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MARRIAGE BY A TRICK.

HOW GIRL'S DECLARATION WAS OBTAINED.

Judgments were given by Lord Ashmore in the Edinburgh Court of Session laat month in a marriage case with unusual features. The plaintiff, a Glasgow girl, asked the Court to declare that she was. free of any marriage with the defendant, and that the latter ought to be put to silence.

Lord Ashmore said that ja 1914 'the plaintiff on leaving school at the age of fourteen became clerk in a Glasgow firia's counting, house, of which the defondant was in charge. The defendant, who was more than double her age, was

widower with one child. About a year! later the defendant spoke to her as to his desire to get a housekeeper, and sug gested she might fill the position. A little ator he suggested the night marry him. She took neither of these suggestions Serious-

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In 1918 the defendant called at her home, and asked her father's p rmission to pay his addresses to the plaintiff. Peralssion was refused, and the defendant was told he must meantime refrain from paying atten-

to the plaintiff The defendant. nevertheless, continued his attentions He offered her a ring, which she declined. Then he proposed she should elope with him, but she refused.

In June, 1914, the defendant handed the plaintif

A scroll in his handwriting, and without explanation he instructed her to copy out and sign what he had written. She obeyed, and returned the scroll and copy to the defendant, The writing copieri Was formal declaration, by her that of her own free will she thereby accepted him as her tran and lawful husband. She never ww that declaration

until it was

shown to her in the wox.

The defendant, after receving it,

ro ceeded without her knowledge to append and

aign a declaration by himself that lin accepted her as his true and lawful wife. He then got two fellow employés sign the document as witnesses to the signatures of the plaintiff and himself.

Meantime, the plaintiff knew nothing of with what he was doing the document, in point of fact neither of the witnesses had seen plaintiff write or sign the declaration. A few days later the defendant told the plaintiff that the declaration which she had signed had made her bis wife, She pintestexi, bus he produced a lawbook and read out passages as to marriage by mutual consent being valid.

That alarmed the plaintiff: indeed she felt too frightened even to tell her parents about the matter. Shortly after- wards, however, her father was other wise made aware of the document, and requested the defentiant to deliver it up.

defendant wrote that he had burned it, but hater handed it over as a resalt of communication from & solicitor. Nothing whatever had followed on the document in- dientire of its having been intended or ep garded either by the plaintiff or the defen- dant as evidencing or constituting a bana- fidemarriage.

All the circamstances point-

ed the uther way.

The plaintiff continued to live with her parents, and was wholly, supported by them. She and the defendant had sever even spoken to each other once since he left the employment of the firm at the end of June, 1910. In 1921 the defen wrote to the plaintiff

ment should be decking that the

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In view of the defenslant's conduct the plaintiff was advised that her proper course was to obtain judicial declaration of the kind now sought.

Having regard to the whole circumstances the Julge came to the gonclusion that the plaintiff had made out her case. Ho ac cordingly granted her the declaration sought, with costs.

THE DANCING RECORD.

The sympathy of the world should not "be refused to Miss Alma Cummings, of Texas... Many and various are human ambitions, Bomo of us live and die for the figures that stand against our runes in the archives of golf. Some have sought the bubble reputa- tion by swimming the Channel. There are who those who dive from bridges, and others who

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Man will go to see him who fasts forty daya: and forty nights, and other men back them selves to drink more beer in the day than

The weary rival.

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desire to dance

ever danced bashan any creature bad!

Alma Cummings meant

or

maidens in Many exhilaration have been know moments of

such a floor with

such a to say that on partner they could dance for ever. But hitherto mer have been content to take their word for it, recognising that what is said at a dance must not be too

• tested Missil cant business, and has just stopped dancing after twenty-seven

of oscillation. consecutive hourH fairy tales it is punishment for wicked! step-sisters to go dancing till it Miss Cummings showed na inclination to die. She would have gone our longer

he had not worn out her shoes and stock-

But what ro- ings and all her

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etrained her from concluding The omission

barefoot we are not

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we have not discovered. Of more gene- ral human interest tinn the claim to the record is Miss Cummings's psychology. The whirlings of the Lervishes ary-inspired religions countion, and the founder of their

order WES + mystical poct. *The recorded

sayings of Miss Cammings have no ele- ent of mystician. She was brought up in a convent and has been a church worker, but she does not ascribe her danc ing impulse to that influence. We should, perhaps, trace it to the fever for renown, of the long- int the parallel caso distance pianist who not long ago wis playing is unfortunate that a singlo in day out in our own country. has not been arranged between him and Alias Cummings. We doubt whether uren the experts in sucla affairs could predics whether the victory would go to fin fingers or to nimble toes, but there would

aty, least be nome prospect that having witnessed such a mighty conflict, all future aspirants would be convinced of the futility of any further attempts in the same direction.. Even a dead-heat would be welcome if it rought auch a result in its train-Daily Telegraph.

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