PLAIN-SPOKEN EDITOR.

Putaruru Press, Volume VIII, Issue 338, 15 May 1930, Page 1

PLAIN-SPOKEN EDITOR.

ACCOUNT OF A WEDDING. Viscount Castlerosse, vouches in the London Sunday Express for the I following remarkable report of a I wedding that appeared in a recent issue of the Chattanooga News. The editor, Mr Quillen, had a secret ambition—he always wanted to writ" the report of a wedding. He at last j succeeded and how! After stating the names of the bridal couple, their parents, the clergyman, and the time and place, Mr Quillen continues : The groom is a popular youngster who hasn’t done a lick of work since he got shipped in the middle of his junior year at college. He manages to dress well and keep a supply of spending money, because his dad is a soft-hearted old fool who takes up his bad cheques instead of letting him go to gaol, where he belongs. The bride is a skinny, fast little idot who has been kissed by every boy in town since she was 12 years olu. She paints like a Sioux Indian, sucks cigarettes in secret, and drinks corn liquor when she is out joy riding in her dad’s car at night. She doesn’t know how to cook or keep house. The house was newly plastered for the wedding and the exterior painted, thus appropriately carrying out the decorative scheme and the groom was newly plastered and the bride newly painted. The young couple will make their home with the bride’s parents, which means they will sponge on the old man until he dies, and then she will take in washing. Postscript by Editor.—This may be the last issue of this newspaper, but my life’s ambition has been to write up one wedding and tell the truth. Now that is done death can have no sting. Chattanooga is a city of about 40,000 people in Tennessee, and is the seat of several advanced educational institutions.