The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-11-20
START HONEYMOON IN OK CART
Kenosha Young Woman is One of the
Brides at Double Wedding Held in
Keeping with Indian Ceremonies
Festoons Of Roses for the Bride.

Sixteen thousand miles from home,
Miss Eva Theleen of Kenosha, became
a bride on Oct. 18th when she was mar
rled to Wendell Kumlein in the home
of the district superintendent of the
Methodist church at Balgaum, Ind. 1t
was one Of those wonderful East India
ceremonials, FLIED with romantic inter
est for the bride and it brought full
day of ceremonials to the great crowd
Of young Christian missionary workers
at the India city. Mrs Kumlein had
left Kenosha early in August on his
sixteen thousand mile wedding trip and
she had planned to join her iancee at
Bombay for the marriage The letters
announcing the marriage ceremony
We're received by relatives of the bride
on Sunday and they are the first let
tiers received from her since she reach
ed her home in the Far East.
Miss Theleen and Mr. Kumlein
changed their original plans to be mar
ried at Bombay in order that they
might have part in double wedding
ceremony. The ceremony was held in
the drawing room IF the minister S
home and the ceremony was perform
ed by the Rev. Mr.. King, a Wisconsin
man, who is now a missionary in India.
At the same time occurred the marriage
of son of Mr.. King Balgaum is on
the India frontier and it is a favorite
gathering place for American mission
aries and at the wedding ceremony
were present Christian people represent
ing many creeds. While the ceremony
was in keeping with the ritualistic pro-
visions of the Methodist Episcopal
church all of the India ceremonials
were observed following the reading of
the service. Mr.. and Mrs. Kumlein and
Mr.. and Mrs. King were surrounded by
a great company of native girls and
they threw festoons of roses about
them and led them captive to the din
| ing room which had been decorated af-
ter two days of strenuous labor on the
part Of scores of peopla. In the very
center of the room great wedding
cake set on three stays was arranged
and each bride with her hand held by
that of her husband cut the great cake
and portions of it were given out to all
the guests at the wedding.
| The missionaries had planned to send
Mr.. and Mrs Kumlein and Mr.. and
| Mrs. King off in state for their we'd
ding trip and a carriage had been Sc
cured at the cost Of a great deal Of
labor, but brides and grooms in India
are just like they are in America and
with a view of escaping the shower Of
rice the two brides and their husbands
| fed across the fields and started their
| honeymoon in a cart drawn by two
oxen. A long trip overland in the OK
cart brought them to famous old Co.
kuk where they are now spending their
honeymoon at a government bungalow.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kumlein and Mr.. and
Mrs. King will make their home at
Moradabad, where both of the brides
and both of the grooms will be employ
| ed as teachers in one of the Christian
colleges. Mr.. and Mrs. Kumlein and
Mr.. and Mrs. King are all former stu
dents of Lawrence University and it
was at Lawrence that they began the
companionship which eliminated in the
two romantic marriages in the Far
East.
It is probable that the formal an
nouncement of the marriage will be re-
cesved in Kenosha within the next
| few days.