hood,
From the day of the doll and mud-pie,
When the time came of course they got married,
As one puts on one's coat or one's tie!

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A SHAME TO TAKE THE $.

Young Rebayte, Jr. had a stack,
A show girl he did wed,
She married him behind his back,
For she had turned his head!

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NEWPORT NEWS.

Bernard De Lancey and Evelyn Smarte
Disregarding good taste and the cost,
Got married again--an affair of the heart--
They were tired of being divorced!

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NO OBJECTIONS.

Izzy Morris Fiddlebaum
Wed Leah Meyer Rosen,
For neither had a prejudice
Against what's called "The Chosen"!

[Illustration: These Lots will go to the man who marries me
THE OWNER]

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HE WANTED THE EARTH!

Joe married Miss Paula McQuaver,
And altho' she was thin and passe,
She really had lots in her favor--
About eight city lots on Broadway!

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QUITE RECKLESS.

She loved him for he was so brave,
Yes, in that line quite peerless--
He married this widow with seven kids--
By gosh, was not that fearless?

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SHE HAD POSITION.

Al Higgins thought he married well when he got Sally Brown,
For very well connected was his "poil,"
Connected too with all the finest families in the town--
By telephone--She was a "Hello-Goil"!

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"DON'T."

These foolish happy people here,
Mehitabel and Harry,
Disdaining quite those words of "Punch"
To those about to marry!

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