Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1894 — Very Young. [ARTICLE]

Very Young.

In a certain part of Poland It Is tho custom for people to marry whon very young. A Yankee who had visited that country was giving his Impressions in a manner characteristic of his kind. "There Is one thing about that place whloh actually astonished mo. They have very early marriages there. One day I took shelter from the rain In a cottage. There I found a tiny girl sobbing bitterly, at tho same tlino pushing backward and forward a swinging cot, in whloh another child was going off to sleep. “ ‘Why weopest thou, my child?’ I asked her. “ ‘Alas! Woe Is unto me' Woe Is unto me! Mine husband hath the measles, and I am trying to soothe him to sleep.’ ”