The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-03
A Double KnOt-A Lively Romance Of the
Pacific.

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Pacific.
The San Francisco Chronicle of late
date gives this lively story:
alt is not often that man has the
pleasure of twice counting and twice
marrying the same woman, at least in
this world and we have scriptural au-
thority for the statement that in the
world to come there is neither marrying
nor given in marriage. But an instance
of this strange and unusual repeated
courtship and duplicated marriage has
recently came to light, in which the par
ties are San Franciscans, although not OF
American origin.
"Some months since q German lady
of this city felt a great yearning for the
Fatherland, and, with the consent of her
husband, who is also German, she start.
ted on her journey to visit the land OF
her birth, and once more look upon the
beautiful Rhine, on whose banks her
girlhood had been passed, and where she
first saw the comedy, fair-haired youth
who was now her portly husband-a hus
band who colored with age, as had his
pet meerschaum. She traversed the long
way, and whether humping her head as
she performed her modest toilet in the
upper berth of Pullman palace car, OF
when leaning over the rail of the Ham.
burg steamer, she never once lost sight
Tin her minds eye) Of the corpulent but
loved husband, who mourned her alb
sence in Meirische's cellar, and in vain
tried to console himself with caviar
sandwiches, dominoes and weiss-beer
So she, poor thing, thought but in San
Francisco events of an entirely different
nature were occurring. The ficle husband
had listened to the Teutonic accents of
designing, intriguing companions, and,
fired with beer and jealousy, sought the
courts and put in his prayer to be re-
leased from the matrimonial bonds
which tied him to his absent frau.
at was one bright day in Germany,
when she was seated on low stool in an
arbor of grape vines, busily knitting
stockings for the yellow mustached sol
diers of her country, meanwhile singing
'Vaterland mein Vaterland !! &C., that
the unhappy woman first heard the
painful tidings Of her lords unfaithful
ness. A youth in wooden shoes and nc
stockings brought letters and news
papers to the industrious and loving
wife. She opened them and saw that he,
husband had sued for divorce.
"The paper dropped from her hand as
she rolled Imply from the three-legged
stool, and with the eXclamatied, Mein
Gott in Himmil Was ist das? wrung
from her tortured heart, shee fell, O tenn
porary corpse, on the sward below. As
the writer's say when they have exhaust
ed their powers of description, let us
draw veil We resume our narrative
a few hours later, when the wife, recov'
cred from her temporary indisposition, is
bending her energies to the packing Of
her trunk, an inelegant but commodious
receptacle covered with brass nails and
iron hoops, capable of holding the ward
robe of considerable family. Without
delay she steamed across the Atlantic
and rallied over the American continent
arriving at San Francisco only few days
after the deere Of divorce had been grant
ted. This fact was communicated to her
but while it cut her big heart almost ii
two, she did not despair A shrewd
woman, turned of forty, does not readily
resign her Chilli 10 lllc HAL Sic loNcS.
"She demanded an interview, which
he dared not decline-in fact, he was
as ready as she. He was ushered into
her presence, and she saw changed
man. The buttons were gone from his
shirt, his wrist cuffs frayed at the edges,
and his necktie presented most shah.
by and dissipated appearance. He had
grown thin comparatively, too, and
there was rum blossom on the side OF
his nose. She questioned and reproached
him at first, but explanations followed ;
all the dark suspicious were cleared
away, and, with the cries, Mein Katar-
ina - Mein FRITZ
Like torrent from the mountain height.
They rushed into each others arms
"A marriage certificate was procured
without delay, and within ten days OF
the time when the decree Of divorce
was signed, the wife and ex-husband
had replighted their troth at the altar,
and two of the happiest mortals in the
whole city celebrated their second mar
riage.