MORSE LAMPS AND CUPID.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3333, 27 September 1911, Page 6

MORSE LAMPS AND CUPID.

LOVE, from a lighthouse. Although lighthouse employees have to work iright through the long, dark hours of night, Cupid has devised a way by which the watchers of the lights may enjoy a chat with their sweethearts beneath the starry heavens. From *a ligirth.ouse tower not far from Sydney there have been flickering out across the night strings of messages from a Morse lamp—that little him Inn g invention which is used for night-sig-nalling on nearly all ships nowadays. To the keen observer, what appeared to be answering “dote and dashes” were discernible in the distance,. but few, if anybody, understood thoir import. Brit there is a little touch of romance in the whole affair. The lighthouse man has done nearly all his courting in the darkness by means of the Mors© lamp, and lias so far won the affections of his lady love that he has applied to the Navigation Department foir leave of .absence to, clinch matters, not by 1 Morse lamp this time, but "by the aid of a parson. The bride-elect, too, has become proficient with the flickering lamp, and she not only reads the messages from the lighthouse, hut sends’ many nightly in return. When the secret of how the courtship was carried on is out. a rush on Morse lamps in the locality is expected. On© admirer of the lighthouseman’s ingenuity in employing,,the dots and dashes to convey his cooings over three miles of space, facetiously suggests that one of the happy couple’s wedding presents should bo a Morse lamp.