A DIVORCED COUPLE RE-MARRIED

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1450, 7 January 1887, Page 3

A DIVORCED COUPLE RE-MARRIED

Fourteen years a*o the mwriage bells rang m a Boston church for handsome John Winter and pret'y Alice Lee ; and a handsomer couple, so comment 83id, never vowed t:> be faithful to eac'i iher.

For.r years later, after two } e«.r a of never-ending dissension and strife, they separated by mutual content, and according to agreement, the wi'e sued for the divorce on the ground of desertion, aod m due time received the Court's decree la that t^oy were not all unlike the countless couples whose f Wlies make life a misery to themselves, while swelling the fnrtams of divorce lawyers and w tnesaeH.

But mark the sequel. Less than a year ago they met each other ayain, after both had had time to diso:iver tcieir folly and when each began to realise th*t tho other was not at all to b'amp. There was apparently nothing emotional m their meeting, which closed *l tit to ba followed by another and stl'l another. Before the ex-husband knew what he was about he wa? dead m love, so the chroniclers say, with the w man from whom he had bo gladly aepantod nioe ye»ns b<f >r< ; and, what was equally strange, tho wennn was quite as much m love with h ; m, They met again, they ta'ksd it ever, and one day a minister was called m to annul the decree of divorcj.

A litt'e daughter, born shortly after the separation, was Among the few witnesßeß who saw the quiet ceremony, and among the very few people who live to witness the marriage of their parents at any time or place. —Philadelphia Times.