Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-28
BRIDES WAIT IN LINE.
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FROM COll1er S.
The first result of mobilization n
war in Germany was a rush to the
churches. Marriage n death We're in
dissolubly combined. and every be-
throthed soldier set about to wed. A
decree proclaimed that for nottrauun-
gen Immediate marriages for soldiers)
banns and other formalities were dis
pensed with. Between Saturday morn
ing. August /. and Tuesday at ~. there
We're 4,400 such weddings. Half were
solemnized on Sunday. 1 saw some of
this. l was driving past the red brick
church in Wilhelmsaue, where my w
child was christened. Outside were
for a theater. not for marriage and
death. some soldier bridegrooms We're
in uniform: reserviSts We're in multi
The reservists carried the inevitable
cardboard box. I saw two girls in the
queue keeping places for bridegrooms
who had not yet come, and i saw men
keeping places for their brides. The
parties We're of all classes-rich girls
in wedding dress who had come in
motor cars. servant girls with red arms
straight from their work.
Mars Vanauishes Eros.
With these war marriages" the God
of war deals grimly. The reserve ar
his regiment at Chemnitz to Berlin to
marry the niece of General Berndt,
commander Of the Twelfth artillery
brigade at Neisse. In Berlin he found
that she had got a special permit to-
travel. and had left by train for
The trains crossed. Lieutenant Nielsen,
unwedded. that evening left for the
front. In addition to many Bismarcks.
Buelows. Moltkes and members of
other famous families, the kaiser's two
sons. Primo Oscar and Adalbert, were
n nO.NS <hA I;1--~~-~- -Al -
cleaa-living. patriotic lads. Oscars
marriage to Countess Ina Won Basse-
WITT was solemnized at Schloss Belle
vue. in North Berlin. Adalbert married.
Princess Adelheid Of Saxe-Meiningen.
am told that he kissed his bride after
the ceremony and Immediately left for
headquarters on the North sea. Such
partlngs We're Illuminated by hope. One
Of my servants told me a story more
terrible. 1t concerns n Of her own,
cousins. The story / almost shrink
from printing. for I believe it is I'M
eXampled even in the incalculable
ragedy of a Here is the story:
The gefreiter (private absolved from
sentry duty. but not yet with noncom's
rank. George Lepsius, was obliged to
report himself at barracks at 11:4O a.
m. At 1l:45 the regiment would march
10 Ihe Potsdamer railway depot. en-
route to Colmar. Lepsius was eng aged
schulze. At ILLS the Soldier decided
Tor a war wedding, nae for his sweet
hearts house at Teltow, and carried
her off to the Teltow Trinity church.
She went in her working clothes.
On the way the pair stopped. and.
failing to find Grange blossoms, bought
a bouquet OF l.fies. BY 1880 the we'd
alng was almost over. When the sold
Ter ~pr1degrooM put the ring on his be-
loved's finger. she dropped like a stone.
Her forehead struck the altar steps.
n pastor ul1did her bodice. pu his
hand on her heart. n calculated:
Your unhappy bride" :,
.lhre u~ngliickliche Braut-"
And he stopped. Lepsius for q mo-
mont seemed dazed. Then he looked at
Ills watch: put q lily in the dead girls
hand. and. making a military salute
70 the pastor and clerk. tramped out
of the church. o1e