Woman's World

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 27, 22 June 1914, Page 6

Woman's World

TiiK LADY'S MAN. (By Walt Mason.) Young vlinksou loves the tiibo-; of girl*, and aider them keeps running, and nil tie lioryls, Mays, r.i\i Peai'l-i just think he is lijo cunning, lie warbles love son,:;-; by their bowers, and lie'.-, a peach, they reason; lie braids them cosily ~r,aii;~ of (lowers, and uysicr?, ill their reason. The maidens say, "lie's sweet, odds iish!'' And he, cheered Ijv their kiddih,', anticipates their slightest wisli, and li.i-.tcs to do their bidding. 'bight siniics are always on his i'aee when lie's anion;; the ladies, hut when lie's at the old home place lie looks as sour as hades. .His sister's an enchanting maid—few smiles lie ever yaw; her, iiml when ln.-'s round she is afraid io ask the smallest favor. And with tliks girl he's aye. at war—he never loved nor kis.-,ed her; he saves his sweet expressions foi some other fellow's sister. His mother's old and worn ami sad. am! if she murmurs. "Charlie, j. wish you'd help me line, my lad," lie looks up, cross and snarly. "Let sister help you,'' he np'i,.-. iier ,-,d voice still unheeding: these interruptions I despise—you see I'm buy,- reading!" Some day he'll wed a dimpled dear when lie has saved the boodle, a in], when they're married half a year she'd swap liim for a poodle.

i AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY. An extraordinary story is. reported from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, about the foreed marriage of a clergyman at Sowickley, a place about twenty miles from Pittsburg. The facts arc related in an affidavit filed by the attorneys of Miss Christina Moraii, who was married to the Rev. Miles Sweeney, the clergyman at Sowickley. ' - The bride, who lias in contemplation a suit for the dissolution of the marriage, stales that her three brothers forced the minister to marry her on January 27 last, owing to allegations made by a sister. The affidavit states that, owing to the false charges of Elizabeth Moran, the brothers met the minister by appointment, and, threatening him with revolvers, conducted him to the girl's home and forced <him to marry her. The threo brothers of the bride surrounded the principals during the ceremony with revolvers in their pockets. . Roth the minister and the girl protested against the marriage, but the brother.* were obdurate, believing their other sister's allegations. The affidavit asks for a dissolution of the marriage. Meanwhile, Rev. Sweeney has been restrained from fulfilling his parish duties until the charges, which are revealed for the first time by the affidavit, have been investigated.