Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1911 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

I QUAINT MARRIAGE NOTICE. William Cullen Bryant Broke the News j Gently to His Mother. . . The following letter from William Cullen Bryant to his mother, quoted by Professor Chubb in “Stories of Authors.” indicates that the author of “Thanatopsis” could enjoy his UtAe joke on occasion: “Dear Mother—l hasten to tend you the melancholy Intelligence M what has lately happened to me. Early on the evening of the eleventh day of the present month I was at a neighboring house in this village. Several people of both sexes were assembled in one of the apartments, and three or four others, with myself, were in another. ’At last came in a little elderly gentleman, pale, thin, with a solemn countenance, pleuritic voice, hooked nose and ihollow eyes. It was not long before (we were summoned to attend In the 'apartment where he and the rest of ' the company were gathered. We went in and took our seats. The little elderly gentleman with the hook nose 'prayed, and we all stood up. When he had finished most of us sat down. The gentleman with the hooked nose then muttered certain cabalistic expressions, which I was too much (frightened to remember, but I recollect that at the conclusion I was given to understand that I was married to a young lady of the. name of Frances Fairchild, whom I perceived standing by my side and whom I hope in the course of a few months to have the pleasure of Introducing to you as your daughter-in-law, which Is a matter of some interest to the poor girl, who has neither father nor mother in the world.”