The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-06-03
HAPPY ONBYMOONER
They Give Themselves
Away Wherever They
Go in the Bright
June Weather.
SOME NEW RECRUITS.
Many Weddings Last Evening
Social and Musical Notes
History Class.
SOME NEW RECRUITS.


"And so they were married and lived
happily ever after" is q very nice way TO
end a fairy story, but, regarded as a piece
or information. it is not satisfactory. 1t
has much the same irritating INCOMPLETE
ness that marks the expression, "ButthRt
is another story" The statement about
Giving happily ever after" is too much
condensed. For instance, it tells abso-
lutely nothing about the bridal journey.
This is a great time for bridal tours.
The Pennsylvania %terryboats are perfect
mines of wealth for sentimental observers
just now. The happy couple generally
come from out of town, and are en- route
to Washington or Niagara, taking in the
great metropolis Oh the way. The most
interesting thing about them is their
fond belief that they look as If they had
been married ten years. Which they do
not; no.. not at all. They may try to hard
enough. Thew may carry the most
ancient pair of valises that their respec-
tive houses possess; the feminine half
may even for to wear a light gray
gown and a hat of painful newness; he
may fix his eyes on vacancy n look like
u Chinese idol for sternness. but for all
that, before they have been in evidence
three minutes, every woman n almost
every mau on board will know them for
exactly what they are.
THE BRIDEGROOM GIVES IT AWAY.
The difficulty is not with the bride, but
with the bridegroom. Brides as II rule
are more self possessed and self reliant
than ever before or after. But they might
as welt give up trying 10 look like old
married women when the bridegroom Is
in sight. He carries his new happiness as
~conspicuously as the ticket in his hat. He
cutters with one OF three expressions, Il
lamblike serenity Illuminated by a broad
smile, Il self conscious and furtive express
sion, or a fierce, warlike gaze that every
body knows is put on to mold down the
corners of his mouth. He may. and fire.
quently does. ostensibly ignore his COM
panion, but he keeps n eye turned in
her direction. Every now and then when
he has convinced himself that everyone
is looking in the other direction he will
beam down on his bride with an express
sion of rapt delight that fairly warns the
atmosphere. II he happens to eaten your
eye he will pull himself together with a
jerk, look out of the window and scowl
1iercely.
Then they are always interested in the
Statue and the Bridge, to which they al
ways give their full titles, and which they
always visit as a sort of necessary rite.
This fact alone would show them to be
from out of town. She invariably says
that she expected them to be much larger
which makes one wonder what mental
picture of these structures these rural
districts must have They always go up
stairs on the double-deckers, n stand
around on the side, the masculine
representative pointing out the vari-
Gus buildings. Her faith in his YER
racity has not yet been DESTROYED. SO
- h.. -. .N,vo ~,A vEtIN No. ~,.t- -.A
the Field Building us the Western Union
Telegraph office. and the Equitable as the
City Hall. When they ascend the stairs
Of the Sixth Avenue L.. he is tormented
with apprehensious that they will tire
her too much, and plaintively asks after
her health at each landing. They always
take the cross seats on the l., because he
can hold her and withou6 the slightest
fear OF discovery rs she sits next the
window. And all the time they think
themselves crafty in concealing the new
ness of their happiness, whereas they
might just us we'll be carrying a placard
with 'know all men by these PRESENTS"
instead of the (new) umbrella with which
he is always encountered.
ALL ORL vi A LOVER.
They tell Il story about Il young woman
who thought to hoodwink the public by
t king along a chaperon, and of another
who made her husband travel in the
llchAhh SoAt 'H'o SHS a. W.
tenuion on a great red Irish setter; but
both these stories sound a~pocryphal.
And why in the name of Cupid do they
want TO hood wink the public? Surely
the public Is interested in happiness of
any kind and particularly happiness
which ISN'T old enough TO have first rap
ture worn of. That same couple will
not be half so determined to conceal their
matrimonial differences or indifferences
a year hence. No matter 10Y much
they try to look unlike Mr.. and Mrs.
N%ewlywed, they never Will look like any
one else, so why not accept the inevitable.
and not act as II their valises were full of
stolen Government bonds? However. the
question is one which will be settled by
the parties concerned, entirely without
aid of outside observers.
The past week has sent out a bevy Of
brides, and their attendant spouses. as
witness tue accounts below, and the
residents of Niagara. Watkins Glen, and
the coast resorts will haye an opportunity
OF writing newspaper articles about
them, similar to this. II they tell the
whole truth. they will say That Of all the
exports from Jersey City, the most en-.
tirely satisfactory are the June brides of
the year 1899.