A BOY AND GIRL MARRIAGE.

Evening Post, Volume XLIX, Issue 134, 8 June 1895, Page 2 (Supplement)

A BOY AND GIRL MARRIAGE.

At the North London Police Court lately a respectably-dressed young girl, who made a great display of an engagement ring, asked the presiding magistrate, Mr Lane, Q, C. , for advice. She had left home in order to get married, and her mother threatened her, and told her she would make her come home again. Mr. Lane: "How old are you ?" The applicant : " Seventeen and four months." Mr. Lane: "Where have you gone to live?" The applicant : "With my young man's sister." Mr. Lane : ["'Your mother does not approve of your marrying ?" The applicant : j•' No. She says I ought not to go l out with anyone." Mr. Lane : " I ] daresay she knows more about it j than a magistrate. But you don't I agree with it ?" The applicant : | "No. And she keeps me under so." : Mr. Lane : ' Perhaps that is good for you. Where is this young man?" ' (A beardless youth, with a broad ' smile on his face, here stepped fori ward and said, " Here I am, sir.") Mr. Lane : " How old are you ?" The young man : " Twenty-two." Mr. Lane: "And what are you?" j The young man : '' A carman." . Mr. Lane : "I should say that ! neither of you is old enough to set iup housekeeping. Twenty-two and ' seventeen. This time twelve years ' you will have a houseful of people to ' look after, and if you wait a few j years there won't be so many. 1 ' should advise you to save a little i money, and you will be all the better able to meet your responsibilitie sby- , and-by. The girl : " What I want ; to know, sir, is whether my mother ' can make me go home again?" Air , Lane : " No, she cannot." The girl : " And she threatens me if she sees me talking to this young man." t Mr. Lane : " I daresay she thinks • he will be all the better able to keep j you later on. I suppose you won't i be advised by anyone in the world, • but will simply follow your own | ends. That will do. I have told : you all I can now." The boy and , : girl left tLe court looking rather | doubtfully at each other. ¦i • ; . .