The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-07-29
A MODEST BRIDE.
a Coy Young Women Turns Her
Husband Out Of the Room
While She Disrobes.
Buffalo Correspondence.

Buffalo Correspondence.
Perhaps the most amusing spectacl
at a Niagara Falls hotel may b
witnessed in the corridors from 8 a,
to IL 30 at any evening during tn,
bridal season. Go early, so as L
be in time; ascend to about the THIRD
floor, and take up your post of oh
servation in some convenient embra.
gure-say in the window of the END
Of the hall. The halt hour will
hardly have struck when door after
door will open in quick succession,
and groom after groom will emerge,
sneaking from its closing portal, give
quick glance over his shoulder, and
then walk leisurely up and down
with don't-care-adamnative express
sion on his face that is indescribably
ludicrous. One moment he shippers
shamefacedly at his fellow sufferers
who pass him in their march, and
another glares savsgely as if spelling
for fight. But all the time he is
looking anxiously at his watch, until
half nour has passed slowly away,
when he steals hastily back to bis
door, knocks and enters, where
necessity compels us to leave him
The explanation is simple-he has
been sent out while the young and
inexperienced madam disrobes her
self. He is ashamed to 60 down
stairs, so he watches out the vigil in
the hall.
On one joyful and ne'er-to, be-for
gotten occasion-the first of the many
times that l have sought to console
myself for the woes of bacbelordom by
this pitiable sight, was called in to
assist at the reunion after the half
hour had elapsed. A groom, bigger
and madden than the average, bad
hardly reentered bis nuptial chamber
when he reappeared with direst alarm
and CONSERVATION depicted upon his
eountenanee. His room was the end
one in the hall, and my face the first
TO meet his agonized face.
care you one Of the hotel men ?"
he gasped.
Il am, sir" l replied, with that
innate truthfulness that characterized |
the descendants of George Washing
ton.
"Well, sir. my wife has gone, sir,
and I'll have her, sir, if 1 search
every room in your cursed old
shanty."
In vain / sought to console the
agitated youth, and to check the
current of profanity that coursed with
Eiagara's own rush and roar from his
trembling lips. In vain / assured
him that it was not customary with
wives to run away so early in the
marital life, and that there was not a
case on record of ones quitting her
bed and board before the expiration
of the honeymoon. 1t was useless
he would not be comforted-till
finally, purely out of the philanthropy
Of an unselfsh heart, / suggested
that he let me assist him In examin-
ing bis room for traces of the missing
bride. He at once assented, and ,
threw open the door.
/ entered with noiseless reverence.
No human being but ourselves was :
visible. In corner, piled upon a !
chair, were the ordinary articles of ,
woman's apparel, the smaller and !
more mysterious garments hidden :
ander the larger. In the bed was I
mock front, composed of a pillow !
and flannel skirt, which the wrath ,
of the alarmed husband had ruthless 6
y and immodestly exposed. l took G
IN the situation at glance. There '
was evidently nothing under the bed {
that is, nothing of any consequence
for it came too near the floor. There s
were no closets in the room. no other a
doors and nothing behind which one J
could hide. There was, however, {
what the French call a buffet, with +
shelves at the top and folding doors a
at the bottom. q
| gagged the thing in my minds O
eye and concluded there was just o
room enough for a flexible little wom- #
an without much clothing to squeeze {
in there. All this was but the work v
of an instant's observation, and then v
spoke with my mouth sharply: f
Young man, you've made fool of b
yourself. Go to the sideboard and O
lick her," n
Without waiting for me to hide my b
bushes behind the door be opened I
the buffet with bound, and there b
nestled amid cloud of feecy white &
was the prettiest little rosebud of G.
face that ever cleaned out Of lace o
and linen. q
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