The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-01-24
ORIGIN OF WEDDING TOURS.

tlrely unknown, AS To II we can only
be sure of one thing-the wedding trip
originated among civilized or semi
civilized nations, and not among bar
barians.
Custom now requires that a newly
married pair should fly from their
friends and seek the seclusion OF cot
tage by the sea, or the more acute lone
illness of hotel crowded with strangers.
| Exception is sometimes made in behalf
of husband and wife who are adj
vanced in years, or who, by long con-
| linued habit, have hrcOme accustomed
to undergoing marriage, and look upon
taking for the third or fourth time the
VOWS of matrimony with the indiffer-
ence with which a veteran traveller,
landing in New York, swears his way
through the custom house. But to
young people no social mercy is shown.
They must undergo their wedding trip,
no matter how muoh or how justly
they may dread it.
Our barbarous ancestors regarded
marriage as an affair either OF bargain
and sale or of robbery. In neither case
did the successful husband feel called
upon to hide himself. Having bought
an eligible wife, or having picked up
cheap wife at a bargain, he no more
thought of carrying her off to some Sc
cluded place and concealing himself and
his purchase for a month than the
fortunate buyer of a fine picture or
good table bought for a song at an auc-
tion thinks of hiding the evidence of
his good fortune and dlscernmeDt.
Neither did the cave dweller, who
probably knocked down his beloved OBJ
Jet with club, and, throwing her
over his shoulder carried her to his pri
vate cave, think of flying with her to
some large and fashionable seaside cave
and spending three or four weeks with
her in the darkness of the stutfy and
stalagmite strewn bridal chamber. On
the contrary, he was proud of his PROV
ess, and on the morning after his mar
rage exhibited his new wife with her
head covered with sticking plaster, and
casually remarked to his friends that
although he had married large mum.
Der of wives this particular one had the
thickest skull he had ever cracked.
Such is to this very day the cu-tom in
the best circles of native Australian so
ciety, and scientific persons are of the
opinion that the Australians are the
oldest race now on the planet.
Conceding, then, that the wedding
trip has not come down to us from prim-
tive and savage man, 1t must have
zen the invention of comparatively
civilized people. What could have been
the motive which gave birth to such
custom? The answer must be sought by
conjecture, but in this case conjecture
may prove to be trustworthy guide.
Clearly the inventors of the wedding
trip were not human and sympathetic
race. There is probably no time In the
life of man or woman when he or she
has greater need OF human sympathy
and encouragement than duriug the first
few weeks of married HE And yet
this is the very lime when modern Gus
tom has decreed their isolation. They
are not merely thrust out of reach of
the sympathy of their fIirnds, but they
are practically forbidden to make new
friends during the honeymoon. No |
newly made hu baud dares TO say: "My |
DEAR | have met some very good fell |
lows at the hotel, and we're going to |
have little game Of whist in the smok- |
ing room tonight :" and where is the |
recent bride who weuld venture o spend |
the evening in Mrs So and Sos room,
and leave the groom alone for an hour |
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