The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-09-28
TRAVELLING BRIDES AND GNO0NAs
e.q,,s Inv which the Hotel Clerk Knows
Them ana which Have 80 be
Paid For.
New York SUM-

New York SUM-
To watch the newly-married couples who
travel is one of the compensations Of our ar
duons life said an old hotel clerk the other
day.
elbow can you tell whether they are newly
married or not 2" inquired the Sun reporter,
to whom the remark was addressed.
eTell them!" calculated the clerk Il
csn pick them out as easily IS if they car
ried signs, 'We are just married.
ayes but how Z"
"Well. in the first place, they are always
more abundant in the fall and winter. ]
don't know why it is, but such is the fact.
One of the signs Of q newly married couple
is their spick and span new clothes. Some
how, when people get married they general
ly 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 be
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 had
used him well. He has put by the money
for the occasion and is not afraid to use it.
He is specially anxious that the bride shall
eat and drink of the best. He must have q
room with a private parlor, and not upstairs
very far, and with a good view. Sometimes
he is q little chary about 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 newly married
couples as an undertaken has to pluck be-
reaYed relatiYea,
"Do they behave differently from other
people 2"
Il should-wel yes. The husband does
not run off to the bar-room or billiard room
as the old married men do. When the old
married couples arrive 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 be has some bust
mess to attend TO-"
"Aro newly married people bashful p
EuhL ACpEuASs IL ~ / WAN
oWs don't mind it, but the young people are
coy. At Niagara we had most Of the new
couples late il the season, when the regular
boarders had left. | have seen as many as D
dozen at q time file into the room, trying to
look as II they were not married yesterday,
but casting furtive glances about to see it
they W5re not suspected. The men were
specially watchtul lest somebody should be
Ogling the brides. One day [ thought we
should have q fight in the dining-room. A
%strapping big fellow from the West ia a new
suit of store clothes sat down to the table
with his bride, a buxom brown-eyed beauty.
She looked so fresh and rosy that she could
not but attract attention and she got it. Ev-
cry man in the room took more than one
look at her and she knew it. OF course she
was not displeased, but the man began to get
angry. He did not like to speak to the
bride about it, because she was evidently
f1attered. 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 p
"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
1.-The bridegroom went back to his place,
but he took good care at the noxt meal to
put his wife with her face to the wall"
(Which do you think take to the new po-
sition most gracefully ?"
Women, by al odds. The men are al
ways betraying themselves. They want to
talk about it they are full Of the subject.
Women are more artful, and have more
adaptibility to new circumstances. Bat,
with all their arts, they can't deceive the old
hotel clerk, and il is very seldom that we
don't turn in q few extra dollars to the house
on account Of our knowledge.
"Another peculiarly Of the n~ewly-married
couples who go to hotels,' continued the
clerk, lis that many Of them live in the city.
They always come equipped for q long jour
ney, conspicuously displaying, perhaps,
their railroad tickets, and have been driven
by way of the depot to a frst-class hotel
previously selected. I knew one case where
o bridal couple, to avoid detection, boarded
q train and started apparently on q journey,
but at the next station took q train back to
the city, and stopped at a hotel q few blocks
from home. Then the wedding guests were
permitted to stvy at the feast as long as they
pleased without disturbing anybody"
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