Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-12-12
IF you THINK OF MARRIAGE

IF YOU THINK OF MARRIAGE
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Etiquette.
An etiquette writer in Oscar Wilde's
Woma's's World, observing the unanim.
ity of error regarding certain funda.
mental principles on which social cere.
monies and functions are founded. and
the similarity of queries arising from
puzzled correspondents in all parts OF
the world, sets forth some generalitiea
Likely to satisfy the anxiety Of the great
est number.
Among these the perplexed bride
groom is assured that he has not been
expected for at least thirty years to
provide carriages for the bridesmaids OF
guests, and that the only equipage for
which he is responsible is that in which
he takes his bride from the church to
the house and afterward to the railway
station.
Also that the bride should walk up
to the altar on the right side of her
father or guardian, and come down
again on the left arm of the bridegroom.
and that the order of precedence of the
guests after the ceremony, except in
royal weddings. is that the welded pair
go first, followed by the bridesmaids
and guests, while the mother hurries
home by the quickest route in order to
arrive before her guests, that she may
receive them.
The bride is no longer expected to
furnish the household linen, this pretty
custom, which dates from the days
when the maiden spun and wove her
linen. having lost its pretty significance
and been abandoned.
The world also seems full of puzzled
best men, with very hazy ideas con-
corning their rather thankless duties,
and they are assured that they are not
expected to pay the bridegroom's fees,
but simply to call for him, accompany
him to the church. remind him of the
wedding ring. before the ceremony, and
see that he doesn't forget his hat after it.
He stands at the right and a little
back of tho bridegroom during the
ceremony, proceeds to the house in
whatever manner he thinks best, though
usually he finds place in the last car
riage of all after he has assisted all the
ladies to their places and attended to
all the details of the ceremony.
The Duke of Portland established q
happy precedent at his wedding of
going down with his best man, while
awaiting the coming Of his bride, to
chat with the people in the front rows
instead of waiting in solemn agony at
the altar rail. Groomsmen in England
are extinct, though in America they still
exist under the name of ushers.
The proper use Of the visiting card is
constant source of confusion to the
uninitiated. A widower with unmar-
ried daughters should use a card the
sized of lady's visiting card, with his
daughters names printed beneath his
own.
1t is quite immaterial which corner of
the visiting card is turned down, and
the fashion of turning one side COM
pletely down is only foreign version
of the same custom.
Wedding cards should not be re-
turned by the visiting cards of the re-
cipients sent through the mails, and
brides should not put their at Home"
day on their wedding cards.
Turned to White Marble.
A petrifed human body-a BODY
which has turned from flesh to white
marble as hard and firm as the stone it.
self. This is the very strange and ex-
ceptional sight in the undertaking es-
tablishment of f. X. Bliley, at SO South
Pryor street, says the Atlanta Journal.
1t is q case which will be spoken of and
treatlses written upon in future works
on embalming.
The body is that Of Edward. Sound
strong, formerly the chemist of the
Atlanta Perfumery Company. Forty
five days ago Mr.. Soundstrong died and
his remains were taken to Mr.. Bliley's
office to be embalmed. The dead chem
lists wife was in Sweden, his native
home, and she requested that his body
be embalmed, SO that she could come
across the ocean and look upon mis-
face again.
The body was embalmed by Mr.. Bill
ley himself. Some days ago he noticed
that the flesh was crystalizing. The
fluids used in embalming are exceed
ingly poisonous, and, as Mr.. Sound
strong had died from mercurial poison,
Mr.. Bliley believed the action of one
poison upon the other was producing
the strange result. Gradually the face
of the dead man became whittier and
whittier, harder and harder, until now it
is nothing but white stone, as white
and firm as marble. Mr.. Bliley is an
undertaken and embalmer Of long ex-
perience, but never III his life, he says,
has he either heard OF or seen such an
instance as this one.
The bereaved wife of the dead chem
list has reached Atlanta, alter her long
trip from Sweden, and has looked upon
the stone face of her husband. Her
grief was pitiful to see. Next week the
body vii be- taken back to Sweden.
where it will rest under the sod of his
native land.
Mistakes OF Women.
"Womon make strange mistakes in
the artistics-to coin word-of dress"
says an artist, "but one Of the strangest
is the way in which they treat their
necks when wearing low corsage.
Nearly every woman believes that q
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