The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-05
A MODEST BRIDE.
A Coy Young Woman Turns Her Husband
Out of the Room while She Disrobes, and
Then Hides in a Buffet.

A Coy Young Woman Turns Her Husband
Out of the Room While She Disrobes, and
Then Hides in Buffet.
Buffalo Correspondence
Perhaps the most amusing spectacle at Nj
agara Falls hotel may be witnessed in the corri-
doris from $50 to 11:30 of any evening during the
"bridaln season. Go early, so as to be in time;
post of observation in some convenient embra-
sure-say in the window at the end of the hall.
The half hour viii hardly have struck when door
after door will open in quick succession, and
groom after groom will emerge sneakingly from
its closing portal, give quick glance over his
shoulder, and then walk leisurely up and
down with don't-care a-damnativeness ex-
preston on his face that is indescribably
ludicrous One moment he shippers shame
facedly at his fellow sufferers who pass him
in their march, and another glares savagely, if
spelling for fight But all the time he is look
ing anxiosuly at his watch, until half hour has
passed slowly away, when he steals hastily back
to his door, knocks and enters, where necessity
eompels us to leave him. The explanation is
simple-he has been sent out while the young
and inexperienced madam disrobes herself. He
is ashamed to go down stairs, so he watches out
the vigil in the hall
On one joyful and meier to- be forgotten occa-
son-the first of the many times that | have
sought to console myself for the woes of bachel-
erdom by this pitiable sight was called in to
assist at the reunion after the half hour had
SldpSSu- "a SfOOul, DlRSer anu IIlduQSf b1dn the
average, had hardly re-entered his nuptial cham
Der when he reappeared with direst alarm and
CONSERVATION depicted upon his countenance.
His room was the end one in the hail. and my
face the first to meet his agonized gaze.
Are you one of the hotel men2' he gasped.
Il am, sir, / replied with that innate truth
fulness that characterized the descendants of
George Washington.
WELL sir, my wife has gone sir, and I'll have
her, sir, if search every room in your cursed
old shanty.n
In vain ] sought to console the agitated youth
and to check the current of profanity that
coursed with Niagaras 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 I'M
selfish heart / suggested that he let me assist
him IN examining his room fortraces of the miss
ing bride. He at once assented, and threw open
the door.
entered with noiseless reverence No hui
man being but ourselves was visible. In the
corner, piled upon chair, were the ordinary
articles of a woman's apparel. the smaller and
more mysterious garments hidden under the
larger In the bed was a mock front, composed
of pillow and flannel skirt, which the wrath
of the alarmed husband had ruthlessly and i'm
modestly exposed. took in the situation at a
glance. There was evidently nothing under the
bed-that is. nothing of any consequence-for it
came too near the floor There were no closets
in the room, no other doors, and nothing behind
which one could hide There was, however
what the French call buffet, with shelves at
the top and folding doors at the bottom.
| gagged the thing in my minds eye, and CON
scluded there was just room enough for flexible
little woman without much clothing to squeeze
in there All this was but the work of an in
srants observation, and then / spoke with my
mouth sharply:
Young man, you have made fool of your
self. Go to the sideboard and lick her.
Without waiting for me to hide my bushes be-
hind the door he opened the buffet with bound,
and there nestled amid a cloud of heecy white,
was the prettest little rosebud of a face that
ever cleaned out of lace and linen.