St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-10

education of a family.
1t is well-known fact that in women the
vital grasp, tenacity of life, if we may so
term it, is stronger than it is in man.
BRIDAL CHARMS AND ONIENS.
The MuMmerics of Maids Who are
About To Marry.
so, bless you. no; the wedding will not
take place until late in April, said a soci-
ETY. mother in chat with the fashion edi-
tor, who had touched on the subject of her
daughters nuptials.
but it was supposed to be all fixed for
an earlier date" said the clipper edi-
treSS.
$50 it was, long time in advance"
said the mother; ''but it was discovered
that the wedding would come in Lent, so
we put it off"
because it was in Lent. We couldn't
have marriage in Lent, you know"
''Why not? There's no law against mar
rying at any time, is there?"
mo; but it would be bad luck"
''Who says sop
Everybody. Why, it's as old as the
hills-that superstition. The young women
of over a century ago used to say, Marry
in Lent, be sure to repent"
''And the young girls of this century keep
on saying the same thing, it seems"
YES" said the mother of the prospec-
tive bride, Its superstition that one does
not like to acknowledge, and yet, no one
likes to run the risk of inviting bad luck by
violating the rule"
The editress being started on the track of
women's superStitiOns in regard to marriages
made inquiries and gathered surprising
number of them.
No girl, for instance, is willing to make
Friday her wedding-day.
Away back in the classic times the most
of these maiden SuperstitiOns were traced.
The Romans were very superstitious about
marrying in May and February. The 18th
of May has always been considered in Eng
land peculiarly unlucky for brides. Why.
tradition sayeth not. In the Orkney Isles
the bride selects an evening for her wedding
when there is a full moon and q flowing
tide In Scotland the last day Of the year
is considered lucky. and if the moon chance
to be full on that night the brides prospects
in life are supposed to be brilliant.
Sunday is great favOrite with brides in
some parts of England and Ireland. The
French demoiselle, however, thinks the
innate for her nuptials.
In Yorkshire when the bride is about to
cross her fathers threshold, after returning
from church, plate containing few small
pieces of cake is thrown from an upper
window by one of her male relatives. If
the plate is broken she will be happy, but if
not, there is every prospect that she will get
her full share of this worlds misery.
In Sweden the bride on her way back
from church has pieces OF bread in her pock-
cts These she throws away on her road
to her home to insure her good luck. 1t is
ill-fortune to the one who picks up these
crumbs. If the bride lose her slipper on
the way from church she will lose all her
troubles, and the one who picks it up will
gain riches.
In every country it is an unhappy omen
for the wedding to be put off when once
the day has been fixed, and in England it is
believed great misfortune will ensue if
bridegroom stand, if only for moment, at
the junction of crossroads on his wedding
morn. In England, also, it is thought a
sign of bad luck if the bride fails to shed
tears on her weddingday or if she turn
back to take last look at herself in her
wedding-toilet
Among the English lasses it is bad luck
for bride to look back or go back when
once she has started for church, or to marry
dressed in green, OF to let the ceremony go
on while there is an open grave in the
churchyard. When the bridesmaids I'M
dress the bride they must be sure to throw
away all the pins to make sure OF good for
themselves as well as for her. If single
pin be left to the BRIDES raiment, wO unto
her, And if bridesmaid should keep one
of them she will not be married before
Whitsuntide, or the Easter following.
Therefore, bridesmaids in England are not
given to preserving the pins from bridal
costumes. If the bridal party venture off
the land they must go up stream, and the
bride to make certain of good luck must, on
that happy day, wear Something old and
something new, something gold and some
thing blue" If she see strange cat on
that day she will take it as an omen that
she is to be very happy; and if On the morn
ing of her weddingday she steps from her
bed on something higher than the floor and
then on something higher still, she will rise
in the world from the time of her marriage.
TIC make sure of this the maiden has a
chair and table at the bedside and steps
from one to the other on arising from her
SAUNDERS On her wedding morn. On leav-
ing her home and On starting from the
church to return she is very careful to step
out with her right foot first, and is careful
not to address her husband after they are
wed without first calling him by his full
name. To break the wedding ring is sign
| the wearer will soon be a widow.
| And there were fifty others of the same
sort which are shared by our young women
who carefully follow many of these num-
meries in the weddings Of to-day. Though
they be nineteenth century maids and grad
yates of colleges of high standing, they are
not proof against the superstitions of brides
| immemOral.
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