Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-11-10

sun RIVER. ne Drlue was Jle daughter
of a retired merchant and herself a
writer for magazines. The groom a
young lawyer-"the world all before
him, where to choose" etc. There were
abundant means for providing special
trains, or a bishop, or mass meeting
Of bridesmaids In chaNcel, for gorge
GUS gowns to be explOitNd in half a
dozen newspapers by wordA0ainting re-
porters, and indeed, for fun supply Of
ostentation. Everything cOnnNcted with
the wedding was the very reveNSe Of os-
tentatiOn. There had not been an in
undatiOn of the mails with invitations
TO everybody whom the families New
by name or residence, or who could be
traced through the gilt edges OF TINT
prepCsterous volume called the Elite
Directory Warm friends only had been
selected for invitation, and as they ar
rived-perhaps not an hundred in all
they were met by coaches and conveyed
10 the church. This was a Gothic tenn
pie Of granite, covered with vines. the
leaves Of which had turned scarlet and
brown, giving a gorgeous show of re-
cepuOn. II it was autumn without.
there was spring and early summer in
side, with roses and violets prettily dis
persed about altar and chancel. A pro-
eession Of Sunday school girls, who had
been scholars Of the bride preceded her
and the sire up the aisle.
No hundred dollar organist presided
TO give operate fantasies, but instead
an amateur friend Of the bride who
knew how to impOvise variations of the
wedding march and on the cathedral
music from Faust. There was a poet
lie s0lemnity about the rite so different
from the flippancy to be witnessed at
big society nuptial function. The bride
wore the traditional lace and white
silk, and had the sweet taste to discard
jewels-for is it not the charmed ring
and love-lit eyes the best jewels at a
wedding? Every church guest had
been also invited to the family villa,
not very distant. Therefore there was
none Of that division OF wedding guests
into sheep and goats, as IT were, which
characterizes the fashionable wedding
in New York City, whereat one set Of
guests are substantially told you may
come TO the church as goats, but not as
sheep to the wedding feast; and to the
adieUX at Uhe house. There was in
evidence an abundance OF bridal pres
ents. but mOdestly and unpretentiOusly
arranged. No affectation showed its
serpent head. General JOY of the whole
table prevailed, and the best man Sc
lccted 10 give the bridal toast was not
flurried by any OstentatlOus grandeur
around him so as to commit the comic
and startling blunder of recent
groomsman-a newly fledged lawyer
fresh from reading Bishop on marriage
and divoce- who at a city wedding in
stead OF giving the health of the bride
was overcome with stage fright and
s-ammered out CHE health Of the CO.
respondent" No temptations TO in
digestion or tipsiness were offered at
my countryside wedding, as 1 have
seen at OstentatiOus weddings in the
city. The whole affair was more sug-
gestive of a marriage in Cana Of Cali
lee than of the diamond wedding once
immortalized in verse by banker-poet
Stedman. Yet the brides father was
able TO have Ou,shOle any one in tinan%
cial ostentatiOn had he so chosen. Sew
eral of those guests will be at the st.
Thomas mob. amid which a Duke and
q Duchess will be made one flesh, as
well as at the festivities in the new
Madison avenue palace, where JOY will
be reckcned by the ten thousand Of
dollars. and where Sherry. the great
caterer just returned from Europe.
bringing Regent St. Bride cake, Egyp-
tian quail and Boulevard bOnbons from
Paris. viii show fashionable palates
how wealth can aslOnish with BONES
pouches.
Re-referring to the portrait exhibit
ton, I may remark that, photography
has dealt a deadly blow at the olden
art of portrait paintings. Al the photo
galleries Of SarOny, Dana and Parkin-
son can be seen full OF half length
photos which, when colored present
better Hkenesses than the most accom-
plished artists of palette and brush
could catch. With a difference, to, OF
cost between fifty and five hundred
dollars in favor of perfect portrait
ure. And chemical science has re-
suited in securing a Photographic pict-
ure which lapse Of time will not fade.
It IS not generally known that the very
first picture Of the human face ever had
through the camera was taken here in
New York in 1888, on the roof Of the
now demolished New York University.
It's professor of chemistry was DR..
John c. Draper, he who wrote the best
history of our Civil War-and he was
an English emigre-and the invention
of Daguerre had Just been made
known In this country. Daguerre had
only taken views OF a building or
landscape. and had not attempted the
human figure or face. because under
his coating Of plate the camera had to
be fixed TOO long a time for impression,
and this NJ best was shadOwy; but
Draper applied new chemicals that
woul1 e. the features with distinct.
ness. He has I'm q note to this edition
of "Kane's Chemistry" giving an iu-
terestlng account Of his Daguerreo-
tyne. Of human face. And that TAX
Ing is now In possession Of his grand
son. n physician of this city. Then the
metal plate IN time gave way TO the
SlbsS, llc dnADlVe' 20 U-iN 49, ''@ -0"'
chemically treated paper l was sorry
10 see the old University building torn
down. because it was additionally his
tor,c. in that another professOr-MOrs
first experimental for his telegraph
on the same roof with stretched wires
and a magnetic battery. In the build
Inc also Samuel Colt had chambers
fronting washington Square, and in
Them he invented his revolver. A
f9ddist in photography of this city re-
Gently made a census Of its operators
i'm the art. and as a result found that
over a hundred thousand photographs
were here annually taken, irrespective
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