The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-30
Daif9segsl. EaqIc
- socIALIslIc MARRIAeE.
M. M. MURDOCH. Editor.

Monday in New York the Socialist Professor Heron
married Miss Rand young woman, once rich who has
given her fortune away the interest Of Socialism They
simply stood up and said they'd take each other No min
lister or ceremony was permitted clerical witness
present Of the socastic and he made few short
remarks But even he apoogzed for being there saying
among other things while he looked the bride and the
groom eve are not here to lend our countenance to that
divine event Of which privilege be witnesses
That which is essentially and elementaIy true gains
aothine from the sanction Of individuals states
lions We are not here to perform sacrament but to
receive one to honor ourselves and enrich all that is best
in US by sharing somewhat the truth and beatude Of
these dear friends No note of peace or purity in power
IS wanting These friends Of ours announce today their
marriage The do so not primarily because our faulty
laws require it at their hands but for deeper dyner
reason They do not assume that their lives belong
themselves-or even that this supreme affection is theirs
to hoard and hide"
Now what the professor and Miss Rand should have
done is this Coured the usual way; sat on the
front porch and held hands, gazed silent and roundyd
in mutual admiration Of the moon; eaped the kiss
the meeting fingered long at the parting the professor
should have been awkward. Miss uand blushngly
bashfu The time ought to have been when he poured
into her pink ears the lowoned proposal and she ought
to have Topped over his And the wedding day
should have come only after long preparation. There
should have been rousseau Of the danhest fabrics and
fashioned WITH all fever of grsh Devotion The pro
lessor should have srutted the streets smoking
strong cigars to quiet the surgng conviction that there
was only one prize in the world and he drew it. Both
should slept little the night before the wedding day
should beat the up in order to get ready
They should have marched up to the altar rail to
thump Of Mendelssohn's Wedding March, followed by
flower girls and groomsman bridesmaids and ushers The
bride should have been her most deousy beautiful the
groom his manifest minister should have been there
to pronounce the ceremony slow and mprsvey and the
groom should have sounded deep affirmative and the
bride whispered yes
old world with form taken out Of it, and ceremony ez
tracted.
The young women who surrenders one iota Of
the c0nventonates surrounding the marriage ceremony
mistake for each loses the opportunity haow
event which age consecres year by year ceremony
hallow And the or women who through chronic
egosm or through the common analytical attack on Gus
tom mistakenly to be Original foregoes the oppo
tunity, loses much.
No marriage takes place on the wedding day. The
year that follows completes the ceremony in the adjust
ment Of temperamens the mutual surrender hundreds
little selfish whms and in the learning of the lesson
which takes more than day or week that love gives
everything and asks nothing Professor and Mrs Her
rons was a very stupid marriage