A NEW MARRIAGE SCHEME.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1615, 2 August 1887, Page 3

A NEW MARRIAGE SCHEME.

At a recent wedding reception in South Carolina, a young lawyer begged leave to offer a new scheme of matrimony, which he believed to D 9 beneficial. He proposed that one gentleman in the company should be selected as president; that this president should be duly sworn to keep secret all communications that should be forwarded to him in his official department that night and that each unmarried gentleman and lady should write his or her name on a piece of paper and under it the name of the person they wish to marry, then hand it to the president for inspection, and if any gentleman and lady had reciprocally chosen each other the president was to inform each of the result, and those who had not been reciprocal in their 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 bad chosen remained a secret to all but thpmselves and the president. A person parsing through the same place a few days ago was informed that eleven out of the twelve matches had been solemnized, and that the. young gentlemen of eight couples of the eleven'had declared that their diffidence was so greatthey certainly should not have addressed their respective wives if the above scheme had not been introduced.