French Marriage Arrangements.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 7, 25 June 1887, Page 4

French Marriage Arrangements.

About a year ago a French working ieweller married a laundress, a very 'handsome woman, who gave herself out as a widow with a family of three children. While the happy pair were still in the honeymoon the husband ascertained that nis wife was carrying on a flirtation with an elderly and wealthy individual, and he arrived at the conviction that they had been for some time on very intimate terms. The working jeweller’s first impulse was to kill the woman, but he soon determined on treating the difficulty in a more philosophical spirit, and as he found it hard to maintain his wife and her three children he went to her lover and proposed that he should then and there take the family off his hands. The other agreed, and a contract was made to the effect that (ho working jeweller abandoned his wife to his rival as well as her three children, on condition that he should render her life happy, and bring up the little ones well and honestly. A proviso was added that if these conditions were not adhered to the agreement should be null and void. Oddly enough this contract was actually attested by a mayor in the department or the Ome. Lately, however, the working jeweller learned that the bargain had not turned out well either for his wife or her children. The women was continually beaten by her protector, and the little ones were utterly neglected. The husband at once returned to Paris, where the party were living, and went to a police magistrate and, after explaining the case, implored him to intervene and insist on the bond being duly adhered to by his rival. Greatly to his suprise and delight he was informed that the contract was worthless, aud that he could take his wife and children home with him without a moment’s delay. The working jeweller lost no time in following this advice.