Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-03-02
How He Reported the Wedding.

| Il say SAID the ponce reporter, tip
ping his hat over his eyes and scratch
ing the back of his head, "I don't know
whether this is rightp'
"Don't know whether what is right P
demanded the managing editor.
"This wedding. 1 went there las
night and they gave me a heap of TO
about their frocks, but 1 dent know
whether it comes out straight or not
Now here is Mrs. Isaac Belding. Py,
got her in pannier silk, trimmed
la gros grain, with black lace under
skirt and box plated hair. Does thai
sound natural?"
"Who sent you to wedding?" asked
the managing editor contemptuously
Don't you know that gros grain is 8
color. That was a gros grain, box
plated dress, trimmed a la black point
lace, and her hair was combed en- pan
nteT. You ought to know better thar
to get things mixed that way. Who
else did you getp How was the bride
dressed? ?'
ave got her all right" replied the
police reporter. "She wore a white
bo1Ltd11t, with Princess of Thule veil;
the underskirt cut decollette around the
bottom, and trimmed with BASQUE al
the Sides"
That's better, said the managing
editor, encouraginely. "That sounds
something like. How was her hair ?''
"Her hair was shirred," replied the
police reporter. ''Shirred at the sides
and corsaged on top"
81 don't believe that's right" OBJ
served the managing editor. "Read
that again"
at was corsaged at the side and
shirred on top" said the police report
er, referring to his notes.
"Of course" smiled the managing
editor. at makes all the difference in
the world. You never saw a woman
with her hair corsaged on top in your
life. WHO else have you got?"
"Here's the brides mother. She
pranced around in an iridescent bead.
cut low necked and hoisted up on the
side with some kind of plant. I've
forgotten the name of it"
II know that STYLE" said the man.
aging editor, resting his elbows on his
desk and his chin on his hands. at
had big rip down the back, didn't it ?"
''Thats it, like V and tied up with
a green shoe string"
"Of course!" grinned the managing
editor. "You can't fool me on frocks.
You want to say that it was a-what
color did you say the shoe string was :?
GreenP Then the frock must have
been redp'
"NO, it was the color of clam"
said the police reporter.
"Oh, yesi Yes, yes! know. You
want to say that it was gorgeous,
deep sea pearl colored business, trim
med with gore en- poalf, and caught
at the side with a delicate floral de-
sign, which was especially rich in its
artistic effect. Did you get her hair2"
"Her hair was French. 1 had it
somewhere, but don't find it. 1t was
either French or Spanish, and I forget
which,"
"You ought to be careful about such
things. but we'll call it Ia Pyrenees,
and she can take her pick as to the
side of the mountains she belongs to.
Who else was there?"
"Miss Jennie Smith was the brides
maid. She wore silk socks, with a
streak of yellow tapestry up the side
Her hair was bumped"
"How do you meanp" demanded the
managing editor.
"It was plastered down in front and
stuck up behind, like hens tail"
Banged you mean. How was her
dress cutP"
"Well, it was an even stretch from
the back of her neck half way up the
front stairs. That was one piece.
Then she had on a petticoat that show
ed the whole front and was trimmed
with some cloudy stuff that had drop
ped down at one end. That back part
was the energy, though, and she called
it train, with some kind of law
term in front of it."
"Was it revised statutes ?" asked the
editor.
"No, that wasn't it"
"Did it have anything to do with
alimony and the custody of children p
"That wasn't it. 1t was train with
something legal in front of it. l tried
to remember, because they have it in
the city hail."
Couldn't have been anything about
contempt of court, could it?"
"That's itp' exclaimed the police re-
porter; court train, and up around
the lower part of the top part of the
of where it hooked on the body part,
you know?"
"The bustle?"
"Yes, she had it tied up with broad,
white tape and the darndest big bow
knot you ever saw"
Certainly, that's right" said the
managing editor. "You want to say
that she had court train looped back
with delicate tape so as to show the
contour of the petticoat which was
elaborately trimmed with loops OF
linen"
81 see" replied the police reporter
making memorandum. "Her cousin
was Miss Mears of Quogue. only
got her hair. 1t was perched on TOP
with reUers, and had a big pair of sill
yer tongues stuck through the hind
part. Better say anything about that p
Certainly. You've got it right. Die
they have big supperT
"They had boned head cheese and
candy and lobster and some shaky
stuff. Lots Of wine"
"EhF'
"You betp'
Then, just give the caterers name
and say that on this occasion the table
fairly groaned under the weight of bis
excellent provisions, and even the most
fastidious appetites succumbed to the
charms of his delicacies. How are you
going to wind it up?"
81 say that the guests danced until q
late, or rather an early hour in the
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