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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 28, 1904)
Patting- a forb On CnpM. MPLOYF.8 if this Imnk receiving E a nlary of leas than $1,000 a year tmiHt not marry without HrHt con sulting the bank officials and ob taining their approvul." ThlH Is the substance of a notice pouted In tho Corn Kxchnnge Nutiomil bunk In the Uookery building, Chicago. Oflulnls of that Institution backed it up with a state ment that It waa foolish for a man to at tempt In Chicago to support a wife, to any nothing of a family of several children, on less than the Income named. They dci lured that It would require much crimping to live In a fairly comfortable manner even with that amount of money. ,The bank officials aald their action waa not taken to dlacouraRe matrimony under proper clreumstunees. They favor the atep among thoae who can afford it by giving an extra month'a aalnry aa a bonua to each employe who marries. Married men are ronxltlered by the hank to be more faithful and reliable, aa a rule. Hut the clerk re ceiving MO or $T0 a month. It la declared, la not In a pcaltion to assume family care a In Chicago. More than JOO men are employed by the Corn Exchange Natlenal bunk. Of thrae 170 nre on the clerical force. It In aald that many of thoau receiving leaa than $1,000 a your utteady are married. It la denied that the matrimonial edict will be retroactive. Taking aa a baale the assertion of the bank otUrtala that It coats at least f I flfla. a year for a man to support n wife even In fairly comfortable circumstance! In t'hl chko, a man of wide matt l-r.onlal experi ence Iiuh figured out the following tab'e of expenses for a year: Itent and fol f 0 Light a Groceries S0 Meat 7H Milk 20 Clothing Laundry Car faie .. Medical ultfndance Knlertulnmenta t'hurch or charity and Incidentals. . 3 0 R 10 IS Total $I.W The Items In the table may be varied, but the expert who compiled It declared It would lie dlfllcutt to squeeze In an Item under the heading of "bank aavtnga." lie saiii that with cabbages Felling, by the pound, with eggs Si renta a dozen at the beginning of lnl, with the milk truat pre paring to kcp the price at 7 centa a quart or higher, and prices of other foidstufTs keeping pace, the table expenaea were bu'g lug materially. The rent and fuel problem, be declared, could not be expected to Im prove under preient conditions. "We Issued that order becauae we be lieved It waa nonsense for a man to at tempt to take care of a wife and family with an annual Income below $1,000," at Id Vice President 1. A. Moulton of the Corn Kxchange Nationil hank. "We start young men In as lucswngera at a small sulary, aivl Increase It aa they thiw aptness and ability for the work. Moat of them rise rapidly and are paid accordingly. It would be folly far any to marry before tliey are able ta support a wife. We should feel ourselves partly responsible for any misery which might follow If we approved of such a course." Chicago Tribune. Matrimonial Variety. Miaa Sophia Demon (she sllll claiming her maMen name), a belle of Jacknon county, Indiana, tn the early TiOfl, lm ft marriage record that Ik unsurpassed. She baa been married seven times, and her aeveii husband have Iteen married on nn average of three times each. The record has been brought to light by New Albany attorneys, who are prosecuting a pension, claim for the woman. Slie la now 73 years old, and la for the seventh time a widow. Her homo Is In Jackson county, near Hrownstown, anil her entire life has been Rs nt in ScoU and Jackson counties. The attorneys decline to give her present name. One of the peculiar features of the re markable marrlago record la that each time the woman has been married under her maiden name, Sophia Denton. It la known that at least three of her husbands have died.. She has drawn pensions at different times aa the widow of two of her husbands, nnd Iter application for a third pension baa brought about the present Investigation. 9 Loses Mother, Marrtea Daughter. Marie Burger was born In Germany, nnd lived there until she was 18 years old. Then her mother told her to come to the United States, no direct to St. Paul, Minn., and marry John Ieltner. Marie was a dutiful girt and did as she had been told. She had never seen John Leltner until he met her nt the railway station at St. Paul. Two houra later they were married. And it waa one at the prettiest romances the newspapers have chronicled for many a year. Twenty-live years ugo John Ieltncr was 20 ycurs old. und he, too, lived In Germany. It was there that he fell In love with his bride's mother and they were betrothed. Two months before the wedding day, how ever, they quarreled and John leltner came to the I'nlted States. The girl married another man, and thus became Mrs. Burger. To Mr. utul Mrs. Burger there came In due time a daughter, und It was this daugh ter, Marie Hurger, who came to St. l'aul and married John Ixltner. She Is already In love with her husband, ulthough be Is 45 years old und she is only 20. The mar riage was arranged by her mother. Marie traveled across the Atlantic alone and was met ut the station by her huslmnd-to-lie. "Uke your mother, for all the world," said Leltner, as the couple wended their way through the crowded stutlon. 'i would buvo known, her In a thou sand," leltner declured to the deputy who made out hit marriage license and listened to the story of the farmer's romance. ' Mr. Ultner and Mlsa Hurger were mar ried In St. Paul and will make their home In Barnes county. North Dakota, whera Ltdtner owns much valuable land. qalre's l.enn ! Offer. Justice Hexeklah Hand of Ptalnfleld, N. J., ut thinking more about the Leap Year har vest than about the epoch-making war In the far east. The Justice la a marrying man in the sense than he would sooner Join a loving couple in wedlock than do any thlug" elae even than read a war bul letin; nut let it be understood that he Is not selfishly Interested In his fees. The rsar and the mikado have both Issued war proclamations that will be read by some people all over the world; but Justice llescklah Hand has promulgated some thing that will lie read by every person in rtilon county, male and female. Ha offers to unite In marriage until tho end of February, free of charge, all couples In thoso cases where "the bride has taken advantage of her leap year prerogative." Furthermore, Justice Hand engages to pay for tho marriage license. He explains that he has the interests of the human race at heart, nnd especially those of the spinsters of Plainfleld. Justice llezcklah Hand is no callow fledging of the law, but a venerable man who has pondered deeply on the institu tion of matrimony. He holds that the home Is the foundation stone of a nation's greatness, and when he sees a spinster pining for a mate and a fireside his heart bleeds. Like the genial philosopher he is. Justice Hezekluh does not put all the blumo for love's delays on the bachelors. Some of them are not overliold the coy ness of the mind disconcerts and dis mays them. They would If they dared, but the spirit does not move them. For thia embarrassment Leup Year was in vented. In the view of this fine old Jus tice of Plainfleld It Is too much the sport of valentine makers, and he would have it regarded with gravity and respect. Hence his hopeful proclamation. During the coming fortnight Plainfleld will exject every spinster of marrying age to do her duty, and Justice Hezekluh will keep his pact blithely. May the Watchung hills send hack the echo of marriage bells from dawn to dewy eve, and thence to the stroke of midnight! Let no spinster shirk or bachelor balk. New York Sun. I'nrt Sixteen Years, Marries Again. It has been said that lightning never strikes twice In the same place. In this Cupid has the udvantage of AJax, for he can send his arrows twice in the same heart if need he. This was so in tho case of William Gregory and Mrs. Dcthen.i Gregory. Sixteen years ago they were divorced. When they were married Greg ory was 20 years old und his wife 17. "We were really too young at the time to be married," said Mr. Gregory, "und we did net get along smoothly, so by mutual ugrecment we separated. I went to Chi cago to live, and returned tn Mount Vernon five years later, but we did not make up. Sixteen years ago we were divorced. "Our son, Henry, was 4 months old when I left, and I had not seen him from that time until I met him the duy my wife and I were remarried." Itoth mother und father said that their son hud been trying for yetrs to bring about a reconciliation, and his efforts hud finally been successful. Travels ,MX Miles to Wed. Love led Margaret Kavanaugh, a pretty Dublin girl, 3,000 miles across the Atlantic to wed the man whom she had known when he was almost a boy. She arrived In New York on the Ktrurla. Her bag gaga already had been placed on the pier two steamer trunks and a Gladstone bug. Friends had decorated the baggage with white ribbons and each trunk bore the sign "To be married." Naturally a big crowd waited around the white beribboned steamer trunks to catch a glimpse of the bride. She came soon, a pretty, blushing girt on the arm of a stal wart, broad shouldered man. The crowd gave three hearty cheers. Several years ago M. S. Iahy, a pros perous young Insurance broker of New York, met Margaret Kavanaugh In Dublin. Upon his return to New York he decided that she was the only girl In tho world for him. He hadn't the courage to propose, but a friend In Dublin proposed for him and the girl accepted. She traveled across the Atlantic and drove directly to tha church, from the pier. Romance Sadly Daubed. After a correspondence that had lasted several months, and which was begun ! answer to a matrimonial advertisement. Hat tie Peffel of Chicago arrived In Bins; hamton, N. Y to find the man she ex pected to marry was a prisoner In the Uroome county Jail. Brought to trial on a charge of forgery, he pleaded guilty, and Miss Peffel, broken hearted, left to return to Chicago. James C. Rankin, alias Norman Kirk, last December put an advertisement for a wife In a matrimonial paper. Miss Peffel answered It.' The correspondence led to the Interchange of photographs and it was arranged that they should should marry. Then Rankin was arrested, but he contin ued to write, directing his letters from 50 Collier street, which is the Jail number. She had no suspicion of the true state of affairs, and recently sent Rankin $25 In response to a request. The money was Intercepted by tho Jail authorities and turned over to the dupe when alio arrived. 'T get down on my knees every night," wrote Miss Peffel In one of her letters, "and pray that you will be true to me. If anything should come between us 1 think I should die." Though much broken up by the revela tion thnt he Is a criminal, Miss Peffel was still willing to marry Rankin, who is good looking and a smooth conversationalist. His sentence in prison made that Impossi ble. Miss Petrel la, an attractive, well dressed woman. Heiress Mnrrlex a I'arm Hand. Grace Whlttakir, a graduate of Welle dey college, with $100,000 in her own name nnd heiress to an estate worth $1,000,000, fell In love with Kendrlck Harrison Trlbou and now they nre married. Modern magazine romance would have It that Kendrlck Ttihou wus a Yule man. or u Harvard man ut least. He would have rich parents, be a big, husky fellow, slow in his studies, but the greatest halfback known to the foot bull world. Itut he wasn't. He had three names, Just like u college catalogue, but he was only a farm hand, a farmer's hired man. He worked on Miss Whitta ker's stepfather's farm, and when she fell in love with him he wore faded blua overalls and had a sunburnt face. Hoth ure happy, for she la only 20 und he 25. But her family hasn't forgiven her yet. Cupid sometimes finds a difficult task to reach the hearts of roms men. Now, there's the mall clerk. He Is Jolted back and forth u cross the country in a railroad train day and night, with little chance of seeing a pretty girl, to say nothing of becoming acquainted with one. But Charles Roach of Ijaporte, Ind., somehow found time. He met Jane Broughton, in Paw Paw, Mich. She liked him, but her parents did not. Bo it happened one day Miss Broughton went to Laporte to visit friends. When she got off the train it was to get onto an other with Charles Roach, and they were married the same day In Chicago.