Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1875 — A Broken Engagement Published. [ARTICLE]

A Broken Engagement Published.

A Berlin correspondent of a San Francisco paper, writing of German betrothals, says: “ There is one disadvantage connected with the German fashion of making these matters so openly , known to the public, which will, I think, forever prevent our changeable American lovers from following their examples. Sometimes, in the columns of ‘Family Intelligence,’ in which births, betrothals and marriages appear, occurs such a paragraph: ‘ For satisfactory reasons the betrothal of our daughter Margarette Catharine Gotz with Herr Johann William Schuneman has been dissolved by us.’ The names of both parents in full legal form follow this paragraph. Just imagine the horror of such a catastrophe, voung ladies and gentlemen of America. Your misfortune not only whispered here and there, and quietly discussed in the circles of friends and acquaintances, but proclaimed thus in printed black and white for an unsympathizing public. I’m sure I don’t know how a German frauiein ever survives it; but I believe they do. People don’t die any oftener of broken hearts here than with us.” "* » Strawberry short-cake, this year, will be berry short. —•-