LONG-DISTANCE MARRIAGES.
Not long ago a Boer in pretoria was married to a girl in Amsterdam, the ceremony constituting what the Dutch call “handschoen” or glove marriage. In spite of the fact that a distance of 6,000 miles separated the bride‘in the Netherlands and the bridegroom :in the Transvaal they were just as ! effectually married under the Dutch law as if both had been present in the same church. The bridegi-oom sent to his friend or best man, in Amsterdam a power of attorney to represent him as his proxy at the ceremony, and at the same time forwarded his glove, which at the proper moment, when the two were made one, was held by both the bride and the proxy. The wedding was duly registered at Amsterdam and at Pretoria, where the bridegroom filed an affidavit with the proper magistrate. This curious form of marriage is a purely Dutch institution, the custom having originated, it is said, in the old times of Dutch-Batavian rule.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume L, Issue 2647, 10 November 1919, Page 7
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