Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-02
Cupid in Henrico
Joins Many Hearts
Pretty Lassies Haze No Trouble
in Ensnaring Unwary Swains
Before Leap Year Comes.

The winsomc lassies Jof Henrico
have little scruplcS about cnsnaring
the hearts of unwary SWANS. Nor do
the merry widows in that neck O. the
woods hesitate to set sail again upon
the troubled sea of matrimony. And
Divorces. usually less sentimental than
the uninitiated. scratch their heads.
consider and finally conclude that there
may be. after all. such mort as
Welded Bliss
Tom Fletcher the man responsible
for all the matrimonial indiscrctions
IN Henrico, is not quite sure whether
h" should return thanks for the good
he has been permitted 10 accomplish
during the good year, 1915. or ask for
Siv"ncsS for the havoc he has worked
IN allowing 50 many youthful hearts
tC heat as one. He is no. so ,nuch
concerned abont the hardened old Wild
overs o. the aged widows The. are.
ola enough To mind their own business
But the innocent littlc lassie and ,h.
uHthinkinc youth. who rusl, i'm wher.
angels fear to tread, are suhjccts Of
MS most earnest thoughts lie is in
cl:ned. however. 10 hope for the hest,
Wars and rumors OF wars don, nave
much effect on the matri,roniany in
chhcd IN iicnric" In fact. the girls
nave hung NJ the same order seen in
50 many business houses these DAYS.
Dent talk war: talk business: we are
neutral And they are neutral IN
everything except lose. Here thoy are
distinctly and violently partisan
HI:NRICO BRIDES DON'T
FAVOR MONTH OF JUNE
During the gear 1915 Mr. Fletcher is
sued no less than nf,y-nvc innrriar.
license" - white couples, and thirty
eisht to couples OF the opposite color.
Eight couples who mad grown tired Of
married fnI
aNowcd allegiance to each other and
2etiiioned the Circuit Cour, TO cu,
asundcr tho bonds that made them man
ana VIE These were granted. and
the erstwhile twain have gone their
separate WAYS
81 the hft%-hve white couples mar
ricd last year in Iienrico. fortv-four
We're men and women VINO hnd
never before embarked on the sc;
OF natri'n"ny. In five cases both
INC contracting parties had had
the misfortune 70 lose the part
her n" o" she had promised to
rove ;tnd cherish until death did
'G"'h part one c"u-ie was made up
OF widowcr and divorcce Stili
another was composed Of :, siuel. man
aud widow Two divorced men mar
ricd widows. Two widowcrs took unto
themselves wives who were trying
married life for the frs, time.
september was the month in which
Dan Cupid did his most effective work
Jun" - not tn" month OF brides I'm
lt"ur!c" December beat the favorite
marrying reriod by Two couples. Oc-
iob.r led IT with one. Murcn il the
Least favored month
Farmers stand the best show Of get
ting help mates IN iIenrico. Ten OF
them succeeded in anncXin" wives last
year Carpenters come next. with five
hooking up FOR better or for worse
+ our merchants endowed four bounc-
'nS lassics with All their goods and
chaticis Tire. machinists took a lean
IT. the dark. and so on down the list
The average age Of the man who
r'arries IN iienrico is not quite twenty
seven years; that of the woman he
tween tw"n;y-four and TWENTY-FIVE
years. sixteen Richmondcrs went
down There to get life partner