HONEYMOON' IN A CAVE.
Brought up in a palatial home in Boston, a romantic woman was" attracted by the simple life in its most simple form. She married Mr. John Otto, a hermit who dwells in a cave in a canyon in Colorado, but she soon tired of being in such close touch with nature and left him- Now Mr. Otto 'has obtained a divorce oil the ground of desertion. An artist and sculptor, Mrs. Otto rode into the mountains of the west four years ago in search of -adventure. She found a husband in Mr. Otto, who was intended for the ministrv, but preferred to live in close touch with nature. The couple were married on the summit of Monument Hill, an eminence four miles from Grand Junction, Colorado. The ceremony took place before an allar hewn "out of the rock by the bride, a w.yuan of splendid physique, sue feet in height. After the ceremony a salute of 100 revolver slots was fired. The bridegroom gave the bride not a wedding-ring, but a donkey. The couple set up housekeeping j n a cave 10,000 feet above sea ' level. But the city-bred bride sooa wearied ' of- her life as a cave roan'e wife, and in a few months she return-*! to her parenta* f comfortable home. ' ;?'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15563, 21 March 1914, Page 2 (Supplement)
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