The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1894-11-01

In our young days we didn't get pres
ents, but we had as fine wedding sup
per as can be had now, and next day we
had an Unfair, that was as fine as the
supper. The Unfair was swell dinner
at the house of the groom's father, and
both families and all their kindred wers
there. That ended the show. There
was no London or Paris or New York OF,
Saratoga in it, but the young ocapiS
went TO work. Me and my wife, that 10
to say my wife and /, did go to Tai
lulah falls about the close of the honey
moon. The honeymoon is tho first
month after marriage, and it closes
about the time the young man quits
calling his wife honey. We went in an
old-fashioned carriage that swung high
and had folding steps in the casing Of
each door and had high dickey seat
for the driver and place behind for
little mig to stand on. Old Virgil was
the carriage driver, and was proud OF
his vocation. He was then over fifty,
and is living yet, as gray as a rat and
blind as bat. Yes, he went to Tai.
lulah when it was bowling wilderness.
Nobody lived there but a man named
Beall, who was in the war with Mexico
and Monterey and his little girl Buena
Vista. Tallulah was then awfully
magnetic. | reckon it is yet. l held
on to my pretty young wife desperately
when she ventured look over
the awful prrcipice. read few
years ago about n beautiful bride
losing her consciousness right there
and in II swooD she fell over the brink
and down, down, down until she was
gone from sight and her husband be-
came almost insane, and the people ran
down there in horror and despair-and
as they descended by the winding and
dangerous way to find her mangled re-
mains, they saw her hanging in thorn
bush that grew from out the rocks, a
hund red feet down. She was alive, and
they got ropes and rescued her and
found that she was saved by the strength
of a hoopskirt that she bought at
Dougherty's store, on Peachtree street,
in Atlanta, and it cost only 81. IS, and he
had plenty more of the same sort left.
That carriage ride to the falls and from
there to Toccoa and back home was
delightful episode, and | continued to
call my bride honey and sugar and
darling. 1t beat railroad car, where
every envious fool is looking at you
and pointing you out, and these news
paper gimlets fire their little sQuibs at
you and think it smart.
The wedding, the marriage, the nup
tials is the biggest thing in mans life,
especially woman's. 1t is bigger
than being born or dying. We look
back and wonder at the eagerness with
which we took the risk, the peril OF
happiness or misery. The very word
wedding means bet, wager, chance.
Nuptials means veil, covering, az
though a man couldn't see what kind OF
a wife he was getting, and conjugal
means a yoke, and the law tells of tho
chains of matrimony. Nevertheless,
the young folks make the leap as though
they would fall on bed of roses and all
their friends, old and young, look on
with smiles and congratulations. There
is no weeping or wailing. That comes
later, If it comes at all But marriage
is nature, and nature is the safest guido
OF all. l would marry every time.
would rather have an uncongehial wife
whose children loved mo than no wife
at all. 1t is the woman who takes tho
greater risk, and she had better remain
will entail misery upon herself, and 81
children, too. BILL ARP.