Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-06-23

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A Chapter on Wedding TOurists-Inn0
cent Decisions of Newly marrlea
People.
From the Philadelphia LEDGER
Travellers and conductors are begin
ming to notice on railroads more thar
usual number of spring and summer
wedding tourists. Ready money il
abundant, and to Just that sort of amount
that few men In these days can find any
more useful or profitable investment o.
it than getting married. Those bach
elOrs, old or young, who have made theil
fortunes within the last three years il
oil or coal, or railroad stocks, or nal
contracts, find this a convenient season
for resting few months, taking a wife
and making a marriage tour to Europe,
spreading themselves in Paris, aud do
ing the Great Exhibition, Italy, Great
Britain, and the rest of the world in hall
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 regulated simply
| by one consideratiUn-the amount OF
money they have t. spend Jenkins
arranges it all and publishes it in the
| newspapers
But there Is another far more inter
esting and unsOphisticated class who
daily catch the eye of the conductor, and
are recognized by him and all old travel
eFs on railroads aud steamers at glance
the bridegrooms aud their brides who
travel by themselves few hundred miles
on their tours, followed to the car by
weeping, yet happy, bald-headed faith
ers. On all the routes leading to and
from Niagara are those to be seen.
They have private suites of rooms pre-
engaged at all the stopping places, and
| have evidently the idea that they have
SO arranged matters that they are not
and cannot be known as bridal tourists.
This Is not that they are ashamed OF
each other, but simply that their enjoy
ment Is in each others society, and they
do not want to be criticised and remark
ed upon by prOfane strangers. So they
fancy they are travelling incog. And
yet how easy 1T is to the careful eye to
tell how many days or even hours they
have been married, 10y the very pains
they take to seem either like old mar
ried 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. III
the parties have good taste, there is not
spark of shOwiness about their attire.
All glitter and display are laid aside, and
she who was fashionable belle last wins
ter, and drove out in such splendid
saiins and silks to do her shopping, is
now positively more like Quaker in a
simple travelling dress of mouse or drab
color. Often the young culprits pre-
tend for a while to be playing at lover S
Irritation, but it will not do. There
is too much quiet happiness IN their
eyes for sparkle and wit and Fepartee
too much softness and tenderness In
their confidential whispers, aud such a
sense of possession of each other that
none In the ears are deceived for five
minutes. Generally the bridegroom dis
covers this first, and throws his arm en-
silly round the shoulders of his wife as
much rs to say detiantly to the curious,
lyon cannOtt tell but that We have been
married these many years" Not tell
There Is "A sort of guiliiness and slyness
in the way that arm steals round, first
on top of the seat back, then gradually
closer, aud a silent, pleased, unpeTceiv-
ing Gcquiescence on the part of the bride.
Indeed, it is her that tells the tale most
quickly. The broad guage seats are too
broad. She seems to prefer the mar
rover Pennsylvania measure: and if you
sit on any seat back of them, it may be
noticed that the lady shoulders are not
even-they incline Just little, and un-
perceivedly, while she fancies she is sit
ting uprightly, to her broad-set and
bearded partner. For few hours thus
they travel; but, in the long run, the
| head gravitates to the husbands sup
porting shoulder, and there it will nestle
innocently and confidingly in the repose
of a new-found faith, as well as the hap
piness of honest, truthful love,
Sometimes, In spite of all precautions,
tress or two of rich 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 confusion of the high and virtuOus
self-respect and honest pride of the
maiden stepping out into a new faith.
And these young folks fancy themselves
lost In the crowd-unnoticed,u unknown,
aud with the secret that they are but
inst married their own alone! Blessed
InnOcents! But even those who discover
them must wish them God-speed il
their new path, which may lead to hap
piness or sorrow, as they start right Oh
begin wrong.