Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1882 — An Indiana Romance. [ARTICLE]

An Indiana Romance.

New Castle Cor. IntlliiuupollH Times. The circumstances of a wedding which took place last Friday could bd' made the theme of a thrilling roraaijteo. For almost a year Miss Carrie Bowen, a young lady of /Hagerstown, who stopped here with a/ married sister, has had two suitor?—one the pastor of a church in Howard county, tbe other an ex-teacher of this place, jf Some mouths ago it was give® out that of the two suitors the preacher seemed to suit her bept, and a wedding day, Sunday, October 16th, was agreed Upon. But, alas! Woman’s vanity, and a preacher’s sense of propriety met In conflict. Two weeks before the wedding day! the divine was here, and observed a burn upon the forehead of ids favored one ftnd asked the cause.i It was dono widi crimping irons, “Wbat, do you crimp your hair?” It was readily admitted, when the pastor delivered a lecture on vanity, ami said: “When you become my wife you must cease to do so.” Hhe had hot the forethought to consent, aml sweetly say “I will,” with the mental reservation of saying “I wont” when the knot should be tied On these crimps they parted two weeks before the wedding day. But in the meantime the teacher had put in a sealed proposal for the heart and band,,as a secondary offer, if the first missed by at y means. The wedding trosseau was ready, the wedding, had been set for fost Sunday,the teacher was accepted \gith ho conditions or ob.ections |regard!pg the crimped ba r being made, the marriage took place,' the father of the biride made a present of a rich eighty aicte farm near Hagerstown, and the preacher is left to look for a bald-headed wife.