Morgan County Star | 1912-09-28 | Page 7 | Couldn't Have Done Better

HAVE DONE BETTER marriage Arran arrangement gemen t seemed something of a bargain but it turned out happily george A birmingham the widely known writer says there Is no country in the world where marriage at cast in tile the peasant class to la more a matter of bargaining and yot yet shows a higher average ot of stability and content than ireland sometimes the man mail has never seen tile tho woman before they aro are brought together tho the precise number of pounds sown or pigs to bo be handed over having been by that time settled this Is illustrated lu fit personal recollections just published by an irish woman she was visiting with an built a cottage in fit tho the neighborhood and admired a floo fine mahogany cheat of drawers dra wera for that I 1 was waa married said bald tho the mistress of tho the cottage A young oung farmer had also seen anil and admired A bargain was struck there was no money but tile tho bride was waa to have a couple of sheep a yearling bearlin bullock arid and the chest the prudent young man measured tt it and then turned arid and asked an which 0 thlin little girls laile she was the oldest unmarried tile the doore as tho the phrase was an so BO I 1 wint she said and was happy ever afterwards tit bits