MARRYING IN HASTE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 7468, 27 September 1913, Page 3 (Supplement)

MARRYING IN HASTE.

SOMl'j BMCBNT UECOKDS. * j TIG lITMI MG MATULMUMI.AL ! 1 VKMTUIi ITS. ” All- Leslie Fraser Dma'aii, the tallest ■So j I sin ;i iin London lie measures six ( feet six inches in liis stockings can Iny claim to be I lie king; of n atriinonial gamesters. . Four times in llic course of bis long t life—be is ninety-! wo years olil—lie j lias married girls whose aci|Uaintanee j be niaile by cbaiice only a few hours | prevlon.sl v, anil. what, is even more , remarkable, each of bis marrieg; s lias | turned oiil trumps. j llis lirst wife, who was a native of Hath, begot into communication with i through !V matrimonial advertisement, i travelled down to interview lew with i the license in bis pocket, and married I her (be next day. 'they lived an . ideally happy life until her death ' twelve years afterwards, lie met his second wife in a westbound city omnibus, proposed after lour or live minutes’ conversation, Was accepted by the time the vehicle had reached the Marble, Arch, and next day was married. She made him happy for another twelve years. Wife number three was a widow wh.i,' i lie. met her by. chance one morning in Oxford street, hut she was his wife j by the afternoon of the day following-, They never had a till or a , cross word. Mis fourlh wife, who only died last October, was courted , and wed at similar express speed, and , with like happy results. 1 The late George Gisslng, (he novel-, Ist, iiri'ng of ills lonely life in . his ‘‘digs” in Islington, strolled out into ■ Ihe .Ibirylebono road, having previous- i ly made up his mind (o propose to | (he lirst passable-looking woman ho met. lie carried out his resolution, I and was accepted, but the resultant ! union was far from being a happy j one. Metier lurk attended a some- ) what, similar venture on the part of a well-known author and journalist t now living. Disgusted with a spoilt I breakfast served one morning by a I slatternly landlady, be sallied forth ■ bdo (be London streets in search of ! a girl who would marry him and "do” for him. ' I I‘irst of all he made, a (rip right round the underground railway, step- j ping off al every station, and silently appraising (ho physical charms of the j young ladies who dispense;! cigars and cigarettes at (he little kiosks' on |

the various platforms. Ifo proposed i to two of them, one at Charing Cross, | the other at, Karl’s Court, Moth of! them laughingly declined. Probably they I bought he was joking. Aext he tried a nursemaiiT whom he scraped acquaint a nee with i n Hyde j Park. She sermod inclined (o aceepl, j bill her mistress appeared unexpected-! ly upon Ihe scene, and (he interview had to terminate premalurely. F,ventiially he promised lo a barmaid whom he found disengaged (luring' the slack hours of the afternoon behind Hie saloon bar of a. well-known city tavern. She accepted him after some slight demur. They were married Iwo days haler, and i( Is sal Isfadory to lie able lo add that their joint venture has turned out an unqualified success. Tu fact, although more than seven years have elapsed since then, their friends, and they are many, unite in agreeing that (hey are as happy and as well-matched a couple as any in England, i Quite, recently a man who was temporarily deprived of his eyesight ■through an accident proposed lo (he nurse, who was engaged to look after him. Ho had not seen her at the time, for the bandages had not been removed, bill what ho 'admired about her, lie explained, was not her face or her figure, but Hit; sweet, gentle tones of her voice. He was accepted, and Hie wedding look place as soon ah ho \vas sufficiently recovered 'to leave ihe hospital. Very touching is the life and death story of tile youthful and pretty wife of Murder, the notorious bandit, recently executed in Paris with two of Ids accomplices. The girl, whose maiden name was Marie Hesse, became acquainted with him when lie was an industrious and honest Workman. 81io was a shop assistant, what the French call a nudindle, and Moiiier met tier for Hie (irst time, courted her, and married her, all within a week, which is a record for quickness in matrimonial business over there. They Jived a life of ideal happiness Until her young husband fell into evil courses, and oven after his conviction she clung to him, and refused to hear him spoken ill of. On I lie day that lie wms guillotined she fell iiv a Jit in Iho street, and was carried to the Hospital de In Pitie, where she died (.Jits oilier day—of a broken heart-, the' doctor said.