Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-11-20
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MANS DEPARTMENT

worker of that denomination made
the first page of the Washington
papers and has mystified the earnest
thinkers of the Bureau of Research Of
the Mans Department in their efforts
to solve the psychological problem Of
the event.
Not desiring to give the divine in
crease. publicity and thus embarrass
him in his Christian work, his name
will not be mentioned in this column
| The lady, who is now his wife, has
enough to answer for in this affair
and there is no desire on the part of
this department to add to her mental
torture II any of the readers doubt
the truth of he incident let them
write to his department, and 1t will
give the name and the date Of the
Washington papers in which the ac-
count of this extraordinary occurrence
took place,
On one OF the busy days of the In
ternational Convention, which dedi-
Gated the beautiful ten-million dollar
church, the divine In question appear
ed at the press room of the courthouse
and announced that he had just
secured license to marry the woman
who is now his wire, but that he had
not informed her of the fact, which Is
usually necessary step in the mar
riage process. He had not even pro-
| posed, therefore he requested the re-
porters not to publish it in the list of
marriage licenses.
The reporters made no rash prom
ises. They simply sat dumb with
establishment at such an extraordinary
proceeding. Finally one of them re-
covered sufficiently to suggest that
he bride-elect should be called by
telephone. She was of sufficient
prominence that the hotel at which
she was stopping was known. The
oravest of the band of news gatherers
soon had the bride-elect on the tele-
phone.
On the telephone he said:
by the records of the clerk, you
nave been licensed to marry"
| He did not get any farther in his
Efforts to explain what had happened,
for the lady at the other end of the
phone burst in with the exclamation:
There must be some mistake. I
nave no intention of marrying anyone.
| would not marry the best man in
he world have no thought of ever
getting married. What are you talking
,bout anyway? Why do you call me
Up and ask such preposterous ques-
ion? You must have the wrong adj
lress and must excuse me for I am
7ery busy with the work of the con-
ention," and she hung up the phone.
| But the reporter was an insistent
person, and he called her up again.
| This time he was more diplomatir and
asked:
Are you acquainted with DR..
i
"Oh, yes" she replied, HE is one OF
The leaders of our church and is a
wonderful Christian gentleman"
l Then the reporter got onto the
marriage question again and said:
"Well, the Doctor took out license
70 marry you at the office Of the
clerk"
| The lady snapped back:
81 do not believe it, Why are you
attempting to scandalize such an
,stimable gentleman? This is either g
horrible mistake, or somebody is at
;empting to involve us in sensational
affair"
Then she hung up the telephone
again.
This was enough for the news re-
porters and they all wrote colorfu
first-page stories,
A week or so drifted by, when G
Seen-eyed reporter noted on the clerk,
record a return Of the license which
Indicated the divine and the indignant
lady had been married.
The reporters got busy and wrote
another feature story but the work.
srs of the Research Bureau admitted
That they were mystified by the turr
Of events.
II They could understand why s
youngster, full of gin, might, as {
Joke, secure a license to marry cir
friend with the expectation that sht
/ would give him the air and thus secure
headlines and front-page story IL
The daily press. But this was seri
oussminded divine performing like {
flaming youth. Then the woman IL
the case of mature age resenting tn,
suggestion that she would marry an.
one, turns around and marries thu
man who never proposed to her before
procuring the license.
|, Why did this staid old widower thinl
that 1t was not necessary to propose