Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-02-18
NO. 40.
How He Reported the Wedding.

his hat over his eyes and scratching the hack
of his head. Il don't know whether this il
right"
"Don't know whether what is right?" de.
msnded the managing editor.
This wedding. l went there last night and
they gave me heap of rot about their frocks;
| but don't know whether il comes out straight
or not Now here is Mrs. Isaac Belding. I've
got her in a pannier silk, trimmed a Ia g-os
grain, with black point lace underskirt and
box plated hair. Does that sound natural."
who sent you 10 the weddingg" asked the
managing editor contemptuouslv. "Don't YOU
know that gros grain is color? That was a
gros grain. box-plaited dress. trimmed a Ia
black point lace. and her hair was combed
en- pdnn'er You ought to know better than
to get things mixed that wav. Who else did
you getl How was the bride dressedY"
1--we got her all right" replied the police
| reporter. 'She wore a white boufdst with
Princess of Thule veil; the underskirt cut
deeoi!efe around the bottom, and trimmed
with basque at the sides"
That's better" said the managing editor,
encouragingly. THAT sounds something
like. How WAS her hair?"
Her hair was shirred," replied the police
reporter "Shirred at the sides and cor
ssged on top
Il don't believe that's right" observed the
managing editor. Read that agalh"
at was corsaged at the sides, and shirred
on top. said the police reporter referring to
his notes
'0f course" smiled the managing editor.
at makes all the difference in tho world.
You never saw n woman with her hair cor
saged on top in your life. Who else have
you gnt?''
Here's the brides mother She pranccd
around in an iridescent bead, cut low neckcd,
and hoisted up on the side with some kind Of
plant. I've forgotten the name of it,"
Il know that style" said the managing
editor, resting his elbows on the desk and
his chin on his hands 1T had a big rip
down the back, didn't it!
That's it, like a V, and tied up with a
green shoestringr'
"of course grinned the managing editor
'lou can't fool me on frocks You want
to say that it was a--what color did you say
the shoestring was? Green? Then the
trock must have been red"
mo. it was the color of a clam" said the
police reporter.
''Oh, yes. Yes, yes, know You
want to say that it was n gorgeous, deep sea
pearl colored business, trimmed with a gore
en- ponf. and caught at the side with a deli
cate floral design, which was especially rich
in its artistic effect. Did you get her hair?"
"Her hair was French. had it some
where. but ! don't find il. 1t was either
French or Spanish, and forget which"
You ought to be careful about such
things, but wen call il a 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 bridesmaid.
She wore silk socks with a streak of yellow
tapestry up the side. Her hair was bumped"
'llow do you mean?" demanded the man.
aging editor.
at was plastered down in front and stuck
up behind like a hens tail"
Banged you mean. How was her dress
cut?"
well, it was an even stretch from the
back of her neck half wav up the front stairs.
That was one piece. Then she had on a
petticoat that showed the whole front and
some cloudy stuff that had dropped down at
one end That back part was the energy,
though, and she called it a train, with some
kind of a law term in front Of it,"
"Was it revised statutes?" asked the edi-
tor.
mo. that wasn't it,
"Did 1t have anything to do with alimony
and the custody of the chidren?"
THAT wasn't 1t. II was a train with some
thing legal in front of it. tried to re,nem-
her. because they have il in the CITY Hail."
'Couldn't have been anything about con-
tempt of conrt. could it?"
"Thats il exclaimed the police reporter;
"a court train. and up around the lower part
of the top part of the-of where it hooked on
to the body part. you KNOW
''The bustle?''
Yes. she had II tied up with broad, white
tape and the darndest big bow knot you ever
saw"
Certainly; that's right" said the man
aging 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 deliberately finished with loops of
linen"
81 see, replied the police reporter, max
ing memorandum. "Her cousin was Miss
Mears. Of Quogue. only got her ha.r. 1t
was poached on top with rerers, and had .
big pair Of silver tongs stuck through the
hind part. Better say anything about that"
'ertainly- You've got it right. Did
they have big supper?"
They had boned head cheese and candy
and lobster and some shaky stuff Lots Of
wine"
"Eh."
"You beti'
fThen, just give the caterers name, and
say that on this occasion the table fairly
groaned under the weight Of his excellent
provisions. and even the most fastidious ap-
petites succumbed TO the charms Of his deli
cacies. How are you going to wind it up?"
II say that the guests danced until late,
or rather an early hour in the morning.
That's business" smiled the managing
editor. ''If you do it all as well as that last
part, you've got magazine article."-
Brooktya Eagie.