The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-06
SOME THAT WE'RE MARRIED IN
SEPTEMBER.

DaA AuplQ COulu ndhC hO hCou
way among the husbandmen of
Wayne county during the month of
September, not a single farmer being
included among the fifteen BRIDE
grooms who applied to Clerk of the
Orphans Court NJ. j. Hanlan for
license to marry.
Whether this alarming falling off
in the number of matrimonial appl1-
cants was due to the fact that the
farmers were too busy cutting corn
and digging potatoes to think on
these things, or whether their spare
time o'nights was spent at the corn
er grocery store talking over the
Judgeship fight instead of in their
sweetheart's parlors holding sweet
converse on love and life and happi-
ness, can not be ascertained. 1t is
expected however that, since the po-
litical situation has been clarified by
the results of the primary election,
Darby and Joan will again turn their
thoughts lightly to the ruling pas
sion, and once more as of yore, by
the dim and fiickering light of the
kerosene lamp, study the mail-order
house catalogues to learn the prices
of furniture, stoves and the likes of
that.
1t was a remarkably youthful bevy
of brides that promised to love and
to obey (sic) their partners. Their
average age was twenty-three and
S-15 years. The youngest two were
only nineteen years old, and the old
est one had only passed thirty-three
summers. Only three of the fifteen
brides were more than twenty-five
years of age.
The average age of the BRIDE
grooms was twenty-six and lilo
years The youngest two were
twenty-five years old. Five were be-
tween 22 and 20 years of age, and
the oldest bridegroom was thirty
six.
AS far as occupations is concerned,
the school marms had the call
among the brides, two of them re-
linqushing the charms of instructing
the youth of the land for the more
congenial task of making life worth
living for two young bachelors. One
was a domestic. Another was a
dressmaker. A third was silk
weaver. Still another was a house
keeper, and the remainder gave their
occupation as at home"
Among the bridegrooms the glass
cutters easily took the lead, three of
their number being employed at that
occupation. Besides that there were
two glass blowers, so that really one
third of the bridegrooms were en-
gagged in the manufacture OF cut
glass, that kind of dinnerware so
dear to the feminine heart, and oh,
so dear to the masculine purse!
The Fourth Estate was represent
ed by newspaper writer" Shades
of Horace Greeley! What is a
newspaper writer?" Then there
was one butcher, one grocer, mighty
useful occupations in these days
when the cost of living is mounting
skyward so rapidly, There was a
laundryman, too, an engineer, a
knitter, a clerk, a lumberman, a
laborer and a rural letter carrier.
Honesdale girls took the prize for
furnishing one-third of all the Sep
| TEN ber brides. Hawley was a close
second, four maidens forsaking the
paternal rooftree, to go out and help
to make another home. Only one o1
the fifteen brides came from another
county, and she came from Carbon
dale, which is after all only suburb
of Honesdale!
Other interesting features of the
months marriages included one
couple, second cousins, who paid nc
heed to the old couplet, " that tc
marry for the name, and not for the
letter, is to marry for the worse and
not for the betteI." And then there
was one Divorce. Four of the brides
were older than their husbands.
Five of the bridegrooms came from
other counties. Two hailed from
Lackawanna county. One came
from Cornwall, N. Y. Another lived
in Brooklyn, N. Y. Pike county ever
sent a representative.
These are the ages of the contract
ing parties, gentlemen first in this
case, please:
27-19; 26-25; 26-2S; 36-24;
27-23; 23-21; 23-21; 29-19i
22-23; 2S-25; 26-26; 23-24i
31-21; 22-26; 32-33.