The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-01
CUPID DID
AVERAGE WORK
Records Show Slight Gain in
Marriage Licenses.
PROVIDE FOR THEMSELVES
Girls Can Earn as Much as
Prospective Husbands.
PROVIDE FOR THEMSELVES

Cupid did a fairly good business in
Sedgwick county during the past twelve
months. as the records of the office o1
the probate court will attest.
The old and the young have been
wounded by the arrows which cause the
sweet pain, and they have drifted TO
Judge Wilson TO have the wounds healed
and the balm of united love spread over
them according to the laws made and
provided The probate judge should be
called a doctor. an NJ D., because he
really attends to more cases of heart dis
ease than all of the regular practitioners
N the entire county. When young
man appears in the Office who IS pale,
and who has difficulty in catching
breath the sight of the little book which
contains blank marriage licenses at once
reduces his pulse and frequently gives
MN the shivers
During the year just passed the probate
court has issued 800 marriage licenses
thus making twice that number of
more or Jess HAPPY Last Nfeii eiiC
Der issued was 81. The slight increas
according to Judge Enoch, is not due 10
Cupid working overtime. but TO the in
creased population in the county.
There is no rush at the marriage Ii
cense counter" said Judge Wilson, and
as a matter of fact ] doubt if there has
been as many licenses issued during the
year 1902 as there were issued in 1901 in
proportion TO the population
ITO what do you attribute the falling
OFF,
We'll. that is something l can not ex-
plain. There are more people here than
there were a year ago, great many
more people. but they do not seem to be
inclined to get married; or it may be
they were married before they came to
this county.
If there were marriages in Sedgwick
county in proportion to the number of in
habitants as is recorded in some of the
counties in the eastern states. it would
require clerk to look after the business
and the throat of the probate judge
would be sore. his tonsils swollen and his
epiglotis sprained from saying: Join
hands: circle to the left do you take
has been dull.
This is not due to the girls nor to the
boys" said one of the lawyers who was
sitting in the probate judges office. 1t
is due TO the fact that the girls are put
ting in more time working than in
sparkling.
The average girl wants to DO some
/ thing for herself. She does not care to
depend upon some young man who can
not earn as good a living as she can. She
goes TO school or enters some CONNER
cial college and finds that she can take
care of herself The average girl of to-
Gay is better fitted to take care of
family than the average young man.
Size them up. Look around the town.
Then ask about marriage licenses. Why
should a girl give up a $40 job TO marry
boy who does not earn more
Judge Wilson said that he had not gone
into the matter in detail. but that he
was aware that there was screw loose
somewhere. There should be more Ii
censes issued and more people married
During the past year the oldest man
securing license was ~. His blushing
bride was g. There have been many
that their parents had to appear in per
son or give written consent. The young
est was a girl who said she was 10
years old. but those who saw her made
an involuntary reach for a baby buoy.
Her mother appeared. however. and gave
her consent. and that settled the matter.
even If the lace did show below her dress
One woman was married this year
whose name appears on the divorce rec
ords and license book three times. She
has become familiar with all the proceed
ings and knows where the blanks are
kept.
There have been three shotgun we'd
dings this year hut the names have not
been mentioned in the interest II har-
mony. Three false marriages have come
to the notice of the court. That IS. three
marriage licenses have been taken out
and no ceremony has been performed
Twelve licenses have not been returned
by the ministers performing the cere-
monies. ard # these cases were prose
cuted the ministers would have a fine TO
pay.
! The average age Of those asking for a
( license is . years. and three applicants
were unable to sign the book
/ The following marriage licenses were
/ issued yesterday:
Age
! Clarence Wilson. Wichita -....-.........-22
/ Geneva Snyder wichits -.--.-.--..----29
! E F. Durfee. South McAleste- ..--.....1l
/ May Edwards, Wichita ..--............--S
! john Stewart Wichita ..-................4s
Evelyn Nicholson -.-.-.--..--..........---so
/ George H. Alexander. Wichita .-.........e3
! Alberta B. Frohmsn. Wichita -.-......eo
( & n. Burns. Enid. o. T. .............-.;S
MARY A southweu. Wichita ...........-e5
+ w II. Morton. Paw Paw IL -.....-..-.S5
Filone Ives Norton. Wichita ....-.-.--..,3
! W. " Bowers. Wichita -...-.--.-....-e4
Edna d. Hutchinson. Wichita .........1
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