The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-02-06

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veil also, and most of her wardrobe as
well. Full five hundred invitations
were sent out; VeGder, the caterer with
his well trained servants, and Brown,
the florist, came to do honor to the occa.
sion.
There were eight bridesmaids and
groomsmen, among whom Walter and
Lutte came first and the bridal gifts
were estimated to be worth nearly q
hundred thousand dollars, among which
Mr.. Haviland's gift to his bride, a mag
niticent set of diamonds. was the most
valuable.
Edith was beautiful in her composure
when taking upon herself the VOWS
that were to make or mar her happi-
ness for life. Not tear dimmed her
eyes until she clasped Walters hand,
and put away Lutie's arms from around
her neck, as they parted, on deck of
the steamer that was to bear her and
her husband away to foreign land.
Lutte came back to her home, and
Walter comforted her and after that it
got to be an accepted thing that he
chould come of an evening and while
away the hours with reading, playing
chess, and singing with the home loving
little girl, with her winning ways.
After time, too, he began to long
for the evening, and to watch for the
kindly face, and the gentle greeting, and
to think that merinoes with lace at the
throat and wrist; was the very acme of
good taste.
And SO the old dream faded, and
the new began, and his face grew
brighter, and his step firmer, and one
night coming home from sleigh-ride,
he put his arm around her, and with q
world of tenderness in his voice, asked
her to be his wife.
She kissed softly the lips that were
pressed to hers, and nestled closer in
his strong arms, and he had his answer.
A little while after there was quiet
wedding, elegant in all its appointments,
of course, neither they nor Aunt
Courtenay would have had it otherwise
and for bridal tour there was pleas
ant trip to the Vermont farm house,
where Lutte reigned supreme in all
their hearts by her gentle, unassuming
kindness to every one.
They were neither too plain or old
fashioned for her; they we're Walters
people better, kinder, never lived, and
the young wife loved them dearly. No
one could have told how, but before,
the three weeks visit was ended, the old
house was mesamorphosed. The
straight backed chairs had lost their
stiffness, the rocking chairs were cush-
ioned, and dainty white curtains were
tied back with blue ribbons the few
plain pictures were hung over, and the
mirror that was Walters grandmother 8
made to reflect something besides the
top of your head. How they loved her.
The good old mother wiped her eyes
many q time with her blue-checked
apron, as she watched them drive away
10 the station.
Lutie's money bought them pleas
ant, unpretending little house and
Lutte with her ready, willing fingers,
has made it veritable paradise. 1t
seems as though the sun especially
loved to shine upon it, and in every
room there scenes q welcome waiting
for all.
1t is doubtful if they are ever as
wealthy as the Havilands but they
move among the very best of society,
the wheat, not the chaff, and they
gather about them all that is rare and
beautiful in statues, books, pictures and
the like, and Aunt Courtenay comes
there very often, and says the very peace
is restful.
Edith comes, too, but her eyes have
a sad, pained look when Lutte meets
Walter with welcoming kiss. and no.
tees how fondly be loves her, and how
proud he is of her sweet home ways, for
everybody loves her, from the author
and statesman, who delights in talking
with her, to the little milkman who
watches for her smiles.
Mrs. Hayiland meets her husband oc.
casionaly, quite as often, however, as
she cares to; and she lives on Fifth
avenue, has her diamonds still, drives
her pony phaeton, or her coach and
four, as best pleases her, queens it il
society as she has always done gets
the first fashions from Paris, and il
envied as she expects to be; but in the
solitude of her own room she mourns
over the migth-have-been, and longs
almost intensely for the home and the
love that in her girlhood she threw away
to satisfy her ambition.
A GOOD old elder of church, who wal