Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-27
Bridal Couples.

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Bridal Couples.
s'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.
elbow can you tell whether they are
newly married or not?" inquired the re-
porter to whom this remark was adj
dressed.
"Tell them?" calculated the clerk: II
can pick them out as easily as if they car
ried signs, 'We are just married"
eyes; but how?".
"Well, in the first place, they are al
ways most abundant in fall and winter.
[ don't know why it is, but such is the
fact. One of the signs of a neWly-mar-
RED 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 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 speci-
ally anxious that the bride shall eat and
drink of the best. He must have room
with private parlor, and not upstairs
very far, and with good view. Some
times 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 business to suggest them. We
consider we have the same right to pluck
newly-married couple as an undertaken
has to pluck bereaved relatives"
sDo they behave differently from other
people?"
81 should-well, yes. The husband
does not run off to the barroom or the
billiard room, as the old married men do.
When the old married couple arrive, you
may be certain that the first thing the
husband does is to take drink or lounge
about the billiard tables, telling his wife
that he has some business to attend to"
care newly married people bashful?"
"That depends. The widows and wild
overs don't mind it, but the young peo-
pie are 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 as dozen at
a time file into the dining room, trying to
look as if they had not been married yes
terday, but casting furtive glances about
to see if they were suspected. The men
were specially watchful lest. somebody
should be ogllng the brides One day L
thought we should 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, buxom, brown eyed beauty.
She looked so fresh and rosy
that she could not but attract atten-
ton, and she got it. Every gentleman
in the room took more than one look at
her, and she knew it. 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 evil
IDENTIFY 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 wifel Allow me to congratu
late you, my dear fellow You have got
the finest wife in the CITY, said the gen
tleman addressed THE fact is, thought
she was your sister Excuse me if was
rude; but if you don't want people to look
at your wife you really must never take
her out in public. No offerse 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 sub
ject Women are more artful and have
more adaptibility to new circumstances.
But, with all their arts, they can't de-
ceive the old hotel clerk, and it is very
seldom that we don't turn in few dol
lars extra to the house on account of our
knowledge.
"Another pecnliarity of the newly mar
ried couples who 90 to hotels, continued
the clerk, ''is that many of them live in
the city. They always come equipped
for long journey. They have left the
wedding guests with the announced IN
tention of taking long journey, con-
spicuously displaying, perhaps, their
railroad tickits, and have been driven by
way of the depot to first class hotel,
previously selected. l know one case
where bridal couple, to avoid detection,
actually boarded train and started APP
parently on journey, but took at the
next station train back to the city, and
stopped at hotel a few blocks from
home Then the wedding guests were
permitted to stay at the feast as long as
they pleased without disturbing any
body.