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Show JURY ASSISTS 1 CUPIO TO MATE TliSEIN LOVE : Founder of Strange Court Himself Picks Bride At Session j HAMMONTON, NT. J Aug. 17 i ( Ry th" Associated Press There has I come into being here one of the l:rangest courts in all the world ; h court of lo - where men and wo I mc n in search of males may come. pour out the longings of the heart I and be succorSd, Before the court are the iualifica-tb iualifica-tb ns and the yearnings of some I,-( I,-( ooo bachelors and 1,100 spinsters, but ths fiyst d.i s work resujted-ln only five matings. These, however, were shining examples of what may come. A man. 6J years obi. was mated 'v.iih a gold star mother, 43 years old; ! an uinb rtaker was selected as husband I for a nurse- a coastguard was picked to become the protector and life companion com-panion of a fair divorcee a widow was slated to become the helpmate of .i pointer and last, but not least, a Kentucky belle daughter of the i mountnins--was Miat. ln-d i.p by I Thomas Bancroft Duiker, founder of I the court. .11 Hi CUPID The court of love, be ll known, is, constituted much the same as any oth.-r roi:i!. ba'- illg a pr bling jin.lge. ' or Cupid. In this case, a woman, and id jury of seven, including the chief of prdb c. a former so'dler. a telegrapher , and four women The idea of the ; court so the story goes, was conceived p r n plate of hash In the town res-taurant res-taurant by Delker and Lewis Gonley, I Hammonton's leading igar store j pggprietor They organised the lxv-I lxv-I its' Cooperative union, which in turn ', product d the love court. Court sat for He first lime In the I ope end only moving picture house. Bleeding hearts, with black arrows piercing them through, decorated the bench and the j irv box The first aud-lenCS aud-lenCS was made up of twelve news-I news-I paper reporters, sis photographers and two hoys. BRIDJ t ROM KENT! CK Delker opened court hy rcadinK the letter from the lonely Kentucky belle, and after going over her qualifications asked the jury to recommend him.1 which it did. It was announced that fo 1000 women who sought husbands ! the youngest wa IS and the oldest, 0?. The youngest male applicant was 3 and the oldest 79 The jury dolihci aled sometime In mating the gold star mother, whose honu Is In Norwalk, Conn., and the fill year-old-man from Blmhurt, N V They explained in deciding in favor of lbs man that he was well preserved, i had a good job and a healthy bank' account. "He is much younger than his years. " theyrcported. The five women hove cases were disposed of were notified that in case ihev were dissatisfied with the flnd-i flnd-i InsrR of the court fhey had two weeks within which to file applications for ' new boa rlni;s. |