Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 158, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1911 — LONG KISS CAUSES TROUBLE [ARTICLE]

LONG KISS CAUSES TROUBLE

One of Affectionate Pair Carried to Sea While Bidding Chum Farewell— Climbs Rope Ladder. New York.—" Good-bye, Eda; Ido hope you have a delightful voyage. I’m going to miss you a lot.” “I’m going to miss you, too, Odle; I wish you were coming.” Picture two women aboard the Caroiila bidding each other good-bye. They are chums, and every word is punctuated with a kiss. The whistle has tooted for all hands ashore, the gangplanks are pulled away, the tugs strain at the hawsers and the big liner begins to move. Suddenly, between kisses, one of the affectionate pair comes back to earth. They realise that the voyage has begun and that there is one person aboard who never intended to be a passenger. “Heavens, what shall I do? I promised to meet John for lunch, and I had some shopping to do this afternoon. Won’t somebody stop the ship and take me ashore?” This appeal was made by Mrs. Odie Baaken, a pretty young woman, who lives at No. 1110 Pleasant way, Montclair, N. J. She had been seeing off Mrs. Eda Solander of Ashland Hall, Montclair. First a sailor was appealed to, then a petty officer, then the purser and then the captain, Mrs. Baaken growing more and more excited as each one shrugged his shoulders and referred to someone higher up. It happened that the tug John H.

Nichols, which had just finished turning the liner’s nose down stream, was still at the bow, so the Caronia’s captain told the distressed lady from Montclair that if she could clamber down a rope ladder she might keep her-date with her husband ashore. Mrs. Baaken made her way gingerly down the swaying ladder amid the cheers of the amused passengers.