MARRIAGE JOKES

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6489, 8 April 1908, Page 7

MARRIAGE JOKES

SERIUUS CONSEQUENCES, Sitting together during a long winter evening, a .> arms! couple Csay?. the Paris' correspondent of the "Daily Tehgaph ') loit ruciier dull, and the husband eug-ge-hted a.? a dm-rcuon that an mem from him as a single man looking for a pretty partner in life, inMuUd in ojio of tin* daily papers, would procun them no end of amusement. His bettei half consented, and the following advon tnv.jjciii apjx-ared : "JiS theiv a distinguished, well-bred lady, of beautiful appealunco, between 'M unci 40 years of ago, capable of deep ..iiVvtio.i, aat> uou.a wish to throw in her lot with a lonnsomo man?" VM ooupk.*, roplius poured in from all over tho country, nnd tho h-asbaml Du nd no gieaU‘l' delight than answering the letters of hid fair com<?paiuleuU-i, who vuau.cxl thou charms in no measured terms. Tho wife thereupon grow jealous,, disputes followed, and Uio whole thing is now about to be decided in the Uivoroo Court. The lady brings forth the advertisement as her chief argument, and the husband retorts by alleging that she was an accomplice; but meanwhile it W not stated whether he has burned the addresses of all his fair corrosjxjndvnln, « i’his is what the wife wants to know, and, at any rate, his having turned a joke into a serious offence is, she contends, sufficient ground for divorce. The Court*? will soon decide who ia right. It is not often (says tho same correopondent) that a bridegroom’s adventure cumioa him to spend the night after his wedding in gaol for quarrelling with his best mail, but such was tho ending of a sumptuous feast in the\ VilleMe quarter. A grocer had been married in the morning to the girl of life choice, end. of course, the evening was spent in company with his friends around a copious dinner table. Practical jokes nr© never wanting on such occasions, and'an old 2” s I^ n . i fl for the best man to carry' ofl the bride s garter. He crept under thfl ■■ tniile, and the bride, of course, screamedrus soon as <?h© was touched. whereupon vhe bridegroom kicked his be«i man in the face nnd on Hie nock p© bndlv that the jw> r man had to 1h? pent to tile Lospital for repairs. Not content with fhj* summary punishment, the irascible bride* groom, having drunk rather mor* than necessary, attacked his mother-in-law, , and. after being shut up-by the restaurant proprietor in a '.-parM© room, smashed everything it co-r L-ire ?. wna prevented from further depredai ions only by the timely arrival of the police, who . escorted him to the station, and in srnte of the tearful entreaties of Hie ibrid©, compelled him to spend tho rest of tho night in gaol.