Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-06-25


moon in Siberia. They expect to stay
who is something of writer, con-
templates gathering materials for Il
book upon the social and political con-
ditions of the country before they re-
turn.
Another couple will journey slowly
around the world, spending a season
at Nice, winter in Egypt. summer
among the Norway fiords. several
months in the orient and Australasia
and leisurely return home ward across
our own continent.
Last spring one happy pair took
trip through Alaska and returned
home with innumerable souvenirs and
native trinkets.
Another bride and groom spent six
months upon a yacht cruising about
the Pacific ocean, and still another pair
took their Introductory journey into
the realms of matrimony by means of n
carriage drive throughout their native
state.
An athletic newly welded couple of
New Haven. Conn, are reported as
having "biked" it through three states,
and one notwithstanding pair even
rode to church and back on their wheels
instead of using the conventional coach
and white horses.
Many men and women have been
| united in the bonds of ma.rimony while
at considerable altitude from the
ground in balloons but it remained
for two natives of the Wolverine state
to plan honeymoon in one OF these
ships of the air. Owing, however. to
the extreme nervousness of the bride.
an early descent was made and the
distance actually traversed was but
tria ing.
Down in Alabama quite near the
city, where the songster "dreamt he
saw pretty yaller GAL an impecuni-
Gus pair decided on a novel wedding
trip. They traversed considerable
distance. the groom trundling an old
wheelbarrow, which contained their
luggage. and, upon occasion, even the
bride herself.
Another enterprising couple of our
my, combined with honeymoncal bliss,
engaged, respectively, as steward and |
stewardess on West Indian passenger
steamer enjoyed their trip SO much |
that they have retained their positions
indefinitely.
Along our northern frontier and
across the line in Canada, honeymoon
|
sleighs, ice-boats and toboggans have
become Of common occurrence, and
numerous couples have occupied a
hunters log cabin in the backwoods
during the joyous season.
1t Is interesting to note that a couple
swan the whole distance of Long Is
land Sound as their wedding journey.
When, however. it is further explained
they were accompanied by a naphtha
launch and were both professional
swimmers, the mystery is not so mys-
FERROUS
Another experience that might al
most seem to rival the foregoing in
originality was the case of the Balti-
more & Ohio engineer VINO received
orders to take his locomotive out with
In few minutes after the ceremony
was performed, and, with the aid of
his fireman. struggled his bride into
the cab and took her to the end of his
run.
But probably the most strikingly
original form Of the wedding journey
that has ever been accomplished was
the one that took place last fall the
happy pair being married by tele-
phone. The reasons for this were al
most wholly of an economical nature.
the brides dwelling place being in a
New England city, while the groom was
engaged in business at Los Angeles.
Cal. After the ceremony the twain made
their respective way TO the nearest
railway station, where they took train
and met. as pre-arranged. at Council
Bluffs, Iowa, the groom ACCOMMODATING
his bride thence back to the home he
had prepared for her.
One admirable feature of the present
fashion of lOng-distance honeymoons
is the diversity afforded in choosing
gifts. Thus the couple bound
to the tropics, the mountains of India
or the Aztec ruins of Mexico appreci-
ate such articles as a camera, a pair of
heldglasseS an alpenstock or half a
hundred other similar articles OF real
use or necessity. and the almost ineyi-
table duplicate butter dishes and olive
longs are avoided. 1t is true that an .
'verpius of Photographic or optical ap- ,
paratus might thus result. but then .
[hese articles are always more or less ,
desirable. even in quantities, and no
criticism Is engendered oy their absence =
rom prominent position on the buffet :
Or dining table.
Some few years ago. when the happy .
pair were accustomed to rumble away ;
n their coach to take train or boat for
few weeks jaunt to some nearby re- .
sort, the minds Of the wedding guests =.