Omaha daily bee., 1874-04-27

Dir. and Mrs. Edward Clark, OF
South Deerfield, Mass, celebrated
the siXtieth anniversary of their
wedding on Monday evening. The
company included three other per-
sons who were present at the we'd
ding sixty years ago.
Nh. Maurice Kinsley, son Of Canon
Kingsley, and for a time the editor
of the first paper published at Col
orado Springs, was married in the
City of Mexico, recently, to Miss
Mary Yorke, of New Orleans.
sDon't you mean to marry again,
nv dear sir ?" said a buxom widow
to her neighbor. "No, my dear
widow said the old rusty; "Td
rather lose all the ribs I've got than
take another"
The Sacramento Union of the 18th
says: Yesterday afternoon a party
applied to the County Clerk for a
marriage license authorizing we'd
lock with a girl of fourteen years,
her father appearing and giving his
consent. 1t appeared, however, that
under the Code, a girl under fifteen
and a boy under eighteen years can
not consummate a marriage, and
the license accordingly had to be
denied.
The Montgomery News says: "In
the City Court on Tuesday, Probate
Judge Ely was fined $500 for issuing
a marriage license to a minor with
out her fathers consent. This is
the Ease in which the Judge was in
dicted for issuing q license to a man
named Garvey some time ago to
marry a Miss Camel. Carney was
arrested, put in Jail, and at last re-
leased. The lady was under age,
and Garvey obtained the license
without the fathers consent.
"Young Ladies'" are done by a
writer in the Jewish Messenger, who
says: $50 nice, is it not, to be en-
gagged? Every morning her young
man calls upon her on his way to
his office, kisses her and presents her
with a fresh rose; so emblematic of
herself, and every evening he calls
again, kisses her, and bestows upon
her a new novel and a dainty bOu-
auet. He takes tea with her folks,
and admires the way in which she
presides over the table, and whis-
pers to her so softly how delightful it
will be when she pours out the tea
and buffers the toast for him alone
Then those heavenly evenings in
the parlor, with the gas dimly burn
ing, the old folks asleep, that horri-
bic brother in the theater or the
club, the teasing sister studying her
lessons in her bed-room-they two
alone in their happiness was ever
such bliss expected when she used
10 talk to her sehoolmates about her
T future?"
1t is more the fashion in England
than in America to marry women
from the stage, though there, as
here, it is deemed the proper thing
for them to retire after marriage,
and never return during the life OF
the husband. Americans, as a rule,
are not inclined to dramatic connu-
biality, and in this respect are quite
different not only from the English,
as has been said, but from the
French, Italians, and Germans,
who wed singers and players when
ever they can turn such wedding to
pecuniary account. With all our
practicability, we ar far o ro-
mantle and chivalrous In respect to
matrimony than the European ma
tons. More than any people we
marry for love, or what we take to
be such, which, in regard to motive,
is the same, though in experience il
often proves a very different thing.
We also want the woman to owe
everything, especially of a financial
kind, to our marital selves. Hence
the general indisposition among
men of pride and principle to be,
in any sense, fortune hunters. To
such men the feminine possession
of property is often a conjugal OBJ
lection. They are deferred by that
fact alone from proposing to a wo.
man whom otherwise they would
be happy to be united to. Not SO
with Europeans. Many Of them
would take a bag for a wife If she
were sufficiently endowed.