Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-09-22
TRAVELLING BRIDES AND GROOMS.
Signs by which Hotel Clerks Know Them and
which laya to he naid for.

Signs by which Hotel Clerks Know Them and
which have to be paid for.
"To watch the newly married couples who
travel, is one of the compensations Of our ar
duous life," said an old hotel clerk the other
day.
"How can you tell whether they are newly
married or not?" inquired the Sun reporter,
to whom this remark was addressed.
Tell them ?" calculated the clerk; 81 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 always
most abundant in the Fall and Winter. /
don't know why it is, but such is the fact.
One of the signs Of 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, new trunks and
new busters. Then, again, they spend money
more freely. When man is in his honey
moon he generally 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 had 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 room with pri-
vate parlor, and not upstairs very 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 business to suggest
them. We consider that we have the same
right to pluck newly married couple as an
undertaken has to pluck bereaved relatives" /"
"Do they behave differently from other
people? ?"
"I 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 arrives, you may be Ger.
tain that the first thing that the husband does
is to take drink or lounge about the billiard
tables, telling his wife that he has some busi-
ness to attend to"
"Are newly-married people bashful p
THAT depends The widowers and widows
don't mind it, but the young people are a little
coy. At Niagara Falls we had most of the
new couples late in the season when the regu-
lar boarders had left. | have seen as many
as dozen at time file into the dining.room.
trying to look as if they had not been married
yesterday, but casting furtive gIances about to
see if they were suspected. The men were
specially watchful lest somebody should be
ogling the brides. One day l thought we
should have a fight in the diniug-room. A
strappng big fellow from the West, in 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 attention and she got it. Ev'
cry 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 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 congratulate
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 people to look at your wife
you really must never take her out in public
No offense 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 con
dtions most gracefully ?"
| "Women, by all odds. The men are al