STORIES FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 28, 18 September 1911, Page 6

STORIES FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

MARRIAGE IN HASTE What wc should think is about iho shortest courtship is recorded by a contemporary. The scene is the Divorce Court in Now Jersey, where Mr. W. Marten, of Pomona, petitioned for divorce from his wife. The lady in August cf last year inserted in a newspaper the following advertisement: — “Daughter of , a farmer-, 37 years oi ago, American, Presbyterian; affectionate ; height sft. Gin.; weight 189lb; perfect health, loving home life; well educated-; /blue \eyes ; blonde ; sincere, desires early marriage.” In October last Mr Marten sent the lady her railway ticket, and two hours after her arrival at Pomona they were married. Some time in April his petition came on for hearing, but although Ire had a good case, the Judge, to show his disapprobation of the,way in which tho ’ marriage was entered upon, had the -petitioner in attendance at the Court for forty-eight days before granting the decree. MILLONAIRE’S BUTLERS. Newport, where members’ of the raniti-millionairo -set maintain palatial cottages, is the scene of a remarkable strike on the part of tradesmen who suffer from the procrastination of enormously wealthy customers ’in the settlement cf tiieir bills. A few months' ago the tradesmen announced that, tltfcjv. would ; ’-tend no more credit to plutocratic lauii!! who had not prid last, summoi ’s bills. This manifesto has now been succeeded by another, in which’ a number of shopkeepers proclaim the intention of denouncing to their employers all butlers or servants who demand commissions or presents as tho price cf their custom. Shopkeepers state that (they are tired of being called robbers Iby wealthy patrons who find their 'charges too high. They invito the loaders of the plutocratic residents to a “heart-to-heart” jtalk with them on the subject of their bills and the behaviour of butlers who threaten to take their masters’ custom elsewhere unless their own inordinate demands are first satisfied.