Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-09-17
On TAsir Wedding Tour.

ITO watch the newiy.nlatrieu 1ouPteo
who travel ia one OF the compensations
of our arduous life" said an old hotei
clerk the other day.
allow can you tell whether they are
newly-married or not?" inquired q re-
porter OF The Nep York Sun, TO whom
this remark was addressed.
"Tell them?" calculated the clerk;"l
can pick them out as easily as if they
carried signs, I'VE are just married.
"Yes; but how"
"Well, in the first place, they are al,
WAYS most abundant in the fall and
winter. l don't know why 1t is, but
such is the fact. One Of the signs OF
a newly.married couple is their spick
and span new clothes. Somehow, when
people get married, they generally get
as many new clothes as possible. The
bride and groom have new hats, and
new trunks and new busters. Then,
again, they spend money more freely.
When a man is in his honeymoon, he
generally feels as If he ought to be
generous. He has a grateful sort OF
spirit, and throws his money around as
The wanted 10 show that the world has
used him we'll. He has put up his
money for the occasion, and is not
afraid to spend it. He is specially anxi-
Gus that the bride shall eat and drink
the best. He must have a room with a
private parlor, and not up stairs very
lar, and with a good view. Sometimes
he is a little chary OF asking for these
things, but when vi suggest them he al,
WAYS saws Yes OF course 1t is part
of our business to suggest them. We
consider that we have the same right to
pluck a newly.married couple as an un.
dertaker has to pluck bereaved relative"
"Do they behave differently from
other people?" :.
al should-well, yes. The husband
does not run off to the bar-room, or the
billiard room, as the old married men
do. When the old married couple ar
rive, Won may be certain that the first
thing he does is to take a drink. or
lounge about the billiard tables, telling
his wife that he has some business to at
tend to-"
"Are newly.married people bashful?"
"That depends. The widowers and
widows don't mind it, but the young
people are a little coy. At Niagara Fails
we had most OF the e couples late In
the season, when the regular borders
had left. I have seen as many as a
dozen at a time file into the dining.
room, trying to look as if they had not
been married yesterday, but casting
furtive g~lances about to see II they were
suspected. The men were especially
watchful, lest somebody should be ogIlng
the brides. One day ! thought we
shouId have a fight in the dining room.
A strapping big fellow from the west,
in a new suit OF store clothes, sat down
TO the table with his bride, a buxom,
brown-eyed beauty. She looked 80
fresh and rosy that she could not but
attract attention, and she got it. Every
gentleman in the took more than
one look at her, and she knew 1t. OF
course she did not object. But the man
began to get angry. He did not like to
speak to the bride about it, because she
was evidently not displeased. Finally
ne got up and walked to the nearest
gentleman whom he had observed, and
said:
"'Look here, stranger, I'd like to
know what you are staring at my vile
forP
"'Your wife! Allow me to congratu-
late you, my dear fellow. You have got
the finest wife in the city, said the
gentleman addressed. THE fact Is,
thought she was your sister. Excuse
me if l was rude; but il you don't want
people to look at your wife, you really
must never bring her out in public. No
meant, sir
"The bridegroom went back to his
place, but he took good care at the next
meal to put his wife with her lace to tue
wall"
(which do you think take to the new
conditions most gracefully
"Women, by all odds. The men are
always betraying themselves. They
want to talk about it; they are full OF
the subject. Women are more arttul,
and nave more adaptability to new cir
cumstances. But, with all their arts,
they can't deceive the old hotel clerk,
and it is very seldom that we don't turn
in O few dollars extra to the house on
account OF our knowledge"
Another popularity OF the newly
married couples who go to hetels," con-
tinued the clerk, us that many OF them
live in the city. They always come
equipped for a long journey. They
have lett the wedding guests with the
announced intention OF taking a long
Journey, conspicuously displaying, per-
haps, their railroad ticket, and have
been driven by way OF the depot to a
tirst.class hotel previously. selected. l
knew one ELSEWHERE a bridal couple, to
avoid detection, actually boarded a train
and started apparently on a Journey,
but took at the next station a train back
to the city, and stopped at a hotel a lew
blocks from home. Then the wedding
guests were permitted to stay at the feas!
as long as they pleased, without dis
turbing anybody.