Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-25
FOR JUNE BRIDES.
Wise Words to Young Women About
to Marry - What Does the
Wedding Mean9
Do Our Modern Girls Understand MARRIAGE
What Young Women should Feel in
Their Hearts-Sensible Advice.
copyrighted 1890 by the Author. /

copyrighted l6yO by the Author.
For the Gazette.
1t is one of the condolences of nature
that when the high tide of life fiushes
every bough, when the earth is all afoam
with blossom, and sunshine is at the full
in the heavens, that life is at high tide
also in the human heart, and that then,
as if he remembered the first lovers in
the garden of Eden, the lover most often
chooses June as the season in which to
lead home his bride.
June, with its sunbeams, its south
winds, its garlands, its green woods, is
the country through which the bride goes
TO take possession of her kingdom in her
lovers heart and life. The earth offers
a velvet sWaTd for her feet to tread: the
apple tree spreads wide its brooding
boughs, like lowering mother wings,
and drops the rosy snow of flower petals
in veil about her; the wine of joy is at
her lips, and she goes forth into her new
life to the estate of q happiness surpass-
ing speech, to the sweetest and most
honored name Of wife, to reign and to
serve, 10 lose her life and find it in an
others, to be, although now she may not.
dream of it, as entirely other from hes
old self as the earth is other than thB
maiden moon. A
We look at her as she "shadows her
beauty in white veils'' and moves along
with her court, with her bushes RudSher
smiles, the glisten of her silken roses,
the glImmer of her lace, as if she were
but the feature of lovely pageant, Assjf
she were pictorial effect for the pleas
uring OF our eyes. We do not realize tia
solemnity, the sweet uwfulness of thet
sight, and that we behold a sacrament in
which the Lord of life himself bears part
as much as when essential force first
evolved visible shape and spirit took on
matter.
Does the young bride, among her cloud
of maidens, realize all this herself? are
her thoughts with the great mystery
which is about to absorb her life into
another Is? Or do the weghty matters
OF her paraphernalia, of her wedding.
gifts, OF her tram, OF the church pros
cessional, the 1.-THE of mint and anise ana
cummin, exclude perception of the wAs
INTO that new sphere just closing about
her, In which she shall walk to all out=
side view the same, but in reality anotheK
being, although she may never be awareH
of IL till she has reached the fartherS
boundary? Has she, as Marie MitoheftS
used to say, allowed the infinitesmals8os
shut out the infinite? Is she losingt
great meaning of marriage, that type of
all perfection, that state and condition
which is cosmos in itself, through
which the vast currents of life move ever
upward and keep the individual in rela-.s
tion not only to the race, but to alhsSe
universe OF being, from the first sponge
that ever built its frame to the last and
finest of humanity?
Let us believe that the bride most like
a butterfly among them all understands
something of the great miracle. 1t can
only be then with the reverence due the
celebration of some mystery of old,
where one draws near the Ancient of An
clients, that the bride approaches the al
tar, whether il be the altar of the church
or the equally oonsecrated altar of her
fathers house and home-en altar that
burns to heaven with the white flame of
all pure love and devotion and gladness,
or else on which is 10 be offered the bleed
ing sacrifice of broken hearts and lives.
Full often consciousness of this betrsys
itself by the trembling tones in the vow
that invokes invisible powers to witness
the bridal; and quite as often the con-
sciousness OF it is so appalling that all the
nervous strength is summoned 10 carry off
the nour trlumpnantlyt ana nide enotlon
from the curious crowd that custom calls
into the solemn acts of lives, to the bridal
aud the burial rites, the two moments
when feeling is at its most intense and
should DE most sacrsd and unseen.
Yet because the occasion is supreme it |
does not follow that the heautiful "trip |
perry with which we are wont to surround |
IT is frivolous or out Of place. 1t would |