The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-10


or the very necessary ''friend" who is TO
receive you and where you are TO be mar
r1ed. In the lack OF such a friend the trunks
with ali necessary wearing apparel, should
precede you by day, if possible, to the
hotel OF haoltation TO which you are to be
conveyed. You should take with you only
very small hand satchel In this be sure
70 put your powder, curling irons and a
nano glass, also change Of linen, O night
gown and lot Of handkerchief, because, of
course, you win cry good deal IL will be
Wen 70 put IN some cookies too; they are
very nice to have on hand. especially II the
friend l have spoken OF Is far off, Take a
Few cards and s. bill, and If possible re-
turn ticket to your own station. You
may want to come back, you know,
and 1t will be as we'll 10 be
provided. A bottle of salts is indispensa-
Ole, because, OF course, you must faint once
or twice. directions for this given later.
on had better tuck in a ring, for the groom
is sure to forget to have one and you will
never feel really married unless you are
married with riBg. Take a clean collar or
box OF tourist ruching, a cake of soap and
brush and comb Don't forget your
powder. You had better leave your pet
dog. He is almost sure to be in the way,
and, besides, he will bark, and you may be
discovered thereby. Il is not wise 70 try
to take a bonnet. You should be where
your trunks are before you really need a
bonnet.
THE PROPER COSTUME.
1t is all very pretty TO wrap yourself in q
great soft cloak. the way you see In pict-
ureS, but 1t won't do IL you are going 70
elope on a train. / hope you are not,
though, for 1t really spoils clipping TO have
anything like q train connected with it,
unless it be a wedding train, and you can
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friend and can get at your trunks before
you are married. By all means elope on
horseback or in a carriage. the latter pre-.
ferrec. If you are to have the carriage you
can wear the picturesque dark cloak. II
you want a wedding dress and you
are not going TO get at your trunks
in time 60 get your gown from them,
wear 1t under the cloak. This is a pretty
way of managing it and adds romance to
the affair, as you look just 50 much more
fascinating. The cloak falls Off as soon
as you get in the carriage. If you have
planned the whole thing in too much haste
to have got up real wedding gown, you
can wear just party dress. This permits
low neck and short sleeves; so it is perhaps
just as we'll to pretend that you had no
time to plau dress. If you do dress under
a cloak in gown to be married in, then of
course you must wear light shoes aud stock
ings with it, and then do not forget to take
an extra pair Of dark ones in your bag.
Dusk or dark ia the accepted time for
elopements, and IL is a good time If you are
sure Of getting 80 the wedding place within
a few hours, and il that placs is at friends
or II you are TO find friends there. OF
course l am only considering real escape
elopement. would not bother 60 discuss a
sordid modern affair whore the bride in
broad daylight goes off in q cab and meets
the groom somewhere and goes TO a notary
aud gets married and then calls a messenger
boy and sends a dispatch to her papa No.
indeed The g4Fi who elopes as she should
steals from her home about dark. She is
wrapped In long. loose, dark cloak, the
hood Of which is drawn over her head.
There is the CLEAN of q white satin
gown beneath as she moves and
her little feet are slippered. (Of
course you must choose a pleasant night She
slips down the gloomy path clutchiug her
bag. For few yards she goes through the
shadows, then a strong, manly never elope
with any one who is not strong and manly
form steps from the shadow of the tree aud
clasps her to his breast. She mustn't drop
the bag, for it is almost sure TO be left.
Then he hurries her to where the horses are
waiting and the carriage. Into 1t he puts
her tenderly and then directs the driver and
they are off. Of course be gets in, too. 1t
would not do for him to forget to do that
lt would be so awkward TO have him chase
after the carriage in the dark, and you must
have a man to make an elopement any sort
Of q success.
AFTER THE CEREMONY.
AS soon as the carriage is well off she be-
gins TO cry bitterly and pretend that she
wishes she were home This prevents
awkwardness and gives him something TO
do and prevents him from wishing he
were home. She can faint once or twice,
not too much, though, or he may become
alarmed and go back for her mother and
that would spoil all. When she gets there.
wherever 1t is, she must insist upon going
to her room at once, and she must keep her
handkerchief to her face, because some
what tousled, and If she has really cried any
she needs powder on her nose before she is
married, and she wants to give him a
chance to pay the driver. During the
ceremony she must falter. IL Is never
good form for a girl to rattle off the an
swers. 1t gives it away that she has been
studying them up When it is over she
should cry little, and seem sort of afraid
of her husband, and she may wish out loud
once or twice that her mamma were there.
u is as well to have MIN accustomed as soon
as possible TO the idea Of her mamma. She
must be very shy and be sure not to answer
at all to her new NAME 1t looks so bad for
@ girl to be familiar with her married
name. OF course every girl has written it
and said it TO herself so often that il ia not
really bit strange when abe hears it. but
1t looks better for her to pretend it Is. She
must not write her mamma at once. I
knew a girl who was married Monday
morning. They took the train to New YORK
and got there that evening, and she wrote
TO her mamma that very night.