Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-03-26

lar, buttoned up nearly to the throat
but not high enough to conceal whit
waistcoat beneath, pale plush rose il
his hole, and gray trousers, woulC
never do for the costume of bridegroom
of the Minerva school of romance. AnC
yet Sir robert Peel might have stood
for his portrait to any lady novelist il
search of hero. Tall and well proper
toned, with handsome features, darl
hair, quick eye. a buoyant manner, 8
graceful moustache and imperial, san.
whiskers, Sir Robert Peel in his thirty.
sixth year might very well pass fol
twenty-eight or thirty. The bridegroom
made his way to his mother and affec'
tionately kissed her. Lady Peel seemed
affected, and hid her face behind hel
bouquet to conceal tear. Women ap.
pear to have fewer misgivings over The
marriage of their daughters than of theil
sons. The old distich shadows forth the
reason
ssy daughters my daughter all the days her life
NJ sons my until he gets him wife"
Sir Robert then turned to his sister,
Mrs Stoner, and imprinted kiss on heI
fair brow, and then shook hands with his
friends and received their congratula-
tons. Time wore on, however, and the
canonical hours seemed wearing away.
The bridegroom evidently became impa-
tient, and leaving his friends Nalked TO
the entrance of the chapel, where the
bridesmaids, beautiful bevy, awaited
the arrival of the bride. Some Of the
ladies appeared disposed to complain
that the bridesmaids all wore bonnets
and cloaks during the ceremony, but il
young people refuse to wait until the
Spring, and insist upon being married in
January, they cannot expectyoung ladies
to get-cold at their wedding. 1t is true
that the bridesmaids wore bcnnets, but
then, it must be in justice remembered,
that they were of very thin gauzy white
muslin, and could have impaired very
little warmth to the head. They also
wore white cloaks over their white satin
dresses, but the cloak had hood of rose
pink plush, and a fringe of the same
color, and the dresses had two or three
deep founces of plush to match so with
the roses in their bonnets, the young la
dies in question, to my thinking, looked
very charming and gay.
About III the Marquis of Tweeddale
entered the chapel with the bride upon
his arm. Lady Emily is rather above
the middle stature, and of fair complex
ion. Her face is broad about the eyes,
after the Scottish type of female beauty.
She has small lips, and still further COM
pressed by emotion, brown hair, and
dark eyes. She was dressed in white
satin, covered with costly lace, and wore
a long veil of Honiten lace, of the rich
est design. Add orange blossoms in her
hair and stomacher, and magnificent
bouquet of white camelIias and orange
blossoms picked out with green, and you
have the portrait of Lady Emily Hay,
as, at the charming age of nineteen,
she stood at the altar to plight her
faith.
Lady Emily made the responses in
low voice, but with frmness. The ser.
vice was performed by the Very Rev.
the Dean of Worcester, the uncle of the
bridegroom. When the lady's hand
was wanted to plight her troth, it was
discovered that she still held in it the
arge bouquet. Sir Robert gallantly
relieved her of it, but then it was dis
covered that his hand was also wanted. |
The bouquet was clearly detrop, and Sir
Robert did what the bride ought 10 have
lone, and gave it to one Of the brides
maids to have and to hold until the con-
;lusion of the services. The only other
occurred with. the ring
When this semi-indispensable article is
wanted at the cold Church" on Easter
Monday, the bridegroom, as you must
lot unfrequently have observed, dives
lis hand into his corduroys, and brings
'ut bit of sealing-wax, bunch of
.eys, piece of pencil, and several shil-
ings and six pences, out of which mis-
ellaneous assortment the wedding-ring
las to be picked. In high life the waist.
oat pocket is usually selected as the re-
epiacle for the ring, and there Sir Rob-
1T found it. But, when handed to the
Jean, 1t was seen TO be wrapped up in
o many folds of tissue paper, that, if
he dainty Ariel had been bridesmaid,
nd had commissioned Master Puck to
lay some mischievous trick, this ring
ould not have been extracted with more
ificulty from its encircling tissues but,
18th the united aid of the Dean and the
the ring was at last seized,
nd placed by the happy husband upeo
lie finger of his fair bride. Lady Emily
id not shed tear during the ceremony
I Il hope it viii not be considered i'll
atured if I say that this has gone out of
lshion } but when the service was over
be turned deadly pale, and seemed to
ave strong desire to faint away. Itlc