IN LOVE WITH HER PHOTOGRAPH

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 30 December 1924, Page 7

IN LOVE WITH HER PHOTOGRAPH

PICTURES THAT IHAVE DRAWN MEN TO THE ALTAR

Cupid plays strange pranks with the heart, but he is never in a more impish mood than when he causes a man to fall in love through a portrait. While, a certain man was waiting at a railway station for a tram lie became-’enamoured of a girl whose portrait was exhibited in a photographer's showcase. Shortly afterwards he got. an introduction to her ami married her. Unhappily, however, the sequel was unfortunate, for the incident of the portrait was related in the Divorce Court. The man 'said, indeed, that one of his greatest misfortunes arose from being too early for a train !

Equally romantic were the circumstances in which another man, a Cambridge graduate, met his wife. He saw her portrait- 7n the War Cry, straightway fell in love with her, and eventually led her to the altar. ’ Similar was the chance by which aLondon girl was married. Her portrait appeared in a patent medicine advertisement in a newspaper, a copy of which was sent to a settler in British Columbia.

( Falling in love with the original, j largely because, lie stated afterwards, she was much like a woman who bad jilted him, lie entered into correspondence with her, and a few months later she joined him in British Columbip, where they were married. Portraits which have reached the Dominions by various means have frej quently brought about equally happy i results. Some years ago a Lancashire ! man sent to Australia a photograph of i a wedding, group, which Included two 1 sisters. I The recipient fell in love with one of I the girls, and his chum with the other, I though neither had ever seen the obI ject of his adoration. A correspondence was opened, and in less than a year there was a double .wedding. A strange experience befell a girl in tv,,, ,Midlands. Shortly after her marriage. to a local man her husband sent.

a photograph of both of them to an old chum who had emigrated to South Africa about two years previously. The husband 1 Avas killed ill an accident two •or three months later, Avliercupon the ch m begged the widow to go out to him at once, stating that lie had really loved her from the moment he had first seen her portrait. For obvious reasons she -would not leave England immediately; hut eventually she went to South Africa, whore e was married to the settlor.

AN EXHIBITION ROMANCE An Australian met the girl lie eventually married through chaffing a friend who sought a wife through a matrimonial agent in London. liis clium wrote to a. number of women, from each of whom lie received jO- letter, accompanied by a portrait, ■'When he was going through these letters ho was “discovered” by the other man, avlio bantered him unmercifully. When, however, he: up one of the portraits and glanced at it, lie suddenly . became serious. “I say,” lie said, “is this your choice? Well,’ ’he Avent on, after receiving a reply in the negative, “it’s mine. then. This is the girl for me,” And she was! One of the most, remarkable instances ofsßiarriage through afportrait occurred in connection Avitli an exhibition of .iAe Cheltenham and County Fine Art Society. A London artist sent a portrait of iiis daughter, and this had a remarkable fascination for a local man, who sat, in front of it day after day as if spellbound. In the end lie asked the secretary whether the portrait was a literal or an idealised likeness, and the answer being satisfactory to him. subsequently obtained a letter of introduction to the artist. The smitten, man then came to London, made the acquaintance oi the daughter,..and eventually married her.—Tit-Bits. U ‘