BRIDE'S PLIGHT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8838, 14 June 1907, Page 4

BRIDE'S PLIGHT.

Mile. Deschainps, who was about to be married to M. Lenoir on April 23rd, at La Haye Malherbe, in Normandy, discovered that the marriage would be illegal, because in the eye of the law she was a boy. The bride and bridegrom and their friends were gathered together previous to the ceremony, when the village schoolmaster—who is also the village clerk and registrar of births—rushed into the room, exclaiming: "TJIO marriage is .impossible!" He explained that his predecessor hal mistakenly registered the birth as that of a boy, and under the registration Mile. Deschainps would become liable to serve as a soldier this year. The bride and bridegrom hurried off to the local mayor and magistrate, and implored them to authorise the marriage, urging that the mistake was self-evident. The authorities turned a deaf ear to their pleading, for French red-tape is not to be treated lightly, and it will take time to repair the mistake.