Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1915 — Retreating Romance. [ARTICLE]

Retreating Romance.

One by one the abodes of romance and mystery—likewise of discomfort and barbarism—get progressive and pass away. The latest place to join the procession appears to be Bangkok, capital of Siam, and home of the sacred white elephant. Perhaps that elephant still trumpets from the royal gardens, but he soon will be transferred to a zoo and become a spectacle instead of a holy emblem. For Bangkok not only has installed an electric power station, hut Is using the surplus current of daylight hours to run rice mills. In the presence of that sort of “efficiency” old-time .romance sickens and dies. / Its loss is not without compensation, to be sure. Electric fans, for example, must be handy to a place like Bangkok, whose average temperature throughout the year Is about 81 degrees Fahrenheit. But what knight evert waited for an electric fan when rescuing his lady love from a mysterious zenana, and what fun is there in raiding a sultan’s treasure that is guarded by commonplace burglar alarms Instead of tfy white cobras? Alas and alack! Romance has departed from Bangkok, and the geograpical novelist Is driven from one more stronghold of the imagination.—Chicago Journal.

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