The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-10-27
CUT HONEYMOON
SHORT so Men
CAN JOIN ARMY

LONDON. Oct. pa newspaper
edited and published in some explica-
bile manner by the British soldiers in
the trenches has the following society
note concerning the recent wedding OF
young officer:
"Twenty-four hours after the cere-
mony the bridegroom left for Boulogne
by the famous lone o'clock special
from Victoria Station, and before mid
night he was costly installed in the
Carlton dug-out, pelted with some
thing far hotter than confetti or old
mothers and dreamed of the time
when he'd come again-unannounced
as good fortune Is, and equally hard
to recognize.
Were eating her cake here, and
wearing the muffler her bridesmaids
gave u.s. Meanwhile the colonel is
writing letter of thanks and promis-
ing to keep an eye upon young D
for day or two, until his head comes
down out of the clouds, and the sniper
becomes a real institution to him
again"
Honeymoons Shorter.
Weddings in a hurry are now the
fashion in Britain and honeymoons,
far from being real boon" in length,
are often not even a day. Better be
wife for five minutes, one bride is
quoted as saying, than an old maid all
your life. Another woman was heard
to remark: Thank God, he was my
husband for fortnight before he was
shot. Now he can claim me in heaven"
The other day a Glasgow man re-
ceived a summons on an hour notice
to attend the wedding of one of his
soldier friends. The intrepid son of
Mars had arrived Unexpectedly and as
tonished his own particular corner OF
the world by announcing that he in
tended to be welded and away in thir.
ity-six hours. The best man was after
ward heard to assert that the excite.
ment of arranging and carrying
through ceremonies at the Registrars,
before the Sheriff and in church, in ad-
dition to the lunch, the speeches,
subsequent visit to theatre, and
send-off at the station, all within the
time limit, had made a confirmed
bachelor of him.
A bluejacket on one Of the Hcrwich
destroyers made strong bid for the
matrimonial speed record. He could
only get two hours leave OF absence
from his ship, but he used it we'll. His
fiancee and friends met him directly
he reached the shore and they drove
in a motor car to Ramsey Church,
good three miles. There the wedding
was performed and the newly married
couple drove back to Harwich to have
a top speed wedding breakfast.
Romance Increases.
The witty Lady Randolph Churchill
nh oh
to a marriage made in Heaven was the
case of the aviator who flew over from
Dunkirk recently, married his bride,
and then flew back again.
Romance surrounds almost all the
war weddings. The story OF how far
mer's son, Sergeant Crees, of the
North Somerset Yeomanry, wooed and
won g peers niece for bride reads
more like g Pigment of the Eovelist's
brain than an actual occurrence.
The gallant surgeon came scathless
through let of the stiffest fighting,
but the day arrived when he found
himself among the "casualties,' in
Rouen Hospital Thence he was inva-
lided home and sent to the V. A. d.
Hospital at Oakley Manor, Shrewsbury.
The sister second in command here
was Miss Jackson. who belongs to
wealthy Shropshire family, and whose
father fought ard died for his country
in the South African War. Lord Hath
ierton. of Teddesley Park, Stafordshire,
is her uncle, and she has no end of ar
jistocratic relations, all of which how
ever, did not prevent her devoting her
self to nursing the wounded soldiers.
Thanks to her care and devotion Ser
igeant Crees recovered from serious
operation, and a warm attachment
sprang up between nurse and patient,
which led to their engagement and ul-
climate marriage.
Two members Of the medical profess
sion were recently made as one on
the high seas. They we're DR.. Percy
Wallace (First British Field Hospital
ITO Serbia) and Miss Dora Woolcock,
OF the Wounded Allies First Field Unit
to Montenegro. 1t was when they ar
rived at Salonica that DR.. Wallace and
Miss Woolcock decided to marry. She
was bound for Montenegro, he for Ser
bia They found that the wedding
could only be performed after a three
weeks residence, unless the marriage
could take place in British ship out
side the three-mile limit. Accordingly,
a ship was chartered, and three miles
from land the marriage service was
read by the vicar Of Buxton, Claude AS
kew. the novelist, gave the bride
away.