Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-08-23
BACHELOR MAGISTRATE
FOR CHURCH WEDDINGS
tie Does Not BeIievein "a
Hour Marriages.

New York, August 22-New York (
bachelor magistrate, Moses Herman
| does not believe in "twenty-four-hou
marriages" and he expressed himself
forcibly on the subject yesterday. Hie
judicial censure was brough on by the
appearance in Yorkville court of a
pretty young woman, Mrs. Flora Engel
who had her husband in court on an
abandonment charge.
Mrs. Engel, who lives at No. 304
East Ninth street, said she was mar
ried three years ago, when she was
| EseveAteen. Her husband Bernhard
who is twenty-five, she said, desertaJ
her and her baby year ago, and While
he could afford to wear diamonds he
had given her only about $40 in a wear
for their support
Eng!e's mother interrupted to say
she gave the diamonds to him. Mag
lstrate Herman retorted that he die
not question her right to do so, but he
thought wearing diamonds\by peooLl
in moderate circumstances was baC
form
Wouldn't Take "Menial" Job.
Engle declared that the diamonds
were not to blame for their matrimor
ial disagreement, but the fact that his
wife wien he was out of job wanted
| him to take a mental position as street
car CONTRACTOR" The Magistrate re-
torted %%et he did not regard such
work as mental. and added that any
honest work that would support a
mans family was dignifed.
1T nigh do you good to go on the
street cars for a while" volunteered
the Magistrate. Then he added: 4
think the trouble with you is that yea
married too young. There are by tar
too many marriages to-day among very
young people who do not give the sub
Ject Of marriage any serious thought
until trouble comes. Then they try Il
dodge the trouble by lodging their
matrimonial responsibilities, which
they just begin to learn they assume
when they married"
A little later the Magistrate spoke
his mind more freely on the subject tc
a reporter:
The majority of domestic troubles
that come to court are brought here BY
persons under thirty A large number
by far too large a number for the good
OF the children of these couples, are a.
young as eighteen, and in some cases
they have been even younger. One case
before me recently was a girl Of eigh-
teen who had been deserted by hel
nineteen-year-old husband three weeks
AFTER their marriage. This is wroas
Believes in Church Weddings.
These people are too young to know
their minds. 1 do not say that people
should not marry at this age. Man,
have done so and lived happily togeta-
er till old age. But more young PEG
pie should give a little more serious
thought to matrimony before taking OF
its responsibilities.
Then the Magistrate declared hlf
strong objecson to "twenty-four-Roul
marriages" marriages made on short
| acquaintance.
Young people should know each
other better before they marry, and
there would be less domestic misery,
he said.
The Magistrate said he believed ia
church weddings or weddi sgs b,
clergymen. ~E
Il have refused to marry lots Of
couples, said the Magistrate. Mar
riage is sacred and hardly carries the
right influence VIXEN it is performed in
a court with an assault case on one
hand and a desertion case on tn
other"