Show MARRIAGE EASY IN SCOTLAND simple declarant arat on suffices to make couple man and wife to be married by scotch laws one must have resided for a fortnight in the country after that it Is quite sut focient for two people to say before witnesses that they take each other as man and wife to marry them as legally and as firmly as it the arch bishop of canterbury himself had per formed the ceremony it Is not alone when the declaration Is solemn and in tent lonal that the marriage Is bind ing such a declaration made in jest is enough to hold as firmly as it it were in earnest many young people have thus slipped into matrimony un wittingly even for a man to address a woman as his wife either by writing or by speech and for her to respond in the same terms constitutes a marriage in scotland anyone who has ever read wilkle colllns novel man and wife will remember there a case in point the heroine sends a note to the hero signing herself your wife he Is sufficiently careless and indof terent to write his reply on the back 0 her own letter and sign himself your husband this note crumpled up and tossed aside as of no value falls into the hands of an lous person who to levy blackmail on the hero keeps it and produces it as evidence of marriage no other form had been gone through and yet the couple were married legally |