The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17
HONEYMOON JOURNEYS.
They Are Fashionable But Not
Altogether Sensible.
Wedding Trip Might Better BE Ended
II II Only Natural That Even the Best
of Lovers When Always Together
Should Weary Of Each Other.

The honeymoon idea is greatly
changed since the days when the
welded lovers stole away to some
secret retreat, using every known de-
vice to conceal their destination from
their most intimate friends as well as
to deceive every one they met on the
way concerning the newness of their
wedding vows, says the New York Sun.
Now the fashionable metropolitan
bride usually goes to some city hotel
after her evening wedding to stay un-
til the next day. if not longer, before
she starts out on her wedding Journey
The loyal friend who supports the
husband during the trying ordeal in
the capacity of 'best man. and re.
members all the things the husband is
supposed to forget, secures the rooms
at the hotel in adva nee. and possibly
engages the accommodations on the
train for the wedding Journey
Usually. however, the bride and her
consort are left undisturbed by their
friends, no matter how long they may
remain in town, nor does anyone ap-
pear at the station when they depart,
though neither the time Of starting
nor the destination is concealed. One
bride made a most original innovation
by remaining at home after noon
wedding to attend the Bachelors ball
in the evening and taking train for
Philadelphia at three o'clock in the
morning. A very fashionable girl
who married an Englishman re-
turned in three days after the wedding
to open her own house and to give out
and receive invitations. AS to the
wedding tour, it is no longer deemed
obligatory, and the English fashion of
retiring for short time to some
country place is growing here in
America. 1t seems incongruous with
the American girls ideas of good taste
to read of the going-away gowns of
English brides, which are of pure
white if the lady has royal antece-
dents, or of all sorts of light and fan
ciful materials, pale grey with white
trimmings or blue with fur and passe-
menterie. For the American bride al
ways chooses for this going-away
gown the most quiet and genteel of
colors, and not infrequently the
clever bride-elect wears the gown just
enough to take off the look of painful
and embarrassing newness. But it
must be remembered that the we'd
ding journey of the English bride is
usually carriage journey, or at most
a railway journey of a few hours in
the compartment of first-class car
riage. Its destination is to some
country house which friend places at
their disposal for q couple of weeks,
where well-trained servants are sent
on ahead to prepare everything for
the comfort of the lovers, and where
the cold and cruel world does not in
trude. An English bride would never
dream of attempting sea voyage or
of scurrying across a continent sight
seeing for a wedding journey. And
indeed there is wisdom in this, for
travelling is rather trying to ones
nerves and temper, and decidedly de-
moralizing to ones personal appear
ance. OF course a cinder more or less
on ones face, a dismally Strengthened
out bang ought not to ALLEVIATE
mans affections from the woman he
has taken for better or for worse. but
it is a kind of shock to have the
worst tried on him so soon and when
he isn't really prepared for it.