Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-11-25

IL as pretty an affair OF its kind as the season
had known, and the more so because the bride
and groom really made very handsome and
noteworthy couple-an occurrence quite IS
unusual in the city as in the country.
The only complaints that any one heard
were from Hlynton and vicinity. The
friends and acquaintances Of the Hayn fam
ly held many informal meetings and voted
It an outrage that when such lot of money
was to be spent on wedding it should all be
sluandered on New York people, who had so
much Of similar blessings that they did not
know how to appreciate them, instead Of
Haynton, where the couple would sooner or
later make their home; for had not Phil Sc
lected villa site for himself on his fathers
old farmi
No invitations by card reached Haynton,
but Pills pastor went down quietly to the
city to assist at the marriage service, by
special arrangement, and Hayn farm, Of
course sent large delegation, and the head
of the family saw to it that none of the mas
culine members wore garments Of the Sarah
Tweege cut longer than was required to
make thorough change at a reputable cloth
ing store. As for Mrs Hayn, her prospect
i've daughter found time enough to assume
filial duties in advance, and the old lady was
SO pleased with the change that ever after
ward she was what the late lamented Mr.
Botfin would have termed "a high flyer at
fashion"
But there are souls who laugh to scorn any
such trfiing distractions as lack Of formal
invitation, and one of these was Sol Man
tring's wife. She tormented her husband
until that skipper found something that
would enable him to pay the expense of run
ming his sloop to New York and back; his
wife sailed with him as sole passenger, and on
the morning of the wedding she presented
herself at the church an hour before the ap-
pointed time. and in raiment such as had not
been seen in that portion of New York since
the days when sullen brown stone fronts be
gan to disfigure farms that had been pictur-
esque and smiling. She laid siege to the sex
ton. she told him who she was, and how she
had held Phil in her arms again and again
when he had the whooping cough, and yet
again when he had scarlet fever although
she ran the risk Of taking the dread malady
home to her own children, and the sexton. in
self defense, was finally obliged to give her a
seat in the gallery, over the rail Of which, as
near the altar as possible, her deliberately
trimmed Sunday bonnet caught the eyes of
every one who entered.
What all Haynton did not know about that
wedding, three days later, was not worth
knowing; it wasa thousand times more salts
factory than the combined reports in the
morning papers, all Of which Mrs Mantring
carried home with her and preserved between
the leaves of her family Bible for the remain
der of her days and every one in the village
read them even Sarah Tweege, who mag
unanimously waved the apparent slight implied
by Phil not having his wedding suit made by
her.
Mrs. Hayn, Sr, no longer had to wish in
vain for place in the city where she might
sometimes forget the cares and humdrum Of
farm house life. Risky as the experiment
seemed from the society point of view. Lucia,
backed by Margie, insisted upon making her
at home in the city whenever she chose to
come, and. although some friends of the
family would sometimes laugh in private
over the old lady's pecuiarties Of accent and
grammar. there were others who found real
pleasure in the shrewd sense and great heart
that had been developed by life in which
the wife had been obliged to be the partner
and equal of her husband
Before a year passed there was another
wedding Agnes Dinon changed her name
without any misgivings, she had previously
confessed To Lucia. VINO, IN spite OF the dlf-
ference IN years. seemed to become her IA
vorite coufidante that she had always ad-
mired some things about Mr.. Marge, and
that the business misforttines which had com
PEELED him to become the active manager of
the Haynton Bay improvement company
seemed TO supply what had been lacking in
his character and manner.
Other people who were no longer young
were gamers by the elimination OF the incl
dents narrated in this tale Tramlay and his
wife seemed to renew their youth under the
influence of the new love that pervaded their
home, and almost daily the merchant blessed
bis partner for gains more precious than
those Of business. He never wearied Of rally
ing his wife on her early apprehensious re-
gartiing the acquaintance between her daugh
ter and the young man from the country
Mrs Tramlay's invariable reply was the
question;
But who could have foreseen iii can't
to this day understand how it all came about.
Nor I, her husband would reply As
I've said before, it's country luck Nine men
Of every ten who amount to anything in New
York come from the country Remember it,
my dear. when next you have a daughter
who you think ne, : husband
IHE END