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Show LEAP YEAR JOKE? YES But the Eight "Mock" Marriages Turned Out to Be Real. t NEW YORK, April 9. Eight young women of the Hudson City section of j Jersey City started out to be funny and lost the combination. The Joke consisted consist-ed of a joint proposal of marriage, mads on bended knee by the eight, to as many young men. The eight young men, not to be outdone out-done In humor, accepted the girls on the spot, and an accommodating young man named Arthur Schmidt playfully agreed to perform "mock" marriages. Amidst the greater hilarity, the sixteen young men and women went to their respective re-spective homes. The joke lost 1U point when the discovery dis-covery was made that the amusing Mr. Schmidt is a Justice of the Peace, fully authorized to join folks in marriage. Now eight young women of Jersey City are wondering If eight young meti are coming to claim them; and eight young men are consulting lawyers a&Ao whether a good joke is to be spoiled by their having to support eight young women wo-men until death or the divorce court does them part. |