BALLAD IN REAL LIFE
THE ("URL THAT LOVED A SOLDIER. The pathetic romance- of "a lass that loved a soldier.-,'' concluded recently by the removal of Magdalene Hermann, of Oroniiu, Saxony, to an asylum for the mentally diseased. Twenty years ago, during the Imperial manoeuvres, a smart artillery regiment was quartered in Ground. As is customary during the manoeuvre billeting*, a sergeant began to flirt with Magdalene, and promised her marriage. The promise was not seriously intended, but poor Magdalene took it ail in earnest, and from that day to this she has never ceased to meet trains by night or day coming from the sergeant's garrison town. Some years ago, as her beloved Sergeant Albert had still not arrived, Magdalene jumped to the conclusion that the War Office opposed the wedding, and she has since bombarded the military authorities with petitions for pcr-.mis-sinn to marry (he sergeant. After a time the authorities ceased to answer her lHlirs. Magdalene thereupon concluded that the Post Ollice wa* now suppressing them, and ever since has walked tin miles daily to post her letters in a neighboring town.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 81, 26 September 1911, Page 8
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185BALLAD IN REAL LIFE Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 81, 26 September 1911, Page 8
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