Connubialities

When a girl has three brothers her girl companions secm to like first rate to come and see her at her house. Kate Kane, the first lawyer in skirts to be admitted to the bar in Chicago, la married. S!g. Vineenzo Rossi, a handsome Italian, is the happy man. A marriage out of the common has just occurred in Oakland, Cal. The parties are Cheny Scoville and Miss Henton, and they had been engaged for twenty years. In nis new book on "Whom to Marry" Prof. Mantegazza recommends soldiers as the most desirable husbands because of the consideration they display to thelr wives and the affection they show their ehildren. A Milwaukee minister has just refused to marry a couple because the youna; lady was "just out of short skirts.", Recent nuptial events in Milwaukeewould lead one to believe that a young lady did not need any skirts to bfi married in that city. A gifl of 13, the daughter of a minister in Manchester, Tenn., has married a man of (O, with the approral of her iiaients. The brldegroom is a well-to!o man, and the father of the bride is íupfcosaú to be a man with a faculty for ing the best of it. Tiie old world boasts that America has no grand old man. This may or may not be true, but with an 80-yearold woman suing for divorce and a grandmother supervising an elopninenl the grand old women of the new woi'ld are making a fair showing.