Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-07-01

OF all observers. For reasons which did not
care to criticize, the junta who arranged the
honeymoon ordered that we were not to go to
places Ike Brighton, where we might chance to
meet friends, because "that would be so awk-
places where the season was over, or where they
had no season at all, the result being that every
body knew all about us, and took their obserya-
tons and made drawings, l dare say, to their
places there was nothing to be seen; even
the billiard-roOm was shut up-and this, may
mention, was to the disgust of Fanny, (who is q
hrst-rate billisrd-player,) well as of myself.
The conveyances to sights of wonder and inter-
est In the vicinity were taken of for the winter;
there was no getting anywhere but by posting,
having been let out to farmers, employed vari-
ously in the town, or turned out to grass. We
had nothing to do but to sit still and look at each
other, or to walk up and down interminable
parades, from which the economical prudence
of the municipal authorities had removed all the
seats The only amusement We had was going
twice week; and then the wild excitement of
ordering supplies, and buying curiOsities charac-
teristic of the place and It's neighborhood, being
over, we had only to look forward to the next
move.
Ispeak as a fool, doubtless" 1 said, inter-
ruptng the injured man, 'but have always
thought the newly married found ample interest
IN each other, and never needed any other to
make time pass pleasantly"
Eyes; ah well, that's true enough, of course;
but then you see they might enjoy that interest
at home quietly, unobserved, all to themselves,
Tar better than they can possibly do in a strange
hotel or lodging, with fifty thousand different
things to take of their attention. My idea Is
that honeymoon is better deferred. Three or
four months after you are married, when you
have shaken OF those awkwardnesses of manner
and appearance which are inseparable from and
characteristic of the newly-married, you can
have honeymoon and enjoy IL; but to offer ones
self as spectacle for gods and men to axe
upon, at a time when as vet one scarcely krows
how to behave married-like in public, Il in my
opinion the height of discomfort and folly. Take
my advice, my dear sir, make it part of the
marriage-contractt that there shall be no honey
moon. If you are generous, offer TO 60 a trip for
twice the length of time the honeymoon would
have taken, three months after date of marriage.
Resist the bridesmaids till they abuse you, and
then you may be certain of the brides support
Don't give in as did, at the outset, and got
the brides vote against me-" =
Doubling some of the conclusions, If not some
OF the statements of my instructor, was glad to
perceive some farther information on the subject
from the bride, who is spoken of as Fanny"
She tells me, and have every reason to believe
her, that the honeymoon was the happiest
month she ever spent. She says that Edward
that Is TO say her acknowledgements to enjoy it
as thoroughly, whatever he may say to the con-
rary. She admits that he was for the first few
days 'ridiculously anxious" to make IL appear
that he was not newly-married; but she adds
that, for her part, she did not care if the whole
world knew it. Indeed, as a matter of choice
she would rather it did than not, and She
hints-but modesty makes her little reticent
on the point-that Edward was far too proud
vi DIlut nOJ 10 WISH 1Or ner 10 De seen.
The affair Of the railway carriage she considers
capital joke, and says she was "almost really
angry" with Edward FOR his foolish conduct to-
wards the man who called her "Hiss." She
differs widely from her husband in his account
OF the places visited, asserting that they both
enjoyed the quiet and retirement the maligned
places afforded, and that Edward more than
once, even many times, declared how glad he
was they had come TO them instead of going to
noisy haunts where friends would have intruded,
and where the ordinary mundane amusements
would have distracted them from the endowment
Of each others society.
Pressed as to the statement about the billiard
table at Quakesand, the lady admits there is
some truth in it, "but 1t didn't mattor, except
that lost the bet, which was certain to have
won had we played. was quite content. Ed
ward smoked cigar on the sheltered parade,
and we both agreed, as We paced up and down,
inhaling the fragrance Of the tobacco and the
delicious scent of the sea, that we were O long
way better OF than being cooped up in a stufy
billiard-roOm. Such Is, shortly, the statement
Of the lady, whose account generally differs so
much from that of her husband that / am re-
solved on the first opportunity TO raise the ques
MIR. Edward viii have to eat many of his words,
and if he should, what will become of the adj
vice he so earnestly gave me, not in my own in
terest solely, but in that OF all those TO whom
am at liberty TO speak.
fear the advice will 90 for what all gratui-
tOus advice is supposed to be worth. Meantime
I can only say, for the benefit of whomsoeyer ii
may concern, that there are several eligible par
tbs, and great many still more eligible demol-
seles, among my acquaintance who are not I'M
willing To try the effect of the course taken by
"Miss" Fanny and my friend Edward, whether
IL be with or without the questioned advantage
of honeymoon.