Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-05-08

robes of virgin white shrouded closely
in jealous veil, creature so wrapped
in shrinking maidenhood that her bold
lover feels new impulse to care for
and protect her forever-instead OF
this, the bride Of to-day bears down
upon her Immediately irt-fronted
lord, shimmering billow of self
assertive satin. She is crowned, not
hidden, by veil that surges all over
and waterfalls everywhere, except over
her face. Her arms are full of big
tree of orange blossoms tied with yards
of ribbon. Thus, I say, she swoops
upon him, and, SO it has been contided
to me, scares the life nearly out of him.
Oh! it is all changed now. He is the
shrinker, and no wonder.
| Isn't a bride, arrayed in as formid-
able lot of elegance as the young
lady of my picture, enough to cause q
weak-minded groom to yell for help?
How is he ever going to get all that to
the altar? Probably when he "asked
her." she dropped and sighed, and was
as sweet and dependent and shrinking
as any lovely woman is liable to be
under such circumstances; but now! a
man might be excused for boiling
right out of the back door of the
/ church when he realizes he has got to
run the risk of being swamped in his
lady's train before he and the train
are one. Grooms, these days, are in
clined to weak-mindedness. The en-
tire situation is the woman's. Isn't
conscious power written all over this
brides dress? No matter how big
and handsome groom might be, he
could not, as he knelt beside such a
gown, look much more important than
might a stick of icorice in an ay-
alanche. Ivory ottoman silk; front
draped in rich embroidered hsse; sash
tied at side with a bunch of orange
blossoms, the ends caught with silver
oats; collar, cuffs and revers of bodice
of same silver embroidery; long
court train with ruche of Nil-think
of getting married in all that Think
of groom peeping through the vestry
door and seeing court train with a
ruche of Nil shoveling his bride toward
the altar!
Even for the bride, I am told, get
ting married is an awful ordeal While
the responsibility, anguish, and awk-
wardness of the private performance
of asking is all his the entire weight
of the public performance Of getting
smoothly, gracefully, and elegantly
married seems to rest upon us. He
does his asking with no one to criticise
him but us. He may be limp, knock
kneed, and neryous-his hands may
shake and his voice quake, but 1t must
be confessed that we are inclined to
make allowances. Besides, we can, il
necessary, help him along II he gets Sc
tangled that he stops. But at church
every eye is on u.s. II he gets tangled
you can't do anything but whisper
/ darkly that, if he doesn't brace up,
you won't marry him at all, and that is
as likely to reduce him to a condition
of complete incompetency as it is t.
inspire him to go on. II here he
sticks, it is disastrous. Oh! the sense
of double responsibility is awful fol
the bride.
Then you wonder If you are saying
the answers right, and how Algernor
1 Is coming Through, and during the
choked pauses he makes you decide he
isn't coming through at all, and that yor
are glad of it. Getting married is,
am sure, as dreadful as what actresses
call a FIRST night.
To go back to the bridal array pre-