The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-18
SOME ODD BRIDAL TRIPS.
Seems to Be no Limit to Originality
in F'in-de-SiecIe HOneymOOns.

From the New York Recorder.
In the honeymoon, as in everything else,
the times have changed. Two young per-
sons who are to be married this month
have planned to spend their honeymoon
in Siberia. They expect to stay at least
year, and the bridegroom, who is some
thing of q writer, cOntemplateS gathering
materials for a book upon the social and
political conditions OF the country before
they return.
around the world, spending a season AT
Nice, winter in Egypt, a summer among
the Norway hords, several months in the
orient and Australasia and a leisurely re-
turn homeward across our own conti-
nent.
Last spring one happy pair took a trip
through Alaska and returned home with
innumerable souvenirs and native trink-
cts.
Another bride and groom spent six
months uDOn a Yacht cruising about the
the Pacific ocean and still another pair
took their Introductory journey into the
realms of matrimony by means of a car
riage drive throughout their native state.
An athletic newly-wedded 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 matrimony while at con-
siderable altitude from the ground in ball
looms, but II remained for two natives OF
the Wolverine state to plan a 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
trihing.
Down in Alabama, quite near the city,
where the songster "dreamt he saw
pretty yailer GAL" and impecunious pair
decided on noval wedding trip. Ihey
travelled a considerable distance. the
groom trundling an old wheelbarroW,
which contained their luggage, and, up
on occasion, even the bride herself.
Another enterprising couple of our own
city, who, for purposes of economy, COM
bined with honeymonical bliss, engaged,
respectively, as steward and stewardess
on a West Indian passenger steamer, en-
joyed their trip so much that they have
retained their positions indefinitely.
Along our northern frontier and across
the line in Canada, honeymoon trips on
skates, snowshoes and in sleighs, ice
boats and toboggans have become of COM
mon 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 Island
sound as their wedding journey. When,
however, it is further explained they were
accompanied by a naphtha launch ana
were both professional swimmers, the
mystery is not so myterious.
Another experience that might almost
seem to rival the foregoing in originality
was the case of the Baltimore and Ohio
engineer who received orders to take his
locomotive out within a few minutes after
the ceremony was performed, and with
the aid of his fireman, smuggled his bride
into the cab and took her to the end of
But probably the most strikingly orig
inal form of the wedding journey that has
ever been accomplished was the one thar
took place last fall, the happy pair being
married by telephone. The reason for this
were almost wholly of an economical ma
ture the brides dwellng-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
prearranged, at Council Bluffs, Ia the
groom accompanying his bride from
thence back to the home he had prepared
for her.
one admirable feature of the presen;
fashion of long distance honeymoons is
the diversity afforded in Choosing sufta-
BILE gifts. Thus the couple bound to the
tropics. the mountains of India, or the
Aztec ruins of Mexico appreciate such ar
ticles as a camera, a pair of field glasses,
an aipenstock or half a hundred other
similar articles of real use or necessity,
and the almost Inevitable depulicate but
ter dishes and olive tongs are avoided
II is true that an oVerplus of photo
graphic or optical apparatus might thus
result but then these articles are always
more or less desirable, even in quantities,
and no criticism is engendered by their
absence from prominent position on the
buffet or dining table.
Some few years ago. when the happy
pair were accustomed 10 rumble away In
their coach TO take train or boat for
few weeks jaunt 10 some nearby resort,
the minds of the wedding guests were
filled with naught but pleasure and an
tioipation Of the Joys in store for the de-
parting newly welded.
Bnt when we begin 10 throw shoes and
rice after couples who have their faces
turned toward such romantic parts Of the
world as Siberia et al. 4 becomes a much
more serious matter ard many a heart
felt prayer for The voynecrs' safe return
NIIaHDnntFN tho. NflNINIIT UnENTItf "A. lions
Oycr the happy event.