A BRIDE AGED TEN.
WEDDING GIFTS MOSTLY TOYS. A special to the Johannesburg Senday Times of December 29th, states that Agnes Callahan, aged 10, has just been married at Thibodeaux, Louisiana, U.S.A., and left the third reader class in the public school in order to attend the ceremony. Her husband is Paul Dietz (23), The girl wore short dresses during the ceremony, lint immediately afterwards announced that she would have her gowns lengthened as she was a “married woman now.” The priest who performed the service was opposed at first on account of the age of the prospective bride, but because the parents of both of the contracting parties insisted that the wedding should take place, he finally yielded. Dietz’s present to his bride was a huge doll that would open and close its eyes. Nearly all the wedding p/esents were toys, but the bride declared that she would not play with dolls any more. The wedding was the result of a courtship begun when the bride was almost a baby.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 37, 12 February 1913, Page 7
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171A BRIDE AGED TEN. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 37, 12 February 1913, Page 7
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