CHOOSING A WIFE BY VOTE.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2829, 9 March 1878, Page 3

CHOOSING A WIFE BY VOTE.

A wedding as abrupt, if not fantastic, as Mr Wemmick'a took place on New Year's night, at Marlboro, on the Hudson. During the afternoon a well-known • resident of -the village called on the Her. Dr Oaborn.and invited him to dinner at 6 o'clock.. "Bring a marriage certificate with you," said the host; "we may have "a wedding there,.to-night." The doctor is a discreet man, acd did as he was told.

At his friend's .house he met a largo com-, •' pany,and after dinner was announced, took his seat at-the well-appointed table. The . host undertook to carve the Turkey, but ■ made such, bungling work of his duties that one of; tbe. guests wai restrained to remark to him,." You shoujd : ,get married, then your wife would teach. y»u the proper way to do these things." . ( The host did not deny the soft impeachment, but told what manner of woman he should like for a wife, ended by saying : " Now before we proceed-further, 'spose we take a rote to whom I shall marry." The company entered into the canvasa with great hilarity, and after the Tote was taken," it was declared that the bost was in. duty bound to marry his housekeeper, .a young and well-educated lady who had presided over the establishment for more than a year. Tbe young lady had stepped into the kitchen to gire some final directions to the cook, and when she returned she was informed of the views of the company. She was completely taken aback, but after the ladies had coaxed her to give her consent, she placed herself in the . hands of her friends. " Halloo! lets get married now !" exclaimed the host, with the imperturbable Weminick'sself posses- . lion*. The dinner was suspended—-indeed it had scarcely begun; the bride took off her white apron; the bridegroom dropped his napkin'; tbe two were made one ; the marriage certificate was signed ; and the . company kissed the bride and then sat '", down; to dinner with a first-rate appetite. The next day a spinster in the neighbor-; " hood, hearing what happened, raised her hand towards Heaven and exclaimed in a .spirit.!oC,true devoutnessi "Lord! how sudden; there's no tellin' whose turn'll come next." ...