The record-union., 1891-12-04
CONNuRIAIITIES
Facts and Fancies About the Married
state.

facts and Fancies About the Married
state.
| Very frequently when marriage seems
failure it is simply temporary embar.
rassment.- ashington Star.
! Mormonism will never be eradicateC
until man IS compelled to have as many
mothers-ln-law as wives with him.
| Texas Siftings.
! She-Save me-Pm drowning! He
VIII you marry me if l do? She-No
He-All right, then; I'll save you.-
| Brooklyn Life.
Have you seen the marriage notice o1
Miss Monica Diamond to Count Rake
stag? NO, my dear, but Monica showed
me the bill of sae-Something the minis
! ter called certificate. Judge.
W ! a. is your fortune iny pretty maid?"
Then cnt't marry you.. my pretty maid"
"Aou can't? Tncn II sue you, sir, SIC n d.
! QueericCs-l wonder why all the girls
! in our choir sing IN the sweet BY and
BY with such te.yor. Cynicus-They'r re
trying to induce our unmarried dominic
to propOse.-Eew York Herald.
Bill1ins-Tou are going to marry. eh /?
but isn't year q long time to wait
t1IkinS-Oh, you don't mind ii, old fell
low, after You call TO take her to the thea
ter few timeS.-EeW York Telegram.
n Spinster DisillUsioned.- S,ha-Nhat
Go you mean, sir, by asking a young girl
like me TO marry you, WHO are old enough
10 be my father? He-&oDh do [
! really look like a centenarian ?--i.poch
Miss Nochicb-So you've been married
a year. Has your husband found out
about your dyed hair, false teeth or glass
eye yet? Mrs. y edlate-No, indeed;
he's been too busy concealing the same
defects in himself.
Jack AIariGold-Mr. Bullion. I have
come to ask you for ithe hand of vour
daughter. Bullion-May inquire. Young
man, what your financial prospects are ?
Jack Marigold-They are tirst-rate; l
mean to marry an heiress.-Puck.
In Mississippi recently three interest
ing events happened on one evening in a
family. An old lady and her husband
celebrated their golden wedding, daueh-
ter and son-in-law their silver wedding.
and granddaughter her wedding.
Watts-i believe there is something in
the theory of people being disinclined to
marry those of similar character Potts
Why, sure! You never find a Grass
widow wasting her time on an ideal man
of straw, Go oyou?-Inuianapolis Journal.
When man swears that he married d
somewhat aged lady, worth about S50.
| 000,000, ''for love-" the audience in the
courtroom are eXcusable il they snicker.
Love comes real handy with fortune
back of it.-Martha's Vineyard Herald.
y young Scotchnan was once hating
betwiXt two lovers, one possessed OF
beauty and the other of a COW. In
| despair Of arriving at n decision he APP
piled for advice TO a canny compatriot.
who delivered himself thus: Marry the
lass that has coo, for there's not the
deeference o. coos value in any twa
weemen in Christendom.'
Singleton-Im sorry to hear that Won
have trouble with your wife. What's the
matter? Benedict-lt's her way of talk
ing. She says the most cutting ironical
! things to me on every OCCASION Never
misses chance TO spring something hor-
ribly sarcastic. It's dreadful, | tell you.
Singleton - WE'LL you knew her long
enough before you were married to learn
OF the trait. Benedict-Oh, / did, but |
took it for wit then.
Between the mountains of India and
Persia is Il powerful tribe, among whom
an extraordinary custom prevails.
Nomen's rights apparently have received
full recognition, for the ladies of the tribe
can choose their own husbands. All a
single lady has to do when she wishes to
| change her state is to send a servant to
pin handkerchief to the hat of the man
| on whom her fancy lights, and he is
obliged to marry her, except he can
show he is too poor to purchase her at the
price her father requires