The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-15
FRON OTHER PENS
INTERNATIONAL MARRIAGE

Some International marriages are
happy, and, unfortunately, a good
many domestic marriages are un-
happy. The internationally of the
marriage does not explain the lamen-
table exposures that occupy SO much
of the public attention. Nor are the
wretched results of SO many of these
marriages explained by the presumed
absence of very warm sentiments on
both sides. The marriage of conven-
fence is often very satisfactory. 1t
compares favorab1y with a great por-
posed to be love matches, but In which
desire Is not ballasted with judg-
ment or principle.
But the conditions under which
most of the International marriages
are effected could not be expected to
produce comfort and self-respect, to
say nothing of true happiness. On his
side it is a frankly admitted search
for money. On her side it is a not less
candid seeking after a title and the
presumed social position afforded by
it. The marriage of convenience,
the marriage arranged by the fami-
lies Is often a comfortable and even
a happy one. But in such cases some
attention is paid to character.
In our international marriages how
much thought is given to character.
What does the woman or her family
care about the notorious dissipation
and the low associations of the BRIDE
groom? In a case now to seek legal
solution, probably in judicial cham
bers, the English nobleman who was
admittedly seeking a fortune and
nothing else had frittered away his
time in amateur theatricals until he
found them an opening to the stage.
His ha bits and associations were well
known. No one can withhold pro-
found sympathy from his wife, but.
after all, how is 1t possible for we'll
bred and high-spirited American girls
to make the marriages that some Of
them do ?-Philadelphia Record.
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ALWAYS NEW BANK NOTES.
When Bank of England note re-
turns to the bank it is never reissueG-
1t is Cancelled by having the signature
of the CHIEF cashier torn off. A days
signatures thus detached often amount
to a weight of 20 pounds, so some Idea
may be gathered of the enormous
quantity of notes dealt with in day
business. After the signatures are
torn off the notes are pricked off in the
register and sorted into the dates of
Issue. They are then placed in boxes
in the vaults, where they are kept for
five years, after which they are burned
in a furnace placed in a court yard
Every morning at O'Clock this fire
is lighted and the notes which were
received at the bank five years pre-
viously are consigned to the flames,
100000 notes being consumed in this
manner every week.lTft-Bits
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AMERICAN MARRIAGES.
A real American marriage must be
something eccentric and extraordfn-
airy, such as never had been dreamt
of before. Marriages in trains long
ago become commonplace. After the
marriage on roller skates Ga change
from the marriage on a bicyc1e), 1t
was the marriage in diving bell at
the bottom of the sea, with witnesses,
clergyman, the bridal couple in sum-
merry costume; then the marriage on
chimney seventy meters high,
where there was just room to hold
on and the least faux pas might
precipitate you into space The most
eccentric and grewsome of these
modern style" American marriages
is that which was celebrated the 9TH
er day in a mortuary vault!-Cr1 de
Paris