The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-09-30

Al GINDraSobA JoON1s1
# the married The rest are con-
ented-that is to 20 say, more con-
tented than if they had remained sin
Gle"
| wilted under MI. Andreae's sub
''n'e eCtimiSm. He was takinS the
wind out OF nv interview, which l
had imagined would run something
like this:
"Gottlieb Andrae. you have been &C
cused Of aiding and abetting 1000 per-
sons to commit matrfmony and have
pleaded guilty. Do you know OF any
reason why sentence should not be
pronounced upon you?"
But he took his 999 wedding eeTe'
monies so lightly. they @eemed TO
aim so much of a kind with the 1857
funerals and the / ,s94 baptisms ne has
20 his credit, that wouldn't do it.
Instead I asked him TO explain what
he ment by saying that most mrried
people are contented but not happy.
Happiness Who has happiness"
he ruminated removing his big black
cigar from his mouth, and unceremOni-
ously putting q moUthful Of smoke into
the framed visage of Martin Luther
on the wall. What Is happiness"
For the moment the stout, rosy, jolly
middle-aged shepherd OF Jersey City
flock became the German dreamer
walking the speculative heighths with
Goethe and Schiller and Heinrich
Heine
Content Not Happiness.
Few indeed find happiness in mar
riage. Happiness means to live in the
clouds; to be exalted mentally and
physically and spiritually by the be-
loved. How many marriages are there
of which husband and wife could say
that? But to be contented. to sleep
and eat well. to play pinochle with
your wife after dinner, and TO win
from her of course; to have peace
not owe money-these things % per
cent OF the couples I have married
possess. Content comes from realiZ-
ing the troubles you haven't got; hap
piness from the joys You have or hope
for"
With this the cigar went back under
and his little soliloquy came to an
abrupt end
And does love give this happiness
YOU speak of"
Married twenty-five Years Himself.
"Ach, What should 7 know of love-"
laughed the pastor I've been mar
ried twenty-five years. We celebrate
our silver wedding October 3D."
This remark led to the revelation
that at the great majority of the 399
weddings Mr. Andreae las perform
ed his wife and daughter have been
the Witnesses
years which the pastor has kept in
his ewn handwriting one reads at
least 500 times. Witness, Concerdia
Andrpan Eufhor Andrpae
''Tdey come as late as ] and in
the morning sometimes. these cou-
pies" continued the pastor I marry
them any time. as long a. I believe
they are all right"
Yes. volunteered his pretty daugh-
ter, Miss Esther ~ tell father he
ought to nave his clothes hitched over
the bed ready to fall on him. like
FIRE horses harness"
And how do Won like being a wit
ness to so many MARRIAGE
she made a little face. Il don't like
it. a bit, she confided- 1T seems to
take all Inc romance away. II makes
IT seem so like - business"
incidentally. It has been very
good business for Mr.. Andreae, as his
three cbildTen-Marcus. EStner and
Paul-hsve been sent to college on
his wedding fees. The go coupIes
have ranged in age from Is to IS. One
Of these couples. a prosperous drum
mer and ais wife. drove up to Mr.
AndFeae's residence five years ago and
were married They were total stran-
gers to him and do not reside in Jer-
Sey City But every year they have
come back TO pay him a little call
and thank him.
so Won sec. some married people
are happy then.
When 7 first came in 7 thought Won
had come to he married" he added
hopefully glsncins at a group of news
paper men in the room whom 7 had
never seen before. And so much OF
the missionary was in the glance that
fled