, 1866-09-21
Wedding Tours

The Philsdelph'a Ledger, IN discourIiRg on
Summer tourists in general, alludes to q partic-
lar aud Interesting class, who are instantly re-
cOgniLed by all old tourists at q glance-the
bridegrOomS and brides who travel by them
selves q few hundred miles on their tours, fol-
lowed to the cars by weeping, yet bald-headed
fathers. On all the routes leading to and from
Niagara they are seen. They have private suites
of rooms pre-enEaged at all stepping places, and
have evidently the idea that they have so ar,
ranged matters that they are not and cannot be
are ashamed of each other, but simply that their
enjoyment is In each Others society, and they do
not want to be criticised and remarked upon by
prOfane strangers. So thry fancy they are trav.
cling meog. And yet how easy it Is to the cares
ful eye to tell how many days, or even hours
they have been married, by the very pains they
take to seem like old married folks or cousins as
they promenade on the deck Of asteamer or sit
even 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 a spark Of shOwiness
about their attire. All glitter and display are
laid aside, and she who was a fashionable belle
last Winter, and drove out in such splendid sat.
ins and silks to do her shopping, is now posi-
lively more like a Quaker 10 a simple travelling
dress of mouse or drab color. Often the young
culprits pretend for while to be playing at low
ers or hirtatlons, but it will not do. There is
too much quiet happiness in their eyes for spark
ling wit and repariee; too much sOitness and
tenderness in their confidential whispers, aud
such sense of possession of each other that
none in the cars are deceived for FIVE minutes
Generally the bridegroom discovers this first,
and throws his arms easily round the shoulders
of his wife, as much as to say defIutly TO the
curious. " You cannot tell but what we have
been married these many wears" Not tell
There is a sort Of gniltiuess aud slyness in the
way that arm steals around, first on the top o
the seat back, then gradually closer, and pleas
ed, unperceived acquiesence on the part of the
bride. Indeed, it is she tells most quickly. The
broad guHge seats are too broad. She prefers
the narrower, Pennsylvania measure; /; and if
you sit on any seat back of them, it may be no.
tccd that the lady's shoulders are not even
they incline just little, and unperceivedly,
while she is setting 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 supporting shoulder, and there
1t will nestle innocently and cOnfdingly in the
repose of new found faith, as well AS the happi>
ness of honest, truthful love.
Sometimes, in spite of all precautions, a tress
or two of rich black hair will get loose and stray
and fall down, But the brides tresses are 80
e1quisitey silky and cOmbed and polished, that
there is order aud neatnrss in their very disOr>
DER 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 path.
And these young folks fancy themselves lost in
the crowd-unnoticed, unknown, and with the
secret that they are just married. Blessed limos
centsI 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.