The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-03-24
A WEDDING SANS CEREMONY.

Zone thing am determined upon,
remarked Mrs. Sue Hathaway, deci
sively; '.you, Fan, shall have decent,
ceremonious wedding. When think o
the harum-scarum way in which Charlie
and were thrown at one another, tn,
wonder is not that we haven't quarrelet
since, but that we were ever really mar
ried at ALL"
Tell me about it, Sue DEAR" coaxel
Mrs. Hathaway's youngest and pet sis
ter, as she folded and replaced in theil
boxes the dainty articles which she wa:
preparing for her own trousseau. You
have always spoken of your wedding day
as the most unhappy day of your life
but cannot conceive how that can be-
when you and Charlie love one another
so dearly"
''And if we had not loved each other
beyond all possibility of quarreling, we
would certainly have broken our engage
ment an hour before the ceremony was
really performed. Isincerely trust, dear
Fan, that your married life may be as
happy as mine has proved, and that
Heaven may defend you from wedding
day as chaotic as mine"
s.My remembrance of the affair is that
1t was perfect success. You are such a
manager, Sue, you are always in request
for tablea,lx and private theatricals. l
never knew an occasion which you were
not equal to, from a charity bazaar to the
State dinner thel aides gave the foreign
deputation. was only eight years old
when you were married; but remember
that l was your bridemaid, and that l
wore a pulled null, with pink kid gloves.
They were the first kid gloves ever had,
and was as proud as peacock of them.
j wouldn't carry bouquet for fear of
soiling and hiding them, but marched in,
arm in arm with IsabePs oldest boy, with
my hands displayed as conspicuously as
possible"
"And do you happen to remember
what scamp that boy was? He was the
cause of more than half of my tribula-
ton. He was a regular little Ish-
mael-'his hand against every man, and
every mans hand against him. And
when 1 think what Bohemian Isabel
has been all her life, and the wildly pre-
posterous way in which she was married,
1don't wonder. She was studying abroad
when she met her husband. They had
both gone to Europe for a number of
years, and they concluded to be married
at the American consuPs and continue
their foreign residence, instead of COM
ing home for the ceremony. They were
married in the evening and took q
steamer Immediately after for. some
Mediterranean port. IsabePs trunks had
been sent on board during the afternoon,
but when they drove down to the wharf
at night, they found that the ship had
moved from its anchorage, and they were
obliged to hire waterman to row them
out. The water was very rough, and in
q sudden lurch Of the little boat Isabel
was thrown overheard. She was prompt
" rescued by her husband, and got safely
on board, but in completely drenched
condition. Now comes the ridiculous
part. 1t was cargo steamer, which
only carried limited number of passen-
gers, and it so happened that there were
no other ladies on board. Isabels trunks
were buried in the hold, where it was
to get at them, and the val
Use, which had fallen into the water with
her had gone to the bottom, and Isabel
retired to her state-room to improvise q
toilette out of some flannel under-cloth-
ing of the Captains and two Marseilles
How very dreadfulr' exclaimed Fan,
choking with laughter.
She succeeded, too; she basted up
wrapper of the bed-spreads with Wat |
teau pleat in the back, trimming the front
with a Turkish towel torn in strips, |
and breakfasted next morning in that |
costume. Her husband told me he never |
saw her dressed so becomingly."
II always thought Isabel was q gem
Ius," Fan remarked, admiringly.
YES, but what very singular pro-
,eeding! Isabel is five years older than
am. and look up to her for certain
qualities. But she has no idea of cere-
nony or etiquette, and she utterly alb
lors convention. Now say that getting
married at all is a concession to conven-
and if you are, going to &C
the claims of society 80 far
IS that, YOU might as well do the thing
and in good form. am .
as you say, and it was for that
,ery reason that the entire arrangement
4 my wedding was left to me. We were
wing in the old family mansion in the
ounfry, two miles from the church, and
f course the wedding had to be at the
louse. This troubled me from the first,
or the ceremony is always 80 much more
olemn and impressive before the altar,