The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-23
IS IT MARRIED THEY ARE?.
you MAY WELL SAY so, AND THE
COURT BACKS YOU UP.
II IL True, Many Months AGO. the Court
Threw More Than Little Embarrass-
ment Into the Case, but MIR. ana MRS.
Duryea Kept Right on Being Married.

Duryea Kept Right on Being Married.
With the clouds that darkened their
early married days all rolled by. MIR. ana
Mrs. Harold A. Duryea, aged IL years eaoh'
are living very costly and happily together
In their little home at % Cumberland street.
Brooklyn. It was the law courts that were
appealed to to do all possible to separate
them, and 1t was the law courts that were
appealed to to reunite them. In both cases
the courts responded to the appeal
After they had been duly married the
courts decided that they were not married.
Then again, after the courts had said they
were not married the courts turned around
and said they were married And there
you are.
And there they were, worried q good deal
by the courts antics, but going light on
being married Just the same right through
it all, and, II 1t were possible which they
both say it wasn't-growing good deal
fonder of each other all the time the learned
Judges were at it, tangling things up again
and then untangling them. .r.
Nothing remains now but case or 30 OF
angry parent, and everybody knows what
chance the angry parent has In such cases
Of accomplishing anything except making
himself disagreeable. And generally 1t
ends by his getting over even that, not
that it matters 30 very much whether he
does or not.
The fault the learned Judges found with
the marriage in the first instance was that
it was too young. Supreme Court Justice
William j. Gaynor, when young MI Dur
yeas mother laid the matter before him
last March, ruled that as neither MIR. Duryea
nor Elizabeth Grennan was 10 years old,
and inasmuch as neither of them had the
consent Of parents, therefore when IN
November last the Rev. DR.. Bernard mar
RED them in the Lutheran Church at YER
non and Sumner avenues, Brooklyn. he
didn't marry them.
1t was last March that Justice Gaynor
got mixed up in the little domestic arrange
ment in this way. 1t was Mr.. Duryea's
mother who asked him to do 1t and he did
it. Her son, she said, was only II years
old and Miss Grennan was barely two
months older Besides, she was opposed
to the marriage and wanted 1t broken up.
SO Justice Gaynor came down on the young
couple with an interlocutory decree annull-
ing the marriage. Later on on ne MADE 'he
But neither the bride nor the bridegroom
had ever heard Of interlocutory butting in
on case Of true love like that. They were
married and they kept right on being mar.
them for t. Young Duryea had employ
ment in a store over in White street, Man
haitian borough and they liked him there.
When members Of Duryea 8 family went
to his employer and asked his influence
to induce the young man 70 e dseis ine Int
from the bat.
1t was not introductory. 1t was ex-
clamatory, and it was In substance to the
effect ti,stif The young fellow left that CIR!
around the block. And coupled with this
judicial deliverance was a pretty. strong
fntimation' that the kicking would begin
as an accompaniment to the young mans
permanent departure from the store;
But eaving the girl Or the girl h LEAVING tNa me
and the girls sense Of humor. The idea OF
their separating was just little too absurd
to be even discussed except by way OF
trying to guess at the most preposterous
young married people could conceive;
They to themselves, told the Judges and
the angry parents and the whole bunch OF
meddlers to go hang. They were regularly
married Just as other folks are married.
and they were dead certain that they loved
each other.
So they went on living together and
young Duryea went on about his business
over in White street. The salary was not
quite what you might call bewilnering as
to size. but there are times when a very
small salary can be made to go great
way and this was one OF them.
Meantime their young marriage was
growing older every day 1t was bound
to come Of age sometime or other and that
is just what it did do, 1t came OF age
minds then that they, too, would take
hand at tackling the learned judiciary.
They took their marriage into court after
they had turned the corner Of eighteen years
and asked the Court what he M! thought O. 1t;
was the Court. He looked the marriage
all over and heard the story of it's squally
infancy and aer considering it from all
the learned legal ways OF view to be Thought
of. he allowed that he couldn't see any
locked or interfered with any statutes
made and proided. Furthermore, the
marriage seemed to be healthy: full grown
marriage with every prospect OF its having
long life before 1t.
even the thought Of raising such CUES
ton az that, with those two turtle doves
right there before the Courts eyes. would
have taxed the resources OF any Court to
consider with even decent show OF gravity.
So Justice Wilmot NJ Smith-both Mr..
and Mrs Duryea are fully agreed that he
is a learned Judge, a most learned Judge,
yea, a Daniel come to Judgment--this same
Justice Smith then and there unlocked
permanent and temporary. that had come
from the other Judges butting in on an
orderly honeymoon, and pronounced Mr..
and Mrs Duryea to be man and wife ac-
cording to. law.
So that ends the disagreeable episode
In the Duryea menage. The young couple
are going on in their old way getting all
the Happiness out OF married life that there
is going. Only they do want to be let alone.
They say as much, They want to see how
IL will seem to be let alone afor awhile.
They think they may be lonesome with
out the old interlocutory nuisances bother
ing them all the time, but they think they
can stand it. They want to try anyway.
RIGHT along about its business, Just as
though they were not here. In other
words, their plea to all the world is: 'Give
us rest