The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-02-23
CUPID'S FUNNY FRANKS,
Woman Who Married n Spirit said
to he Happy.
From the Baltimore Sun.

From the Baltimore Sun.
In spite of the tremendous discrep-
ancy of 514 years between their ages
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Comstock, of
Detroit. who were married on Dec. 81
last, as already noted in the Sun, are
absolutely devoted and happy. Friends
of the couple assert confidently that
it will prove to be an ideal union.
The marriage was of the spirit, in
deed, but not of the flesh as well. for
the groom's earthly cerement has been
cold in mortal death ever since 1903
He was Yorkshireman and never left
England in the body. But his soul
heard the soul of Mrs. Sarah Williams,
a Detroit clearinghouse keeper,
yearning for its mate, and, space be-
ing nothing to his Observation-Disclosures,
he at once Joined his affinity near the
Detroit river. She would not consent
to receive his advances, however, I'M
til he had convinced her that his in
tentions were strictly honorable. Even
then she was rather coy for a widow,
and he had to make her jealous by
pronounced attentions to some of the
other women Spiritualists in the board
ing house. Only Splritualists were
ever admitted to this house., and Mrs.
Williams looked with a wholly natural
anxiety on every other woman boarder
in the house.
Finally, however, Comstock declared
himself, and the wedding took place
in the presence of twenty people, all
but two of them being Spiritualists, in
the same room where the happy couple
had first met. Mrs. Mollie Ladell, the
proprietor of the boarding house and
also a spirit medium, officiated. Mrs.
Ladell had been a dear friend of the
couple In the troublous time of wooing
and had often acted as go-between in
reconciling them after their little tifrs
After the wedding the bride wept tears
upon the wedding cake frosting in her
happiness, and exclaimed that "she
would rather be Theodore's bride than
the wife of the grandest ana noblest
man that ever wore shoe leather"
Theodore declined to speak for publi-
cation.
1t verges on the automatic that a
man should not take the plunge of
elopement with girl he does not
know by sight. Yet that is what
Harry Carol of Tarentum, took He
fell in love with Anna Waters. Corn
ing. N. Y, girl. She approved of the
match, but her parents didn't, and the
young people decided to meet and
drive to minister's house eight miles
out of town, there TO get married. Car
rol had a fine two-horse carriage at
the tryytlng place at the trystlng hour
OF 9 O'clock o. the night.
IT was black as the mouth OF hades
outdoors in Corning that night. and
Mr.. Carol began TO get worried be-
cause at 9.15 his bride had not come.
Finally he saw her slender figure and
waving brown hair running toward
him through the wind. He seized her
and bundled her into the carriage des-
pite the protests which he attributed 10
nervousness natural under the cir
cumstances.
They arrived az the minister's: he
took out the license, but the bride was
too scared 20 speak until Il was her
cue 10 say II Will" Then she said. II
won't"
Carol was hOrrined. She explained
THAI she was not Anna. but Helen, her
twin sister. that Anna was sick Ia bed
and had sent her 10 deliver a. sealed
r0te 10 her Enhanced esplslning. Hls
lmpetuosl,y had prevented her from
doing this unfli they gof to the minis
tors. Carol married Miss Anna Wa
tcrf the nest day but one. and Helen
WFs bn1eFmall inffeld of bdfr
Albert Hnnfun aud Rev George ~
HroNuhHfk see two entirely rrpafaft
an1 difiirrf pfupQa lions. Hnuagn
proposed w lhy-hia gfif and Waa