A BUSINESS-LIKE WAY OF MARRYING.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1713, 30 June 1874, Page 2

A BUSINESS-LIKE WAY OF MARRYING.

It does not take a long preparation for a marriage if the loving couple mean busk ness. The celebrated J, -Q..,Adams, of Michigan—all men are celebrated in America—had lived a bachelor till he .was forty, and had no time to lore. .He went into a dressmaking shop in Detroit one morning, and as;ed the head business woman if she could, make a merino "dress bjr three o'clock in the afternoon. ; She said she could. John Q. Adams went out and came back immediately, leading a blushing girl of" sweet seventeen with curly hair, wearing a calico dress and a straw hat. She had a bundle of stufi fora dreis under her arm. She agreed to help to make the dress, and sat down at a sewing machine for that purpose. John Quincey walked up and down the room as a constant admonition that he was superintending the contract. The gown was finished in time, and the "sweet seventeen" put in it. In the meantime John Quincey had hailed a preaching looking man, and asked if he could "hitch" a couple for life. He said that was part of his business. John asked the proprietor of the shop if she had any objection to the use of the dress where it was made. She said she had not, and so John Quincey Adams and the Michigan " sweet seventeen" stood up in that dress-making sanctuary and were married. 'John emptied his pockets of nickels and pennies, all tho money he had, a bushel in bulk, 3*25 of a dollar by count, and gave it to the preacher for having detained him. That business pair walked out in the world arm-in-arm, looking happy. Bliss is cheap in Michigan.