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THE SUNDAY OREGOMAX, PORTLAXD, JANUARY 2, 1921 Ettittf Tliittgcf Love Will D o The romncf of John Hamilton nd Aim a Selm l cose of love at first sierbt. Boxes of candy e parable. The ae. and budding Sbarpe-Evaaa romances are la romance beaan la Candy, Cake, Socks, a "Lost" Ad, Hops and Malt, Contributed to the Making of These Brand New Ro mances, Conspicuous Among Which Is the "Flivver" Wedding of the Champion Fat Lady to a Man One Fifth Her Own Weight. I low, rci-xo Rty-r but ui Fossa ii'iifcrt'"vf r air aV a bt-uh MlH Jm ssr LL ust i found. S-r T naiMM'w i.ma. - 1UM JJ 4MH "- Th. ntH ft it- HI toST-l ISM inir U-. P.M., Am. ahJL I Mas Marguerite Borton lost her watch, advertised for it and found a husband. BY WILLIAM HAMLIN. i Ing to visit her aunt et F you saw a girl of 725 pounds In I street. San Bernardino. A pair of hand-knitted socks led to the romance of Oelbert Flowers and Mrs. Josephine Hodson. J a bathing suit, would it be a case of love at first sight? If yon bad a million dollars or so and were In the social swim and were engaged to a really beautiful girl, would you be content with a wedding utterly de void of that which the hoi polio! terms "show"? If you were a dis tinguished and celebrated opera sing er and saw a baker's pretty daughter 351 Fifth And, she didn't just know why, she Invited him to call. He did all the way to San Bernardino. In fact, he called si regularly that the railroad communi eating between the two points was about to issue a dividend from in creased income when the sale of tick ets between the two places suddenly ceased. Tou see, the finder of the watclj took her one day to his city and a clergyman did the rest. Then with her hands smeared with dough , they tQok a noneyraoon motor trip t0 would you fall in love with her? If Tn,. , j . a man stepped out of a "lost" ad and proposed to you, would you accept him? If Of course not, you probably will eay. Yet, as you may discover by reading this article, all these ques tions recently have been answered affirmatively, the first twice, and the resultant marriages have been ideal with their principals as happy as could be. For they are some of the strange things that love will do And there is only one man in history, probably, to whom they would not have been strange. His name was Solomon. They wouldn't have been strange to him, because he had plurality of wives and must have gone through many such incidents as these. And yet despite that he went through such experiences he made the flat assertion: "Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing." Appar ently Solomon could find in every woman something attractive, some thing analogous to the personal at traction of the men and women in the following romances. For love is not blind, but mighty sharp-sighted. Otherwise it could not see as much as It apparently does. A Quintuple Romance. Take the love of John H. Hamilton, a machinist of Los Angeles. Cal. John is 27 years old. He weighs 155 pounds. What has his weight got to do with it? Be patient; in a moment you will know. John went bathing last summer. While in the briny he aaw Alma Selm--ln a bathing suit!. It was love at first sight. He says o. She agrees. Now for that weight. Alma, who Is pretty, tips the beam at 725 pounds. Did this make a bit of difference in the warmth of John's love? It did not What if their ro mance might have been called quin tuple? He called her his little girl and believed It, too. Justice J. B. Cox of Santa Ana. the Gretna Green of Los Angeles, performed the ceremony Mrs L C. Krlng, the bride's sister, s slip of a girl of 420 pounds, was at' tendant on the bride. Moreover, a Ford carried the party from the dom inie's: to the railroad station. Love is a sly dog. He or she or it or whatever the gender, lurks in clever coverts. Maybe In a maiden's eye. quite often the case; maybe in a soldier's uniform, as has been discov ered since April 6. 1917; maybe in sympathy, for many a romance has found its kin love through this chan nel. But who would ever suspect that It would conceal Itself in a "lost" ad of a newspaper? Mrs. Fred Davidson, who was Miss Marguerite Horton of Los Angeles, CaL, also will tell you that that was Just the spot where it was in hiding for her. You see, she lost a watch last summer and Inserted an "ad." And a few hours after the newspaper was published containing her inquiry the watch came back. With it was a fins young man whose name was Fred Davidson. He laughingly re fused a reward and got to chatting with her. He said he was a stranger in the City of the Angels. His home was in Creston. Ia. "That's funny," said the then Miss Horton. Tra a stranger here, too. I'm from Chicago!" Iowa. And, do you know, she never even told her family at home that her handsome husband actually stepped out of a "lost" ad. Maybe she hasn't realized It yet! Yea, love does some strange things and sometimes causes mortals to do stranger things. Consider, if you please, the romance of Mrs. Hugo Reisinger, daughter of Adolphus Busch, who recently wed Charles E Greenough, New York and Newport society man. Now, the strangeness of it all does not He in the fact that each has two children by another marriage. Nothing strange In that Greenough first entered the limelight of publicity In 1904, when, as Mrs. Goelet's protege, he helped solve the robbery in which she lost $300,000 in jewels. The bride's husband, Hugh Reisinger, merchant and art collect or, died abroad. But the strange part of their romance1 was the wedding it self. Despite the fact that the bride is heiress to millions, that the bride groom was a war hero with the croix de guerre and well fixed financially, and that they both are social favor ites, they went off and married as unostentatiously as the veriest clerk and stenographer seeking to avoid Impossible expense. Hyperion to a satyr, sublime to ridiculous? Why, here ia a case where it was grand opera to a pan of dough! So seems the marriage be- reezgB aB warn Mary Elizabeth candy fame. Evans, of tween John Hislop, operatic star, and Karin Asklund, daughter of Sweden's millionaire baker. But Just such a romance was to be expected of His lop. For he is a most ijnusual man, a dual genius, as It were. Hislop less than a decade ago was a portrait painter of no mean ability. At the time he had not discovered the value of his tenor voice. He was enthuiastlc about his brush and went to Sweden to 6tudy at the Gothen burg museum. While there he met the buxom, blue-eyed Miss Asklund. He sang for her one day. It was Just a snatch of a song. She was showing him through one of her father's great bakeries, at the time, and she had playfully plunged her white and dimpled arms into a huge pan of John Hislop, who fell In love with a millionaire baker's daughter. dough as she used to do when a lit tle girl in the days that her father was building up his business and re quired the help of all of the members of the family, even the pretty Karln. The song did it. Or, was it the dough? Did the leaven in the incho ate bread ferment the love between them? Who will say? It seems not impossible. Hislop is a man with a warm, a romantic nature. And how he can kiss! Mile. Ganna Walska, who delighted Chicago when she ap peared in the title role of Zaza, is authority for the statement. She Is married. Oh, yes! Perefectly proper expression. But she says: "This Hislop! My! How he kisses! Won derful, I'll tell you!" Now, whether he did while Miss i aBHHHH8MH sassm) ? .. - i Mrs. Hugo Reisinger, daughter of Adolphus Bnsch, evaded a fashionable society wedding by being married most unostentatiously to Charles E. Greenough. Asklund had the dough-incrusted hands Is not a matter of record. But that he has made her his wife is. So there must have been something in that dough inspiration. And, as we mentioned before, he is so romantic! A pair of socks was the ambush of love in the case of Delbert Flow ers, 24, world war veteran, of Shelby vllle, 111., and Mrs. Josephine Hod son, 62, of the eame town. While Flowers was over in France do'ng his bit .Mrs. Hodson was busy on this side of the Atlantic knitting him socks. Now, as a matetr of fact, not only these socks reached him, but their intent, also. The spirit of the knitter spanned the 3000 miles of LOLLYPALOOZER GIVES, GEORGE APE RIGHT JOLLY BOUNCE Hard-working Moulder of Fables Spills Cascade of Observations About Some Sweet Cookies at College for Cambinos. 0 BY GEORGE ADE. NE evening while at a Dramatic Entertainment consisting of 22 Jazz Numbers, a Rising Young Lawyer looked across the Parquette and nearly blinded himself. He thought he had seen some Bambinos when he had attended College and hung around the Fern Sem, but the Girl that he now beheld was In a Class by herself. She made Cleo patra look like Martha, the Sewing Girl. The fair Unknown had a pair, of In candescent Headlights and a Complex ion like the Sunset Blush on a Snow Bank. She was somewhat attired in a Whipped-Cream delicatessen Deliri um with mauve-colored Galluses. When she fanned herself it could be seen that she had put some Jeweler out of the Business. It is very seldom that one sees any thing of that kind except In the back part of a Magazine. Of course, she did not know that the Opera Classes were being pointed t her. If she had known that It would have annoyed her. It always annoys a Young Woman who has put on 11200 worth of Hurrah Clothes to have a lot of Strange Men do tha brazen Up-and-Down. The only thing that annoys her more is to have these same Goodyear Specialists overlook her entirely. When some 47 would-be Lady Steal ers are giving a Circus Maiden the Grandstand Eye, she has to be full of Aplomb if she can sit through It and not let on. The Unknown was still a Bud, and yet she was thorough ly up in the Part. She was uncon scious of her own Hit, and she was determined to keep on being uncon scious. Among the other Things she wort that Evening was a featherweight Escort who had Percy written all over him. He was one of these 90-pound Wrap-Holders who showed his Teeth when he was pleased. He belonged out at Mother's Place, in the the Country, feeding the White Rab bits. Every Man who saw him snug gling up to the Unknown hoped that he would fall down and break his Leg. The Rising Young Attorney caromed on both sides of the Aisle when he Board and saw her come out with the Human Weasel. . On his way to the Boarding House he walked two Blocks past the Place. The Unknown had him trancified. He imagined himself riding with her in a Golden Automobile through a Grove of Violets. There was a Phonograph Attachment under the Sect and she was fighting to hold his Hand. He came to just in time to save himself from walking into the River. This Attorney was an emotional Young Fellow. He had a high John C. Calhoun Forehead and the yearn ing Look of a Genius who would like to trade a College Education for something to eat. From the Moment when the Goddess flashed across his Pathway he was Stung in eight dif ferent Places. All during Business Hours he looked off into Space with out seeing anything In Particular and he was thinking of Her. One Day he saw her on the Other side of the Street. It made him google-eyed and he walked off the Curb. Another time she zipped past him on a Bus. Every time he spotted her she lokoed at least 40 per cent better than the time before. "I'm for her," he told himself. Once he saw her coming out of a Department Store and she made the others look like the Odds and Ends of a Rummage Sale. Re heard her Rippling Laugh -and noted the filmy draperies Clinging to the Annette Kellerman outlines, and then he was worse off than ever. A Friend who went out, for he was still looking at She confided that ah soon was go- J the Dream, He hid behind- a Pill v JA2 192! J He hid behind a billboard and saw her come out with hnmsn waae(V was with him said that her name was Clarice. So he told his Friend: "Any time that you read about Clarice be ing engaged, start in to drag the River." When he heard that she had gone to a Summer Hotel he trailed her and continued his long-distance Worship. He was afraid to get too near for fear that he would curl up and have a Spasm. Who was he, a Legal Worm, that he should dare to crave a Word from those Rosebud Lips or hope for a melting Glance from those starlit Lamps? The best he could ask for was to send her a Box of long-stemmed Roses and then go and let a Train run over him and maybe she would con descend to attend the Funeral. That, or else he could save her life in a Bomb Explosion and die with his Head in her Lap. All he wanted was a Romantic Finish that would leave a sad, sweet Memory behind. He want ed a Guarantee that she would think of him a couple of times and he would be satisfied to die any kind of Death that she might pick out. While in this desperate Frame of Mind he met Mr. Buzzer, the moving Graphophone and He-Vampire. When the unspeakable Buzzer said that he knew Clarice and stood Aces with her, the soulful Attorney wanted to throt tle him, for he could not believe that a real Diana would trifle with a Cat Fish. However, he accepted the Oppor tunity to hold Converse with the Star of his SouL Buzzer led him around the long Veranda and at last he stood in that radiant Presence. "Sis, I want you to know a Friend of Mine," said the well-known Safe Blower and Social Outcast known as Buzzer. He stood enthralled for at least one-twentieth of a Second. Then Clarice got under way. "Oh, Crickets! I spotted you at the The-ayter one Night," she said. "I was there with Ollie Pczozzle of Minneapolis. Me and him come out just behind you. Say, wuzn t that Show a Bear? Ill say it was! I'll tell the World it was! When did you float Into this Dump? Huh? Oh, sure! The Joint has got Class, but leave me tell you one thing. Dearie, the Prices are a Fright I'd pass away out nere n it wuzn t lor Mr. Buzzer. He steps some. I'll say he does! I'm going out tea Road House tonight with He and a Friend of his. You'd better ring in. I'll stake you to a hot little Jane." When they found the Sentimental Attorney in the Woods an hour later he was barking like a Sea-Lion and butting his Head against the Trees. MORAL Don't go round Cutting In and then you won't know any dif ferent. iOapyrlght. hj- the SeU Syndicate, Ibaj Sword of "Bonnie Prince Charlie" in America. Romantic Scottish Blade Reposes In Washington. w ASHING TON, Jan. 1. The sword of "Bonnie Prince Charlie," worn by him at court, and one of the romantic blades of Scottish history has come to the United States. It is the gift of Lord Garioch, only son of the Earl of Mar of Scotland, to Mrs. Clarence Crittenden Calhoun of Washington, one of the descend ants of the House of Mar on her moth er's side. The historic sword was de livered through the British embassy where it came in care of the ambas sador, Sir Auckland Geddes. The words of presentation which accompanied the claymore declare it was sent "in view of the fact that it was for their adherence and loyalty to the cause of the Stewarts that the Earls of Mar suffered so greatly in their estates and fortunes that some of the family in exile sought refuge in America." PRISONERS ON WAY HOME Germans, Austrians and Hungari ans Pass Through Shanghai. SHANGHAI. Approximately 5600 former German, Austrian and Hunga rian soldiers, who 'were taken pris oners on the eastern front when Rus sia still was actively engaged in the war and who now are being sent back to their homes, passed through the port of Shanghai in the months of September and October. These former captives were being transported from Vladivostok to the port of Triest on three vessels. The work of repatriation Is being directed in Siberia by an American war repatriation committee, repre senting the American Red Cross, the Y. M C. A and allied agencies. Agents of this committee who came to Shang hai with the purpose of chartering ships for the work in hand said that in September about 20,000 men, who had been held as war prisoners were still in Siberia and were being bronght to Vladivostok to be sent home. Ambassador Seeks Residence. SANTIAGO. Joseph H. Shea, Amer ican ambassador to Chile, 1b seeking a permanent residence for the em bassy here, the congress at Washing ton having appropriated $130,000 for the purchase!. It will be the first government-owned embassy building In South America, ocean and fairly effervesced out of the comfortable footgear. Flowers remained across until the Job was finished, and then returned. Once home he lost no time in calling upon Mrs. Hodson. Of course he had no other intention then than to thank her for her kindness. She was old enough to be his mother. But after she gave him a job as chauffeur and he came into contact with her daily, he found that she was a mere girl In spirit, a woman whom age could not wither. And she was such a fine companion and interested him so that he was a willing victim to that love spirit which reached him by jumping out of its socks in its hurry to get across. And now the two are man and wife, and as happy a married couple as you would find in a day's long walk. A romance that should help com plete the picture that Solomon must have seen every time he made the weekly Inspection of his many wives, is that of Miss Mary Elizabeth Evans of New York city and Henry D. Sharpe of the Browne & Sharpe Ma chinery company of Providence, R. L This romance began in candy. Not that the lucky man did the usual and brought a box of sweetmeats when ever he called. It was the fact that Miss Evans made candy for a living that started the romance. They were married last June. Miss Evans began making candy In Syracuse, N. Y., when she was 15 years old. It was so good that she soon had to branch out from her home kitchen to a store. Then her products became so famous that she went to New York city and opened a place at No. 247 Fifth avenue. New Yorkers began to enjoy and demand more of the candies she made and called by her first names. War broke out and Miss Evans be gan assisting Mr. Hoover's lieuten ants in pastry making that was healthful and wheatless. She suc ceeded. She did other things to hslp conserve food and to teach house wives how to cook in wartime. And she kept up making candles, and many a hopeless case of a wounded soldier or sailor was made a cure by the comfort of her artistic cooking. In addition, she met Mr. Sharpe In the coarse of her work, and that was how the love germ Jumped right up out of a chocolate drop and bit him and her. And the bite took," it did. Yes. love does some strange things. Nor are these sporadic Instances, nor examples of what one of poly syllabic inclination might term ero mania. Take the first romance. That of the quintuple marriage. It must be occurring every day In every part of the world. The twain had hardly become man and wife when Jolly Trixie, who admits to 685 pounds, and John S. Bones, dubbed "Slats." who weighs only 58 pounds and stands 6 feet 3 inches tall, did the same thing in Philadelphia. They both work In a museum where folk pay to see them. They went bathing last sum mer, also, at Coney Island. They gazed rapturously upon each other as they stood clothed In their bath ing attire. And the lovegerm smote them right in the eye. They live at No. 124 South Eleventh street. And, as a final Instance of the funny things love will do, take the case of Walter Thornton, Paducah. Ky., cooper. He recently married Mrs. Effle Hale, whose daughter he first divorced. Yes. You guessed it. It was his mother-in-law. He Is care ful to say "was" when he speaks of their tayaet. reiatloasnlA