"OF COURSE I'LL NOT
OBEY HIM," SAID SHE.
And the Judge Had to Revise Civil
Ceremony for This Laugh-
ing Bride.
"Do you, Minnie Louise Kendrick, take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband, to honor and obey, to cleave to in --"
Justice F. O. Miller's recitation of the ritual was interrupted by laughter from the girl in the white dress. There was something infectious in her laughter, it was so girlish and free. The judge fell to laughing and the mere man, Professor Joseph F. Bell, looked on in amazement. When the girl straightened her face finally , she said:
"No, of course, I won't obey him. How funny!" Then she laughed again.
"I think you ought to, after I came all the way from the Philippine islands for you," put in Professor Bell pleasantly.
Miss Kendrick didn't reply, except to keep right on laughing. And she won the point, too, for at last the professor surrendered.
"I guess I'll leave the obey part out," chuckled Judge Miller. And he did when he repeated the sentence.
Professor Bell is principal of the United States schools in Ilagan, P. I. He has been out th ere two years. His bride taught last year in the city schools at Brunswick, Mo. Professor Bell met her there fou r or five years ago, when she was a pupil under him in the high school.
After their marriage in the court house they left for Chicago. There is to be a trip over the Great lakes before they settle in Ilagan.
