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Show II MARRIAGE EASY IN SCOTLAND." i ' , I 8lmplo Declaration Suffices to Make i'"1' Couple Man and Wife. J i , To bo niarrlod by Scotch lawB one ) must havo resldod for a fortnight In M jtho country. After that It Is quite suf- ' flclent for two pcoplo to say before ; ! witnesses that thoy tako each other ! as man and wlfo to marry them as j legally and as firmly as If tho arch- j bishop of Canterbury himself had por- J formed tho ceremony. It Is not alone 1 1 jwhen tho declaration Is solemn nnd In-, I .tentlonnl that tho marrlago Is bind-, 4 tng. Such a declaration mado In jest J U Is enough to hold as firmly as If It A , iwero In earnest. Many young people 5 I have thus slipped Into matrimony un- a ' .wittingly, j Even for a man to nddrcss a woman jg M bis wife, cither by writing or by I fpeech, and for hor to respond In tho j Bamo terms, constitutes a marrlago In I , Scotlnnd. Anyono who has over read 1 .Wllkle Collins' novel, "Man and Wife," will rcmombor there a case In point. Tho horolno sends n note to tho hero, slgnlnr herself "Your Wlfo"; he Is sufficiently careless nnd Indlf-1 Indlf-1 ferent to wrlto his reply on tho back oi her own letter, and sign himself. "Your Husband." This noto, crumpled up and tossed asldo as of no value, falls Into tho hands of nn unscrupu-f unscrupu-f lous person, who, to lovy blackmail .on the hero, keeps It, and produces It as ovldonco of marrlago. No other form had boon gone through nnd yet the couplo woro married legally. |