NEW SCHEME for MATRIMONY,
A.t a recent wedding reception in South Carolina a young lawyer begged leave to offer a new scheme of matrimony which he believed would be beneficial. He proposed that “one man in the company should be elected president; that this piesident should be duly sworn to keep entirely secret all communications that should be forwarded to him in his official department that night, and each unmarried gentleman and lady should write his or her name on a piece of paper, and under it the name or person he or she wished to marry ; then hand it to the president for inspection, and if any gentleman or lady had reciprocally chosen each other the president was to inform each other of the result, and those who had not been reciprocal in the choice kept entirely secret,” After the appointment of the president communications were accordingly handed up to the chair, and it was found that twelve young ladies and gentlemen had made reciprocal choices, but whom they had chosen remained a secret to all but themselves and the president. Eleven of the twelve matches were afterwards solemnised.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2824, 9 October 1885, Page 3
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190NEW SCHEME for MATRIMONY, Kumara Times, Issue 2824, 9 October 1885, Page 3
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