The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-28

all that is best, highest, noblest and pur-
est in the character. l believe that the
lives should blend and haronize making
together one perfect whole, and yet that
each should preserve his or her own in
dlV1dua1ty, developing all that lies with
in the nature to its highest capabilities
believing that such affinity of heart
and mind and soul does exist between US.
ana that such will be our lives together.
l, Lydia Kingsmill Commander, do, in
presence of these witnesses, pledge my
self as the wife of Herbert Newton Cas-
son. promising to share with him what
may bring. to stand by his side in sor.
row as in joy, in sickness as in health,
When the world smiles and when the
world frowns. come grief come main
come joy, come gladness. through ali the
varying fortunes of life, and only so long,
as love shall bind our hearts, and our
souls are blended as one
achievement and reyerenciag each
distinct in Municipalities, yet like each
Cther, even as these who love-
PLEDGE OF THE BRIDEGROOM
80 nigh is my ideal of true and last
ing marriage that l regard 1t as far he
yond the mere link which is forget by
law Marriage is the union Of two lives
attracted by congeniality and welded to-
gether by love. 1t is not the destructicn
Oh d1ndIvlduality. but the union of liberty
ana cooperation. | do not by virtue OF
TINS ceremony claim any right which
love does not freely give.
L wish to marry free-haarted woman
not slave.
With all the confidence of love yield
ever right that man should yield to q
woman do rot wish to compel affec-
I viCn OF OBTAIN n claim by any legal de-
II IS not love. L desire to be loved al
long as L am loVable and no longer r
VIII never consent to chain the life of an
| way.
SO then I declare. before these wit
t nesseS. that /. Herbert Newton Casson.
! take Lydia Kings-nfil Commander as NV
Wiie SO long as love and wisdom unite ms
-, pledge myself never to let this mar
bag E.ase Inner dmterrere with the life work she
her larger powers for good Z -
VIII help her to make herself Her
own TO Keep or give, to live and learn
hood . ,,.s':e imam
We shall both continue our life-work
each seeking to help the other, one in
the Objectionable thraidom that modern
marriage usually means to the woman.
| endeavoring always to be useful to the
community and believing that the tie Fhaf
| binds Us will be forever free from irk
| Someness and conducive only to mutual
happiness and advancement.
Lydia KingSmilI Commander
Herbert N. Casson.
HOW IT WAS DONE
:! The. bride, was the Rev. lydia Kines-
| -. Aiieiiuet' "uo formerly held the
passionate OF a church in Raraboo. Wis.
one is 'Ruskinite, though she did not
JON the colony until recently
Inc bridegroom was the Rev. Herbert
N. Casson, formerly of Boston, and the
FOUNDER and pastor OF the Lynn Labor
church; afterwards a member of the Rus
KIN colony and editor of its paper.
Ihe ceremony was in keeping with the
loeas of the bride AMI bridegroom.
standing together each made Il declara-
tion OF their belief regarding marriage
and the high estimate which thew mt
upon the sacred rite. They believe that
instead of involving retrogression, the
union should bring out perfect Individual
ity With Tennysens Princess" as an
incentive, thesceremony. made them per-
fectiy equal 80 =
Immediately following these declara-
lions 4adge Hudson. of Dickson. Tenn