Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1866-07-13
WEDDING TOURS,

| '''"os'oh @eepoItS, LAX auo bureau DlllS,
Bankrupt Laws and Constitutional Amend
ments, we present herewith an article
on wedding tours, which being well
written by some Jenkins, will be read
with interest by all, or at least very
large class:
Travellers and conductors, says the
Philadelphia Ledger, are beginning to
notice on the railroads more than usual
number of spring aud summer wedding
tourists. Ready money is abundant, and to
just that sort Of amount that few men in
these days can find any more useful or
prohtabIe Investment Of it than in getting
married. Those bachelors old and young
who have made their fortunes within the
last three years in oil or railroad stocks.
or war contracts, find this convenient
season for resting few monlha, taking a
wife and making a marriage tour to
Europe. spreading themselves in Paris, and
doing the Great Exhibition, Italy, Great
Britain, and the rest oc the world in Lalf a
year.
These tourists get out OF sisLt Of the
American world, and are not worth our
notice here, for, with them all is conven-
l'onal and regulated simply by one consi-
deratIou-the ainonn. Of money they have
to spend. Jenkins arrapges it MI and
publishes it i'll the newspapers.
But there is another far more in nierest mo
and unsophtisietel class who daily catch
the eye Of the conductor, and are rccog-
nzed by him and all old travellers on rail
roads and steamers nj :, glance--the bride.
grooms and their brides who travel Ly
themselves few hundred miles on their
tours, followed TO tic cars by weeping, vet
happy, bald.heaIed 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 evidently the idea that they have so
arranged matters that they are no. and
cannot be known as bridal tourists. This
is not ilist they are ashamed of each other
but simply that their enjoyment is in each
others societyand they 10 not want TO be crit
i'cised and remarked upon by profane stran-
gers. So they fancy they are travelling
inc"g. And vet how easy it is to the care.
ful eye to tell how many days or even
hours they have heen married, by the
very pains they take to seem other like |
old married to!ks or cousins rs they pro-
menade on the deck Of the steamer, OF sit
ever domurely in the cars.
Their dress detects them in part. I, ia
all so neat, symmetrical and new. If the
parties hsye good taste, there is no: n spark i
Of showiness about their attire All glitter
and display are laid aside. and she was n |
fashionable belle last winter, and drove out |
in such splendid satins and .ilks to do her |
shopping, is now positively more like
Quaker in simple travelling dress ofmouse
or drab color. Often the young culprits
pretend for while to he playing at lovers
or filtration, but it will not do. There ia
too much quiet happiness in their eyes for
sparkle and wit and repartee; too much
softness and tenderness in their confidential
whispers, and such sense Of possession Of |
each other tlla. none in the cars are deceiy
ed for five minutes.
Generally the Bridegroom discovers this
first, and throws his arm easily round the
shoulders Of his wife, a. to say defantly to
the curious, "You cannot tell but what We
have been married these many years."
Not tell =? There is a sort Of outlines and
slyness in the way that arm steals round,
first on top of the seat back, then gradual
ly closer, and silent, pleased, unpercev.
ing acquiescence on the part. of the bride.
Indeed, it is she who tells the tale most
quickly. The broad guage seats are too
broad. She seems to prefer the narrower
Pennsylvania measure; and if you sit on |
any seat back of them, it may be noticed
that the lady's shoulders are not even-the
incline just little, and unperceivedly,
while she is sitting uprightIy, to her broad
scat and bearded partner. For a few
hours thus they travel, but in the long
run, the head gravitates to the husbands
supporting shoulder, and there it will
nestle with honest, truthful love.
Sometimes in spite Of all precautions, q
tress or two Of rich black hair will get
loose, and stray and fall down. But that
brides trssses are SO exquisitely silky and
oombed, and polished, that there is |
order and neatness in their very disor-