MARRIAGE MAKING JUDGE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 13 May 1912, Page 3

MARRIAGE MAKING JUDGE

M. and Madame Le brun were divorced eight years ago, writes the Paris cor res pond ent of the Daily Telegraph. Mdlle Lebrun, now seventeen, was entrusted to her mother's care, and she has just got engaged to a clerk ten years her senior. Her mother gave her consent. Her father refused his, on the ground that she is over-young to marry yet. The result was a lawsuit. What could the judge do better than interview the girl. He did so, and this is the paternal report: "Whereas the information concerning the prospective bridegroom, as regards his constitution, his morals, and his worldly position is excellent: whereas the information regarding the prospective bride is equally comforting; whereas the Court has been enabled by a personal interview , with the latter in Chambers to ascertain that the prospective bride possesses every appearance of robust health, as also a maturity of mind quite exceptional for her age; whereas, finally, in these circumstances the father's scruples, however worthy of respect they may be are not justified, his opposition must be rejected." Therefore, the Court having satisfied itself that Mdlle. Lebrun is not over-young to marry, Mdlle. Lebrnn may marry her sweetheart forthwith.