Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1894-08-17
TWO WEDDINGS.

The society reporter looked over the IA
| tignmonts for the day and found that she
hust attend brilliant church wedding
On the north side.
And, by the way" said the city edi-
tor as she started out here is a card an
| bouncing wedding on Blank street. Bot
ter look In and see what IL amounts to-"
The reporter made her way TO tho beau
| tiful church where the fashionable we'd
| ding was to be solemnized. A gay AVID
| Ing extended from the craven portal 20
| .he street, and under IL, as the carriage
srove up beautiful women trailed their
| llimmering silken garments over tho vel
! yet carpet up Co the cool and twilight
| haunted vestibule. Within the church tho
bir was redolent with the breath of flow
FRS 1t was a white wedding" and from
the roses that wreathed the entrance TO
the tall ascension lilies that stood like an
! gel sentinels before the altar all was snowy
purity. The place was hushed and hung
with purple shadows. All at once strain
Of music rode down upon the light and
| The house was filled with a glad TIE Deum
Then there was "A rustling Of silken robes
a sound of sweet, tremulous voices, and
in the silence that fell for a moment as
the bride paused under the garlandod arch
| bf fluted stone the organ found a soul,
hnd burst into song The reporters keen
eye missed no detail of the stately scone.
The music changed. Triumphant now
and clear 10 rose In waves Of grandest mel
| pdy. The wife walked down the aisle
| leaning upon her husbands arm. A smile
| Wrcathed her mouth, but did not reach
her eyes. She lifted her white lids wearily,
and for moment her glance met the
| newspaper woman's gaze. The reporter
looked over her list again. LET me see"
the said reflectively, Il have that other
wedding. III run over there now and
then hurry back TO the office This affair
j. worth half column. / must write IL
nll-except the look In tho eyes Of tho
bride. The world must not read that"
When she was I'm the hall of the large
apartment building that she had been
directed to, the reporter thought she had
made mistake She turned TO the dusty
elevator boy;
is there To he wedding here tonighti"
she asked
"You bet there isr' he responded en-
| Enthusiastically. 1.-THE neighbors have been
carrying up chairs an dishes all day. Keeps
me hustlin too, tell you. Wouldn't you
| like TO go up an see Joei" the brass but
toned young man questioned cordially.
Hes fl-:in things up In great shape
| flowers an everything the swolls has. Tell
[ you there's only few Of usl' And he
indulgod In some steps" on the shaky
| floor of the lift.
| Are you member Of the familyi" she
asked as she stepped into the car.
| Well, / amt jest exactly n relation,
he replied, "hut takes 'em up an down
| nights an mornins-him TO the sixth an
her to the eighth-an I've kctchcd em
spoonin a good deal, an now I'm goin to
see 'em through. That's the door, second
81 the right.
The door was opened by "a young man
He was In his shirt sleeves. The long
strings Of "A ginRhnm apron were passed
twice around his waist and tied In front,
and an old straw hat was tipped well back
on the blond curls Of his handsome head
The reporter made known her crrand
Come right in," he said, with hearty
cordiallty. Things amt jist shipshapc,
but I'll soon have 'em so. These are Net
ties rooms, and we're going TO bo married
here, so I'm trimming them mp bit. /
wish she was here 20 talk with you, hut
she had to carry home dress that she's
been making, and then she'll stop and
buy herself a bridal veil That's her pio-
turc on the mantcl" He stepped over and
pointed it out with frank pride.
| She looked at the picture Of the little
drcssInakor and then turned - watch the
young lover as he decorated the tiny room.
| IIc had purchased dozen roses from the
florist around the corner, but the woods
and fields had yielded the rest Of the flow
ers for that day Of days.
What Is your pretty bride going 10
wcar'' she asked as she gave certain
transforming touches about the room.
"White muslin, I supposof"
He looked up anxiously.
Ought she 10 wear that" he asked
:! simply ''Shc hasn't any one but mo 20
advise her, you know, and tcld her IL
didn't matter, 20 she fixed this one over.
] think it was once her mothers And
he opened n tiny wardrobe and took down
o neatly fashioned but sadly faded pink
or0andio, very evidently n relic of other
days
she looks 50 pretty In II, " he said fond.
ly, las fresh and sweet a. this pink rose,
and he laid the blossom gently down uuon