Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-21
HONEYMOON ALBUMS
The Latest Fad 81 Brides on Their Wed.
ding Tour.
Lasting Mementoes of the Days With
Rice and Old Slipper Accom-
q
PaniInents.

quiet seashoFe resort and the ladies, as
usual. sat en- the hotel piazzas, fancy
work In hand. yIn1a particularly cool and
shady corner Of the very most fashionable
house our old Washington friends, Mrs.
Twiggs and Mrs Boggs, sat in big pink
rocking chairs discussing their friends and
the newest patterns in embroidery. Mr..
Twiggs and Mr.. Boggs were not with them.
Somehow men are apt to be called away on
important business before they have been
many days at the seashore They do not
seem to take kindly to fancy work and
gossip.
The ladies had talked over the affairs of
all their friends, had discussed the abom-
Unable hang of Mrs. Dowd's skirts that al
ways mixed up at the sides, and the
material and fashion of the particularly
neat and becoming bathing suit in which
Miss Smith had lounged gracefully on the
sands the day before, of the awful temper
OF that Jones baby, whose nurse was for
ever dragging him about by one arm. when
in due time they struck upon their newly
welded acquaintance.
Il suppose said Mrs. Boggs, as she
gave pat and a critical look at the bunch
of golden rod she was working, that you
have heard of the newest fad for brides.
No. / don't mean bouquets of purple flow
ers, which 1 should hate to have any one
l cared for carry; they must be so uniucky,
purple being emblematic of mourning, you
know l mean the bridal albums, which
so many of this summers fashionable
brides are getting up to celebrate their
honeymoons. 1 shall never cease to be
sorry that the idea was not introduced last
year. for 1 know 1 could have made such
a pretty book-much more artistic than
the very commonplace scrap book that
Millie Brown has just been showing me-"
have never seen anything of the sort, y
said Mrs. Twiggs, and ! never even heard
of such thing before. Won't you tell me
the next time l hear of bridal albums
shall not feel so disgracefully ignorant?''
What 1t Is.
II think the notion is charming" said
Mrs. Boggs, and Bertha Cutting, the doc
tors wife. you know. has one that is per-
fectly dear. She made every bit of it her
self, II Guiding the cover. She paints very
we'll in water colors. and that made IT much
easier to have the book pretty. For the
cover she took two pieces of rough card
board, about rIne inches square, and then
she had quite a lot of heavy linen paper cut
the same size, with two holes through one
side of 1t to put the pink ribbons through
to tie ii together The doctor had a bunch
Of white carnations in his buttonhole dur
ing the ceremony, and these she painted In
the cebter OF the upper cover, while over
the rest she scattered the Catherine Mer-
met roses which composed her bouquet.
The effct was simply lovely-so very dainty.
What did she have inside all this gor-
y,
the trip, of course.
The Contents.
First there was, a picture of the first
hotel they stopped at, which she cut
from the bill of fare and a sketch of the
picturesque old darRey who waited on them
at the first meal they ate together as hus-
band and wife. They took a country drive,
and wniie out CHANGED upon a wandering
photographer, who took a picture of them
and their conveyance, and this was pasted
In and framed with the blossoms of the
wild hydrangea, which they bought from a
bare-footed urchin on the road. The boy, as
he stood with the great bunch of flowers
In his hand, makes a cunning little sketch
in the corner. Another page shows a sketch
of a couple strolling, arm in arm, through u
field of daisies, and chain of these modest
flowers frame the little picture. One page
is given up to yielets, some being pressed
and tied in with little bows OF the light blue
ribbon she Wore, on her dress when her
husband brought them to her, and others
were painted in.
photographs of all the pretty or interest
ing places they visited are used with an oc-
Casional bill of fare or a theatrical program,
each being accompanied by some memento
of the occa sion, either flower a ribbon or
a sketch depicting some little incident. One
day the doctor brought her a leaf fun of
big Strawberries, and these made a charm
ing decoration. Stems of raspberries with
their leaves. served as a reminder of an
afternoon they had spent in an old-fash-
iCned garden and as the golden-rod was
just out last week. when they went home
they are to appear on the back of the cover
Just think what delightful souvenir il
makes to keep ell your life, and lament
with me that you were married too soon."