They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. <\/i><\/p>\n
\u2014Luke 17:27<\/i><\/p>\n
881<\/b> Longest Engagement<\/b><\/p>\n
Guinness\u2019 Records<\/i> say that history\u2019s longest engagement lasted 67 years between Octavio Guillena and Adriana Martinez. They were finally married in June, 1969, in Mexico City. Both were 82 years old. <\/p>\n
882<\/b> When A Fellow Kisses<\/b><\/p>\n
During a WOR broadcast, Dr. Carlton Fredericks was asked to explain the relationship between nutrition and kissing, and he told it\u2014in full! <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen a fellow kisses a girl,\u201d said Dr. Fredericks, \u201cthe adrenosympathetic system calls on the liver for glycogen for energy. This in turn forces the release of insulin, vitamin B-1, and phosphorus to burn the sugar. In his brain, if he is doing any thinking, which is problematical, there is an exchange of starch, phosphorus, and thiamine between the thalamic and the cortical brain. As the pulse and respiration rates rise, there is increased exchange of oxygen on the intracellular level, which would mean increased consumption of thiamine and phosphorus.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014New York Herald Tribune<\/i><\/p>\n
883<\/b> Legal Value Of Kiss: $275,000<\/b><\/p>\n
DETROIT, Michigan (UPI)\u2014Clare Tomie told a Wayne county circuit court jury she doesn\u2019t feel a thing when she kisses her husband, and the jury decided the lack of sensation was worth $275,000. <\/p>\n
Mrs. Tomie, who was awarded $260,000 said a dental operation left her lower lip and lower jaw permanently numb and had caused a strain in her relationship with her husband. <\/p>\n
The jury of four women and two men also awarded her husband $15,000. <\/p>\n
In the operation, Mrs. Tomie said, a part of a drill broke and imbedded in her jaw. Later, an X-ray disclosed a bit of metal in her jaw. It was removed, she said, but the numbness remained. <\/p>\n
The couple sued a Detroit oral surgeons group, which said it would seek a new trial. <\/p>\n
884<\/b> For A Year\u2014A Dead Duck! <\/b><\/p>\n
A Wisconsin clergyman usually has a premarriage conference with couples planning a wedding, and one of the questions he asks is how long they have known each other. <\/p>\n
\u201cNine times out of ten,\u201d says the minister, \u201cthe groom will answer, \u2019Two or three years, \u2019 while the bride will say, \u2019Three or four years. \u2019 In other words, she has had her eye on him, and he has been a dead duck for a year before he knew anything about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Milwaukee Journal<\/i><\/p>\n
885<\/b> Waiting 42 Years<\/b><\/p>\n
For forty-two years every week, David Thomas slipped a love letter under the door of his neighbor, Rachel Jones. Each letter attempted to mend the lover\u2019s quarrel that parted them when both were 32. Rachel Jones burned each letter and refused even to speak to her suitor. <\/p>\n
When David finally summoned courage to knock on her door and proposed, she accepted. Both were 74 years old when marriage finally came. <\/p>\n
886<\/b> He Waited 48 Years<\/b><\/p>\n
This time Madge Coomber\u2019s 89-year-old father gave his permission, and so Madge and Len Patching were married\u201448 years after Len was first rejected and went off to live in Australia. <\/p>\n
\u201cMadge was the only girl I ever loved,\u201d said the groom. \u201cI never married. I always knew that one day I would come back and find her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Last summer after retiring as a technical college instructor in New South Wales, he flew back to Britain to search for the woman he last knew as a childhood sweetheart of 17. <\/p>\n
He located her, now a widow, with the help of a local radio station. Within weeks they were engaged. <\/p>\n
887<\/b> \u201cLove\u201d Can\u2019t Be Returned<\/b><\/p>\n
Boise, Idaho (AP)\u2014Jack A. Hall had a short answer to why he spent $850 for a full-page advertisement for a birthday card for his girlfriend. \u201cLove,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Hall, 38, bought the ad in the Sunday Idaho Statesman<\/i> for Bette Barber\u2019s 21st birthday. He said the ad cost $714 and the photo work to spread Miss Barber\u2019s picture across the page brought it to $850. <\/p>\n
He said he thought of the ad when Miss Barber told him she didn\u2019t want him to spend any money on a gift. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s nothing tangible here,\u201d Hall said. \u201cShe can\u2019t return it.\u201d<\/p>\n
888<\/b> Rich But Timid Bachelors<\/b><\/p>\n
Bilbao, Northern Spain\u2014A hundred bachelors from the village of Ceberio, near here, are looking for wives and have offered a week\u2019s holiday to anyone introducing them to suitable girls. The newspaper, El Pueblo Vasco,<\/i> reported that the oldest among them is only 35 and that the majority are rich landowners. According to the newspaper the reason for their continuing bachelorhood is the natural timidity of the men of the region and the reluctance of girls of the area to settle down in Ceberio to which the bachelors are deeply attached. <\/p>\n
889<\/b> Prison Terms For Love<\/b><\/p>\n
Fidenza, Sicily (Reuter)\u2014Stefano Cambria loves Maria Barbieri very much, and Saturday, he went back to prison for the 11th time to prove it. <\/p>\n
The problem is that Maria, a 25-year-old school teacher, doesn\u2019t much like her persistent suitor\u2014and each time he annoys her, she calls the police. <\/p>\n
Cambria, 26, left only a week ago after serving the latest of a string of three-month sentences for molesting Signorina Barbieri. <\/p>\n
He went straight round to her school, telephoned her and Saturday morning tried to batter down the door of her home. <\/p>\n
She phoned the police. They took him to prison, for the 11th time since they first met on holiday three years ago. He was charged with trespassing. <\/p>\n
890<\/b> False Alarms In Love\u2019s Name<\/b><\/p>\n
Rene Jobin was deeply in love but the girl\u2019s parents would not even allow her to see him. While pacing the front of her house, he noticed a fire alarm strategically located beside the building. He had a flaming idea. He thought that if he pulled the alarm, the fire engines would come thundering, and in the commotion the people in the house would all rush out. He would have a chance to sneak off with her even for a few minutes. <\/p>\n
It worked. While pa and ma joined the firemen frantically looking for the fire, Rene and the girl had a blissful few minutes, vowing eternal devotion. It worked again the next time. In fact, it worked eight times. The Montreal Fire Department was driven crazy. <\/p>\n
The ninth time was different! The officials had set a watch and Rene was caught. The lovelorn girl is hoping that by the time he got out, he wouldn\u2019t be too old to marry her. <\/p>\n
891<\/b> Six Ambulances For Her<\/b><\/p>\n
This happened in Manhattan. The young lady was obviously not interested in her persistent suitor. But he kept on pressing the matter. When telephone calls to her were rebuffed with \u201cShe\u2019s out,\u201d he tried something unique. <\/p>\n
He had ambulances call at her house. One ambulance skidded to her door and the intern explained he was called to remove a young lady suffering from spinal injury. (He had a sense of humor! ). A second ambulance arrived for her. This time it was for fractured skull. A total of six ambulances showed up each attributing to her a supposed injury which he intended to symbolize what she had. <\/p>\n
The lady decided this was one ambulance too many and called the cops. <\/p>\n
892<\/b> Hymnal Proposal<\/b><\/p>\n
At the celebration of their 50th-wedding anniversary, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Calhoun of Tulsa told how he proposed and she accepted. They were attending a church service in Deepwater, Mo., when Mr. Calhoun flipped through the hymnbook and pointed out the words \u201cEvery Day I Need Thee More.\u201d Mrs. Calhoun took the hymnal, turned a few pages and showed him her answer: \u201cTake Me as I am.\u201d He did. <\/p>\n
\u2014Associated Press<\/i><\/p>\n
893<\/b> Victor Hugo\u2019s Novel<\/b><\/p>\n
The parents of the girl Victor Hugo was courting disapproved strongly of his company. They went so far as to stop his mail. <\/p>\n
But Victor Hugo did not give up. He began a novel, whose plot was the situation between Victor Hugo, his girl, and her parents. Naturally, they bought and read the novel. From then on he was permitted to see her. <\/p>\n
\u2014Tone<\/i><\/p>\n
894<\/b> Vera Hruba\u2019s Marriage Proposals<\/b><\/p>\n
A young lady entered the United States, and there were $20,000 and 3,000 proposals of marriage waiting for her. A case of American hospitality:<\/p>\n
The lucky girl was Vera Hruba. She came to the United States on some figure skating exhibitions when her permit to remain in the country expired. She would have to return to Nazi-dominated Czechoslovakia, unless she got married to an American. In the publicity, she described herself as \u201ca romantic, homeloving girl.\u201d This in addition to her blond, good looks, would have given her no difficulty getting a husband. And she was resigned to it, when an avalanche of 3,000 proposals came to her. <\/p>\n
Meanwhile, she was told that she could go to Canada and then return to the USA under the Czechoslovakian immigration quota. This she did. On returning to the States, the proposals were waiting for her, plus a legacy of twenty thousand dollars from an unknown Mrs. Nan Foley. Lucky girl. <\/p>\n
895<\/b> Solomon As Better Judge<\/b><\/p>\n
When William Jennings Bryan went to call on the father of his prospective wife and seek the hand of his daughter in marriage, knowing the strong religious feeling of the father, he thought to strengthen his case by a quotation from the Bible, and quoted the proverb of Solomon: \u201cWhoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing\u201d (Prov. 18:22). <\/p>\n
But to his surprise the father replied with a citation from Paul to the effect that he that marrieth doeth well, but he that marrieth not doeth better. The young suitor was for a moment confounded. Then with a happy inspiration he replied that Paul had no wife and Solomon had seven hundred, and Solomon, therefore, ought to be the better judge as to marriage. <\/p>\n
\u2014C. E. Macartney<\/p>\n
896<\/b> Edison Puts Telegraphy To Use<\/b><\/p>\n
As a boy, Thomas Edison learned telegraphy. Later, after he had become a successful inventor, he used his ability at the telegraph key to send a proposal of marriage to his sweetheart, Mina Miller. Edison\u2019s first wife died when he was thirty-seven. Later, he met Mina, a young and lovely lady. Edison taught Mina the Morse code, and after he had learned it, he tested her with a message tapped out with a coin. Mina decoded the \u201cmessage,\u201d which was really a marriage proposal, and tapped out her acceptance. <\/p>\n
Not the most romantic proposal in history, but certainly as effective as any on record. <\/p>\n
897<\/b> Out Of The Clouds<\/b><\/p>\n
One of the most unusual meetings that later blossomed into romance was that experienced by Lauritz Melchoir, the great Wagnerian tenor. When he was a young man studying music, he was one day sitting in the garden of his boarding school in Munich, practicing a certain passage. He sang out one of the lines, \u201cCome to me, my love, on the wings of light.\u201d<\/p>\n
Scarcely had the words been sung, when a young lady literally dropped out of the sky and landed at his feet. The young lady was Maria Hacker, a Bavarian actress who had been doing a stunt for a movie thriller. A part of her act was to parachute from a plane. The winds had changed and she landed in the garden of this music school. Yes, Lauritz and Maria were later married. <\/p>\n
898<\/b> She Smiled! <\/b><\/p>\n
The movie millionaire, Nicholas Schenck, was boarding the yacht of Tom Meighan, when he noticed a slip of a girl standing near the edge of the dock. <\/p>\n
\u201cFor some inexplicable reason,\u201d Schenck later recalled, \u201cI had an uncontrollable impulse to push her into the water. To my horror\u2014I did. I had no idea if she could swim. I expected an infuriated young woman. Instead, she came to the surface, blinked the water out of her eyes and smiled a brilliant smile. <\/p>\n
\u201cI said to myself, \u201cthat\u2019s the girl I\u2019m going to marry!\u201d\u201d and he did. <\/p>\n
899<\/b> To Feel Loss Of Million Dollars<\/b><\/p>\n
Representative Joseph W. Martin, Jr., Republican House leader, is often twitted by his colleagues about being a bachelor. Representative Clarence Brown likes to say that in his youth Martin narrowly missed being married and being a millionaire to boot. <\/p>\n
According to Brown\u2019s fanciful tale, Martin paid court to a young lady who confided she had a million dollars. Brown said the following passage ensued:<\/p>\n
\u201cWill you marry me?\u201d Martin asked the girl. <\/p>\n
\u201cNo,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI thought so.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen why did you ask?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cJust to see what it feels like to lose a million dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Walter Trohan<\/p>\n
900<\/b> Girls Want Sense Of Humor<\/b><\/p>\n
A computer test based on thousands of returned questionnaires showed that 65 percent of the women found a sense of humor the most important quality in a man. <\/p>\n
The runner-up qualities were: regarding the woman as an equal (55 percent), and loving children (34 percent). <\/p>\n
Good looks were at the bottom of the list with only 4 percent. <\/p>\n
901<\/b> Woman Could Wait<\/b><\/p>\n
In Rheims an innkeeper opened a bottle of champagne from his wine cellar and found this note in the packing: \u201cWill the person who drinks this champagne and finds my photo here please write to me? I am 17 and looking for a husband.\u201d The innkeeper wrote and received this reply: \u201cAlas! Your champagne was bottled in 1956. Wine can wait and age ten years in confidence, but a woman cannot.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014NANA-WNS<\/i><\/p>\n
902<\/b> Vase Cracked At Proposal<\/b><\/p>\n
When Jan and Hendrika Smit of Rotterdam, Holland, celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. They had their children, their grandchildrens and their great-grandchildren home for the occasion. But on the banquet table they had placed a cracked vase as the chief ornament. <\/p>\n
Here\u2019s Hendrika\u2019s explanation of that vase: \u201cWhen Jan proposed to me, the vase was on the table in front of the sofa on which we were sitting. I answered in the affirmative in what I thought was modest tone, but it caused the vase to crack right through. It hasn\u2019t been able to hold water ever since.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Prairie Overcomer <\/i><\/p>\n
903<\/b> A Dozen Times \u201cYes\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
He had but recently met an elderly maiden lady while in the country, and on his return home he wrote asking her to marry him, and requesting an answer by telegraph. On receiving the letter the lady rushed to the telegraph office. \u201cHow much does it cost now to send a telegram?\u201d she demanded. <\/p>\n
\u201cNinepence for twelve words,\u201d answered the clerk, and this was the telegram her suitor received. <\/p>\n
\u201cYes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Selected<\/p>\n
904<\/b> \u201cIf It Doesn\u2019t Rain\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
The young man poured out his heart\u2019s devotion on paper as he wrote to the girl of his dreams:\u201cDarling: <\/p>\n
I would climb the highest mountain, swim the widest stream, cross the burning desert, die at the stake for you. <\/p>\n
P. S. I will see you on Saturday\u2014if it doesn t rain.\u201d <\/p>\n
905<\/b> \u201cHe\u2019s Gettin\u2019 Thar\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
Hiram had walked four miles over the Great Smokies to call on his lady fair. For a time they sat silent on a bench by the side of her log cabin, but soon the moon, as moons do, had its effect and Hiram slid closer to her and patted her hand. \u201cMary,\u201d he began, \u201cy\u2019 know I got a clearin\u2019 over thar and a team an\u2019 a wagon an\u2019 some hawgs an\u2019 cows, an\u2019 I\u2019low to build me house this fall an\u2019\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
Here he was interrupted by Mary\u2019s mother, who had awaken. \u201cMary,\u201d she called in a loud voice, \u201cis that young man thar yit?\u201d<\/p>\n
Back came the answer, \u201cNo, Maw, but he\u2019s gettin\u2019 thar.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Capper\u2019s Weekly<\/i><\/p>\n
906<\/b> Epigram On Courtship<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 Puppy love has sent many a young man to the dogs. <\/p>\n
\u2022 To marry a woman for her beauty is like buying a house for its paint. <\/p>\n
\u2022 The greatest salesman in the world is not a man\u2014it\u2019s a girl selling her boy friend the engagement ring! <\/p>\n
\u2014Maxwell Droke<\/p>\n
\u2022 The teen-ager sent his girlfriend her first orchid with this note: \u201cWith all my love and most of my allowance.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u201cTo lovers, even pockmarks look like dimples.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u2014Japanese<\/p>\n
\u2022 Heard during a news report on the radio: \u201cEfforts are being made to avert a threatened strike of stewardesses and pursuers.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 A draftee claimed exemption on the grounds of poor eyesight\u2014and brought his wife along to prove it. <\/p>\n
\u2014The Ohio Motorist<\/i><\/p>\n
\u2022 In the bakery department of a Dallas supermarket, a wedding cake was set out for shoppers with the sign: \u201cHe changed his mind. Have a piece of cake on us.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u2014Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/i><\/p>\n
See also:<\/b> Divorces ; Marriages ; Matt. 24:38.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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