NO BRIDEGROOM.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 46, 24 February 1894, Page 3

NO BRIDEGROOM.

A queeV. ywsx iCOncorning a wedding comes from* Htigatetten, in Badon. The Bargermeiei f 'er had arranged to marry a young coupi* oa & certain day. Tho appointed hour arrived, aud with it tbo bride and her /olatioue, but the bride, groom como not. After an hour's dolivy the father of tho missing man came upon tho ficeno with the news that hia son, to celebrate his wedding day, bad imbibed bo freely as to utterly incapacitate him. self. Ho was iv bed and bo bad that there was no ohauco of his getting up that day. Of course the youug lady cried " off" altogether, but in Germany two peißonß have a greater say in the jnarriage of their children thau tho principals, and they wanted to arrango tfor tho wedding to take place next morning. Herr Bürgermeister, however, did mot fail in with this (solution of the <diffioulty. He had made arrangements 4o Btftr.t'upon his holiday jaunt, on the morrow., and did not Boe his way to postpone. "If," said he to the elderly bearer of the untoward news, •• your son ohose to get drunk he cannot expect everyone to alter their plans to suit him, ihe wedding must take place without Mm. 1 ' Accordingly the ceremony was gone through without what is generally •considered a necessary for a wedding — a bridegroom. The register was duly fiigned, a blank being loft for the hug. band's signature. This was duly filled in upon the young man's recovery from his pre-nuptial debauch. Tho liurgormeister'e original plan of marriage c*mo to the knowledge of the higher author! * ties, and he has been reliovcd from his position. The question not yet decided is, " Are the pair legally married, or to legitimatiso their isauo will they liave to undergo a second ordeal P"