Stage Marriages
One ot the latest attractions in a traveling show consists i.i announcing on the last night but one of the performance, that two of the company will be married on the staye in public on the following evening. "You see," said a gentleman, who is in this line of busin ss, " there's no harm in it I hrtvo been married ten years. and we have got over 400 marriage certificates -that is, I and my old woman-. We always get a genuine local cushion-smiter, and then the public knows it is all correct, and we 1 carry the wedding cake with the rest -of the" props. I calculate we've received a hundred thousand congratulations, bosides gifts from softies in the audience/ How doe« the idea of setting divorced on the scae Strike you ?" we a,ked. "Never figured oh that nor on banlisnw, he replied* "although the old woman did consent to be (lucked once by a colored preacher after the show, but when she came out of the water she swore so bad, and bit the preacher such- a belt under the ear, that we never repeated it. No ! there's nothing like wedding," said the great performer.
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Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 60, 22 May 1884, Page 3
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199Stage Marriages Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 60, 22 May 1884, Page 3
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