:,teem days. And the best of it is th j little actress is going to keep her I word and marry the captain I after all. Probably she meant to j do so all the time.