Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-10-27
ON their Wedding Tour.

"To watch the newly-married couples
who travel is one of the compensations
of our arduous life, said an old hotel
clerk the other day.
"How can you tell whether they are
newly married or not?" inquired IA re-
porter TO whom this remark was ad-
dressed.
"Tell them?" calculated the clerk
81 can pick them out as easily M if they
carried signs, We are just married. ~
Eyes; but how ?"
"Well, i'll the 6rst place, they are
always most abundant III the fall and
winter. l don't know why it is, but
such is the fact. One of the signs of a
newly married couple is their spick and
span new clothes. Somehow, when peo-
pie get married, they generally get as
many new clothes rs possible. The
bride and groom have new hats, and new
trunks and new busters. Then, again,
they spend money more freely. When
n man is in his honeymoon, he gener-
ally feels as if he ought. to be generous.
He has grateful sort of spirit, and
throws his money around as if he
wanted to show that the world has used
him well. He has put by his money for
the occasion, and is not afraid to spend
it. He is specially anxious that the
bride shall eat and drink of the best.
He must have a room With private par
lor and not up ''airs any far, and with
good view. Sometimes he is little
chary of asking for these things, but
when we suggest them he always says
Yes. OF course it is part of our bust
ness to suggest them We consider
that we have the same right to pluck n
newly married couple as an undertaken
has to pluck bereaved relatives"
"Do they behave differently from
other people?"
81 should-well, yes. The husband
does not run off to the bar-room, or the
bilhard-room, as the old married men
do. When the old married couple ar
rive, you may be certain that the first
thing the husband does is to take a
drink, or lounge about the billiard
tables, telling his wife that he has some
business to attend to-
care. newly married people bashful p
"That depends. TIE wldowers and
widows don't mind ii, but the young
people are a little coy. At Niagara
Falls we had most of the new couples
late in the season, when the regular
boarders had left. / have seen as many
rs n dozen at time file into the dining
room, trying to look as if they had not
been married yesterday, but casting
furtlve glances about to see if they we're
suspected. The men were especially
watched, lest somebody should be og-
ling the brides. One day thought we
should have 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, buxom,
browneyed beauty. She looked so
fresh and rosy that she could not but
attract attention, and she got it. Every
gentleman in the room took more than
one look at her, and she knew it. OF
course sne uiG not object. But the man
began to get angry. He dld not like to
speak to the bride about it. because she
was evidently not displeased. Finally
he 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 wife
for?
"'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 was rude; but if you don't want peo-
pie to look at your wife, you really must
never take her out in public. No Of
Tense meant, sir.
"The bridegroom went back to his
place, but he took good care at the next
meal to put his wife with her face to the
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 artful, and
have more adaptability to new circum-
stances. But, with all their arts, they
can't deceive the old hotel clerk, and it
is very seldom that we don't turn in a
few dollars extra to the house on ac-
count of our knowledge.
"Another popularity of the newly
married couples who go to hotels, con-
tinued the clerk, "is that many of them
live in the city. They always come
equipped for a long journey. They
have left the wedding guests with the
announced intention of taking a long
journey, conspicuously displaying, per-
haps, their railroad tickets, and have
been driven by way of the depot to a
frst-class hotel previously selected. /
knew ONE case where bridal couple, to