Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1910-04-22
HYMENEAL
VAN wYcx-BuLL

A marriage Of interest TO people in
this community was celebrated Wed
Desday when Jemima, daughter of
MIR. and Mrs. c. w. Bull OF Milford,
became the bride Of George p. Van
Wyck of Washington, d. q. The
ceremony was performed by Rev. G.
A. White at the home Of the bride al
ten-thirty a. m. in the presence Of
immediate relatives of the contract
ing parties. Young Anna c., sis.
ter of the bride and Master Richard
Cornelius Bull nephew, were flower
and ring bearers respectively.
The bride wore a gown of white
silk chiffon with pearl trimming EN-.
broidery and carried orchids and
lillies of the valley. She is q most
estimable young woman and has
many relatives and friends who all
join in hoping for her pleasant
pathway through life. The bride.
groom Is we'll known here where for
many years he has spent his sum-
mers with his mother who IL a nat
i've of the town, and he is to be con
graduated on having won one of the
most attractive of our young Indies
The bridal tour will include Attain
tic City after which they will alter
nate their residence between a hand
some home in Washington, d. G
ind the summer cottage here. Some
of the out of town relatives present
we're Mrs o. B. Van Wyck, mother
{ the bridegroom, Z. f, Van In
wegen and wife of Port Jervis, Mrs.
5. D. Van Camper daughter and son
,f Newton N. j, and NJ. c. Nyce
md wife and Joseph Nyce and wife
and George Nyce wife and daughter
all of Buslkill Pa.
Taft on Women Suffrage.
An episode of the week Of no very
great Importance, but withal having
some significance, was the address o'
;he President to the leaders of the
National Woman's Suffrage AssOcia-
lion in Washington. The President
did not squarely take issue with the
propaganda, but expressed some
doubt as to the ultimate results Of
the Acknowledgement Of the sex.
These doubts were perhaps justified
from his long study and observa-
tion of male suffrage and from his
knowledge that the man best quail
fl ID TO vote most frequently had his
vote cancelled by the worst qualified
voter. He knows, as does every
statesman, that suffrage is at beat a
makeshift and that until a combined
psychometer and phrenometer shall
be invented which viii accurately
take stock Of the mind and Inoralt
of the voter and a law be passt d
that will enable every mans vote
to weigh according to his stock Of
sense and soul, popular suffrage can
not be more than laundering,
clumsy instrument for the attain.
ment of wisdom and purity in gov.
ernment 1t is the mistake of q
few hundred or perhaps a few
thousand good women to imagine
that they have in suffrage q pana.
cea for the cure Of bad governments
They have not thought enough OF
gone deep enough historically ol
philosophically into the subject
Well, Mr.. Taft tried to tell then
something Of this kind, and hil
gentle advice was received will
hisses and cat calls, almost under
the caves of tile White House
from the ladies? in the audience
who showed that they were nc
more polite than men aud even lea
reverentisl. Whatever may b,
said against the President, he is I
man and a gentleman. II tines,
ladies had called on Dr. Samue
johnson, they would dOubtloeI
have been received with the "Fid
die de de, my deaIs," in which h,
replied to a deputation of ladiel
who congratulated MIN on the pub
llcatiOn of Rasselas Today 1t Il
said the responsible members Of tht
Nation WOman's Suffrage League
are trying to throw the responsible
ity for the Impoliteness upon unat
taehed female hoOdlums in the audi
ence.