MARRIED BY PROXY
DUTCH CUSTOM REVIVED. A young bride, Mrs Jau Koning* travelled from Amsterdam to join the husband in Canada whom she married by proxy. She had not seen him since they became engaged two years ago. “ Marriage by tho glove,” tho old Dutch custom by which a man can appoint a friend to act as his deputy by publicly throwing a glove at him, was revived. The friend thus appointed has the legal power to act as deputy a( tho marriage ceremony of his client. Mr Koning, a young Dutchman, emigrated from Amsterdam in 1925, took up land in Alberta through the colonisation department of tho Canadian National Railways, and succeeded as a farmer. He was working so hard that he could not spare time to return to Holland, even for his wedding. He therefore appointed his brother to act in his stead.
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Evening Star, Issue 19533, 14 April 1927, Page 3
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145MARRIED BY PROXY Evening Star, Issue 19533, 14 April 1927, Page 3
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