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Show TO WED A KANSAS MAN IS NO JOKE TOPEKA, Kan.. March 11. Brides must not laugh while a marriage Is being performed In Kansas. Because a young woman laughed while the ceremony was being performed Judge McCaUe stopped In the middle of It and refused to continue until she ceased. The bride was MIna Brown, who was being married to Walter Jones. "Marriage Is not a laughing matter." said Judge McCabe when he stopped the ceremony. "I will not perform a marriage mar-riage ceremony which is regarded as a laughing affair. When you can stop laughing anJ seem to realize Just a little more that this Is not a sideshow perhaps per-haps we will resume the ceremony." Then the Judje walkM ort of the clerk'3 office, where the ceremony was being performed. The couple were just, half married. Jones had sworn to love, cherish and support Miss Brown, but Miss Brown owed him no allegiance of any kind. Miss Brown seemed to enjoy the situation of being single herself and still having Jones married to her. Jones expostulated with her for some time and at length Informed the Judge that the "lady isn't laughing now." The Judge went back to the performance perform-ance of the ceremony which made a Jones of a Brown. |