SECRET MARRIAGES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2086, 22 May 1907, Page 1

SECRET MARRIAGES.

Atlantic City (U.S.), where a great trestle-bridge railway disaster took place recently, is now claiming nearly as much attention by reason of the matrimonial sensations furnished there. They include several automobile marriages and one wedding on the ice, when, everyone wore skates. On January S2ud, • the guests who

went to tho wedding reception of Miss Ida Zoisnizz, who was married at the homo of her mother to Mr. Martin Blankerhorn, of Philadelphia, found waiting thorn a double surprise. Alter tho young couple had been made one, and when tho felicitations were falling like hail, Mrs. Mathilda Zoisnizz, mother of the brido, anil still a young and handsome woman, besought the company to reserve some of the congratulations, as she might require a few herself. .She then announced that she was reallly not Mrs. Zeisnizz, but tho wife of Mr. Charles E. Verhart, a musical director, of New York. Her change of name, she said, had been very recent. The astonished guests were pouring complimentary speeches upon her, when one of their, reminded Miss Mathilda Zeisnizz, elder sister of Mrs. Blankerhorn, that she ought to have something to sav for herself. “And so I have,” cried the young woman. “I am not Miss Zoisnizz, but Mrs. Nelson Edwards, and there is my husband to prove it.” She thereupon lod out Mr. Edwards, looking supremely foolish but extremely pleased. She and Mr. Edwards had been engaged for some time, and six weeks ago decided that they would keep in advance of the younger sister by getting quietly married. The mother felt the same way, and pursued like methods. Neither couple, however, confided in the other, or in the pair who wore married on January 22nd. At the close of the reception all three couples went on wedding tours in three different directions.