Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1864-05-06
=" Out Bride"

street that runs past the park As he
took his seat in the slip, there was visi
BILE sensation among that portion of the
audience who wear bonnets. All the
feminine eyes in the house were turned
towards slip No. 103. The minister in
his pulpit noticed the sensation, and
glanced towards the point Of attraction tc
sec what was up.
"Ah,n he thought to himself, as his
eyes met the bushing face of Mr.. Adams
''the young man that married some
weeks ago is out with his bride. Good
fellow makes me think of the time when
L was in the same situation. There's
happiness in store for him for he has got
noble wife. 1t almost makes me wish
was young again and just married. I
love to look upon a couple just starting
out in life, there is something very sweet
about it,
He turned his thoughts in other direc.
tions, and gave out the morning hymn,
and read the morning lesson.
There's Mrs. William Adams out
bride ~ exclaimed Miss Strickland, to
herself as she took her seat in her father s
slip, and and let her eyes run across the
church. She gave her fur cape an un-
easy twitch: she brushed back her pro-
fusion of curls, and took another look at
William. "Well I hope be is satisfied
now he is got wife. He won't come
hanging round me any more, that's GER
tain. But l did love him though, and l
have always regretted that l was so fool
sh as to tell him no, when he asked me
to be his wife. l never once thought the
fellow would quit me, then and there, but
he did, and [ was too proud to take back
what | had once said. All me don't l
remember all the long walks by moonlight
which we used to take together ? How
hung on his arm, and he pressed my
hand in that soft sweet way he had. l
have never had such good times since
the fellows all seem to have left me. l
wonder if they talk about such things rs
much as We girls do? l they do, then it
is known all over town that | quilted
him. But am going off to boarding
school next week and | will take up with
the first fellow l can find there ~
a. do dislike to see so much fashion
and folly brought into church" whispered
Sally Ann Robinson, an old maid, of
thrty-two, to her sister Jane. "Thero is
Mrs. William Adams out bride, as sure
as you're a born won,an Do see that
white feather on her hat, and those vel.
low kid gloves. you'll never catch me
coming out bride in that way can tell
/ you.'
"No never" replied her sister
"They pretended to feel happy enough
now, l suppose, but l dare say Mrs. Ad
ans will find courtship and marriage two
quite different things"
"Quite different" replied her sister.
IL should think people might start out
into life as if they expected to hold out
don't believe in so much feathers anc
fuss the first year, and then no style thu
next. Wait till you see a half.a-doze,
or fourteen children in their slip, thu
same as you now see in Mr.. Green's, anC
then tell me of the joys of married life.
Miss Robinson opened her prayer.book
and commenced to read, Good Lord, de
liver u.s." etc.
DO see William Adams, out bride,
said Mrs. Mason to her husband. an
quite surprised. | hadn't any idea tina
he thought of getting a wife at present
You know he used to pay some attention
to our Willie. was in hopes it woul'
be match. William was always goo,
and smart fellow. His wife is rathe
pretty looking. isn't she ? wonde
where she came from? Poor woman =
, She'll see enough Of life before man
years"
"The lucky dog! If Bill isn't ou
, " ith his wife! He's been and gone an
, done it-hopped the twig, as Docto
Brown would say. l wish the fello'
much Joy. We shall never see him a
the club after this, l suppose. He'll qui
our balls, and give up horse racing, an
settle down to domestic life. We'll tina
is the way of all the world, and l suppos
I shall have to come to it sooner or later.
Tom Upton settled his shirt collar
pulled out the ends of his neck.tie, glance
, at his patent leather boots, and cast
, sleeps eye at Miss Strickland, across tn
aisle that evening he was seen walkin
, with a young lady; the topic Of CONVEX
sation was brides, wedding-rings, domes
tic bliss, and such like stuff Of whic
dreams are made. That afternoon, whe
MIR. Dismal went home with his wife, h
, actually kissed her. circumstance wh.c
nearly frightened the poor lady to deatl
i such IA thing not having happened in he
family for years.
"Why, husband, what is the matter ?
:, she exclaimed.
"Mrs. William Adams was out brid
! to-day" was his only reply.
, "Out bride - How those words fe
upon the cars of William. Adams, as h
heard them whispered in the hall of tn
church. They almost filed his eyes wit
tears--certainly his heart over-run wit
love as he looked into the sweet face G
0 his new and beautiful wife. "Heave
help me to make her true, kind, an
loving husband. All through the jour
| ney of life let us 90 out bride as we d
+ this morning-may my love for her, an
: tenderness, be as fresh and pure as it
t now. Out bride. With me new Ill
) commences-l am no longer boy in TIL
world of life no longer swallowed up