Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-07-06
Wedding Trips.

| ment upon their laSnlon, Wnlch Is
rather courtship tour than we'd
ding journey. Theirs is not lone
ly, dually selfish affair, but joyous
migration Of happy fiocks, where
the tiuttering coquetting young folks
are matronized and patronized by
the steady old couples, who keep
out an indulgent but ever watchful
eye, to see that coquetry shall not
degenerate into Irritation, and ever
ready to administer an admonitory
peck or flap to any young scape-
grace of either sex who shall show
a disposition to trifle with the affec-
tions of another.
But when courtship has given
place to marriage, there are no more
frolicsome journeys, but general
settling down to the serious con-
Germs of life, anxious searchings for
and ceasaftationga about the location
of their future home. In these Mr..
Robin gives it as his opinion that
the cherry y-tree, being excellent for
aging ground, would be the best
spot for their nest; but Mrs. Rob
IN declares that cherries attract too
many savage red squirrels to make
it a safe place of abode. So they
finally decide upon the heart of the
low thick lilac bush, as being near
the house, where crumbs are plenty,
and having neither fruit nor height
to tempt those rampaging squirrels,
who have no sort of conscience, and
prefer pretty little blue eggs to any
other article of diet, the shameless
things. Then follow the happy
nest building, the wearisome season
of Matching, and the toilsome time
of filling the ever empty, craving
mouths of those ugly, rapacious
youngsters, who will in time grow
pretty and venturesome, and must
be taught to use their weakly ambi-
tious little wings. And all this
while the happy, loving ways of Mr..
and Mrs. Robin are most delightful
to see. But from the mating day we
do not find them talking of aerial
voyages, until after their children
are fairly launched in life; though a
trip to Caeada would cost them
nothing-no railroad tickets to buy,
no extortionate hackmen to pay, nor
long hotel bills to frighten the
feathers off their pretty little heads.
Now, out of the thousands of
newly married people who will take
the tyrannical customary wedding
trip this season, how many will do
so with a feeling of honest enjoy
ment? How many are there that
will not secretly wish they were free
to go at once, quietly and unob-
served, to their nest-building? And
what do they gain by their conform
ing? 1t is possible that those who
have inexhaustible purses to draw
upon can enjoy their trip to Europe
or across the continent, but the
Home Journal chronicles 7 but
small preparation of the actual
marriages: and of the vast majority,
those who make no silly display for
it to mention, how many are there
who can enjoy their visit to Wash
ington or Niagara without trouble
some purse pangs, reminding that
there is more of life to come, and
many necessary expenses to meetI
Those accounts of butcher and gro
Ger, those bills for fuel and light, do
they never obtrude themselves upon
the vision of our tourists? 1t may
be that they are unthought of at
the time; but in the after days,
when the clerk from his salary of a
thousand a year has topay house or
room rent, and provide for the wants
of three or four instead of one, do |
you imagine he never remembers
with regret the $500 his wedding
trip cost him? Does the memory of
one or two pleasant weeks compen- |
safe him for the privations they
have cost? But perhaps you will
say that poor man has no right to
cucumber himself with a family,
Out upon you. 1t is not the family, |
but the notions that are the encum-
brance; the desire to do as others
do, the dread of sneers, the fear lest
some one shall say the IS stayed at
home because they couldn't afford
the journey. And it Is not. the ex-
pensive journey alone which they
cannot afford, but many other things
which must be had or done in order
to be consistent, and thus, sadly of
ten, a burden of debt is laid heavily
upon the shoulders which should be
free to breast boldly forward; bear
ing down the high head, and Grip
pling the strong arm which will
need all their youthful energy to
hold their own in the battle of life!
An intimate friend of mine, just
married to q young physician, and
returned from a wedding trip which
would be considered short and in
expensive by most, said to me, ''E.,
1 did not enjoy myself one bit, for
do what | would, | could not forget
that we were paying enough to fur
nish our parlor, for one week of
looking at things, that if it hadn't
been for the name of it, we should
never have cared to see. And now
Pm going to make it an invariable
rule not to spend a cent for the
mere fear of the sneers of a few
people who don't care button
about us, and wouldn't give us a
dollar to keep us from starving, af
ter we had reached that point
through attention to their views"
Adherence to this rule has worked
well for our young physician and his
wife, and it is to be hoped that
others may be induced to try it
without going through their prelim-
mary lesson. Put the money the
wedding trip would cost into articles
of comfort, convenience or taste,
which will be Of use and pleasure
to the eye tor years to come, and
which your children after you can
enjoy, when the memory of your
fortnight of feverish. dusty, danger
Gus carroding, exp i've hotel-liv-
ing, and weary sighG seeing, would
have been deservedly forgotten, or
only remembered with regret.-ETH
Ell GALE, IN Christian Union.
The Buffalo EGpress office was
burned Il short time since-the fire