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Show 7 1 . Ballots vs. Brides DOLS romance tuter in an age of "equal rightt'f Not se'i Jou cuJ neli if. n Franco tho oft of tho axra. oris? is tiirj;-Jhx. tiirj;-Jhx. era in America tl.i overall wedding age among thefair Ki is tlill tonicshr betveen In fofe (cent ene! in early twenties dcxpile all tho hut and erf of the alarmittt, who taid u- . frag would tend to make women independent ' of men. ' Society "Buds" Prefer Runaway Marriages at an Early Age to Romeos of Their ' Own Choice Rather Than Long Waits and 1 the Frills of Lavish Pre-Nuptial Formalities lipped suddenly out of the picture end turned up where? At the alter promising to love, honor and obejr eome tall, otreifht young man like grandmother ' did. Early marriages, bonnle bride in their teena, are coming back into fashion. YVMEN ,ou MiM Mm,ra Young ' ' Lady coming down the street In her Up-to-the-minute clothe carrying her Jade-topped cane and her air of being completely occupied with her freedom, v don't be too sure you know what'e going en beneath her bobbed hair. She mey be harboring something aa old-fashioned getting married early, cooking, walking walk-ing and ironing for some young mas like ' grandmother did. Modern auperetition haa indicted to. day's daughter with being at least one . Ballots Vs. Brides ' - , f Qt Q j I ' " P , j 3, ;, Vf j . . . '. '. ' I OLS romance lutet in on eg of equal . - " J1r .Xi , . , righu" t Not to't sou eould nolic it. In FTT 1 "7"" : T ' ' . VTIY fr ' e ' v ' Franco the ago of ih average bride it thirty II I e-s - I - -N -i I - CV VJ r-v Z"" I Jrre. Her. in America t!., wag. weddm, . ()( ,1 1 J. v , ) (( I i V ' - AiiYJJ I ofc omonf ihefair ki is .1.7 ncanre bca-ecn i-0 Jkl.ZjmS L-t - C-e,... . In fn Th M Q r-Tlr1"('"' tho latt teen, and Ih, tarty twenties dapite all 4 '' ' " Rl Q C -T rag would" lenel io make women independent 0 1 fCTT AT , T7 7T1 . f2m "---2 J ai. . .iifa Society "Buds" Prefer Runaway Marriages at an Early Age to Romeos of Their . ; . yp- - '"'k-P Own Choice Rather Than Long Waits and ; (j ' y the Frills of Lavish Pre-Nuptial Formalities r r H YVHEff jroa " Young alipped suddenly out of tho picture and ' ( V. ... " ' Lady coming down the street in her turned up where? V J r -w . ' ' j i op-to-the-mlnute clothes carrying her At the altar promising to love, honor 'VA--SSV-' ' - x a ...., , , , r " Jade-topped cane and her air of being and obey eome tall, straight young nan ' , " ' , . ' - J of completely occupied with her freedom, like grandmother ' did. flifr rlSjj f. '' i" - -V' , ' ' ' v don't be too sure you know what's going Early marriages, bonnle brides in their C& ( it i ' ' J J M on beneath her bobbed hair. She rnsy teens, are coming back into fashion. w""!K Jv-vX . . . , . . S fi , ' be harboring something aa old-fashioned ,-""""l? I . - ' V' 1 ' s! s getting married early, cooking, wash. -rflJ W 'X ,' ' '. ' - v" ' V I tng and ironing for some young man Ilka ' V . ? JfTZllr Rt. ' ) . , ' . ' v " 9 ' ,randnth.r did. .. ?r tT) , i "k ' ' " , Modern superstition haa Indicted to. -t; VN'Oe-' t 1 1 V'e- day' daughter with being at least onom jf S ' 'v ' y, j ' r ( ' ' f -7 , ( 11 ' The course of true lovo did not run smooth for . . i J I j K Ctne Wheeler Tinley after aha eloped from fc V lAi V. ' ' w f .1 , vj leahionable school in New York last January to take . T V I I I- ' 'r ltet OT wora T. Joseph Tinley, prominent ' VJ Jf ) . i j I oociety youth aha had met at dance. A stem j rfyM ' '.''I' parental edict tore the young lo vert apart until the f ! I , , t J youthful Romeo could prove he was a 192 J pro H. J, j Yider wel1- nht. Mrs. Ernest C C Smoot. j C-v' , ) ' Wh Mrtha Gearing, of Washington, before I ' yj , j "lipped off to the nearest Cretna Green to be-- - t jiffl . f . , ' - . V . .mbridofmeaonoftheUnitedStateoeenator ) diySl "X, I I wnich pu. tho ...rrlage ago limit 0p aociety. Mh. Wheeler was a pupil at . lylJirU ( to be the medium that haa pushed a fashionable New York finishing school . IVl'C '' i p"1' W So waa Margaret Walsh, daughter of ''Vv X 7 i t ' M . artedly Inoonsequential enough, to Willard Walsh, also of Park avenue. -W nJiyr 'P ' ' j ltiTO all tho difflcultlea involved. Just before Christmas at a school dance 'V I t) YZL Hffl V- ( "I "Aftr w Uy at th ,hor for youn T'nlJ, hi m, Benjamin 7 Tt ' T6 A ti I y while we're coming hack to look for an E. S. Tyndale, 2d, were among the fM; i'-fSvlJ' 1 II J n ' apartment," aaid Peggy McNeal Chria- guests. Tinley was Introduced to Mia 'fXrT-W&i1CCi4 yA? t ( ' '. ' ' Un thllttta lt-yr-o!d brtde who Wheeler and a lightning courtship fol. "W v V TflfUl! J&fi'tT?& . J l f j I l ' tiptoed to twenty-two to get her license, lowed. Cupid also played hla role with MMlJarrie,f p'-S $&W' I ' ' AAl A ' '" -I'd like aeuto HUle place with painted Tynd.l. ,d Mis. Walsh so rapidly that j U.i ITOil.Yj ' V ' - 1 J 4 'r , furniture. But wo dont want to pay on New Year'a Day a double elopement U YattV' LI lYHiAVlA? EPt- ' I T ' too muck tent-o for while, was agreed upon.. Eariy next morning ,QL'l JtP.if'ft l?fh&&Z: rTlM I I i 1 the four visited tho nuu-riag. line W I VyY KniFiirrri1ll' M- ' ' for better or for wor Sh. marrli JJOW ar. m thfu n.rrUg. bureau and then sp to the M.rbl. - ; Xf 3)L!- iMP Hir) V !Uh TL V . , Rkhd W. Christian, of Charlotteavilla, AAPnnlng out? In spiU of the fact that Collegiate Church, where the double wed- 7 rviJTVV TU !'l riK ' ' ) ' W ' Virginia. unfavorable statistics rise up like a red ding took place. Immediately both V C Jr' ' HI iFTr-WlVJil iiVC? nlfl ImJrf Sl ' There' only one difference in the ait flag to warn thegoung against entering bride, went to their home, and told of V UXV V V-.l'MUylVb-' f Ajl ation today. The modern aociety bud into tho mamed rtaU at too early an th.woHdings. Dr. Wheeler amUed a " , VP lJ UVi lopes. Grandma didn't The debutante age, the evidence, that have accrued in little aadly, but did not talk annulment. , . X NSao I Tt' ,V Vi.V -c2)i 1 I 41 Y IPwa iH ' haa suddenly seemed to develop aa great favor of youth .Und up well enough In Instead ha decided the youthful bride ' ( x W"t ff " ViV'l ' f U'lt ' jAnflll' : ' a draad of the big formal wedding with the general none too blissful or perma- would have to remain away from her . J ryTi . . V IliilTlO Mr C Edgerton Warourton ' bridmd flower gri. and ring bear- n.nt Pnor.ma of marriage today. W. husband until h. wa. able to take care . ' ' CZry M U , L.V 1 - ' ; Ul f.fo . J M u r era as ahe has of the period of lavish en- will leave out the eixteen-year-older. of her. ... 1 Vl -T flil' -inJn ytMlW ,d miy C ' toTt.inm.nt known .. her coming-out who are admittedly too young to know . ' ' - , Vf J I YIcs V V Vt ' Biahop, Jr. (above) are now yr perhaps it's the novelty of running their own minds and come to those who piRST little Mrs.' Tinley was eent to (( Jp'. ' S1' WeyfX "umbered among the aeaaon'a away with a auitcaae whea ahe haa have emulated their forebears and A Bermuda, then when aha came back Yv. lie' Mi H.IWyV I mart matron although both " alwayt traveled .with a truckload of mafVied in their lata teens or under ahe waa shipped off to Europe. Joe, who iYjrh V 3'(r-W ' I J M jurt .bout old enough to be ' trunk. Be that a. It may. it must' be h' th f" f for H.rvaH at the . V'-'yV'Vl I S s - WV V" . ' " ,dmitted the young women of 1928. with rate with old and young aeema to aay time, heard the sentence. Well the other . VNSAW? IAaL 1 VLL? ' . winter s dobutantea thtlr nin M,Mrlr,B motorcars and the multiplication table every time the day, when the French liner Lafayette y-rs , nX liL-.r''2 their not ao much aa by-your-leave to new year come, around, the fortune, docked, who wa. on board but the little "" ' S.rPW. totohi. keeping; giving them much aa' their parenta. are putting the modern of theao ooom to break about evenly, brld. and her father, and young Mra. - ff ., , " W LV .w 1. -.k.j kit. nnlshina-Jowcbeaonthedayawhengirla rr the one elopment in the Gould, Tinley greeted all those who rr4 t. af The course of true love did not run smooth fog . . t ' t Catherine Wheeler Tinley after she eloped from V fashionable school in New York last January to take . ' r for better or worse T. Joseph Tinley, prominent society youth ahe had met at a dance. A otera parental edict tore the young lover apart until the youthful Romeo could prove he waa a I92J pro- vider aa well. On the right. Mra. Ernest C C Smoot. fj who waa Martha Gearing, of Washington, before ' she alipped off to the nearest Cretna Green to be--. ' come the bride of the son of the United Statee senator j which pushes) th. marriage age limit up is said to be the medium that haa pushed It down. Only the young seem gay-heartedly gay-heartedly Inosnsequential enough to ignore all the difficulties involved. "After we stsy at the shore for a while we're coming hack to look for an apartment," aaid Peggy McNeal Christian, Chris-tian, the little sixteen-year-old bride who tiptoed to twenty-two to get her license. "I'd like aeute little place with painted furniture. But wa dont want to pay too much rent not for a while." TTOW are these youthful marriages ''panning out? In spite of the fact that unfavorable statistics rise up like a red flag to warn the goung against entering into tho married state at too early an age, the evidence, that havo accrued in favor of youth stand up well enough in the general none too blissful or permanent perma-nent panorama of marriage today. Wo will leave out ' the sixteen-year-oldera who are admittedly too young to know their own minds and come to those who have emulated their forebears and mari-ied in their lata teens or under twenties! - In an age when the divorce rate with old and young aeema to aay tho multiplication table every time the new year come, around, the fortunes ' of these seem to break about evenly. For the one elopment in the Gould family, that of George Jr. with Laura ' Carter, a professional dancer, which turned out unhappily, wa have the disturbing dis-turbing evidence of Edith Gould, who ran off with Carroll Wainwrlght a couple of years ago and haa lived happily ever since. The Gould, banned the eloper for a long while and every one aaid that the time would shortly come when tho two would be appearing before a judge to get out of a bond that had brought them only hardship. But the young Wainwrighta seemed to have triumphed over statistics and human experience. A more recant Illustration of what young people do whea a squall threatens to eapsise their newly launched ahip ia afforded by the ease of young Mra. T. Joaeph Tinley. Her elopement last .January aa Catherine Wheeler, ' daughter of Dr. and Mra. Herbert , Wheeler, af Park avenue. New York, created ' a sensation la metropolitan aociety. Mis. Wheeler wa. a pupil at ! a fashionable New York finishing school . 80 waa Margaret Walsh, daughter of Willard Walsh, also of Park avenue. Just before Christmaa at a school dance young Tinley and his cnum, Benjamin E. S. Tyndale, 2d, were among the guests. Tinley was Introduced to Mia Wheeler and a lightning courtship fol-lowed. fol-lowed. Cupid also played hla role with Tyndale and Mise Walsh so rapidly that on New Year'a Day a double elopement waa agreed upon.- Early next morning the four visited tho marriage license bureau and then aped to the Marble Collegiate Church, where the double wedding wed-ding took place. Immediately both brides went to their homes and told of the weddings. Dr. Wheeler emilad a ' little sadly, but did not talk annulment. , . f Instead ha decided the youthful bride T ( would have to remain away from her 1 J husband until ha waa able to take care . ' of her. ('' (, THIRST little Mrs.' Tinley was sent to Bermuda, than when aha came back ahe waa shipped off to Europe. Joe, who had been tutoring for Harvard at th ' time, heard the sentence. Well the other . day, when the French, liner Lafayette docked, who waa on board but the little bride and her father, and young Mra. ' . Tinley greeted all those who eared to listeit with the announcement that Joe had a job and could indeed now afford to uppoit a wife. She added that .be . a waa her way to Chicago to be that real wife to him. . . It ia patent, of course, that all youth, ful romances such a. this do not turn : out so happily. Grandmother came dowa to the parlor as a privilege, sewed a One warn and wore her hair down her back until aix months before ahe waa married, it 1. true. But aha lived ia the day. when there were ao automobiles and it wasnt possible to run to three parties ' in one evening. The modern young girl who forgoes- the frilla and ruffles of her comlpg ou , year that wedding bells may ring Joy. oudy in her teena haa a different proposition propo-sition to faca from the bells of Tester year. ... ' . . Anyway In grandma's day a young lady waa a nobody until ahe wa. married, V for better or for worse. She married Richard W. Christian, of Charlottesville, Virginia. There', only one difference In the equation equ-ation today. The modern aociety tHid elopes. Grandma didn't. The debutante baa suddenly seemed to develop aa great a dread of the big formal wedding with ' bridesmaids, flower girl, and ring bear-era bear-era aa ahe has of the period of lavish entertainment en-tertainment known as her coming-out ' year. Perhaps It's the novelty of running away with a auitcaae whea ahe haa always traveled with a truckload of trunks. Be that a It may, it must" be admitted the young women of 1928, with their swift self-driven motorcar and their not ao much a by-your-leave to their parenta, are putting the modern finishing eec bee on the days whea girla wore traina oa tho street and it waa the fashion to fall irrevocably in love at eighteen. '. - ; , In France the age of the average bride tod7 in thirty -ave. Thie m due to poet-war conditkma and throw into all the greater contrail the naive .and astonishing doinga taking place oa tola aide of the water. Hare in America the age tor marrying ha been pushed gradually up from the tender teens where our grandparents placed it to the middle twenties. and ,the late twenties. For a decade new the high coat af living, grim . apecter of aa apartment : for two, aaw to it that fewer and fewer couplea of moderate year, were hazardous hazard-ous .enough to change their single state until years had added a bank account to love', estate and experience had shown the way to make tt grow bigger. Now the emusing irony of the situation la that thia high coat of living bjgaboo Mrs, C Edgerton Warburtoa (left) and Mra. Henry G . -- Biahop, Jr. (above) are now numbered among the season's mart matrona, although both ar just about old enough to be thia winter' debutante Into his keeping; giving them much as though she wore the demure whit sajia wedding dreae of the alxtiea, with tta round neck and puffy sleeves. In place of the gorgeous ahimmering affair that proclaima her to bo a little bride of 192. . ADD to the tale of Gloria, tho story of little Elisabeth Pelt Warburtoa,' who, at the age of eighteen and just a month before ahe waa to be launched forth oa a debutante whirl, picked up her trape and raa off and married C. Edgerton Warburton, grandson of the late John Wanamaker. . Jean Ingelow Barker, another Philadelphia ' aociety girl, leaped the traces of her debut sad came demurely out of Gretna Green oa the arm of Arthur' H. Kingsley, pole plsyer and her newly made kuabendl And dreeaed in a white aummer frock Peggy McNeal, a aociety bud of sixteen, ' faced a magistrate in a dingy courtroom to take a young man in blue serge coat, white shoes and white serge trousers The debutante of today seems to have developed a great a dread of the big formal wedding aa ahe ha of th lavish entertainment enter-tainment known aa her coming-out year. Perhaps it is the novelty of away with a suitcase, the impetuoueneae of youth, or . the "new freedom" of woman, but, at all events, there eeema lately to be an epidemic of elopement and "teen bride" who akip away in their aelf-driven motors and marry "Jack" clandes-tinely clandes-tinely in soma convenient Cretna Creen rather than play the " of "watchful waiting" hundred and three yeara ahead of her time. She ia aaid to be dabbling in dangeroua heresies home, political and religious and to be aa carried away with her liberty aa a small boy with a atirk of dynamite on the Fourth of July. But while every one has been arguing about which law the sub-deb, deb or flapper (if you choose) haa bent back the farthest, thia enigmatic young person haa Grandmother was a. little girt sewing her sampler one day and some young men's wife the next. If you v. ant a faithful parallel shorn of the years, consider con-sider the raae of Gloria Could, who, it aeema, but yesterday waa playing with her beautiful big doll at Georgian Court, and who at the age of seventeen just married a notably anceatored young man, Henry A. Bishop, Jr giving her years ' , ' '. ': -, ,..:..!..-... . ., -.- . ' j . . f , . Ouvnekt. less, t rakite teasn Cwaeear ' ' . . , . . ' ' ; . ... . .. : ......... - |