SECRET MARRIAGES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8796, 25 April 1907, Page 1

SECRET MARRIAGES.

The New York Correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph -wrote on 22nd January:— Atlantic City, where a great trestle-bridge railway disaster took place recently, is now claiming nearly as much attention by reason ofjthe matrimonial sensations now furnished there. They include several automobile marriages and one wedding on the ice, when everyone wore skates. To-day the guests who went to the wedding reception of Miss Ida Zeisnizz, who was married ■ at the home of her mother to Mr Martin Blankrehoru, of Philadelphia, foixnd waiting for them a double surprise. After the young couple had been made one, and when the felicitations were falling like hail, Mrs Matilda Zeisnizz, mother of the bride, and still a young and handsome woman, besought the company to reserve some of their congratulations, as she might require a few herself. She then announced that she was really not Mrs Zeisnizz, but the wife of Mr Charles E. Yerhart, a musical director, of New York. Her change of name, she said, had been very rocent.

The astonished guests were pouring complimentary speeches upon

her when one of them reminded Miss Matilda Zeisnizz, elder sister of Mrs Blankrehom, that she ought to have something to say herelf. "And so I have,'' cried the young woman. "I am not Miss Zeisnizz, but. Mrs Nelson Edwards, and there is my husband to prove it." She thereupon led out Mr Edwards, looking supremely foolish, but extremely pleasd. She and "Mr Edwards had bsen engaged, and sis weeks ago decided that they would keep in advance of the younger sister by quietly getting married. The mother felt the same way, aud pursued like methods. Neither couple,- however, confided in the other or iu the pair who were married to-day. At the close of the reception all three coupels? went on wedding tours in three different directions.