The Washington times., 1895-01-20
Various Signs and Symptoms That
Betray the Bride and Groom.
OBSERVATIONS OF EXPERTS
Hotel Keepers, clearinghouse Land-ladies
Capitol Guides, and Corcoran Art Gallery
Attendants Tell How They Spot the Newly
Made CoupIe-He More Liable to Give the
Snap Away Than she-some Indications.

Everybody knows that Washington is the
Mecca of brides and bridegrooms. Some
time or other in the mellow light of the
honeymoon they alght here out of the region
of romance in which they live for the thirty
days or more of absolute vacation from ter
restrial trials and tribulations
These pilgrims, of course, travel In pairs
and have sometimes one object in life and
sometimes two. The primary object is to
demonstrate that life is not failure so far as
they know anything about it-and they
usually know it alI-and the secondary object
is to conceal their identity as lately harnessed
to the chariot. In this last respect they are
like the intelligent ostrich that sticks his head
in the sand and defles the observer to tell ex-
actly what he is for the time being.
How they succeed in this last matter is an
open question with such keen observers as
hotel managers, chief clerks, and the porters
at the ladies' entrance who see them first as
they make their eutree on the stage of
Welded LIFE ON THE WING.
reporter for The TIMES had chat on
this interesting subject with several genial
landlords and proprietors yesterday, and the
consensus of opinion appears to be that the
bride and groom as a distinct ''genus homo"
are becomi ng quite as astuteI as other people
who wish to travel ''ineog." They are as as
tute as the strange ducks that light in the
mill pond among the local ducks who live
and die there tim out of mind. In other
words, these curious people are more on to
the world than the world is on to them.
Th1., riof0r # fho ArII pff,le
no. 1 can't discriminate, although 1 under
stand there are specialists in this line in the
hotel business in Washington. l mean that
don't think there is much effort made nova
days to conceal the fact of recent matrimony.
If there were. the receipt OF telegram,
which often occurs, advising US to look out
for the bride and groom. makes the attempt
at concealment a vain undertaking. TO the
ordinary observer there. is really nothing to
ind cate the new condition. Personally,
don't observe the 'gaucherie, their talk of
which gives the snap away"
The brides who go to tho Arlington are
evidently quite too smart for any kind of in
ouisition, and yet there is possibly not a
| hotel or house in Washington to which the
| bridal visitation occurs which is not fully
| aware of the fact within a few minutes after
| the event.
The proprietor of the Ebbitt House had
| along in the autumn as many as thirty bridal
couples in the house at one time. He, too,
said that there is no general or special rule
to spot bridal couple on their arrival ex-
cept by the old-fashioned tell-tale rice in the
umbrella, on the coat collar, on the hat, Or by
the
VEIL OF THE BRIDE.
|. There is more or less pink ribbon to the
veil of the honeymoon, with an occasional
rice seed inside or outside. "You always
know a bride and groom" this proprietor
said, "but you cant tell why you know it. ;"
Down at the National Manager Blrten said