Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-07-27

Young Married Couples Can't Com
ceal Their Happiness.

Young Married Couples Can't Con-
ceal Their Happiness.
IL is a Pullman porter, who is talk
ing 10 an attentive scribe.
Hardly a week goes by" says the
porter, ''that / don't see a bridal
couple just starting out on their honey.
moon. | don't exactly know how |
can tell them, but they are as plainly
marked 20 my eyes as II they had the
words bride and groom stamped in
big letters on their foreheads There
is something about them that gives the
whole situation away; kind OF cling.
Notwithstanding air. or
course, have made mistake now
and then; but ii is very seldom / do,
and I've found out, after changing my
mind two or three times, that
was right after all. though certain APP
pearances were against it, We gener-
ally have test which never fails, and
when doubtful party comes along we
spring 1t on them, just TO be sure. you
know.
whats the test? Well, I'll tell
you. Not many weeks ago couple
got into my car and sat down very
quietly in their armchalrs as IL they
had been used 10 ii all their lives.
These didn't seem TO have the bride
and groom air about them at all, and
from external appearances they might
have been brother and sister or mar
ried for years, but still there was a
something there that made me sus-
picious, so when ! saw them together
l went TO the news company's boy and
i says: bill here's doubtful party;
get out the sample copies
$50 Bill got his tests and started
through the car. He handed books 10
every body, and when he came TO the
suspected party he took out of his pile
two little books and said, so nearly
everybody could hear him: Very use
full books, sir; hints on housekeeping
and hints TO newly married people.
Only twenty-five cents.
THAT did il The girl got as red as
a rose and the man blushed and said a
weak sort OF .N-n-n-no.' Then they
looked at each other and sort OF snick-
cred, and caught him full in the eye
and smiled a sweet smile. giving him a
respectful wink at the same time. II
was all settled In minute, and there
was no doubt about IT, Well, he took
IL very good naturally. and asked me
afterward how In the world he had
given himself away-he couldn't inn
agine. made believe we could
always tell, and talked so nicely he
gave me "A dollar when / got through.
There are plenty OF other give
Always by which can spot bride and
groom, and they are as safe generally
AS the test One day a couple came in
the car-which, by the way, was jam
fnl-and the moment they entered it
was plain as day that they were newly
welded. | passed by them once or
twice, and then went in my closet and
got the dustpan and brush ! walked
right up 20 where the bride was sitting
and busted up a painful of rice that lay
on the floor around her in a complete
circle. Well, IL the people ia that car
didn't laugh, I'm another.
The custom OF throwing rice after
bridal couple always makes Ii un-
pleasant for the party. as lots OF rice is
almost sure TO stick to their clothes,
hats, aud 10 their hair. About the
funniest rice thing ever saw was that
which happened in my car just two or
three weeks ago. A couple came in
and the test revealed to me that they
We're bride and groom. They didn't
seem TO take kindly 10 IL, however,
and we couldn't get any satisfaction
out Of them at all. BY and by the
man said 20 his wife: Seems TO me
this umbrella is not rolled up very
nice.
Then he carefully unrolled Il. and.
bezingl out came three or four pocket
fulls Of rice all over the seats and floor.
Their friends had rolled up lot in
side The folds Of the umbrella, and,
next TO the young man / heard tell
about who, when he went to sign his
name in hotel register. dropped lot
OF rice on the book when he took OF
his hat, Il was the most binding thing
| ever saw. " Philadelphia Record.