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Show Getting Married at 14 Worried Her, She Didn't Have Anything To Wear i . i By NBA Service) jiJfACOX, Go Aug so Getting mar-1V1 mar-1V1 rlcd il 1 i w on led little Misa Florence Bright enormously Not so .much begaUse 1 1 was only 14 and her i parents objected but because shoj didn ' hn i thing to wear' i Whjkrh .'.hows, doubtless, that she was more grown up ihun people I thought i I Naturally Ii was an elopement. Papa Ohd mama were Rolng to send her i.u to boarding school because they thought she was Hieing too much of! Claude i -hat's Claude oliphant, the 19-year-old husband.) I didrr'1 think we were really andj truly going tO get married that nlghtj I uhen Claude and 1 started for lhO show lid ypung M.'s-. OUphant j I -But when w-o KOt on the street car h I said. 'Flossie!' (That's what he calls me. yr;i know), Flossie,' he said. I if "we're going to get married tonlht" Ho said In had ihe license m hl9 pocket Well, I told him 1 .lust couldn't 1 didn't have on the right clothes to get married In Just a plain little VOilC dress ou know!' Foung Mrs. oilphant shuddered at the thought. She: added "But when Claude said the preacher preach-er was waiting for us l Just couldn't disappoint him!'' (Which shows no doubt, that the thrill of romance, even at 11. rises above feminine fashion instinc:s i "When we got almost there." young Mrs. oilphant wen; on. "I said to myself. my-self. 'No. I'm no, going to do It:- But! we finally got there and I lust didn't see any aense In backing out!" No. she isn't S bit sorry She says she likes married life ' for Claud is eo sweet, and he's good looking, too ', (She keeps Claude's picture in a, i (little frame on the table they're llv-'f ling with the young husband's parents - and she's very proud of ;i gold wedding wed-ding rinx, even if It Is several sizes too large -for her 14-year-old finger.) "I've tied S Piece of string around it to make ii fit until m finger growa " she said. Young Mrs. Oilphant I taking some tucks out of her dre-ses to help her grow up in a hurry I want io look like a married lady "' she salel "Being married Is oceans better than goln off to .- stic'. old boarding school where old maid teachers teach-ers won ! even let you peep out of the window."' (She's cot her first wound stripe. too. Thorn's a barfttage on 'h first finger on her rl?ht hand where shell mimed herself trying to cook Claude's : supper th second nlcht of their honeymoon j 1 assess! |