The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-09-06
70 LICENSES
FOR AUGUST
Course Of True Love Ran
Smooth Last Month
TWENTY COUPLES TAKE THE
THREE DEGREES OF MATRI-
MONY IN WAYNE COUNTY.

The course of True Love did run
smooth in the county of Wayne, in
the month of August, in the year of
our Lord one thousand nine hundred
and eleven. Witness: Twenty mar
riage licenses were granted by Clerk
of the Orphans Court M. j. Hanlan.
Twenty couples are rejoicing over
the possession of beautiful little GER
tificates. Twenty lassies promised to
love and to obey their laddies.
Twenty bridegrooms took the three
degrees in married life. First de-
gree-Pay the Clerk of the Orphans
Court $1-short and sweet Second
degree-Pay the preacher at least
five moleons-Longer and not so
sweet. Third degree-Entrance up
on the Thirty Years War'-Longest
of all and positively-sour! G. e.,
some times).
The grooms entered the hallowed
portals of the matrimonial mansion
from sixteen different walks in life.
The farmers as usual took the lead.
Adam was a farmer, and Eve was
farmers wife. Who can imagine a
more glorious life than days spent
close to Nature; conquering her
stubborn moods, and forcing her to
yield the finest harvests of grain?
The other fifteen Benedicts pur-
sued occupations OF various kinds,
ranging from physician to profess
sional roller skater. To be exact,
there was one representative of each
of the following callings: Physician,
car inspector, hotel manager, painter,
teamster, contractor, lumberman,
iron forger, glass cutter, boiler max
er, college student, clerk, engineer,
professional roller skater and school
teacher.
The average age of the grooms
was 27 and Il years. The oldest
groom was Al, and the youngest four
were of age. Half of the grooms
were less than 25 years old. 1t was
a remarkably youthful lot of BRIDE
grooms that took the leap in the dog
days.
The brides? oh they averaged
only 23 plus 4-5 years. Two of them
were seventeen, two were nineteen,
one was twenty, six were twenty-one,
and the rest were all the way up to
forty summers.
Two school teachers gave up the
arduous task of instructing the
youth of the nation for the more
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happy home for some dear boy.
There was one trained nurse, one
silk worker, one housekeeper, one
college student, and fourteen at
homes" The 'suffragette virus"
| never did seem to take, nohow, in
Wayne, and like the Roman matron
of old who said "Ubi es Caius, ibi
sum Gaia" (Which freely translated
means "You run the Office, I'll run
the house ")-the fair young women
of the shire prefer to limit their
sphere of usefulness to home, sweet
home! Selah!!
Four of the brides were older than
| the partners of their choice. One
groom was more than twice as old
as his bride.
Honesdale and Hawley share first
honors with two grooms each, but
Hawley leads with three brides to the
County Seats one. Good for Haw-
ley.
Thirteen of the grooms reside in
| Wayne county, and seven came from
adjoining counties, and sister states.
Susquehanna, Lackawanna, Pike,
Carbondale, and the State of Massa-
chusetts were represented.
One couple travelled all the way
from Massachusetts Bay, Eve mean
Worcester, Mass.,) to be remarked in
Honesdale, so that their marriage
should be recorded in the State OF
Pennsylvania-h! Rah! Rah! !
Rah!!!
One college boy and one college
girl decided to be chums in the Uni
versity of Life. One school teacher
and one school marin went into
perpetual co-partnership. Bless
them!
Oh the stories that lie buried in
Marriage License Docket Book No
4. Not even the voluminous pages
of The Citizen could contain them
all, And lest the reader grow weary
here is the last paragraph of them
all, the Age neutrality-suspicious.
first in this case), viz: