Motor Car Elopement.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13438, 9 November 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)

Motor Car Elopement.

"BREAKDOWN" QN THE ROAD AND' "' ' . ITS SEQUEL. ' .■■ ~.■'':' i; -:;*

Tlie story of a delightful little' romance of a motor-carelopement is told in' 'a: - ' Home paper.

The heroine and hero are a Paris barrister and the neice of a general in the French army. The parents of the young woman objected to their marriage, utid at lart. she consented to elope with her lover in a motor-car.

The motor-car got well away on Us journey, when unfortunately near Meluii a breakdown occurred. The barrister passed several hours vainly endeavouring to repair the machinery, and was finally compelled to send for a machinist, ■ iWh'o said it would bs ..impossible to effect the. necessary repairs without transferring the car to the workshop. Meanwhile the young woman,-had .become- irritated. She announced to her sweetheart that she did not any longer .appreciate the advantages of an elopement, and had determined to return to her home.

Thereupon die left the disconsolate bai'-' rister in high dudgeon and returned to Paris by train. On reaching homo rhe 'explained the "reason of her, absence to ,her parents, who had been mucli alarmed by hsr departure.

They were so pleased to. sep their daughter 'again tliat they decided ,to withdraw 'their opposition to, ' the marriage, and invited the. friends of both families to be present at a dinner party, «t .whVcti the betrothal was formally announced;