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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1234, 16 September 1911, Page 10

Six golden weddings wore recently colo brated in a French village. The added ■ ages of (lie brides and bridegrooms was 575 years, without counting tlio odd . mouths. .Tames Harris Stradling, aged 26, who committed suicide, was stated at the inquest at Stennoy to have boon much do-pre.'-sed by the fact that ho was getting thin. A novel plan is that of the pastor of a Methodist Church in Illinois to imlueo younj{ sweothoartin.s:- couples to do their courting in tlie' church pews, instead of repairing elsewhere. Ho will allow young people to stay lnt«, with ,1 Mr room and piano in part" of tlio church, find 100 pews in .which they can sit nt their oaso. Mrs. Aim Gorman, whoro death is announced from Lurgan, County Armagh, at tlio niie of 1(12 yeai-s, had livod uudor si's . sovereigns, tilio hn<l nevor l>eon tlnju? SO iniles from her home .ill Tier life. .Sho had no fewor than 84 <kwpu<taii!v—se'vui ehiUlron. 33 gTiU)dchikh'en,f 41 greatgrandchildren,. and .three groat-areat-gramlchihlreii. •

According to the pTwidmt of the Lnrpe Families league, recently founded in I'Y.-uiiv, ilieio ore in thnt country no fewer than 1,801,710 homes wjimv there are no rhiikiro-n, wliilo ill nearly throo million there is only^oflft.child. .

"l\ry';linsl);uul. doesn't mind walking the floor'with ilie.lwby at nifht any more," siiid jri-s. Binlc?. "AVliy is that ?" asked Jli-?. .links. "ITe make.': believe it's a Mai;,ithon rnec," said Mrs. Rinks,- "lie cowrcd the twenty-sis miles before eJevon o'clock last night"