STRANGE REASONS FOR MARRYING.
Last spring at Berlin a young man undertook for a wager to bestow 1000 kisses on ten damsels— a hundred on each— in immediate succession. At first he signally failed, but on trying a second time, when after every fiftieth kiss he was allowed to rinse his mouth with antiseptic water, succeeded. During this attempt he considered the kisses he gave to one lady of such superior quality to the rest that he proposed to and was accepted by the fair recipient. A north of England vicar, who had been left a widower with three shrewish stepdaughters, who ruled him and his house with a rod or irqnj proposed to the daugh- ; ter of a Batieisea puWicari'.for the sole reason that hehad seen hex, as he chanced to be passing,' eject - v with forcible skill two drunken men* from r " her' father's premises. He naturally "thought that such an Amazon would be a 'surerp>otection: against home tyranny; nor was he mistaken, for the three vixens were promptly relegated to their proper sphere, and, his wife proving a shrewd and affectionate woman, his own life made endurable. , A well-known physician, an accepted authority on a certain obscure form of disease, offered marriage to a lady for the sole reason that, being afflicted with the complaint he had made bis speciality, she might afford him a better stpdy than he could otherwise obtain. Devoting his whole time and attention to his wife's affliction, he conceived a remedy which not only proved in her case efficacious, but laid the foundation of that world-wide reputation he now deservedly enjoys. A gentleman, belonging to one of our eastern counties, who 'had been unfortunate in . his ; first, ■wiler-a bea*sifijl brunette, who had eloped with a neighbour- -married his second because of her excessively homely appeararice, which. h^ thoo^t\j?ould be a sure safeguard lp'his'h«n6mV -'BuiHurifominately the lady c«me into, a, goodly .fort«me,\ana, being as vain as she was ugly, -was beguiled by the flatteries of a fortune-hunting advgnturer,^ wifeh r whom .'One. day she decamped. ,^.. 1 ;,'.-..-.'i>. •..;■•.' ■; '.-'. -..::•.'-
STRANGE REASONS FOR MARRYING.
Star (Christchurch), Issue 6496, 27 May 1899, Page 3
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