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... MARRYING FOR ONE YFEAR SUCH a custom at one time existed in parts of Scotland, and especially in Dumfriesshire, and was known as handfasting, by which a man and a woman entered into conjugal relations on the strength simply of a verbal contract of marriage ...
... ‘“ Are You Married 2”7 IN Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff’s Notes from a Diary he tells a story of a young German officer of sixteen or seventeen, who found himself in command of a small body of men in a éreat French chateau during the Francoerman war—the ...
... be married ; captains should not be married ; and subalterns must be bachelors—though, sad to say, they often prove quite as susceptible as their seniors. The chief reason for this feeling against matrimony is that it is bad for the mess. Married officers ...
... SOLDIERS WHO ARE FORCED TO MARRY. - ~ Knowing as we do that in most of the armies of the world it is no easy matter for a soldier to get married, it may seem remarkable to many to know that in the past it was frequently made compulsory for - Tommy Atkins ...
... OFFICERS ABOUT TOO MARRY. THE majority of soldier' officers are not blessed with an overflow of the golden stream. Yet they like comfort, especially if they are married. They want to furnish say a flat or, perhaps, a house, and they also want on a very ...
... Married Quarters. As all the married quarters at Aldershot are occupied, the families of soldiers of the Royal Garrison Regiment will not go there until further orders, but will draw separation allowance. =~ ...
... WHY I MARRIED A SOLDIER. ...
... OUR SERIAL. MARRIED LIFE IN THE ARMY. A True Story. By A REDCOAT'S WIFE. ...
... OUR SERIAL. MARRIED LIFE IN THE ARMY. A True Story. By A REDCOAT'S WIFE. HAPTER 1L HEN I say that the news tha 'y husband had been ordere abroad came upon me like thunderbolt, I am stating the literal truth. Of course I had always had some vague sort ...
... Still, the pay though small is sure, and the Erivileges granted to those who ‘‘ marry with leave ” elp to keep a more comfortable home than might be ‘ imagined. To marry without leave, although all too often done, is a most unwise proceeding, and one ...
... OUR SERIAL. MARRIED LIFE IN THE ARMY. A True Story. By A REDCOAT'S WIFE. CHAPTER V BuT after all is said and done, married life in the Army is a little monotonous, and a young woman who marries a soldier with the expectation of ““seeing the world” and ...
... OUR SERIAL. MARRIED LIFE IN THE ARMY. : A True Story. By A REDcOATS WIFE. HE following articles may not be distinguished by any great degree of literary excellence, neither do they lay claim to vie with the polished productions of a professional writer ...