The day book. [volume], August 24, 1912, Image 3

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DAUGHTER HASA MIND OF HER OWN AND MOTHER'S
ATTEMPT TO MARRY HER TO RICH MAN'S SON FAILS
The attempt of a mother to
force her daughter to marry a
rich man's son ended in the arrest
of the mother and the rich man's
son today.
The mother is Mrs. Theresa
Canty, 501 West vThirty-eighth
street; the rich man's sonis
Lawrence Rhode, 471 28th street;
the girl is Marie Canty, who has
a mind of her own.
Lawrence Canty is tHe son of
August L. Rhode, a well-to-do
carpenter contractor, who owns
an automobile and has, allowed
his son to become spoiled.
Lawrence first met Marie three
years ago. She was-only 15 years
old then. But this did not ieaze
Lawrence. He decided he was go
ing to marry her.
There was nothing much wrong
with this. Marie is a pretty and
a winsome girl, and anyone might
come to the same decision as
Lawrtence. s
Marie, however, did not decide
that Lawrence was the man for
her. When he persisted in his at
tentions, she told him just what
she thought of him, very loud and
clear.
Mrs. Canty had watched with
approval the attentions of young
Lawrence to her daughter. Did
he n,ot drive up every night in an
automobile to take Marie driving,
and was not a young man who
owned an automobile a very de
sirable Requisition to the family?
Mrs. Canty decided that such a
young man was. She told Marie
so. Marie explained that she did
not like Lawrence. Mother ex
plained that Marie had better be
gin to likeLawrence, because she,
mother, had decided that Marie
was going to marry Lawrence.
Marie wept. Mother was un
moved.," Marie dried her tears,
and set her chin very firmly in
deed. "Well, I won't marry him any
how; she said. "So there!"
Thereafter there was no peace
in the Canty family. Mother a.U
ways, was harping on the fine
qualities of young Rhode, and
daughter always was explaining
just how she felt about it.
Two months ago mother de
cided the time had come for more
strenuous methods of acquiring a
rich man's son for a son-in-law.
She invited young Rhode to come
and stay at the Canty home, and
this Rhode, who had been hang
ing around making a nuisance of
himself alt the time, was tickled
to death.
He came; he stayed; but he did"
not conquer. Marie was still as
warm and melting as an ice box
in the dead of winter, and she fre
quently told 'Lawrence what she
thought of him.
Last Wednesday mother or
dered Marie to sit on Lawrence
at table, adding that she might
have, to do so after they wece mar
ried. Marie explained a trifle wearily
just how distant her marriage t(J
Lawrence was and refused abso
lutely to wait on him
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