Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-11-30
HAPPY ISLAND FOR LOVERS
Five-Day Law Is Not in Bellows
Falls and BrattlebOrO.
Vermont Grctnn Greens Provide Fat
Fees for Ministers-S2OOO N Year
Marriage "Industry" seen from
within.
, From the Springfield Republican,

" '"''' Wv
If you don't want to near about II from
the boys-or girls-in the ONCE; II you'd
just as soon your mother WoG'dl kho"
about it in advance, or II her father
knowing about 1t would mean the END
right there; If you'd rather put thdt SD'
into furniture than into WeldlnG break
fast and a rousseau II you q rather not
have confetti damned down your neck.
or rather not see the hatchet-idced guy
who managed to make date with her
every week until the engagement was
announced. kiss her. If you don want
some kind friend to send clipping from
the local newspapers headed Marriage
Intentions" down to the prosperous YOUNG
man in Bridgeport who, after the KIND
of time you had at the shore last sum
mcr and the kind Of correspondence
that has fourished since, might not I'm
derstand:" if you've got any reason az
all for doing il quickly and easily WITHOUT
any fuss and feathers, 90 to Vermont.
TWO hundred and nifty SIX young people
most of them Young at leaSt-found
good and sufficient reasons for gong to
Bellows Falls during the month OF sep
temher where it was quickly and easily
done. 4 hundred more found reasons
Just as good and sufficient for going 10
Brattleboro, where. as a matter ct fact,
it can he done lust n little more quickly
Vermont where fve-day laws are not
has a new industry, worth $4,000 year
and growing.
Marriages. IL you are romantic, or re-
liCious, or sentimental. are made IT
Heaven. or If You are crahhed Old
person with a lifetime behind YOU spent
in studying mundane causes and effects,
they are not made AT all. but lust hap
I nor mol no..
are put ont in summer instead Of in win
ter But if You are in a hurry, they are
made most conveniently in tho Green
/ Mountain state. The small, fattish I'M
clad young man who figures so promin-
entity in valentines and other forms or
highly sentimental literature, may shoot
| his god-tipped arrows where ne llstS, nut
the places TO have the wounds cured or
10 have salt rubbed into them as the case
may he, are Rrattleboro and Bellows
Falls.
"Ciretna Greeners? Why couple of
| ON came up with YOU on the train You
didn't seem en-? Well Just look there.
Young women who do their typewritinc
at desks overlooking the main square of
Bellows Falls acquire a weird capacity
for missing nothing also a most service
able effectiveness in pointing things out
There is such a difference in the way
, people point Some, for instance. drag
your glance all around the landscape II
lead IT to sunset. But this straight nm
ger lab into the distance left nothire
to be imagined. Even at noon on Satur-
day the main square in Bellows Falls
did not offer, il must be admitted. n SUI
preme test hut one felt that one could
have followed the dotted line beginning
at that slender wrist. had it led to a
otnI h,1f u-o ~
other side Of the Yale bowl. had it lec
to the local congressman immersed II
colleagues in the national halls of leg
islation
Light travels $4,000 miles second
Promptly on schedule she caught tn
CLEAN Of appreciation from the visitor
orb three feet away. Yes" she sale
monotonously, as though referring to {
fact in which she had long lost interest
you can always tell Gretna Greeners
because the girl has new rair OF hsh
shoes ana the Fellow mas halr CUT
She had; and he had
me trouble with Vermont l. that II ma
become TOO 'Nulca'' we recognize u"
breed, and that s all there IS 10 IT, Ner
mont seems to say TO ltself luS' oelor
losing interest Inc young woman WIN
had SO swiftly recognized these pN tnei
ohNlonSiN not Spec'aliF nuSN' she wen
mack To her tNpe"r'tng, ferntPS ,n"uEu
she hao never naa any l.'ereS, !" ''e ~"
IL as a, .ereeah,o oxercise in the ar
. in wb,ch sbc vas nracticed in tho lich
NJ - denonstratior nractical and self
ir,,nrov,rc
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ore tbcre uas s,ilI nlepty IN arrest IN
,,,or,io, of ,ho ,,rson,,;s,ica,.d Not nm
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hot u.i,b tic ,.ari.ca,.d orcbard ard eov
a. e.,rdnr hor,,,r,r in tbe am,,,,rn brooz.
So ,.os ,ho srir, n-,,h i.s rairhou .
strines sw;r,ins niruhoeI-,ko as Oh
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!, hrov tnnoa evcr So dainty. inward
,a,.ard 10 sor,hoa.,, j., fro,,' ao',.,,,., =
.
'"N",u ''e northwest j." 'd'A' H'eeN
''"t 'l" WV was M '''"N Slo''eu Over
coat OF 'a"hy nro"h' not a "a'r OF IN
, nay "'HP'aOeu' i''e crease ~, ms trou'
erS was Hd"'esS' me very Knot III IA
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, "P""i" " "'''e WI account oi ms VI
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S'F W go" Hli '"e' were ''S'
= VERMONT TURNED CYNICAL.
Instead Of being al the head Of III
square as good town hall ougf
- to he, it is in the farthe!
and downmost corner And fai
- stil no ~.