Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1883-06-30
Arabian HonexmoOns.

best men, no throwing on OF OLD SIP
pers, no sprinkling of rice over the
departing pair. Nor do the pair de-
part in the old way. The young wo-
man of the period objects to making
an exhibition of herself. She shrinks
from the ordeal of the "bridal room"
in the palace car. She refuses to be
made the passing comment of ribald
youth or cynical age in the hotel
parlor. She refuses to be made the
object of Sinking advances on the
part of elderly gossip, bent on ex-
aiming her diamonds or trousseau
under the artless plea that her own
dear girl went through the same mar
tyrdom not long before. Indeed, the
bride of to-day proclaims tina: she
does not think it an unalloyed joy to
suffer the impertinences Of curious
strangers under the plea Of sympathy,
as if marriage were a matter of con
defence. Nor are the simpering insin-
uations of the bevies of susceptible
young misses, exhibited in hotel par
lors as sort of marriage mart, entire
ly tolerable to q young bride, no
matter how overpowering her trous.
seRu.
1t is the horror of this maybe
chattering of the coquette squadrons
that has brought the old wedding
tour into disuse. No woman but
enjoys the admiring glances and ST.
lent devotion that mankind pays to
beauty, particularly at this interest
ing epoch of her life; but there are
few women that can bear up under
the punic admiration of rivals in the
guise of disciples. 1t is not until
later in life that the bride feels like
imparting the delicious details OF
courtship-whst he said and how he
said it. Nor is the first intoxicating
joy OF hope fulfilled the moment whit n
tender bride cares to share with her
sex the amount of her trousseau, the
cost of her jewels, papa's present, or
the contributions of the family ard
friends. The bride of the present,
backed by recent judicial declarations
says in substance: 81 don't propose
to make an exhibition of myself.
When the Rev. Mr.. 5wearem, asks
me to love, honor and obey, l shall
substitute cherish for that odious
word" 1t is true that such conduct
may scandalize the old fogies, and
that the groom may not justify the
expectations of the assembly by pre-
serving the funereal gravity usual to
such occasions. The bridal tour she
regards as vulgar concession to an
imbecile custom with which she will
have no mere to do, and that there is
no more reason why two modest pco-
pie united in wedlock should set out
to make an exhibition of themselves
than the fond parents should carry
the frst-born to some public place to
display its linen and silver spoon.
To the women, marriage is a sacra-
ment, and it is desecrated by sharing
its fresh joys with wicked and in
credulous world.
As it is the condition OF all men TO
be married sooner or later, unless
celibacy be put upon them for their
sins of vanity and obstinacy, it is just
as we'll that this new departure from
the honeymoon should be accepted
at once. Nor is it likely the average
lover will resist the edict. The hap
Ply lover will reliu9uish the parade of
his happiness with alacrity. He
sympathizes, on sentimental grounds
at least, with the desire of his charm
or to avoid the odious ordeal of the
resorts where the men are all gamblers
and the women all fashion plates.
Instead he will go willingly to some
forest of Arden, where his wife shall
be the Rosalind of the sylvan scene
and the world shall be only a memo
~. Under such conditions, too, any
girl worthy the name snd ministry of