The Red Cloud chief., 1896-05-22

who is something of a writer, con-
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, a winter in Egypt. a summer
among the Norway fiords, several
months in the orient and Australasia
and a leisurely return homewaId across
our own continent.
Last spring one happy pair took a
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-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 OH 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 a considerable altitude from the
ground in balloons, hut 1t 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 of the bride.
an early descent was made and the
distance actually %traversed was but
triiing.
Eo"n in Alabama. quite near the
city. where the songster "dreamt he
saw a pretty yaller GAL" N i%mpecuni-
Gus pair decided on a novel wedding
trip. They traversed a considerable
distance, the groom trundling an old
wheelbarrow, which contained their
luggage, and. upon occasion, even the
bride herself.
Another enterprising couple OF Il
own city. who. for purposes OF como
my, combined with honeymonical bliss.
engaged. respectively, as steward and
stewardess on a 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
trips on skates, snow-shocs and in
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, II is further explained
they were accompanied by a naphtha
launch and were both professional
swimmers, the mystery IL not so mys-
t%erious.
Another experience that might al
, most seem to rival the foregoing in
originality was the case of the Balti-
/, more & Ohio engineer who received
q orders to take his locomotive ont with
. in a few minutes after the ceremony
was performed, and, with the aid OF
70 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
a 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 {
New England city, while the groom wa,
engaged in business at Los Angeles
= Cal. After the ceremony the twain mad,
4 their respective way 10 the neares
/ railway station, where they took trair
s and met, as pre-arrangcd, at Counci
= Bluffs, Iowa, the groom accompanyin;
: his bride thence back 10 the home h,
y had prepared for her.
@ One admirable feature of the presen
: fashion Of long-distance honeymoon,
T is the diversity afforded in chOosin,
r suitable gifts. Thus the couple bounr
to the tropics, the mountains OF Indli
or the Aztec ruins of Mexico appreci
ate such articles as Il camera, a pair O
y fieldglasses. an alpenstock or half
@ hundred other similar articles OF rea
o use or necessity, and the almost inevi
table duplicate butter dishes and DIV,
tongs are avoided. II is true that al
}, overplus of Photographic or optical ap
paratus might thus result, but thel
these articles are always more or les
desirable, even in quantities, and N
criticism is engendered Dy their absenc
y from n prominent position on the buife
or dining table.
. Some few years ago, when the happ,
a pair were accustomed to rumble ava.
in their coach TO take train or boat TO
a few weeks jaunt to some nearby re
sort, the minds Of the wedding guest
IS were filled with naught but pleasur
,s and anticipation OF the joys in store 10
1.-THE departing newly welded.