The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-06-08
wedding Tours.
[From Me Philadelphia Ledger.l

ming to notice on the railroads NOR
than usual number of spring and sum
mer wedding tourists. Ready money
is abundant, and to just that sort o
amount that few men in these day:
can find any more useful or profitable
investment of it than getting married
Those bachelors, old and young, who
have made their fortunes within thu
last three years in oil or coal, or rail
road stocks, or war contracts, find this
Il convenient season for resting few
months, taking wife and making {
marriage tour of Europe, spreading
| themselves in Paris, and doing the
Great Exhibition, Italy, Great Britain
and the rest of the world in halfa year
These tourists get out of sight of the
American world, and are not worth oul
notice here, for with them all is conven-
tional and regulated simply by one
| consideration-the amount of money
they have to spend Jenkins arrange,
| it all and publishes II in 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
| travellers on railroads and steamers al
a glance-the bridegrooms and their
brides who travel by themselves few
hundred miles on their tours, followed
to the cars by weeping, yet happy bald
ing to and from Niagara are these to be
seen. They have private suites ofrOOns
pre-enguged ut 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 enjoyment is in each others so
ciety, and they do not want to be criti-
cised and remarked upon by protane
strangers. So they fancy they are
travelling inc0g. And yet 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 ShowinesS about their
attire. All glitter and display are laid
aside, and she who WAS taShiOna bic
belle Inst winter, and drove out in such
splendid satins and silks to her shop
ping, is positively more like "a Quaker
in IA simple travelling dress of mouse
or drab color. Often the young cul-
prits pretend for u while to be playing
at lovers or Irritation, but it will not
uO. mere Is LOU
in their eyes for sparkle and wit and
repurtee; too much softuess and ten
derness in their confidential whispers,
and such sense of the possession of
each other that none in the cars are de-
ceived for five minutes. Generally the
bridegroom discovers this first, and
throws his arm easily round the shOul-
ders of his wife, as much as to say def
antly to the curious, "YOu cannot tell
but what we have been married these
many years." Not tell2 There is II
sort of outlines and SlynesS in the
way that arm steals round, first on top
of the seat back, then gradually closer,
and silent. pleased, unperceiving ac-
quiescence on thepa of the bride. In
deed, 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 should
ers are not even-they incline just IA lit
tie, and unperceivedly, while she fan
cies she is sitting uprightly, to her
broad set and bearded partner. For a
few hours they thus travel, but, in the
long run, the head gravitates to the
husbands supporting shoulder, and
there it will nestle innocently and con-
hdingly in the repOse of new-fOund
faith, as we'll as the happiness of hon
est, truthful love.
Sometimes, in spite of all precau-
tions, tress or two of rich black hair
will get loose, and fall down. But that
brides tresseS are so eXQuisitely silky
and combed and polished, that there is
an order and neatness in their very dis
order and abandon. It is, in fact, the
confusion of the high and virtuous self
respect and honest pride of the maiden
stepping out into new faith. And
these young folks fancy themselves
lost in the crowd-unnoticed, un-
known, and with the secret that they
are but just married their own alone!
Blessed innOcentsl 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.