The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-03

1t rs pretty an affair of its kind as the season
had known, and the more so because the bride
and groom really made a very handsome and
noteworthy couple-an occurrence quite as
unusual in the city as in the country.
The only complaints that any one heard
were from Haynton and vicinity. The
friends and acquaintance of the Hayn fam
lily held many Informal meetings and voted
it an outrage that when such lot of money
was to be spent on q wedding it should all be
squandered on New York people, who had so
much of similar blessings that they did not
know how to appreciate them, instead of
Hayuton, where the couple would sooner or
later make their home; for had not Phil Sc
lectad u villa site for himself on his fathers
old farInl
10 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 a thorough change at 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
50 pleased with the change that ever after
ward she was what the late lamented Mr..
| Hoiiin would have termed "a high flyer at
fashion,"
But there are souls who laugh to scorn any
such trifling Instructions us 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 rum
ming his slcop to New York and back; his
I wife saie4 with him as sole passenger, and on
the morning of tie wedding she presented
! herself ut tie church an hour before the ap-
/ pointed time, and in rai:nent such as had not
! been seen in that portion of New York since
the days when sullen brown stone fronts be-
| gan to disfgure farms that had been pictur-
! esque and smiling. She laid siege to the sex
| ten; she told him who she was, and how she
! had held Phil in her arms again and again
/ when be 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, wa. finally obliged to give her q
seat in the gallery, over the rail Of which, as
near the altar as possible, her deliberately
( 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
I factory than the combined reports in the
morning papers, all of which Mrs Mantring
/ carried home with her aud preserved between
( the leaves of her family Bible for the remain
! der of her days, and every one in the village
I 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 peculiarities 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 year passed there was another