EUGENIC MARRIAGE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1826, 12 August 1913, Page 4

EUGENIC MARRIAGE.

HONEYMOON IN NEW ZEALAND. Miss Delia Farley Dana, of Now York, a grand-daughter of tho poet Longfellow, and sister of Mr. Edmund Trowbridge Dana, who a year ago contracted on "ethical m.arriage" wiih Miss Jessie Holliday, an English portrait' painter, "beJ came the wit'o at tlio end of June, after • ' a uniiiue ceremony, of Mr. Robert H.' Hutchinson, a Harvard graduate, and a scion of an old Massachusetts family. No clergymen, 110 best mon, and. no bridesmaids were present at the ccreniony, which was performed by a justice of tho peace on the terraco of tho bride's garden overlooking tho sea. "Havo you ' obtained the assurance of a doctor that' you are fitted for the high calling of par/ enthood?" asked tho justice of tho peace, reciting a formula prepared by tho bride. Both the parties to tho contract answered in tho'affirmative.- Miss Dana then placed a silver, ring on Mr. Hutchinson's finger, ond said, "I, Delia F. Dana, tnko you, Robert H. Hutchinson, as my lawful lulsband. I promise faithfully to fulfil toward you all tho obligations arising from tho married state, and hope to bo a true, comrade and helpmate. As a symbol thereof I give you this ring." Mr. Hutchinson gave a gold ring to tho bride, and repeated similar vows. Tho couple wero then declared man. and •wife. Both aro Socialists, and they are . leaving to spend their honeymoon in New Zealand for the purpose of studying "practical Socialism." Tho brido woro a plain dress of Japanese w'hitc crepe and tho bridegroom a bluo serge suit