Marriage by Proxy ( )

seated around. Now it's our Miss Brooks starring Eve Arden. Well to many school teachers the end of June signifies more than just the completion of a term's work. It often ushers in romance and marriage. To our Miss Brooks who teaches English at Madison High School it also has a special significance. It certainly has. To me the

end of June is significant because it's ushers in July. Oh, it's not that Mr. Boynton hasn't asked me to marry him dozens of times. It's just he hasn't asked me once. I tried to forget about it, but last Saturday morning at breakfast, my landlady reopened the case.

Connie, I've been thinking, if you're going to be a June bride, we better step on it. And last, a proposal. I'm serious dear. You've got to bring home to Mr. Boynton the fact that this is the month of romance. The time when all living creatures reach out to one another.

If I reach out any further I'll look like a giraffe. June is a wonderful month coming. My sister Angela and my brother Victor were married in June you know. It was a double wedding. Angela and Victor married a half-brother and a half-sister.

Where were they married in the little half church around the corner? The boy's father was the girl's father as well, but his mother was her stepmother. Of course, her father was the boy's stepfather, but he had passed on by the time they were married, so he couldn't give the bride away.

You want a pity? So, so the bride's step uncle gave her away. He was the boy's mother's half-brother, of course. What else could he be? It was a beautiful ceremony, Connie. And within five years, each couple had three little girls.