The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-08-25
Law Fails
to Check
Timidity of Matrimonially In
clined Rapidly Overcome
as Requirements Be-
come Known.
Stops ''Prank" Weddings

Stops "Prank" Weddings
The Nebraska marriage law, which
went into effect August 3. and which
at first caused timidity among some
matrimonial prospects, has begun
to increase in popularity.
Herbert Cupid Stubbendorf de-
clares that business is. picking up"
The clause in the law which re-
quires those who wish to wed must
have the application for a license
posted where the public can read It,,
caused the timid to scurry to cover
or, in some cases to the welcoming
arms of Iowa, and other bordering
states.
Requirements Simple.
The only requirements are that the
applicants be sane, of age and must
answer certain medical questions.
The applicants affidavit is all that
Is required.
The application hangs In the office
of the county clerk for the specified
10 days, and after that, the final
papers" are issued.
That's all there is to 1t.
Simple, isn't 1t?
Before the marriage law went into
effect, Cupid Stubbendorf used to
dash off, in the neighborhood of
200 licenses a month. As the count
stands now, there are 27 applications
on the official poster. IA licenses have
been issued. including two in which
the usual 10 days Of publicity were
waived.
Seven Applications Filed.
Seven applications were made out
yesterday.
They're beginning to break the
ice, now that their fright is wearing
away" said the license clerk.
From August to is, there were
40 marriage licenses issued at Council
Bluffs in which one or both of the
contracting parties were from Omaha,
as compared with "a during the
period of July 10 to August 3.
During the time since the law went
into effect until August IS. there
were A licenses issued at the Coun-
Gil Bluffs courthouse to couples
where one or both were residents Of
Nebraska, as compared to only eight
in the preceding two weeks.
Aimed at Hasty Weddings.
The Nebraska marriage law IL
aimed at hasty and prank" mar
riages.
Why is 1t that a man will spend
-~reeks thinking how to invest money,
or ponder for nine months over
where he will spend his two-week's 3
vacation, and then in about IL
minutes choose, just on dare, a
companion for life?
The same applies to the girl. She
spends more time picking out hat
or pair of shoes than she does in
picking a husband.
How come?
How They DO 1t.
Sometimes like this. Jimmy and
jessie are out with the bunch on
a party. They are dared to take the
fatal" step, and rather than back
out of the dare, a license clerk Is
pulled out of bed, a parson is To-
Gated and, there you are.
Or again, Minnie and Marties are
arrested for speeding. While in the
office Of the justice of the peace,
they decide that they've lost time
anyway, so they get married.
Vacation trips, perhaps, are the
most dangerous for all members of
the bachelor and bachelor-girl tribes.
Many young fellow will come back
with a sweet bundle of rouge land
georgette that calls him hubby"
Vacation Marriages.
More than one pretty stenographer
gets her pay check and trips gayly
off to her hard-earned vacation only
to return with one OF those fellows
who have wonderful black hair and
is such a graceful dancer" but who
knows no more about the RESPONSE
biities of a married man than, in
most cases. the wife does about her
end OF the Job.
- Nine times out of 10 each mar
rfes someone in the summer they
would be seen sitting with in a
movie house in the winter.
I'VE had terrible weather at the
resort" was the way one young
bride explained 1t to the divorce
Judge. $50, / married Jack. l had
known him for a week"
Some times the pranksters live
more or less happily and sometimes
they don't They do not stop to
realize, that while the may get
"hitched' in a few moments, 1t some
times take a year to unite the knot.
That Is what the Nebraska mar
riage law Is trying to stop.
"By all means there should be a
national marriage and divorce law"
said County Judge Bryce Crawford.
Naturally" said one man, there
will continue to be ministers, who are
ready to violate the spirit Of the law
and willing to journey out of Nebras-
ka lust to have the satisfaction OF
adding another scalp to their belt"
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