Cupid’s Correspondence.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 29, Issue 39, 22 May 1917, Page 2

Cupid’s Correspondence.

“Nuts” write many love-letters, but these nuts are of the human kind, and are spelt usually “tout.” But at least on one accasion a Brazil nut has become the means of amatory correspondence. One of these real nuts was .used a young planter in South America, much as a Christmas cracker is used by Tom Smith for the concealment of a “motto” or “sentiment,” to be read out at dinner.

He pierced a hole in the shell, rolled up a loveletter into a fine tube, pushed it in, sealed it up, and sent it off with the rest of the bag.

The chances against it seemed a million to one at least, but that millionth chance proved a winner, Cupid, often perverse, guided that nut aright for once ; it actually appeared at a Christmas merrymaking, was cracked by a charming young lady with matrimonial inclinations—so unlike her sisters !—and that young and innocent damsel actually became the wife of the gallant planter ! After being, kept in cold storage for quite a long time by some dreadful American trust, an egg. upon which a certain enterprising young lady out West, who had not many matrimonial opportunities, had written her name and address, with a brief but sufficient invitation to would-be suitors to communicate with her at her, father’s ranch in Missouri, escaped from bondage, and again Cupid was kind.

Now this young lady, who was only seventeen, had not counted on cold storage, and she confesses that she had three offers of marriage in £he meantime from young fellows who “happened along.” Yet, strangely enough, she gave them the go-by, and now so fully appreciates the qualities of the young man of New London, Connecticut, who read the message and responded, that, in her own words, she is ‘‘glad she gave Cupid a chanca ”