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Show The Happiest. In the smoking-room of the Finland, discussing a June wedding, Andrew Carnegie said: "And thank goodness it wasn't an international . marriage, though the bride did have 18 millions. "Not," appended Mr. Carnegie, "that I object to international marriages wherein the two parties are good and honorable and well matched. But so many of these marriages are like one that a Boston cynic described to me. " 'Was it a happy marriage?' I asked this Bostonian: " 'Oli, quite,' said he. 'The bride was happy, her mother was overjoyed. over-joyed. Lord Lacland was in ec-stacies, ec-stacies, and his creditors, I understand, under-stand, were in a state of absolutely endless and uncontrollable bliss.' " |