The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-11
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
ALSO THE BASHFUL YOUNG MEN
VINO GET THEM.


The Insurance Mans Interest In Them
Alaska's "~Buds'-The Human Foot
Divine-Art That Pays.
The winter holiday season is when
there is the greatest rush. The days of
the week have their special preference
among most people. yet some young men
never stop to think about the day of the
week or the month as to whether it be
considered lucky or unlucky. Some pre-
fer an odd number in the date of the
month, for odd numbers are considered
more lucky than the even. Many Will
not take out a license on the thirteenth
day of the month. They are prejudiced
against the number, Notwithstanding the
fact there are thirteen" clubs who at
their banquets defy all superstition. Fri
day is always a light day in taking out
marriage licenses. 1t may only just hap
pen that way, but the better reason
would seem to be hat there is a general
prejudice against Friday as an unlucky
day. The license is usually taken out the
day before the wedding, yet some wait
till the last day.
Whenever you see a young fellow with
a kind of bashful look walking up to the
County Clerks desk late in the afternoon
and just before the closing hour, with
hesitation in his manner the clerks IN
the Office can usually surmise his mission.
A man with a deed to file or who wishes
to examine an abstract, will walk in q
hurried and business-like way. But not
so the average prospective bridegroom.
He viii often, after having obtained the
license, ask tile clerk to have it kept out
of the papers. The request is complied
with by the clerk writing across the
names of the couple in the marriage
license book ''don't publish" This book
is daily examined by members OF the
press. and the request is usually complied
with, for nine times out of ten a license
marked don't PUBLISH contains names
not generally known.
One day a reporter was at the desk
when a young laboring man made the re-
quest not to have the license published.
why do you not want the license
published?" asked the reporter, wishing
to learn why some people are anxious to
have their marriage licenses kept secret.
In reply he said:-"I am a poor man and
can't afford to have it published. The
boys will all see it in the paper and it
would cost me SO to set up the drinks.
That is the reason why | don't want it
published"
A good, square, honest reason, wasn't
it2
"welI, how many marriage licenses
today?" asked a Denver gentleman OF a
reporter one day CHANGING over his
shoulder while copying the names OF
prospective bridegrooms and brides.
did you take out a license?" was the
query answer of the reporter.
mo, SIR"
what is the interest you take, then,
in these thingss'' asked the reporter.
81 am" he replied, a insurance
agent. Young men, when about to get
married. are good subjects for life insur-
ance agents. By keeping q list of the
marriage licenses we know the names of
men who are quite likely to take out life
insurance"
Every man understands his own pc
culiar business, doesn't he?
There is another interesting feature to
this question. Sometimes a pretty and
fair maiden comes in and asks in a quiet
way if Charley. Harry, George, OF what
ever the name may be, has taken out a
license. Yonng ladies are cute, and
when they think there may be a rival in
the field, they are on the look out, and SO,
young man, If you are playing a double
game, beware.-DenUer Republican.