Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-09-04
NITH 4 BIN 0E RONLNgE
The Unexpected In a Matrimo-
nial Affair.
.DEVlATED FROM CUSTOM
Some Recent Weddings In Which
Bride and Bridegroom Have De
parted from Conventions.


Bride and Bridegroom Have De-
parted from Conventions.
when the unexpected occurs IN 3
matrimonial affair Il becomes q ro-
nance. That seems 10 be the common
ly accepted way Of looking at love and
marriage When the young people
issue cards and all that. Il Is simply
wedding When they do things they
are not expected to do II is a romance.
The romance depends on deviation
from the ordinary, It seems. For that
reason IN a marriage In which are in
cluded consent OF parents. knowledge
Of friends, issuing Of invitations and
the like there Is no romance. That is
the popular version.
Now. no one has any great desire to
be like every one else. Especially in
the great event Of their lives young
people are extremely apt TO want 70
be different. That may be the solu
ton for so many "romances."
There are other reasons, Of course
Once in q while conditions force the
lovers to adopt strange methods.
There Is the story OF the farmer from
North Dakota who went TO Bismarck
to marry the girl of his choice. He
thought he was her choice until he
went to her residence with the mar
riage license, and she told him she had
thought 1t over and had decided she
would rather be a sister TO him.
Adam Greshler, the farmer con
cerned, was not the style Of man who
postpones a wedding merely because
the bride has backed down. He took
the dismissal with good grace and
started away from the house. Near
the railroad station he stopped citi-
zen Of Bismarck and asked:
@Do you know Of a woman around
here who wants to get marriedT'
"There's only one replied the
stranger" and she's just taking a
train to leave town
The farmer sought her out. He had
ten minutes for love making, but he
proved eloquent She left the train
with him. They had the name In the
married license changed and we're
married They left Bismarck that
evening behind the farmers pair OF
horses bound for his farm.
Whats the name Of your new
wifeT he was asked as he was ieav-
ing.
"Her name is-what did you say
your name was7" he asked, turning
to her.
She laughed and said:
ut was Marion Hershberger. It's
now Marion Grsshler."
They drove away happily and ire
expected to live happily "ever after
ward
Closer at home, at Tayloryille, ILL.,,
Is another story OF wedding without
great formality. Nlneteen-year-old
Daisy Youts recently told her parents
that she was going out to make call,
leaving her home late in the after
noon.
The parents had no suspicious, and
Daisy was permitted to go without
questioning. She went to the railroad
station and met at incoming train. A
stranger stepped up to her and asked
II she we're Miss Youts. She replied
by asking him If he we're George A.
Cooper He replied that he was. They
went to Ashland and we're married
Neither had seen the other until
they met at the railroad station They
had been writing TO each other for
two years. 1t was at the suggestion
OF a friend OF Cooper, who was
engaged to marry an older sister Of
Daisy, that he wrote his first letter
TO the girl. She answered II, and after
year Of letter writing he mailed q
proposal Of mairlage. II was accepted,
by letter, and arrangements were made
for the runaway marriage.
In Missouri there is a bride who
has upheld women's title 20 fckless-
ne7s In a startling fashion She is, or
was, Miss Lizzie Bradley. She should
have been made Mrs. Robert Eastin,
but she now is Mrs. Charles Lyons.
Eastin went TO Salisbury last week to
keep his wedding arrangement with
the young girl He found that she
had changed her mind.
She was prepared for the wedding
with Eastin when a new suitor ap-
peared in the field. He was a late
entry, but Miss Bradley listened to
his suit and came to the conclusion
that she preferred him to her finance.
II was not considered necessary to in
form the bridegroom Of the change Of
heart. Probably no one thought Of
him. He was allowed 70 proceed with
his wedding preparations while the
young girl and the new suitor we're
married quietly and left town.
When E0stin came to keep the ap-
p0intment with his hance there was
no bride to be found An inquiry was
started and II was fnally discovered
that she had changed her mind and
was already the wife OF another man.