The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1914-07-01
Eu8enic Wedding Up to Dale.

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Dearly beloved, we are gathered here
together in The face of this company to
join together this man and this woman
in asceptic matrimony, which is COM
mended by Mendel, Ehrlich, Metchni-
kon and other eu-enists to be honorable
among men; and therefore is not to be
entered into unadvisably or carelessly,
or without due surgical precautions, but
reverentlY, clearly, sterilely, soberly and
with the nearest practicable approach to
chemical purity. Into this holy and
non-lnfectious state these two persons
come now to be joined and quarantined
II any man can show just cause, either
clinically or microscopically. why they
may not be safely sutured together, let
him now come forward with his slides
and cultures, or else hereafter forever
hold his peace.
Several spectators shuttle their feet,
and an old maid giggles, but no one
comes forward)
Clergyman TO the bride and bride
groom)
lrequire and charge both of you, as
ye will answer in the dreadful hour of
autopsy, when the secrets of all lives
shalbe disclosed, that if either of you
know of any lesion, Infection, congeni-
tai defect, hereditary faint, malise or
other impediment, why we may not be
lawfully joined together in eugenic mat
rimony, we do now confess it. For be
We we'll assured that if any persons are
joined together otherwise than in a state
of absolute chemical and meteorological
innocence, their marriage will be septic,
unhygenic, pathcgenic and toxic, and
eugenically null and void.
(The bridegroom hands over long en-
velope, from which the clergyman ex-
tracts paper bearing a large red seal
Clergyman (reading:)
We, and each of us, having subjected
the bearer John Doe, TO rigid physical
and microscopical examination, ia &C
cordance with Form BIB of the Ameri-
lean Eugenic Association, do hereby GER
tify that he is free from all disease, de-
feet. faint, defvrmity and hereditary
bemish, and that, 10 the best of our
knowledge and belief, he is perfectly
sound in mind and limb. Temperature,
9S.6; pulse, 76: respiration. q.
(Signed) Sigmund Kraus. NJ. d.
John Jones, NJ. ID.
Rudolph Wasserman, NJ ID.
Ditto on the psychiatric side, so far as
can see. Herman Ii. Zinke, NJ, ID.
Subscribed and sworn TO before me,
Justice of the Peace for The Borough of
Manhattan, City of New York, State of
New York.
(SeaD Abraham Lechotisky, J. p.
(The bride thereupon hands up a sim
liar envelope. from which the clergy
man extracts a similar paper
Clergyman (reading)
We, and each OF US, having subjected
the bearer, Mary Roe, TO the examina-
Lion provided for by Form BI of the
American Eugenic Association, do here
by certify that she Is free f ON all visi-
ole diseasd, faint or blemish, whether
hereditary or acquired.
(Signed( Marie w. McGinnis, NJ ID.
Alice Margery Smith, NJ. ID.
Henrietta Henderson, NJ. ID.
| have examined Mary Roe and find
her sane. Herman II. Zinke, NJ. ID.
Subscribed and sworn to before me, a
Notary Public of the Borough of Man
haitian, City.of New York, State of New
York.
(SeaD Matilda Sweeney,
Notary Public.
CThe clergyman drops both papers in
to the bowl of bichloride and proceeds.)
Clergyman 10 the bridegroom.)
John, will thou have this woman to be
thy welded wife, TO live tvgether in the
holy state of eugenic matrimony? Wilt
thou love her, comfort her. protect her
from all protocol and bacteria, ana keep
her in good health: and, forsaking all
others, keep thee unto her only so long
as We both shall live? If so, hold out
your tonguel