Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1881 — Love in West Virginia. [ARTICLE]

Love in West Virginia.

Not far from Wirt county is the home of two young ladies, sisters, aged respectively 18 and 20 years. They were each receiving the addresses of lovers, who were brothers, and both couples were engaged to be married. It was their intention to celebrate a double wedding about the holidays, but now matters have changed. A few days ago the four were sitting together in the parlor at the girls’ home, when the elder lady expressed the desire to attend a Erotracted meeting then being eld in a village near ty. She asked her lover to accompany her, but he refused point blank, giving as his reason that he was not a Christian. The young lady insisted, but still he refused. Finally she turned to his brother, who, it seems, was a Christian, and asked him to accompany her. To the surprise of all, heat once consented, ana they went to the meeting. The two who remained at home were very indignant, the one at the Gonduct of her lover, the other at the way that his sweetheart had acted. The more they discussed it, the more angry they became. They discovered that they —the ones at home—were both “sinners,” while the two who had gone were Christians. They talked on, discovering little by little similarities of taste and habits, and finally resolved %ach to break with the old love and form a new alliance. No sooner resolved than the compact was ratified by a kiss, when by chance the others entered. The gentleman at once told his brother what they had resolved to do. To his great surprise no sorrow was shown, no anger was manifested, and his wonder was increased when he was informed that the other couple, while on their walk home, had resolved to do the same thing. The hugging, therefore, now goes on as usual.