Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-07-30
THE NUPTIAL KNOT.
STRANGE REASONS COUPLES HAYS
 HAD FOR MARRYING.

Pecuniary Considerations, In Some Form,
 age of Such Marriages That Were Fail-
 ures Is Not Reported.
 In romance and tales of love the hero and heroine marry for pure heart affeo- tion. Stern papas and scheming mann mas plan otherwise for their beloved daughter, but she is invariably obstinate, and true love always comes in by head. In real life, however, many and various are the reasons for tying the nuptial knot. An ardent philatelist in- serted an advertisement i'll q matri- monial column, and the wife he wanted, in addition to being able to boast of the usual good qualities of womanhood, was to be in possession of certain stamp a description for the guidance of the matrimonially inclined lady collectors following-the rarity of which rendered it almost priceless. We do not think this man would meet his ideal in hurry.
 A gentleman whose hobby was the collecting of rare specimens of pottery made violent love to a lady-a matter of surprise to his friends and the lady's own people, he being always deemed cynical bachelor, holding strict views concerning the marriage question-who was the fortunate owner of lovely sevres vase. Apparently she was nothing loath and responded to his wooing fer vently, finally giving him her hand, fortune and-the vase. This person TO- verted to his cynical views afterward and often told his wife it was the vase he had been in love with and not her. self.
 Cases where money has been left on condition of the heir or heiress marry ing chosen person are sufficiently con- mon, but surely few are so hedged in with restrictions as the. youth who was to wed his cousin because she was "cross eyed, redhaired, and had no chin, as the will read, by which we may under stand that she of the diminutive chin was heavily moneyed.
 The following is told of two coSters who brought about a marriage between son and Q daughter of the respective families for a unique purpose. They had but one donkey between them, and though the two costers were quite will ing to change about, using the animal in turns, the wives of the hawkers wele not at all agreeable, and many and furi- ous were the quarrels between them. To mitigate this nuisance and to bring the two families together the marriage was effected of the two olive branches, quite unknown to the mothers-an ar rangementsfraught with satisfactory re- suits, for the good ladies were on better terms ever after.
 Rather than lose valuable appoint | ment young man went ill search of a wife-the situation he had secured be- ing only for married men, as one of which class he had posed. Therefore it l was essential that he should take unto himself a partner at moments notice, | figuratively speaking. He had hitherto experienced no affair of the heart, and the finding of a life's partner was not, under such circumstances, a very simple task. However, he secured the one thing needful to insure the retaining of the position and commenced married life and new, business duties at one and the same time.
 A situation agent declares that he has reasons to believe this proc uration of spouses is very often effected at the last | \ posts whose requirements are for man and wife. He further ayers that he is acquainted with one young fellow who got married purposely to apply for such
 @ situation, leaving his bride imme~ diately on coming out of church to make application for the place.
 Few persons would express themselves
 ill so matter of fact fashion as the farmer who, wooing a widow, the own CT of an adjacent farm, told his son that
 the lady's niece was just the sort for
 him, the girl being possessed of property
 in her own right; a double marriage
 therefore would enrich the lot. Like an
 obedient son, tho lad complied with this request, and as the farmer rented his
 own land through the niece it was q
 most accommodating arrangement. We
 wonder if these marriages were failures
 For an amalgamation of property and
 land they were infinitely successful
 A man, recently united for better, for
 worse, to the portly dame who had hith-
 erto ruled over his kitchen, was unmer-
 cifully chatfed by his associates, the
 lady of his choice being much his senior
 and ill different ways most unsuitable
 to her spouse. His naive reply was to
 the effect that it would minimize ex-
 penses, because he would have no wages
 to pay for culinary labor, as his wife
 had agreed to continue her position of
 cook. Her refusal to comply, he declar-
 ed, would have resulted ill the attach
 ment being of.
 Most unique was the reason for "com-
 mitting matrimony" as given by city
 gentleman. A widow lady had appealed
 at court of justice, and the culprit,
 rather than pay the fine imposed upon
 him for certain slanderous statements
 he had made concerning the fair prose
 cutrix, settled affairs by marrying the
 lady. He certainly was possessed of a
 coolness below the zero of the proverbial
 cucumber to propose marriage when it
 must have been obvious to everybody,
 the woman in particular, what his req
 sons for so doing were. However, she
 like Barkis, was "willin, and wedding
 arrangements went on apace. So sensa-
 tional was this marriage, following i'm
 mediately on the lawsuit. that the
 couple found themselves the topic of
 conversation at every street corner and
 considered it essential to their comfort
 to leave the country. London Tit Bits