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Show Married, Though Young. A lustrous eyed little girl from Mount Lebanon was the center of a wondering group of officials at the barge office recently. re-cently. It was not her beauty, which, was of a rare oriental kind, that attracted at-tracted everybody, but the fact that she was a brido. Her husband, Yussef Gosn, a strapping lad of 16, stood by her side with his mother. . The little girl looked blushingly at the crowd at intervals inter-vals when she was not hiding her head Bhamefacedly among the folds of her mother-in-law's dress. She said she had been married to Yussef seven months ago at Mount Lebanon. Her maiden name was Malacah Suriaan. i She and her husband are Christianized Christian-ized Syrians. They were brought up together and were fellow toddlers ia frocks. Yussef came here two years ago and became a peddler. Ho made $200 and went back to marry his playmate, play-mate, as he had promised to do before he loft Syria. He invested his savings in oriental goods, which he will soil hereabouts. Col. Weber temporarily detained the boy and girl, but let them go whon he found that the mothers of both had sanctioned the marriage, and that it was not an uncommon thing for children to marry in Syria. New York Sun. |