The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-06-26

WEDDING ToURs.-Travelers and conductors
are beginning to notice on the railroads more
than usual amount of spring and summer we'd
ding tourists. Ready money is abundant, and
to- just that sort OF amount that few men in
these days can find any more useful or profta-
BILE investment of it than getting married.
Those bachelors, old and young, who have made
their fortunes within the last three years in
oil or coal, or railroad stocks, war contracts,
find this convenient season for resting few
months, taking wife and making marriage
tour to Europe, spreading themselves in Paris,
and doing the Great Exhibition, Italy, Great
Britain, and the rest of the world in half a
year. These tourists get out of sight of the
American world and are not worth our notice
here, for with them all is conventional and reg
ulated SIMPLY by one consideration - the
amount of money they have to spend. Jenkins
arranges it all and publishes it in the news
papers. at
"a. 6here is another far more interesting and
unsophisticated class who daily catch the eye
of the conductor, and are recognized by him
and all old travellers on railroads and steamers
at glance-the bridegrooms and brides who
travel by themselves few hundred miles on
their tours, followed to the cars by weeping yet
happy baldheaded fathers. On all the routes
leading to and from Niagara they are to be
seen. They have private suits of rooms pre-
engaged at all the stopping places, and have ev-
identity the idea that they have so arranged
matters that they are not and cannot be known
are ashamed of each other, but simply that
their enjoyment is in each others society, and
they do not want tn be criticised and remarked
upon by profane strangers. So they fancy they
are travelling ireog. And vet how easy it is to
the careful eye to tell how many days or even
hours, they have been married, by the very
pains they take to seem either like old married
folks or cousins as they promenade on the deck
of the steamer, or sit ever so demurely in the
cars.
Their dress detects them in part. 1t is all SO
neat, symmetrical and new. If the parties
have good taste, there is not spark of showi-
ness about their attire. All glitter and display
are laid aside, and she who was fashionable
belle last winter, and drove out in such spien-
did silks and satins to do her shopping, is now
more like Quaker in simple travelling dress
OF mouse or drab color. Often the young Gull
prits pretend to be playing at lovers or flirta-
ton, but it will not do. There is too much quiet
happiness in their eyes for sparkling wit and
repartee; too much softness and tenderness in
their confidential whispers, and such a possess
sion OF each other that none in the cars are de-
ceived for five minutes Generally the BRIDE
groom discovers this first, and throws his arm
easily round the shoulders OF his wife, as much
as to say defantly to the curious, "You cannot
tell but what we have been married these MANY
years" Not tell? There is sort of guiitiness
and slyness in the way that arm steals round,
first on top of the seat back, then gradually
closer, and silent, pleased, unperceived ac-
quiescence on the part of the BRIDE Indeed
1t is she who tells the tale most quickly She
prefers the narrower Pennsylvania measure;
and If you sit on any seat back of Them it may
he noticed that the lady's shoulders are not
even-they incline just little, and unperceiy-
edly while she is sitting uprightly to her broad
set and bearded partner. For few hours thus
they travel, but, in the long run, the head grav-
itates to the husbands supporting shoulder
and there it will nestle innocently and confid-
ingly in the repose of a new-found faith. as
weil as the happiness of honest, truthful
love.
Sometimes, in spite of all precautions, a tress
or two ofrich black hair will get loose and stray
and fall down, But that brides tresses are SO
exquisitely silky and combed and polished
that there is order and neatness in their very
disorder and abandon. 1t is, in fact, the confn-
sion of the high and virtuous self-respect of the
maiden stepping out into new faith And
these young folks fancy themselves lost in the
crowd-unEoticed, unknown, and with the Sc
cret that they are just married. Blessed inno-
cents But even those who discover them
must wish them God speed in their new path
which may lead to happiness or sorrow, as they
start right or begin wrong. philadelphia
Ledger,