The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-07-18
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WANING of the Honey Moon" In.
Dumaurier's Pictures of English So
ciety" there is another illustration bear
ing the same title, in which the young
couple are represented as seated on a
lonely sea-shore, Angelina Suppress
ing ON inclination to yawn) How niceit
would be if some friend were to turn
up: wouldn't it, Edwin" Edwin (after
yawning elaborateiy)-"Ye-e-s!-or
even some enemy!" If, as an amusing
French writer assures us, the Chinese
we're the Inventors of the honeymoon"
then should that ingenious people in
deed be kept away from Americas
shores, lest they introduce among the
Occidentals other pernicious customs
and inventions of the Orient. Can
the civilization of the nine
teenth century evolve nothing bet
ter for a newly married pair than a
wedding journey? Are the publicity of
railway trains and the curiosity of
chance guests in hotel drawing and
dining rooms necessary adiuncts to the
draw of coniugai felicity? Does the
bride imagine that she is pretty and
winsome with all the dust of travel
clinging to her hair and eyebrows?
That her voice is sweet and tender when
talking in a noisy train? That huge
hotels were especially adapted to the
indulgence of loves young dream? Is
an ocean steamer, with its unpleasant
motion and odors, its crowded deck and
sitting cabins, the place where she and
her lover husband are seen each to the
best advantage? Can the pale demon.
of seasIckness be associated for a mo-
ment with the rosy son of Venus? Are
the nervousness and %irritability engen-
dered by rapid and continuous travel
the moods in which Arabella seems an
angel, aud George the young hero q
bridegroom is supposed to appear-at
least to his bride?
The English proceeding is ven less
attractive than in own, George and
Arabella slip quietly away to some sea-
side c~revice, or a drowsy continental
town, and for a long month love each
other to extinction. Not a soul comes
to break the m%onotony; the world at
large does not even know the retreat.
Letters and papers from the family
alone serve to %enliven the long days
that creep more and more slowly, as
the moon of honey dwindles and disap-
pears; when the last day of exile is over.
both George and Arabella hail it as hap
pier than their wedding day.
Because the young couple have each
regarded the others society as the chief
pleasure In life, they fondly and fool
ishly imagine that a tete a tete of a
months duration must naturally be the
most delicious of all conceivable things.
They never take the changed circum-
stances into consideration. George
has lost the eager excitement of pur-
suit and stands eommittedto his bliss the
prize is won, the reaction sets in, and
Arabella, In her ignorance and mex
perience. watches with dire dismay the
signs of incipient ennui, and believes
the fault is in herself rather than in the
situation. No active man can be taken
away from his business and forced to
spend q month of complete idleness in
the society of one person without wish
ing for more variety and occupation in
his life. As for the poor bride, what
with the excitement of all the wedding
preparations and the ceremony itself,
the Ieaye-taking of home and family,
and the startling novelty Of her new
position, she is In a state of bewilder-
ment by no means conducive to q calm
self possession, to the mastery OF all
her little of entertainment and
fascination.
1t is wonderful that young people
continue to follow a fashion so bad.
How much longer the sweet illusions Of
love would last If the bridal pair went
at once into a little home of their own,
q veritable mid d'amour prepared by
friends for their reception, where Ara
bella would take her place at the break
fast table shining viii silver IS zhbs;siats
as her own eyes, china as delicate as the
pretty morning dress, appropriate In
her own home, but quite impracticable
in 4 hotel. All the gifts Of kind friends,
instead Of growing furnished Ia dark
closets, beautify at once a spot conse-
Grated by tenderest affection. George
breakfasts in e~cstatic admiration Of the
pretty creature blushing behind he cof-
fee cup, goes down town and about his
business as airily as il he walked
ON thrones, and returns at evening in
time to investigate, hand in hand with
his queen, the little kingdom in which
they reign supreme, and SC the days slip
by until the precarious pleasures Of the
honeymoon are we'll over, and the set
tied satisfaction OF q congenial marriage
Is an established fact. Arabella, for