FIFTY YEARS TOGETHER.
There was more', than a little sentiment exhibited recently in tho Flemish village of Morbecque, a tiny place numbering but tluee thousand souls, when eleven old couples, whose united ages totalled 1698 years, celebrated their respective "Golden Weddings," aiid 550 years of married life! says a writer in an English paper. It really was quite a touching little siglit when the "brides and bridegrooms" of half .a century (and rather more in one or two cases) went to the parish church in a procession, accompanied by : the Burgomaster and municipal authorities, to be present at High Mass, .in- thanksgiving for the blessings of- their long periods spent together. At the end of the service, for which the villagers had decorated the church with all the flowers they could get together, the wedding march Was played, and the "Golden Wedding" folk marched to it as they had fifty-odd years ago. '
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 972, 12 November 1910, Page 11
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152FIFTY YEARS TOGETHER. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 972, 12 November 1910, Page 11
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